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 29 September 2014 14:37, Linus Nordberg <linus@nordu.net> wrote:
> | The first choice is what to gossip: tree heads and proofs or certs.
>
> What's the reason for including proofs in the gossiping? Is it an
> optimisation of network resources? My initial thought has been that
> gossiping about anything that's not signed by logs opens up for attacks
> against log reputation.

Proofs are signed by logs, though (if you include the entity they are proving).