Socratic Seminar #84
Thanks to Ordimint for sponsoring food and drinks for this meetup!
Security/CVEs/InfoSec/Research
- Cryptanalysis of LDVR: Polynomial-Time Adaptive Attacks against Threshold Schnorr Signatures
- m0wer Gist: Ring change channels
- Garbling Groth16 with Native Group Operations
- Shielded Bitcoin - Private Transfers on the Bitcoin L1
- PRAWNS: Threshold Hash-Based Signatures from Threshold PRFs
- Disclosure: DoS vulnerabilities fixed in Eclair v0.14.0
- Disclosure: DoS vulnerabilities fixed in Eclair v0.14.1
- Blink: The September 19 Attack — The Facts, The Full Story and Announcing The 50% Bounty (up to 3.3 bitcoin)
- Alby vulnerability
Network Data
Local/Legal
Miscellaneous
- QED last month: BIP300 fork is always 20 days away
- Glasscoins
- Glasscoins vs. Shielded Bitcoin Whiteboard session
- Bitcoin’s Quantum Migration Debate
- The Hierarchy of Money
- Payjoin in Bark
- covenants.diy
- Something’s been bugging me
Mailing Lists
bitcoin-dev
Delving Bitcoin
- PQLN: Post-Quantum Security for the Bitcoin Lightning Network’s Off-Chain Surfaces
- Block-wide Signature Aggregation via SNARKs
- Bounds on chain length with BIP-54 timewarp fixes
- Comparing Bitcoin Covenant Proposals for Vaults
Pull requests
BIPs, BOLTs and Proposals
- BIP138: Compact Encryption Scheme for Non-seed Wallet Data - #1951
- BIP461: Deterministic ECDSA Signatures #2224
- BIP332: Stale Tip Relay #2241
Bitcoin Core
- wallet: Prepare for future upgrades by recording versions of last client to open and decrypt #32895
- feature: Use different datadirs for different signets #34566
- Wallet: Add maxfeerate wallet startup option #29278
- Silent Payments: Implement bip352 (take 2) #35301
- dergoegge steps down
LND
- bolt12: add Merkle tree and BIP-340 message signatures #11061
- multi: stop opening legacy channels #11212
Core Lightning
- Port the v26.06.8 fixes to master #9582
- feerates: bound peer-supplied and stored values (v26.06.7 security, 1/7) #9507
- channeld: splice, STFU and channel-open handling (v26.06.7 security, 2/7)
- lightningd: onchain close, reorg and preimage handling (v26.06.7 security, 3/7) #9509
- common: bound untrusted inputs and address parsing (v26.06.7 security, 4/7) #9510
- offers, xpay, hsmd, gossipd: assorted fixes (v26.06.7 security, 7/7) #9513
Eclair
- More AI fixes and defense-in-depth #3376
- Harden interactive-tx funding against a malicious bitcoind #3390
BDK/rust-bitcoin & LDK/rust-lightning
- Reject acknowledged commitment rollbacks #5057
- Fix some bugs the LSPS2 JIT flow #5042
- Drop since-applied blocked monitor updates before the stale-channel check #5046