tendermint/spec/consensus

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Consensus

Specification of the Tendermint consensus protocol.

Contents

• Consensus Paper - Latex paper on arxiv describing the core Tendermint consensus state machine with proofs of safety and termination.
• BFT Time - How the timestamp in a Tendermint block header is computed in a Byzantine Fault Tolerant manner
• Creating Proposal - How a proposer creates a block proposal for consensus
• Light Client Protocol - A protocol for light weight consensus verification and syncing to the latest state
• Signing - Rules for cryptographic signatures produced by validators.
• Write Ahead Log - Write ahead log used by the consensus state machine to recover from crashes.

There is also a stale markdown description of the consensus state machine (TODO update this).