dominictarr/scuttlebutt — pull request #40 by nathan7 (2014-12-21 22:50:59+00:00)
Title: remove the security subsystem

Scuttlebutt's security subsystem is in fact fairly useless, because
updates can simply be left out by malicious nodes, and because updates
must arrive in-order, it is possible to cause past messages to be
ignored if they have not reached the local node yet.
The security subsystem unnecessarily complicates the code, and provides
a false sense of security. Scuttlebutt must be used in trusted
environments for it to function correctly. Thus, I'm proposing removing the
security subsystem.