Posted by Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Aug 22, 2016/19:47 UTC
In an email conversation between Rusty Russell and Laolu, a potential flaw in the onion routing protocol used by the Lightning Network was identified. It was suggested that if the second-to-last hop is malicious, they could create a new onion blob and potentially compromise the payment. In response to this concern, it was proposed that the sender and receiver could agree on a shared secret value, such as the hash of the contract, that would be included in the per-hop payload for the final hop. If the payload does not match this value, then the payment should be rejected as a prior node has unsuccessfully attempted to recreate the onion packet. This solution would add an extra layer of security to the payment negotiation process.
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