Re: Composable Conditions

Roger, I'm not suggesting it as a new name for the crypto-conditions
protocol, just wondering if people have thought of returning a fraction
instead of a boolean.

Here's the paper it's from:
http://altheamesh.com/documents/universal-payment-channels.pdf

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Roger Bass <roger@traxiant.com> wrote:

> +1 on "Smart Conditions"
>
> There's a fair amount of blockchain talk about "Smart Contracts". A key,
> simple use case for such contracts, I suspect, is "payment against
> delivery". It seems to me that this work could map well onto support of
> such a scenario.
> On May 20, 2016 1:21 PM, "Jehan Tremback" <jehan.tremback@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have a similar concept in UPC- "smart conditions" (which is what got me
> interested in this standard in the first place). My smart conditions are
> some executable code that returns not a boolean, but a number between 0 and
> 1. This is used for unlocking only part of some funds. Wondering if this is
> something you have thought about in this new iteration?
>
> -Jehan
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Daniel Bateman <7daniel77@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Looks good to me too.
>> On May 18, 2016 6:53 PM, "Rafael Pereira" <rafael@rippex.net> wrote:
>>
>>> LGTM
>>>
>>> Em qua, 18 de mai de 2016 às 20:20, Stefan Thomas <stefan@ripple.com>
>>> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> During one of the recent community group calls we promised that we
>>>> would work on a better nomenclature for crypto-conditions.
>>>>
>>>> The main criticism we heard was that it seemed like it was called
>>>> crypto-conditions based on a very narrow use case (triggering events based
>>>> on signatures) in five-bells-ledger and that using them for multi-sig was
>>>> going to be a more common use case.
>>>>
>>>> However, one person also commented that hashlocks aren't really
>>>> signatures. (We've called them zero-bit signatures before, but that's like
>>>> calling a road a "zero-river bridge".)
>>>>
>>>> I've discussed the terminology with Evan and here is what we propose:
>>>>
>>>> Composable Conditions are a standard for cryptographic one-way
>>>> functions and ways to compose them.
>>>>
>>>> The idea here is that "condition" is actually broader than "signature".
>>>> A signature verification algorithm is a function which returns a boolean:
>>>> valid/invalid. A hashlock is also a function which returns a boolean:
>>>> valid/invalid. In the future we may add a scriptable condition, but it
>>>> would still return true or false. The general term for a thing that returns
>>>> true or false is a "condition".
>>>>
>>>> Once you think about the idea of a "condition", you can also understand
>>>> the use cases for this standard. Conditions can be triggers for events, but
>>>> they can also be used for authentication ("accept any command that meets
>>>> this condition".)
>>>>
>>>> The term "condition" also neatly expresses what we think is not in
>>>> scope: Our spec specifically does not allow you to perform computation
>>>> (returning values other than true or false.)
>>>>
>>>> Aside from the fact that it abstracts the condition type, the other
>>>> significant feature of the standard is that it provides condition types
>>>> which are a composition of other conditions.
>>>>
>>>> That's why we propose "Composable Conditions" as the new name. Please
>>>> let us know your feedback in this thread!
>>>>
>>>> - Stefan
>>>>
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