Crate hotshot

Provides a generic rust implementation of the HotShot BFT protocol

Re-exports

• pub use rand;

Modules

• documentation
• tasks
  Provides a number of tasks that run continuously
• traits
  Contains traits consumed by SystemContext
• types
  Contains types used by the crate

Structs

• DoubleTwinsHandler
  A TwinsHandlerState that forwards each message to both twins, and returns messages from each of them.
• HotShotInitializer
  initializer struct for creating starting block
• Memberships
  Bundle of all the memberships a consensus instance uses
• RandomTwinsHandler
  A TwinsHandlerState that randomly forwards a message to either twin, and returns messages from both.
• SystemContext
  Holds the state needed to participate in HotShot consensus

Enums

• HotShotError
  Reexport error type Error type for HotShot

Constants

• H_256
  Length, in bytes, of a 256 bit hash
• H_512
  Length, in bytes, of a 512 bit hash

Traits

• TwinsHandlerState
  Trait for handling messages for a node with a twin copy of consensus

Type Aliases

• Channel 🔒
  An async broadcast channel