Explain the consensus mechanism

[jzakotnik]

When introducing trubudget, quite often we get asked how consensus works and we basically say "round robin". I think in the doc we should have a bit of a deep dive, what this means. For example if the partner hosts 5 nodes and the donor 1 (or other way round), can they manipulate data?

[Stezido]

Agreed, the only documentation about the consesus mechanism is in the security FAQ

Multichain has a white-paper including detailed information about specific parts of multichain like the consensus mechanism.
It's a little bit hard to find, even if you downloaded the document.
The white-paper-document can be accessed and downloaded from here
The section with the consensus information is hidden on page 7 "Mining in MultiChain"

Trubudget should include a detailed documentation about the round-robin consensus in its own docs.

[jzakotnik]

Yes, the technical documentation is good, but it's tricky to translate to functional implications, e.g. who could run an attack in the TruBudget setup

[Stezido]

What if we provide example scenarios to describe possible functional implications?

[jzakotnik]

Actually it would be an interesting setup for a hackathon or similar to try to actually modify the data (given all the open source knowledge but not the other keys)

[daniel-arnauer]

relates to #417