ZmnSCPxj writes:
> Good morning Christian, Rusty, and list,
> You can take this a step further and make the realm 0 byte into a
> special type "0" which has a fixed length of 1299 bytes, with the
> length never encoded for this special type. It would then define the
> next 1299 bytes as the "V",
Good morning Christian, Rusty, and list,
> There is however a third option, namely make the entire payload a
> TLV-set and then use the old payload format (`short_channel_id`,
> `amt_to_forward`, `outgoing_ctlv_value`) as a single TLV-value with 20
> bytes of size. That means we have only 2 bytes
Rusty Russell writes:
> There are two ways to add TLV to the onion:
> 1. Leave the existing fields and put TLV in the padding:
>* [`8`:`short_channel_id`]
>* [`8`:`amt_to_forward`]
>* [`4`:`outgoing_cltv_value`]
>* [`12`:`padding`]
> 2. Replace existing fields with TLV (eg. 2=short
Subnote on this, there's a query on TLV format (1 byte type, 1 byte+
len).
There are two ways to add TLV to the onion:
1. Leave the existing fields and put TLV in the padding:
* [`8`:`short_channel_id`]
* [`8`:`amt_to_forward`]
* [`4`:`outgoing_cltv_value`]
* [`12`:`padding`]
2. Replac
