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| author | Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> | 2014-08-21 15:42:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> | 2014-08-21 15:42:09 +0200 |
| commit | 94b44ce2a844a6da73a4bd26e43503d6bb628fe6 (patch) | |
| tree | a01a084abd4bc6de956f2a6c9343bf934f1fb148 | |
| parent | c10bb02a7ddb07b81677f86ee03ccd4c4b4bb338 (diff) | |
Add picture.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design.txt | 31 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design.txt b/doc/design.txt index d572543..29ca0a4 100644 --- a/doc/design.txt +++ b/doc/design.txt @@ -59,6 +59,31 @@ Scaling, performance, estimates Open questions - What's a good MMD? Google seems to sign a new tree after 60-90 minutes (early 2014). They don't promise an MMD but aim to sign at - least once a day. We could start at 4h which would give us some time - to sort things out in case of trouble. Should probably not promise - anything like that for now though. + least once a day. + +A picture + ++-----------------------------------------------+ +| front end nodes | ++-----------------------------------------------+ + ^ ^ ^ ^ + | | | | + | v | | + | short term long term | + | cert db cert db copy | + | ^ | + | | v ++-----------------------------------------------+ +| tree makers | mergers | signers | ++-----------------------------------------------+ + ^ ^ + \ | + \ v + ------------- long term + cert db + +[TODO: Update terms in text or picture so they match: +secondary database == short term cert db +primary database == long term cert db +backend nodes == box with tree makers, mergers and signers] +[TODO: Move the picture to the top of the document.] |