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daemon: encrypted communication (version 3)
After useful feedback from Anthony Towns and Mats Jerratsch (of thunder.network fame), this is the third version of inter-node crypto. 1) First, each side sends a 33-byte session pubkey. This is a bitcoin-style compressed EC key, unique for each session. 2) ECDH is used to derive a shared secret. From this we generate the following transmission encoding parameters for each side: Session AES-128 key: SHA256(shared-secret || my-sessionpubkey || 0) Session HMAC key: SHA256(shared-secret || my-sessionpubkey || 1) IV for AES: SHA256(shared-secret || my-sessionpubkey || 2) 3) All packets from then on are encrypted of form: /* HMAC, covering totlen and data */ struct sha256 hmac; /* Total data transmitted (including this). */ le64 totlen; /* Encrypted contents, rounded up to 16 byte boundary. */ u8 data[]; 4) The first packet is an Authenticate protobuf, containing this node's pubkey, and a bitcoin-style EC signature of the other side's session pubkey. 5) Unknown protobuf fields are handled in the protocol as follows (including in the initial Authenticate packet): 1) Odd numbered fields are optional, and backwards compatible. 2) Even numbered fields are required; abort if you get one. Currently both sides just send an error packet "hello" after the handshake, and make sure they receive the same. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
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