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summary: 'total number of possible signers in a ring signature'
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terms: ["ring-size"]
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{% include disclaimer.html translated="no" translationOutdated="no" %}
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### The Basics
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Ring size refers to the total number of signers in a @ring-signature. Before
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release [0.13.0 "Beryllium Bullet"]({{ site.baseurl
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}}/2018/10/11/monero-0.13.0-released.html), it was possible to select an
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arbitrary number of signers. With release 0.13, it was decided to set this
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number to 11 to enforce transaction uniformity.
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`Ring size (11) = foreign outputs (10) + your output (1)`
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Foreign outputs are typically called "decoys," and the number of decoys was
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previously called the "mixin" size.
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