[BOLT Draft] Onion Routing Spec

Aug 21 - Aug 21, 2016

  • In an email exchange, Joseph Poon and Rusty Russel discussed the issue of guesswork in transferring cryptocurrencies.

They agreed that there should be a requirement for the amount to be pre-negotiated by the sender and recipient to avoid errors, which could lead to theft by prior hops. Rusty Russell suggested implementing code to steal such re-sends or fail them, while Joseph Poon said either way seemed practical for some nodes. He also noted that consistent hashes were necessary to prevent creation of a new onion blob presuming that the second-to-last hop was malicious.

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