On 29 September 2014 14:03, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/09/14 14:36, Linus Nordberg wrote: >> This gossiping that people is talking about, what is it? Here's a >> summary of what I think some people mean when they say gossip and what >> problem this thing tries to solve. It's based on a few IETF-related >> documents and not the full picture. I'd be interested to hear what other >> people read into the concept of gossiping in CT > > It seems that your summary might have one misapprehension. As I > understand it, gossiping is not something that clients (in the web > browser sense) do. After all, one point of CT is to avoid extra network > requests at connection time. Gossiping is a log-to-log concept, where a > group of logs can determine that a particular log is rogue because of > what they hear about what it's saying, and any inconsistencies in that.
We imagine _all_ participants in the protocol gossiping. Yes, gossiping STHs in the current plan does introduce a small amount of extra overhead into the connection, but it really is small. _______________________________________________ Trans mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans
