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closes: #4455 Verifying backwards checks that the trustedHeader hasn't expired both before and after the loop in case of verifying many headers (a longer operation), but not during the loop itself. TrustedHeader() no longer checks whether the header saved in the store has expired. Tests have been updated to reflect the changes ## Commits: * verify headers backwards out of trust period * removed expiration check in trusted header func * modified tests to reflect changes * wrote new tests for backwards verification * modified TrustedHeader and TrustedValSet functions * condensed test functions * condensed test functions further * fix build error * update doc * add comments * remove unnecessary declaration * extract latestHeight check into a separate func Co-authored-by: Callum Waters <cmwaters19@gmail.com>
Tendermint
Welcome to the Tendermint Core documentation!
Tendermint Core is a blockchain application platform; it provides the equivalent of a web-server, database, and supporting libraries for blockchain applications written in any programming language. Like a web-server serving web applications, Tendermint serves blockchain applications.
More formally, Tendermint Core performs Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines. For more background, see What is Tendermint?.
To get started quickly with an example application, see the quick start guide.
To learn about application development on Tendermint, see the Application Blockchain Interface.
For more details on using Tendermint, see the respective documentation for Tendermint Core, benchmarking and monitoring, and network deployments.
To find out about the Tendermint ecosystem you can go here. If you are a project that is using Tendermint you are welcome to make a PR to add your project to the list.
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