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Add a brief reference to the perspectives project and mention what should happen if a server goes offline

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Mark Haines 2015-04-23 16:06:07 +01:00
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@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ directly or by querying an intermediate perspective server using a
response with their own key. A server may query multiple perspective servers
to ensure that they all report the same public keys.
This approach is borrowed from the Perspectives Project
(http://perspectives-project.org/), but modified to include the NACL keys and to
use JSON instead of XML. It has the advantage of avoiding a single trust-root
since each server is free to pick which perspective servers they trust and can
corroborate the keys returned by a given perspective server by querying other
servers.
Publishing Keys
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@ -117,6 +124,10 @@ remaining life time to avoid serving a stale response. Servers should avoid
querying for certificates more frequently than once an hour to avoid flooding
a server with requests.
If a server goes offline intermediate perspective servers should continue to
return the last response they received from that server so that the signatures
of old events sent by that server can still be checked.
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