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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-08 21:46:41 +0000
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-08 22:58:41 +0100
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screen: signatures required as the policy a change came under says
Review 3, R1: what a node received was vouched for only while its own document's policy required signatures. A joiner's first sync, and every node's message bringing `required`, went in by the rules alone: a malicious first peer could plant changes under other members' actors at their next seqs, their real ones then failing as duplicates for good. The signatures a message carries are always offered now, and the screen always has them: a change waits for one where the policy at the heads it is judged at requires it (rules::Reads::required, read once per heads), whatever the receiving document holds. Changes written under a policy not requiring signatures wait for none, as on every other node; the check for forged changes runs always. Changes waiting for a signature are judged again whenever signatures come. The test of signatures required now takes the history into an empty document; a new one takes changes written under a policy not requiring them without any.
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A node judges what it receives whether its document has a policy yet or not, each
change by the policy it was written under: a joining node judges its first sync, the
-policy's own change and everything after it, as every other node does. While neither
+policy's own change and everything after it, as every other node does, and waits for
+the signatures of what was written under a policy requiring them. While neither
its document nor what it receives holds a policy, it judges only that a root is the
epoch's, and nothing costs more than applying the changes.