0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 15 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Taking a sabbatical from Bitcoin FOSS meta
The fastest ways to get issues fixed is demonstrations. Same as the rest of the security industry has learned. And it may make for better fixes as more people can experiment with the issues and find ways to improve on the attacks.
As is posted on the mailing list at time of disclosure, I’ve been looking for someone among other lightning devs run and play the “defensive” side in replacement cycling attacks, in a traditional “blue / red” fashion. No one has raised the hand.
You’re still free to publish your mainet lightning node pubkey and give me your private consent for demonstration / experimentation. Beyond, I did test replacement cycling attacks locally and it was working well.
We did test some lightning attacks in the past in a real-world setup, though I think you’re missing point than you have so much known attacks affecting lightning that senior protocol devs don’t have time to test, experiment, research and fix them anymore. And as such, jeopardizing their end-users bitcoin financial interests.
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