📅 Original date posted:2015-08-24
📝 Original message:
Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> writes:
> On 24 August 2015 at 12:58, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> But maybe Dave could have a different key for each channel, and choose them
> independently of his lightning network id as used for routing (and the
> corresponding public key used for onion routing)?
Yep.
> But if the key isn't linked, then Carol could construct her own
> "Carol-in-a-Dave-suit" set of keys, and make a fake "channel closure"
> transaction to convince Bob that Dave was being bad,
As I said before, you could never use this to convince anyone that
anyone was bad anyway.
Maybe Carol ignored Dave's perfectly valid reply. Maybe Dave didn't
reply. You can't tell.
> It would cost a
> bitcoin transaction and lock up her bitcoins for the timeout period
> (assuming she never finds out R), though -- but I'm not sure that's enough?
Someone bled (in fees and delayed funds). That's hopefully enough; at
least it cost them to inconvenience you.
Cheers,
Rusty.
Rusty Russell [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-09 12:44:07
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