Good morning t-bast, CLN already has something similar in standard CLN distrib: https://docs.corelightning.org/docs/commando
However it is tied specifically to the CLN command set. Nevertheless, it is largely the same idea, just CLN-specific. Regards, ZmnSCPxj Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, September 5th, 2023 at 5:26 PM, Bastien TEINTURIER <bast...@acinq.fr> wrote: > Good morning list, > > I have just opened a PR to the bLIPs repository [1] to document an idea > that I started investigating a long time ago and had already discussed > with a few people, but never found the time to write it up before. > > This is a very simple architecture to securely send administrative > commands to your lightning node (such as opening a channel or paying > an invoice) from an untrusted machine (laptop, mobile phone or even > smart watch, let's be crazy), by using an HSM acting as a whitelisted > lightning peer (by implementing Bolt 8 entirely inside the HSM). The > interesting part is that it requires almost nothing new on the lightning > node itself, since we simply use a standard lightning connection as our > communication channel and custom lightning messages to send commands. > > This should be doable for example in a custom application running on a > Ledger Nano S [2], which is what I had started investigating. > > The bLIP still needs some work on the actual commands (and potentially > their encoding), but the interesting part is mostly the HSM app (the > rest is probably bikeshedding). > > If someone wants to actually work on implementing this, I think it > would be very useful! I'd gladly volunteer to specify this better and > review the implementation. Maybe that kind of work could be done under > an open-source grant for example. > > Cheers, > Bastien > > [1] https://github.com/lightning/blips/pull/28 > [2] https://developers.ledger.com/docs/embedded-app/framework/ _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
