The spec imports are a mess to work with, so this branch cleans them up a bit to ensure that we avoid generic sandwitches and that importing stuff generally becomes easier. * reexport crypto/digest/presets because these are part of the public symbol set of the rest of the spec types * don't export `merge` types from `base` - this causes circular deps * fix circular deps in `ssz/spec_types` - this is the first step in disentangling ssz from spec * be explicit about phase0 vs altair - longer term, `altair` will become the "natural" type set, then merge and so on, so no point in giving `phase0` special preferential treatment |
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README.md
Gossip Processing
This folders hold a collection of modules to:
- validate raw gossip data before
- rebroadcasting them (potentially aggregated)
- sending it to one of the consensus object pool
Validation
Gossip Validation is different from consensus verification in particular for blocks.
- Blocks: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#beacon_block
- Attestations (aggregate): https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#beacon_aggregate_and_proof
- Attestations (single): https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#attestation-subnets
- Exits: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#voluntary_exit
- Proposer slashings: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#proposer_slashing
- Attester slashing: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/blob/v1.0.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#attester_slashing
There are 2 consumers of validated consensus objects:
- a
ValidationResult.Accept
output triggers rebroadcasting in libp2p- method
validate(PubSub, message)
in libp2p/protocols/pubsub/pubsub.nim in the - which was called by
rpcHandler(GossipSub, PubSubPeer, RPCMsg)
- method
- a
xyzValidator
message enqueues the validated object in one of the processing queue in eth2_processorblocksQueue: AsyncQueue[BlockEntry]
, (shared with request_manager and sync_manager)attestationsQueue: AsyncQueue[AttestationEntry]
aggregatesQueue: AsyncQueue[AggregateEntry]
Those queues are then regularly processed to be made available to the consensus object pools.
Security concerns
As the first line of defense in Nimbus, modules must be able to handle burst of data that may come:
- from malicious nodes trying to DOS us
- from long periods of non-finality, creating lots of forks, attestations, forks