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## Structure
### Components
The Tendermint Light Client consists of three primary components:
- [Core Verification](./verification.md): verifying hashes, signatures, and validator set changes
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the full node consensus protocol, though it is included here since it is
primarily concerned with providing security to light clients.
A schematic of the core verification and fork detection components in
a Light Node are depicted below. The schematic is quite similar for other use cases.
Note fork accountability is not depicted, as it is the responsibility of the
full nodes.
![Light Client Diagram](assets/light-node-image.png).
### Synchrony
Light clients are fundamentally synchronous protocols,
where security is grounded ultimately in the interval during which a validator can be punished
where security is restricted by the interval during which a validator can be punished
for byzantine behaviour. We assume here that such intervals have fixed and known minima
referred to commonly as a blockchain's Unbonding Period.
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each with their own synchrony assumptions and fault model, can execute
sequentially and to completion within the given Unbonding Period.
TODO: define all the synchrony parameters used in the protocol and their
relation to the Unbonding Period.

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