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Simply add a nonce field to the chat message to ensure duplicate messages are still delivered

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Discussion in #iroh-gossip in Discord

Change checklist

  • Self-review.
  • Documentation updates following the style guide, if relevant.
  • Tests if relevant.
  • All breaking changes documented.

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Thank you so much for the PR.
I'd appreciate if you could address the PR comments. After those are addressed, I'm fairly confident it's ready to merge.

/// unique, so two identical chat messages are still delivered.
Message {
text: String,
nonce: u32,
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This is good! Can you make it a [u8; 16] though, just to make it borderline practically impossible for colliding nonces for the price of just a couple more bytes to send?

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nonce: u32,
nonce: [u8; 16],

AboutMe { name: String },
Message { text: String },
AboutMe {
name: String,
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This message probably also needs a nonce, since when a new peer joins, you'd want to send yet another AboutMe message with your current username, but that'd currently fail sending.

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name: String,
name: String,
nonce: [u8; 16],

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Fixes #61

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