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missing changelog for 0x20 hack

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Nick Mathewson 17 years ago
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@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-xx
       Suggested by Lucky Green.
     - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
       the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
+    - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
+      case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses
+      that do not match the case correctly.  This logic can be
+      disabled with the ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are
+      using one of the 0.3% of servers that do not reliably preserve
+      case in replies.  See "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through
+      0x20-Bit Encoding" for more info.
 
   o Hidden service performance improvements:
     - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a