Editing Round 10/Ruleset (section)

== Secret Information ==

When the rules authorize a set of players to "secretly" take an action (a "secret action") then those players can only take that action by posting in the relevant channel the type of game action to be performed, along with an SHA-256 hash containing a clear and unambiguous declaration of the action that the player is performing. It is strongly recommended to make the text to hash unpredictable, for instance by adding unrelated text to the end of the declaration. Since hashes are irreversible it is also strongly recommended to store the exact text that you hashed so that you can post it later.

Secret actions have the following properties, subject to modification by the rule that defines the secret action:
*A set of requirements for the action's contents (by default none)
*a channel in which the action must be performed (by default #game-actions).
*a maturation date (by default the beginning of the next rules-defined phase after the action's performance).
*a revelation date (by default three days after the maturation date).

If a secret action is to fail at the same instant as its revelation date, then it fails immediately before its revelation date.

During the period after the maturation date but before the revelation date of a secret action, the player who took that action must post the unhashed text corresponding to what they posted when taking the action (including the actions and the salt), and other players should verify that the unhashed text correctly matches up to the hashed text.

A secret action fails immediately after any of the following occur:
*If, at the revelation date, the player has not revealed the unhashed text, that action fails.
*If it is before the maturation date and the message in which the hashed text was sent was edited, that action fails.
*If, at the revelation date, the auction's revealed contents do not meet all the requirements of that secret action, it fails.
*The player posts an attempt to perform a secret action and they already have an attempt which has not failed at the time of posting the new attempt, then the former attempt fails.

Players may generate SHA-256 hashes by any method that results in a hash verifiable to be computed from the original message by other players. for convenience, here are a few unaffiliated websites that can be used to generate SHA-256 hashes:
*https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha256.html
*https://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/
*https://xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator