diff --git a/terminology.md b/terminology.md index d48e456..4f84501 100644 --- a/terminology.md +++ b/terminology.md @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ In order alphabetically by `Label` then by `Term`, or just `Term` if there is no | CP | Liveness | Every correct propsed value will eventually be accepted by correct nodes. aka something good happens. | | CP| Persistence | ?? | CP | Safety | If a value is committed by a correct node, then that value will eventually be commited by all correct nodes. Two correct nodes will never commit to different values. aka nothing bad happens. +| CP | Honest Chain Growth | Starting from any point of the protocol execution, an honest node `v` will eventually add a block created by an honest node to its blockchain (`v`'s blockchain) | || Cryptographic Hash Function | A collision resistant hash function that cannot feasibly be reversed by a computationally bound adversary. || Global Stabalization Time (GST) | "A time unknown to the processors, such that the message system respects the upper bound from time GST onward." (DLS Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony) || Linearizability |