An additional layer of security for mutable data

[jlpell]

I never really took the time to look into it all that much because I thought
I saw somewhere on the forum that it is no longer applicable to the current network design considering data chains and all. It may or may not be similar to what you were thinking.

Sentinel for beginners

In this topic I will try to explain “Sentinel”. There is a nice document about it on the Maidsafe-Github but it get’s quite technical quite fast. At the top it’s stated that Sentinel is about “network consensus, authority and crypto usage”. David did a presentation on Sentinel which can be found here. Let’s start at the beginning. Your client connected you on ip-level to the network using CRUST. That’s the part where you can have connections based on UDP, TCP, etc. It creates holes in your fire…