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title: Consensus
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# Consensus
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Specification of the Tendermint consensus protocol.
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## Contents
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- [Consensus Paper](./consensus-paper) - Latex paper on
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[arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938) describing the
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core Tendermint consensus state machine with proofs of safety and termination.
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- [BFT Time](./bft-time.md) - How the timestamp in a Tendermint
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block header is computed in a Byzantine Fault Tolerant manner
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- [Creating Proposal](./creating-proposal.md) - How a proposer
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creates a block proposal for consensus
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- [Light Client Protocol](./light-client) - A protocol for light weight consensus
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verification and syncing to the latest state
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- [Signing](./signing.md) - Rules for cryptographic signatures
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produced by validators.
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- [Write Ahead Log](./wal.md) - Write ahead log used by the
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consensus state machine to recover from crashes.
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The protocol used to gossip consensus messages between peers, which is critical
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for liveness, is described in the [reactors section](./consensus.md).
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There is also a [stale markdown description](consensus.md) of the consensus state machine
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(TODO update this).
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