feat(spec): consensus spec, from paper, general overview #389
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Co-authored-by: Josef Widder <[email protected]>
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| It is virtually impossible to prevent **equivocation attacks**, and the way |
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I am not sure what you want to say here.
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We cannot prevent a process from equivocating, except if we use some HSM solutions or complex protocol to ensure that there a single copy of each message (sender, step, round, height) in the system.
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Part of #397.
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There are still lots of TODOs and links to be made, added to the existing consensus spec, from which I am removing the duplicated redundant parts.
When reviewing, please suggest missing points to be addressed in the next iteration. Recall, however, that this document refers to the pseudo-code, the abstract consensus algorithm.
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