Re: [Lightning-dev] A protocol for requesting invoices

2018-03-15 Thread Andy Schroder
Andy Schroder On 03/15/2018 08:31 PM, ZmnSCPxj wrote: Good morning Corne, routing. You could consider the start of the partial route as an "introduction point"; it is selected by the payee(**). I'm not sure if it is exactly equivalent to TOR's introduction points th

[Lightning-dev] Cyclic Superhubs

2018-03-15 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning list, For your amusement. https://zmnscpxj.github.io/offchain/cyclicsuperhubs.html Regards, ZmnSCPxj___ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev

Re: [Lightning-dev] A protocol for requesting invoices

2018-03-15 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Corne, > routing. You could consider the start of the partial route as an > > "introduction point"; it is selected by the payee(**). I'm not sure if > > it is exactly equivalent to TOR's introduction points though. It is almost equivalent I think. > > 2.

Re: [Lightning-dev] A protocol for requesting invoices

2018-03-15 Thread Corné Plooy via Lightning-dev
Hi Andy, 1. Don't confuse TOR onion routing (used for anonymous/pseudonymous communication) with Lightning onion routing (used for anonymous payments). TOR's design is outside the scope of the discussion; as far as I can see, TOR is only relevant because it exists, it works(*) and it is useful to

Re: [Lightning-dev] A protocol for requesting invoices

2018-03-15 Thread Corné Plooy via Lightning-dev
Hi  ZmnSCPxj, Thanks for the links. I've done a bit of reading, and this seems to be the clearest explanation of what the Web Payments Working Group wants to achieve: https://www.w3.org/TR/webpayments-overview/ But maybe Christian can give better / more up-to-date info. From what I can see, t