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diff --git a/issues/fix-error-prone-timestamp-configuration.md b/issues/fix-error-prone-timestamp-configuration.md deleted file mode 100644 index 79db548..0000000 --- a/issues/fix-error-prone-timestamp-configuration.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -**Title:** Fix error-prone timestamp configuration</br> -**Date:** 2021-12-18 </br> - -# Summary -Stop relying on Trillian to update tree head timestamps. - -# Description -A sigsum log is expected to produce a new to-sign tree head every five minutes. -If no new entries were added, only the timestamp is updated to ensure freshness. - -The current sigsum-log-go implementation assumes that Trillian ensures that a -new tree head is produced every five minutes. It can be configured as follows: -``` -$ createtree --help -Usage of ./createtree: -[...] - -max_root_duration duration - Interval after which a new signed root is produced despite no submissions; zero means never (default 1h0m0s) -[...] -``` - -It would be less error-prone to configure this from sigsum-log-go instead, as -part of the `StateManager` interface based on a constant (i.e., 5 minutes). |