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authorIan Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>2023-01-17 13:32:02 +0000
committerDavid Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>2023-01-19 10:20:45 -0500
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Give a formal name to shared_random_value
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@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ Tor works. This text used to be proposal 250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt.
2.1. Ten thousand feet view of the protocol
Our commit-and-reveal protocol aims to produce a fresh shared random value
- every day at 00:00UTC. The final fresh random value is embedded in the
- consensus document at that time.
+ (denoted shared_random_value here and elsewhere) every day at 00:00UTC. The
+ final fresh random value is embedded in the consensus document at that
+ time.
Our protocol has two phases and uses the hourly voting procedure of Tor.
Each phase lasts 12 hours, which means that 12 voting rounds happen in