commit 4f15ab616e2870d574c7522c0740ad89972d143e Author: David Goulet <dgoulet@ev0ke.net> Date: Mon Feb 15 15:39:03 2016 -0500 prop250: Mention the hard limit of 255 dirauth Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@ev0ke.net> --- proposals/250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/proposals/250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt b/proposals/250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt index 262630f..cd19b4c 100644 --- a/proposals/250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt +++ b/proposals/250-commit-reveal-consensus.txt @@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ Supersedes: 225 To maintain consistent ordering in HASHED_REVEALS, all the ID_a | R_a pairs are ordered based on the R_a value in ascending order. + Because the number of reveals (REVEAL_NUM) is using a 1 byte value, it + imposes a hard limit of 255 authorities participating in the protocol. + 3.4. Bootstrapping Procedure As described in [CONS], two shared random values are required for the HSDir