What is the consensus mechanism used in Parity for 'Proof of Authority' chains?

Question

The Ethcore Parity wiki states that it supports 'Proof of Authority Chains'. What distributed byzantine consensus mechanism is used?

Answer 1

No actual consensus mechanism is used.

Some nodes/keys have the right to sign blocks (configured in the example json you see at https://github.com/ethcore/parity/wiki/Proof%20of%20Authority%20Chains ), others don't.

As the text says, this is only for demo/development purposes. An actual consensus mechanism will need to be plugged in later.

Answer 2

Seems like now Parity is called OpenEthereum, which includes a consortium consensus algorithm called Aura