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diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md index 0d96dde..302df5d 100644 --- a/docs/api.md +++ b/docs/api.md @@ -283,10 +283,11 @@ the signatures entirely. A swarm whose policy requires signatures `none` too: every change must arrive vouched for. Signatures travel with the changes, in the sync messages that carry them, along the -same paths: a node passes on, for each node's writes, the latest signature it checked, -and checks one it receives once it holds the change (a signature costs about 30 µs to -check, and one vouches for its node's changes before it). A message carrying no -changes carries no signatures. A node that stopped with changes it never sent, nor +same paths: a message carries the signatures of the changes it carries, whatever the +peer was sent before, so changes sent again (a message lost on the way) arrive +vouched for as the first time; and a node checks one it receives once it holds the +change (a signature costs about 30 µs to check, and one vouches for its node's changes +before it). A message carrying no changes carries no signatures. A node that stopped with changes it never sent, nor signed, signs them as it starts, before anything leaves. The signatures a node has are kept in its document file (`--document-file`) with the document. |