Re: [Lightning-dev] Collaborated stealing. What happens when the final recipient discloses the pre-image

2020-07-17 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Ankit, I believe what you describe is a specific form of what is called the Wormhole attack. In the general form, the Wormhole attack has two forwarding nodes in a path that are coordinating with each other, and they can "teleport" the preimage from one to the other, skipping inter

Re: [Lightning-dev] Collaborated stealing. What happens when the final recipient discloses the pre-image

2020-07-17 Thread René Pickhardt via Lightning-dev
Hey Ankit, The lightning network sees the possession of a preimage as a proof of payment. And I believe everyone agrees that a court should rule in favor of A forcing E to deliver the good or reimburse A. The reason is that possession of the preimage matching the signed payment hash from E is a mu