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Overview ¶
Package handel provides signature aggregation through a peer-to-peer protocol. This could help reduce the load on the leader in very large configurations of replicas. This package implements the `Handel` interface defined in the consensus package. The following gives an overview of how this module works:
Enabling Handel from the CLI.
Handel can be enabled through the `--modules` flag:
./hotstuff run --modules="handel"
Initialization.
Handel requires an extra initialization step, because it needs to access the `Configuration` module after it has connected to the other replicas. In order to facilitate this, the orchestration runtime will check if a Handel module is present, after the Configuration has been connected, and then call the `Init` function of the Handel module.
API.
The Handel module exports only the `Begin` method. This method is used to start the aggregation process. When called, the `Begin` method will create a new Handel session. The Handel module forwards relevant events from the event loop to the active sessions.
When a session has managed to assemble a valid quorum certificate, it will send a NewView event on the event loop.
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type Handel ¶
type Handel struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Handel implements a signature aggregation protocol.
func (*Handel) Begin ¶
func (h *Handel) Begin(s consbench.PartialCert)
Begin commissions the aggregation of a new signature.
func (*Handel) InitModule ¶
InitModule initializes the Handel module.
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