Re: [Lightning-dev] Packet switching via intermediary rendezvous node

2018-11-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 07:24:29PM -0800, Olaoluwa Osuntokun wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken it'll not be possible for us to have spontaneous > > ephemeral key switches while forwarding a payment > If this _was_ possible, then it seems that it would allow nodes to create > unbounded path lengths (lo

Re: [Lightning-dev] Packet switching via intermediary rendezvous node

2018-11-15 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
> If I'm not mistaken it'll not be possible for us to have spontaneous > ephemeral key switches while forwarding a payment If this _was_ possible, then it seems that it would allow nodes to create unbounded path lengths (looks to other nodes as a normal packet), possibly by controlling multiple no

Re: [Lightning-dev] Packet switching via intermediary rendezvous node

2018-11-12 Thread Christian Decker
Hi ZmnSCPxj, like I mentioned in the other mailing thread we have a minor complication in order get rendez-vous working. If I'm not mistaken it'll not be possible for us to have spontaneous ephemeral key switches while forwarding a payment. Specifically either the sender or the recipient have to

[Lightning-dev] Packet switching via intermediary rendezvous node

2018-11-09 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning list, Although, packet switching was part of the agenda, we decided, that we would defer this to some later version of BOLT spec. Interestingly, some sort of packet switching becomes possible, due to the below features we did not defer: 1. Multi-hop onion packets (i.e. s/realm/pa