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Request for Comment (RFC) papers and discussions on Project SAFE core libraries and API's

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#0046 New Auth Flow

New Auth Flow

This RFC outlines a new process to give applications authorised access to act on the SAFE network with the user's credentials. In particular, it is designed for the mobile and embedded use case in mind.

📘 https://github.com/david-maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0046-new-auth-flow/0046-new-auth-flow.md

#0043 Async safe_core

Async safe_core

Making safe_core async with respect to FFI and internally.

📘 https://github.com/david-maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0043-async-safe-core/0043-async-safe-core.md

0049-parsec

PARSEC - Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus

In this RFC, we propose an algorithm which will allow a section of network nodes to reach consensus on the validity and order of network events by voting on events and using a gossip protocol to disseminate these votes amongst themselves. The main claim of this RFC is:

All honest participating nodes will reach eventual Byzantine agreement with probability one on a total order of valid blocks, where the valid blocks are comprised of a supermajority of valid votes by the nodes on NodeStates.

📘 https://github.com/david-maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0049-parsec/0049-parsec.md

#0037 Disjoint Sections

Disjoint Sections

Introduce the notion of a "section" of the network, in addition to the existing notion of a group, and the corresponding routing table logic, such that the network's sections are disjoint and form a partition of the set of nodes. Each node will thus be a member of exactly one section. The section size, however, will not be fixed, as opposed to the group size.
Groups will continue to be usable, though, and might remain the appropriate notion for safe_vault's tasks.
(This RFC was originally called "Disjoint Groups", but it turns out to be useful to keep both the old and the new kind of "group" functionality in the code for different purposes. The new concept is therefore called a "section", and the GROUP_SIZE closest nodes to a given address continue to be called the "close group" of that address.)

📘 https://github.com/david-maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0037-disjoint-groups/0037-disjoint-groups.md