Author: Rusty Russell 2016-08-21 20:45:06
Published on: 2016-08-21T20:45:06+00:00
In an email exchange, Joseph Poon and Rusty Russel discussed the issue of guesswork in transferring cryptocurrencies. They agreed that there should be a requirement for the amount to be pre-negotiated by the sender and recipient to avoid errors, which could lead to theft by prior hops. Rusty Russell suggested implementing code to steal such re-sends or fail them, while Joseph Poon said either way seemed practical for some nodes. He also noted that consistent hashes were necessary to prevent creation of a new onion blob presuming that the second-to-last hop was malicious.
Updated on: 2023-05-23T23:57:31.899924+00:00