Re: On the ordering of header entries

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Rich Salz wrote:

> > Just wondering, what's the rational behind not allowing someone
> > to reorder the headers?  Not that I think people will be itching
> > to do it, I'm just curious.  8-)
>
> (Some subset of) the headers might be signed.

It depend on the way you sign, either you sign individually blocks or you
sign a subset of the blocks and the signing block can record the ordering.
So you still don't need to have a fixed order.

If ordering has to be done in the processing, there should be a
surrounding block handling the processing (such block can also add things
to process rollbacks).

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