On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:07:28AM +1030, Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > And is it worthwhile doing the mask complexity, rather than just > removing the commitment to script with NOINPUT? It *feels* safer to > restrict what scripts we can sign, but is it?
If it's not safer in practice, we've spent a little extra complexity committing to a subset of the script in each signature to no gain. If it is safer in practice, we've prevented people from losing funds. I'm all for less complexity, but not for that tradeoff. Also, saying "I can't see how to break this, so it's probably good enough, even if other people have a bad feeling about it" is a crypto anti-pattern, isn't it? I don't see how you could feasibly commit to more information than script masking does for use cases where you want to be able to spend different scripts with the same signature [0]. If that's possible, I'd probably be for it. At the same time, script masking does seem feasible, both for lightning/eltoo, and even for possibly complex variations of scripts. So committing to less doesn't seem wise. > You already need both key-reuse and amount-reuse to be exploited. > SIGHASH_MASK only prevents you from reusing this input for a "normal" > output; if you used this key for multiple scripts of the same form, > you're vulnerable[1]. For example, script masking seems general enough to prevent footguns even if (for some reason) key and value reuse across eltoo channels were a requirement, rather than prohibited: you'd make the script be "<eltoo-channel-id> MASK <statenum> CLTV 2DROP <a+b> CHECKSIG", and your signature will only apply to that channel, even if another channel has the same capacity and uses the same keys, a and b. > So I don't think it's worth it. SIGHASH_NOINPUT is simply dangerous > with key-reuse, and Don't Do That. For my money, "NOINPUT" commits to dangerously little context, and doesn't really feel safe to include as a primitive -- as evidenced by the suggestion to add "_UNSAFE" or similar to its name. Personally, I'm willing to accept a bit of risk, so that feeling doesn't make me strongly against the idea; but it also makes it hard for me to want to support adding it. To me, committing to a masked script is a huge improvement. Heck, if it also makes it easier to do something safer, that's also probably a win... Cheers, aj [0] You could, perhaps, commit to knowing the private keys for all the *outputs* you're spending to, as well as the inputs, which comes close to saying "I know this is a scary NOINPUT transaction, but we're paying to ourselves, so it will all be okay". _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev