In deciding whether to relay a proposal or validation, a server would
consider whether it was issued by a validator on that server's UNL.
While both trusted proposals and validations were always relayed,
the code prioritized relaying of untrusted proposals over untrusted
validations. While not technically incorrect, validations are
generally more "valuable" because they are required during the
consensus process, whereas proposals are not, strictly, required.
The commit introduces two new configuration options, allowing server
operators to fine-tune the relaying behavior:
The `[relay_proposals]` option controls the relaying behavior for
proposals received by this server. It has two settings: "trusted"
and "all" and the default is "trusted".
The `[relay_validations]` options controls the relaying behavior for
validations received by this server. It has two settings: "trusted"
and "all" and the default is "all".
This change does not require an amendment as it does not affect
transaction processing.
The sfLedgerSequence field is designated as optional in the object
template but it is effectively required and validations which do not
include it were, correctly, rejected.
This commit migrates the check outside of the peer code and into the
constructor used for validations being deserialized for the network.
Furthermore, the code will generate an error if a validation that is
generated by a server does not include the field.
This commit introduces the "HardenedValidations" amendment which,
if enabled, allows validators to include additional information in
their validations that can increase the robustness of consensus.
Specifically, the commit introduces a new optional field that can
be set in validation messages can be used to attest to the hash of
the latest ledger that a validator considers to be fully validated.
Additionally, the commit leverages the previously introduced "cookie"
field to improve the robustness of the network by making it possible
for servers to automatically detect accidental misconfiguration which
results in two or more validators using the same validation key.
Each validator will generate a random cookie on startup that it will
include in each of its validations. This will allow validators to detect
when more than one validator is accidentally operating with the same
validation keys.
The function is non-virtual and hides the virtual function specified in
the base class.
Falling back to the virtual function in the base class is the correct
solution.
These changes use the hash of the consensus transaction set when
characterizing the mismatch between a locally built ledger and fully
validated network ledger. This allows detection of non-determinism in
transaction process, in which consensus succeeded, but a node somehow
generated a different subsequent ledger.
When two ledgers have the same number of validations, the code
will now use the ledger hash itself to break the tie rather than
the highest node ID supporting each validation.
This is a substantial refactor of the consensus code and also introduces
a basic consensus simulation and testing framework. The new generic/templated
version is in src/ripple/consensus and documents the current type requirements.
The version adapted for the RCL is in src/ripple/app/consensus. The testing
framework is in src/test/csf.
Minor behavioral changes/fixes include:
* Adjust close time offset even when not validating.
* Remove spurious proposing_ = false call at end of handleLCL.
* Remove unused functionality provided by checkLastValidation.
* Separate open and converge time
* Don't send a bow out if we're not proposing
* Prevent consensus stopping if NetworkOPs switches to disconnect mode while
consensus accepts a ledger
* Prevent a corner case in which Consensus::gotTxSet or Consensus::peerProposal
has the potential to update internal state while an dispatched accept job is
running.
* Distinguish external and internal calls to startNewRound. Only external
calls can reset the proposing_ state of consensus
The RippleAddress class was used to represent a number of fundamentally
different types: account public keys, account secret keys, node public
keys, node secret keys, seeds and generators.
The class is replaced by the following types:
* PublicKey for account and node public keys
* SecretKey for account and node private keys
* Generator for generating secp256k1 accounts
* Seed for account, node and generator seeds
* Expire validations faster based on when we first saw them.
* Never jump to a ledger prior to the latest fully-valid ledger
* Drop validations with signing times too far in the future immediately
* Inject dependencies, make functions free and levelize
* Add comments to document the intent behind the code
* Reduce class public interfaces
* Remove support for proposals without ledger hashes
This introduces the STVar container, capable of holding any STBase-derived
class and implementing a "small string" optimization. STObject is changed
to store std::vector<STVar> instead of boost::ptr_vector<STBase>. This
eliminates a significant number of needless dynamic memory allocations and
deallocations during transaction processing when ledger entries are
deserialized. It comes at the expense of larger overall storage requirements
for STObject.
* Remove unused members
* SerialIter holds only a pointer and offset now
* Use free functions for some Serializer members
* Use SerialIter in some places instead of Serializer
This replaces the experimental validators module with foundational
code to implement a new system for tracking validators, validations and
the UNL. The code is turned off by default, in BeastConfig.h
* Remove obsolete public Manager interfaces
* Remove obsolete database methods
* Remove obsolete ChosenList concept
* Remove obsolete code
* Add missing includes
* Tidy up STValidation.h
* Move factory function to Validators::make_Manager
* Add Connection object for tracking STValidations
Split out and rename STValidation
Split out and rename STBlob
Split out and rename STAccount
Split out STPathSet
Split STVector256 and move UintTypes to protocol/
Rename to STBase
Rename to STLedgerEntry
Rename to SOTemplate
Rename to STTx
Remove obsolete AgedHistory
Remove types.h and add missing includes
Remove unnecessary includes in app.h
Remove unnecessary includes in app.h
Remove include app.h from app1.cpp
