Re: [Trans] Design of gossip

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Tue, 30 September 2014 15:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Design of gossip
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On 27 September 2014 18:42, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first choice is what to gossip: tree heads and proofs or certs.
> Both have privacy implications: while certs more directly reveal which
> sites are visited, it's possible that tree heads will be unique per
> cert due to the impact of adding to a tree one cert at a time, so each
> precert will end up showing a different head. This is a tricky issue.

Precerts (and certs) are not linked to any particular head.