core/authority-discovery: Enable authorities to discover each other (#3452)
With the *authority-discovery* module an authoritative node makes itself discoverable and is able to discover other authorities. Once discovered, a node can directly connect to other authorities instead of multi-hop gossiping information. 1. **Making itself discoverable** 1. Retrieve its external addresses 2. Adds its network peer id to the addresses 3. Sign the above 4. Put the signature and the addresses on the libp2p Kademlia DHT 2. **Discovering other authorities** 1. Retrieve the current set of authorities 2. Start DHT queries for the ids of the authorities 3. Validate the signatures of the retrieved key value pairs 4. Add the retrieved external addresses as ~reserved~ priority nodes to the peerset * node/runtime: Add authority-discovery as session handler The srml/authority-discovery module implements the OneSessionHandler in order to keep its ...
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