On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Trevor Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:
> (1) It seems feasible to put messages into a causal/partial order by > having them piggyback references and hashes to their parents (aka > "causal predecessors"). > I think that vector clocks (which wouldn't necessarily refer to previous messages, perhaps just message counts since joining a conversation) are the best bet at getting a realistic *partial* (not total) ordering of events (2) If these partially-ordered messages are displayed in a linear > order, then "ice cream" attack becomes possible, where a message is > snuck in to make your innocent response about ice-cream seem about > something else. > Vector clocks will have to deal with siblings, in which case it will have to pick an order when the ordering is ambiguous -- Tony Arcieri
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