Re: [Lightning-dev] Fulgurite: ideas for making a more flexible Lightning Network protocol

2018-12-05 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Hi Trey, This document is a description of how I view individual channels on Lightning currently. The document is valuable as it provide a viewpoint of how Lightning works at each channel. Burchert-Decker-Wattenhofer channel factories are essentially multiparty (> 2 participants) "channels"

Re: [Lightning-dev] Reason for having HMACs in Sphinx

2018-12-05 Thread Rusty Russell
Christian Decker writes: > Rusty Russell writes: >>> The shared secret doesn't need to be very large: the number of attempts >>> per second (to guess the shared secret) is limited by network latency, >>> bandwidth and maybe some artificial rate limiting. If an attacker can do >>> 100 attempts

Re: [Lightning-dev] Reason for having HMACs in Sphinx

2018-12-05 Thread Christian Decker
Rusty Russell writes: >> The shared secret doesn't need to be very large: the number of attempts >> per second (to guess the shared secret) is limited by network latency, >> bandwidth and maybe some artificial rate limiting. If an attacker can do >> 100 attempts per second, then a 32-bit shared