Necessary as our Tributary chains needed to agree when a Serai block has
occurred, and when a Monero block has occurred. Since those could happen at the
same time, some validators may put SeraiBlock before ExternalBlock and vice
versa, causing a chain halt. Now they can have distinct ordering queues.
The existing code was almost entirely applicable. It just needed to be scoped
with an ID. While the handle function is now a bit convoluted, I don't see a
better option.
There is the ability to cause state bloat by flooding Tributary.
KeyGen/Sign specifically shouldn't allow bloat since we check the
commitments/preprocesses/shares for validity. Accordingly, any invalid data
(such as bloat) should be detected.
It was posssible to place bloat after the valid data. Doing so would be
considered a valid KeyGen/Sign message, yet could add up to 50k kB per sign.
Achieves feasible performance in the ed448 which makes it potentially viable
for real world usage.
Accordingly prepares a new release, updating the README.
[0; 32] is a magic for no block has been set yet due to this being the first
key pair. If [0; 32] is the latest finalized block, the processor determines
an activation block based on timestamps.
This doesn't use an Option for ergonomic reasons.
It originally wasn't an enum so software which had yet to update before an
integration wouldn't error (as now enums are strictly typed). The strict typing
is preferable though.
SubstrateBlock's provision of the most recently acknowledged block has
equivalent information with the same latency. Accordingly, there's no need for
it.
Clearly establishes why consistency is guaranteed from a Rust borrow-checker
mindset. While there are plenty of... 'violations', they're clearly explained.
Hopefully, this method of thinking helps promote/ensure consistency in the
future.
The signing set should be the first group to submit preprocesses to Tributary.
Re-attempts shouldn't be once every 30s, yet n blocks since the last relevant
message.
Removes the use of an async task/channel in the signer (and Substrate signer).
Also removes the need to be able to get the time from a coin's block, which was
a fragile system marked with a TODO already.
Writes a custom unsigned extrinic creator due to subxt having an internal error
with the scale metadata. While the code in our scope increased, it's much more
ergonomic to our usage. We may end up rewriting most of subxt, eventually.
Step moved a step forward after an externally synced/added block. This created
a race condition to add the block between the sync process and the Tendermint
machine. Now that the block routes through Tendermint, there is no such race
condition.
