Authentication: for now, plaintext password
-Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
+Routing assistance: none in hippotat; can be requested on client
+ from userv-ipif via `vroutes' parameter. Use with secnet polypath
+ ideally uses the special support in secnet 0.4.x.
Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
m metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
client ip address (textual)
password
target_requests_outstanding
+ http_timeout
d data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
-Future nonce-based authentication:
+
+Possible future nonce-based authentication:
server keeps big nonce counter for each client
meaning is: