On 10/03/15 15:27, Jeff Burdges wrote: > > On 10 Mar 2015, at 14:55, Ximin Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> However, with a private group chat, incoming new members are *not allowed* >> to see old history. Yet we would still like them to be able to authenticate >> *for themselves, without trusting anyone else* that merges are carried out >> correctly, and be able to do merges themselves correctly. > > Interesting. We’d never need this for group “chat" applications as a > canonical ordering should not exist in a naive distributed chat context. >
A canonical total ordering would not exist, but partial orders are "canonical" by definition. X -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
