Merge pull request #68 from gijswijs/onion-messaging

Onion messaging support

Author: Roasbeef

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 vendor/
 .idea
+.aider*

.golangci.yml

@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ linters:
       # Checks the number of statements in a function.
       statements: 50
 
+    tagliatelle:
+      case:
+        rules:
+          json: snake
+
     wsl_v5:
       # We adopt a more relaxed cuddling rule by enabling
       # `allow-whole-block`. This allows a variable declaration to be

cmd/main.go

@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ func main() {
 						"data.",
 					Value: defaultHopDataPath,
 				},
+				cli.IntFlag{
+					Name: "payload-size",
+					Usage: "The size for a payload for a " +
+						"single hop. Defaults to the " +
+						"max routing payload size",
+					Value: sphinx.MaxRoutingPayloadSize,
+				},
 			},
 		},
 		{
@@ -203,8 +210,10 @@ func generate(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("could not peel onion spec: %v", err)
 	}
 
+	payloadSize := ctx.Int("payload-size")
 	msg, err := sphinx.NewOnionPacket(
 		path, sessionKey, assocData, sphinx.DeterministicPacketFiller,
+		sphinx.WithMaxPayloadSize(payloadSize),
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error creating message: %v", err)

error.go

@@ -1,27 +1,56 @@
 package sphinx
 
-import "fmt"
+import "errors"
 
 var (
 	// ErrReplayedPacket is an error returned when a packet is rejected
 	// during processing due to being an attempted replay or probing
 	// attempt.
-	ErrReplayedPacket = fmt.Errorf("sphinx packet replay attempted")
+	ErrReplayedPacket = errors.New("sphinx packet replay attempted")
 
 	// ErrInvalidOnionVersion is returned during decoding of the onion
 	// packet, when the received packet has an unknown version byte.
-	ErrInvalidOnionVersion = fmt.Errorf("invalid onion packet version")
+	ErrInvalidOnionVersion = errors.New("invalid onion packet version")
 
-	// ErrInvalidOnionHMAC is returned during onion parsing process, when received
-	// mac does not corresponds to the generated one.
-	ErrInvalidOnionHMAC = fmt.Errorf("invalid mismatched mac")
+	// ErrInvalidOnionHMAC is returned during onion parsing process, when
+	// received mac does not corresponds to the generated one.
+	ErrInvalidOnionHMAC = errors.New("invalid mismatched mac")
 
 	// ErrInvalidOnionKey is returned during onion parsing process, when
 	// onion key is invalid.
-	ErrInvalidOnionKey = fmt.Errorf("invalid onion key: pubkey isn't on " +
+	ErrInvalidOnionKey = errors.New("invalid onion key: pubkey isn't on " +
 		"secp256k1 curve")
 
-	// ErrLogEntryNotFound is an error returned when a packet lookup in a replay
-	// log fails because it is missing.
-	ErrLogEntryNotFound = fmt.Errorf("sphinx packet is not in log")
+	// ErrLogEntryNotFound is an error returned when a packet lookup in a
+	// replay log fails because it is missing.
+	ErrLogEntryNotFound = errors.New("sphinx packet is not in log")
+
+	// ErrPayloadSizeExceeded is returned when the payload size exceeds the
+	// configured payload size of the onion packet.
+	ErrPayloadSizeExceeded = errors.New("max payload size exceeded")
+
+	// ErrSharedSecretDerivation is returned when we fail to derive the
+	// shared secret for a hop.
+	ErrSharedSecretDerivation = errors.New("error generating shared secret")
+
+	// ErrMissingHMAC is returned when the onion packet is too small to
+	// contain a valid HMAC.
+	ErrMissingHMAC = errors.New("onion packet is too small, missing HMAC")
+
+	// ErrNegativeRoutingInfoSize is returned when a negative routing info
+	// size is specified in the Sphinx configuration.
+	ErrNegativeRoutingInfoSize = errors.New("routing info size must be " +
+		"non-negative")
+
+	// ErrNegativePayloadSize is returned when a negative payload size is
+	// specified in the Sphinx configuration.
+	ErrNegativePayloadSize = errors.New("payload size must be " +
+		"non-negative")
+
+	// ErrZeroHops is returned when attempting to create a route with zero
+	// hops.
+	ErrZeroHops = errors.New("route of length zero passed in")
+
+	// ErrIOReadFull is returned when an io read full operation fails.
+	ErrIOReadFull = errors.New("io read full error")
 )

go.mod

@@ -2,22 +2,25 @@ module github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-onion
 
 require (
 	github.com/aead/chacha20 v0.0.0-20180709150244-8b13a72661da
-	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.22.0-beta.0.20220207191057-4dc4ff7963b4
-	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.1.0
-	github.com/btcsuite/btclog v0.0.0-20170628155309-84c8d2346e9f
+	github.com/btcsuite/btcd v0.24.3-0.20250318170759-4f4ea81776d6
+	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.3.4
+	github.com/btcsuite/btclog v0.0.0-20241003133417-09c4e92e319c
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1
-	github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.0.1
-	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.2
-	github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.5
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9
+	github.com/decred/dcrd/dcrec/secp256k1/v4 v4.3.0
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.10.0
+	github.com/urfave/cli v1.22.9
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.33.0
 )
 
 require (
-	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0-20190314233015-f79a8a8ca69d // indirect
+	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/chaincfg/chainhash v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4 // indirect
+	github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
-	github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1 // indirect
-	github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name v1.0.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200814200057-3d37ad5750ed // indirect
+	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.13.1 // indirect
+	github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.30.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/check.v1 v1.0.0-20201130134442-10cb98267c6c // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
 

go.sum

@@ -1,47 +1,50 @@
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packetfiller.go

@@ -12,16 +12,17 @@ import (
 // in order to ensure we don't leak information on the true route length to the
 // receiver. The packet filler may also use the session key to generate a set
 // of filler bytes if it wishes to be deterministic.
-type PacketFiller func(*btcec.PrivateKey, *[routingInfoSize]byte) error
+type PacketFiller func(*btcec.PrivateKey, []byte) error
 
 // RandPacketFiller is a packet filler that reads a set of random bytes from a
 // CSPRNG.
-func RandPacketFiller(_ *btcec.PrivateKey, mixHeader *[routingInfoSize]byte) error {
+func RandPacketFiller(_ *btcec.PrivateKey, mixHeader []byte) error {
 	// Read out random bytes to fill out the rest of the starting packet
 	// after the hop payload for the final node. This mitigates a privacy
 	// leak that may reveal a lower bound on the true path length to the
 	// receiver.
-	if _, err := rand.Read(mixHeader[:]); err != nil {
+	_, err := rand.Read(mixHeader)
+	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -31,15 +32,15 @@ func RandPacketFiller(_ *btcec.PrivateKey, mixHeader *[routingInfoSize]byte) err
 // BlankPacketFiller is a packet filler that doesn't attempt to fill out the
 // packet at all. It should ONLY be used for generating test vectors or other
 // instances that required deterministic packet generation.
-func BlankPacketFiller(_ *btcec.PrivateKey, _ *[routingInfoSize]byte) error {
+func BlankPacketFiller(_ *btcec.PrivateKey, _ []byte) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
 // DeterministicPacketFiller is a packet filler that generates a deterministic
 // set of filler bytes by using chacha20 with a key derived from the session
 // key.
 func DeterministicPacketFiller(sessionKey *btcec.PrivateKey,
-	mixHeader *[routingInfoSize]byte) error {
+	mixHeader []byte) error {
 
 	// First, we'll generate a new key that'll be used to generate some
 	// random bytes for our padding purposes. To derive this new key, we
@@ -55,7 +56,8 @@ func DeterministicPacketFiller(sessionKey *btcec.PrivateKey,
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	padCipher.XORKeyStream(mixHeader[:], mixHeader[:])
+
+	padCipher.XORKeyStream(mixHeader, mixHeader)
 
 	return nil
 }