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Doc/PoS: how to compute seed

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Marco Stronati 2018-06-28 08:55:16 +02:00 committed by Benjamin Canou
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@ -288,6 +288,9 @@ the blocks in the cycle are sufficient to include all revelations.
The revelations are hashed together to generate a random seed at the The revelations are hashed together to generate a random seed at the
very end of cycle ``(n-PRESERVED_CYCLES-1)``. very end of cycle ``(n-PRESERVED_CYCLES-1)``.
The seed of cycle ``(n-PRESERVED_CYCLES-2)`` is hashed with a constant
and then with each revelation of cycle ``(n-PRESERVED_CYCLES-1)``.
Once computed, this new seed is stored and used during cycle ``n``.
Denunciations Denunciations
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