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From: Bob McElrath <bob@mcelrath.org>
To: Johnson Lau <jl2012@xbt.hk>
Cc: bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Safer sighashes and more granular SIGHASH_NOINPUT
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:04:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181128140412.GC22873@mcelrath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8690D3D0-3815-4779-A571-C75AA75F707B@xbt.hk>

We are also prototyping the OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK mechanism using Liquid/Elements.

Given uncertainty about which features will actually be deployed on mainnet,
we're exploring all possibilities so as to provide feedback about the "best" way
to implement a covenant/vault, also including the OP_CHECKOUTPUTVERIFY
originally proposed by Eyal et al. That's 3 ways to implement a covenant/vault,
if there's others I'd be happy to hear about it.  ;-)  Thanks for the
OP_PUSHTXDATA ref, I'm reading now...  Personally I think the
OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK is probably the most elegant mechanism.

Thanks for the feedback!

Johnson Lau [jl2012@xbt.hk] wrote:
> This is incompatible with bip-schnorr, which intentionally disallow such use by always committing to the public key: https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-schnorr.mediawiki
> 
> With the recent fake Satoshi signature drama, and other potential ways to misuse and abuse, I think this is a better way to go, which unfortunately might disallow some legitimate applications.
> 
> Covenants could be made using OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (https://fc17.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/bitcoin17-final28.pdf) or OP_PUSHTXDATA (https://github.com/jl2012/bips/blob/vault/bip-0ZZZ.mediawiki). I think this is the next step following the taproot soft fork
> 
> > On 28 Nov 2018, at 8:54 AM, Bob McElrath via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I have been working on an experimental wallet that implements Bitcoin
> > Covenants/Vaults following a blog post I wrote about 2 years ago, using
> > "Pay-to-Timelock Signed Transaction" (P2TST).  (Also mentioned recently by
> > kanzure in a talk somewheres...)  The idea is that you deposit to an address for
> > which you don't know the private key.  Instead you construct a second
> > transaction sending that to a timelocked staging address for which you DO have
> > the privkey (it also has an IF/ELSE condition with a second spending condition
> > for use in case of theft attempt).  In order to do this you either have to
> > delete the privkey of the deposit address (a difficult proposition to know it's
> > actually been deleted), but instead one can construct a signature directly using
> > a RNG, and use the SIGHASH to compute the corresponding pubkey via ECDSA
> > recover, from which you compute the corresponding address.  In this way your
> > wallet is a set of P2TST transactions and a corresponding privkey, with a (set
> > of) emergency keys.
> > 
> > This interacts with NOINPUT in the following way: if the input to the
> > transaction commits to the pubkey in any way, you have a circular dependency on
> > the pubkey that could only be satisfied by breaking a hash function.  This
> > occurs with standard sighash's which commit to the txid, which in turn commit to
> > the address, which commits to the pubkey, so this construction of
> > covenants/vaults requires NOINPUT.
> > 
> > AFAICT sipa's proposal is compatible with the above vaulted construction by
> > using SIGHASH_NOINPUT | SIGHASH_SCRIPTMASK to remove the
> > scriptPubKey/redeemScript from the sighash.  Putting the
> > scriptPubKey/redeemScript in the sighash introduces the same circular
> > dependency, but SIGHASH_SCRIPTMASK removes it.
> > 
> > One would probably want to provide the fee from a separate wallet so as to be
> > able to account for fluctuating fee pressures when the unvaulting occurs a long
> > time after vaulting.  Thus you'd want to use SIGHASH_SINGLE so that a fee-wallet
> > can add fees (or for composability of P2TSTs), and SIGHASH_NOFEE as well.
> > 
> > P.S. Also very excited to combine the above idea with Taproot/Graftroot/g'Root.
> > 
> > --
> > Cheers, Bob McElrath
> > 
> > "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
> >    -- H. L. Mencken 
> > 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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--
Cheers, Bob McElrath

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
    -- H. L. Mencken 



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28  0:54 [bitcoin-dev] Safer sighashes and more granular SIGHASH_NOINPUT Bob McElrath
2018-11-28  8:40 ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-28 14:04   ` Bob McElrath [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-11-19 22:37 Pieter Wuille
2018-11-20 20:29 ` Anthony Towns
2018-11-21 11:20   ` Christian Decker
2018-11-21 17:55   ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-21 11:15 ` Christian Decker
2018-11-23  6:04   ` Anthony Towns
2018-11-23  9:40     ` Christian Decker
2018-11-24  8:13       ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-21 17:07 ` Russell O'Connor
2018-11-22 14:28   ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-22 16:23     ` Russell O'Connor
2018-11-22 20:52       ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-22 22:10         ` Russell O'Connor
2018-11-23 10:47           ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-23  5:03   ` Anthony Towns
2018-11-23 20:18     ` Russell O'Connor
2018-11-28  3:41 ` Pieter Wuille
2018-11-28  8:31   ` Johnson Lau
2018-11-29 17:00   ` Christian Decker
2018-11-29 18:29     ` Christian Decker
2018-12-06 16:57   ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-09 19:13     ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-11 22:50       ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-12 19:53         ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-13 16:50           ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-13  0:05         ` Anthony Towns
2018-12-13 16:21           ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-14  0:47             ` Anthony Towns
     [not found]         ` <CAAS2fgRma+Pw-rHJSOKRVBqoxqJ3AxHO9d696fWoa-sb17JEOQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-12-13 16:34           ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-09 22:41     ` David A. Harding
2018-12-11 15:36       ` Russell O'Connor
2018-12-11 17:47         ` David A. Harding
2018-12-12  9:42 ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-12 20:00   ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-12 23:49     ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-13  0:37       ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-14  9:30         ` Anthony Towns
2018-12-14 13:55           ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-17  3:10             ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-20 19:34               ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-20 23:17                 ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-21 18:54                   ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-23  4:26                     ` Anthony Towns
2018-12-23 16:33                       ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-24 12:01                         ` ZmnSCPxj
2018-12-24 21:23                           ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-16  6:55           ` Rusty Russell
2018-12-17 19:08             ` Johnson Lau
2018-12-18  4:22               ` Peter Todd
2018-12-19  0:39               ` Rusty Russell
2019-02-09  0:39                 ` Pieter Wuille
2018-12-13  0:24   ` Anthony Towns

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