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// Copyright (c) 2016-2017 The btcsuite developers
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// Copyright (c) 2016-2017 The Lightning Network Developers
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// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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/*
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Package gcs provides an API for building and using a Golomb-coded set filter.
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Golomb-Coded Set
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A Golomb-coded set is a probabilistic data structure used similarly to a Bloom
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filter. A filter uses constant-size overhead plus on average n+2 bits per
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item added to the filter, where 2^-n is the desired false positive (collision)
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probability.
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GCS use in Bitcoin
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GCS filters are a proposed mechanism for storing and transmitting per-block
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filters in Bitcoin. The usage is intended to be the inverse of Bloom filters:
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a full node would send an SPV node the GCS filter for a block, which the SPV
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node would check against its list of relevant items. The suggested collision
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probability for Bitcoin use is 2^-20.
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*/
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package gcs
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