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types: Remove pubkey from validator hash (#2512)

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* types: Remove pubkey from validator hash

* undo lock file change

* Update Spec
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Dev Ojha
2018-10-05 19:26:52 -04:00
committed by Ethan Buchman
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ processing transactions, like gas variables and tags - see
### Validator
A validator is an active participant in the consensus with a public key and a voting power.
Validator's also contain an address which is derived from the PubKey:
Validator's also contain an address field, which is a hash digest of the PubKey.
```go
type Validator struct {
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ type Validator struct {
}
```
When hashing the Validator struct, the pubkey is not hashed,
because the address is already the hash of the pubkey.
The `state.Validators`, `state.LastValidators`, and `state.NextValidators`, must always by sorted by validator address,
so that there is a canonical order for computing the SimpleMerkleRoot.