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2.2 KiB
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66 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
The Historian
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===
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Create a *Historian* and send it *events* to generate an *event log*, where each *entry*
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is tagged with the historian's latest *hash*. Then ensure the order of events was not tampered
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with by verifying each entry's hash can be generated from the hash in the previous entry:
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```rust
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extern crate silk;
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use silk::historian::Historian;
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use silk::ledger::{verify_slice, Entry, Hash};
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use silk::event::{generate_keypair, get_pubkey, sign_claim_data, Event};
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use std::thread::sleep;
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use std::time::Duration;
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use std::sync::mpsc::SendError;
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fn create_ledger(hist: &Historian<Hash>) -> Result<(), SendError<Event<Hash>>> {
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sleep(Duration::from_millis(15));
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let tokens = 42;
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let keypair = generate_keypair();
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let event0 = Event::new_claim(get_pubkey(&keypair), tokens, sign_claim_data(&tokens, &keypair));
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hist.sender.send(event0)?;
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sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
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Ok(())
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}
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fn main() {
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let seed = Hash::default();
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let hist = Historian::new(&seed, Some(10));
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create_ledger(&hist).expect("send error");
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drop(hist.sender);
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let entries: Vec<Entry<Hash>> = hist.receiver.iter().collect();
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for entry in &entries {
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println!("{:?}", entry);
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}
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// Proof-of-History: Verify the historian learned about the events
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// in the same order they appear in the vector.
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assert!(verify_slice(&entries, &seed));
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}
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```
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Running the program should produce a ledger similar to:
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```rust
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Entry { num_hashes: 0, id: [0, ...], event: Tick }
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Entry { num_hashes: 3, id: [67, ...], event: Transaction { tokens: 42 } }
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Entry { num_hashes: 3, id: [123, ...], event: Tick }
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```
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Proof-of-History
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---
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Take note of the last line:
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```rust
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assert!(verify_slice(&entries, &seed));
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```
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[It's a proof!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence) For each entry returned by the
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historian, we can verify that `id` is the result of applying a sha256 hash to the previous `id`
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exactly `num_hashes` times, and then hashing then event data on top of that. Because the event data is
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included in the hash, the events cannot be reordered without regenerating all the hashes.
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