monadic-xyz / gossip

Epidemic Broadcast Trees implementation using HyParView
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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authz #12

Closed kim closed 5 years ago

kim commented 5 years ago

We only check whether the proclaimed sender of non-relayable messages is the same as the (authenticated) sender as determined by the network IO layer.

This leaves payload messages to be secured by consensus. Membership shuffles are still a concern, as they can easily be used to eclipse a node.

Fixes #10