Gaylor Bosson

Draft: alternative to signer counter

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Let's imagine the client transaction has a timestamp instead of a signer counter: ```go ClientTransaction { ..., Timestamp: time.Time, } ``` Then a client transaction would only be accepted if...

Verification function returns an error

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Currently the verification functions are returning a single boolean which is sometimes annoying for a client as the reason of a failure will only be announced in the logs of...

Leader can collect txs, drop them and never create a block

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So basically we need to introduce a way for followers to detect that the leader is malicious. It's not straightforward how to do this as we don't want to open...

Target height signed alonside forward-link

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**Backwards incompatible** We can only insure that `From` and `To` have been verified and signed by the conodes but you can't be sure of the position of the forward-link if...

bcadmin creates a bc-aef...cfg file even if the creation fails. It's easily reproducible by trying to create a ledger with only one conode (a minimum of 3 is required).

`byzcoin/contracts/ByzCoinRPCTest.java` in `updateInterval()` ```java assertTrue(Duration.between(now, Instant.now()).toMillis() > 5000); ``` When testing the interval of a block, it's hard to assert strong timing because the processing of the block doesn't start...

There is a native BigInt API in stage 3 (over 4) that is currently available on Chrome and NodeJS. For the moment, it's always work in progress but we may...

For the moment, the status web page (and soon the explorer) is fetching directly each conode to get their status which is bad because the number of requests increase according...

``` 2 19/08/03 10:12:14.318616280: ( byzcoin.(*Service).catchUp: 1083) - Catching up 69ce8c3e533f5a2182f21430f1e65e2be97ed789a8ff03cdc48fdd1ce0639308 / 13 2 19/08/03 10:12:14.320227525: ( v3.wsHandler.ServeHTTP: 199) - ws request from 127.0.0.1:51498: Skipchain/GetSingleBlockByIndex 2 19/08/03 10:12:14.338907267: ( v3.wsHandler.ServeHTTP.func1:...

Hi, Before going deeper into a fix, I'd like your opinion on this: if a refresh is occurring while messages are still attempted to be sent, it can happen that...