Re: [bitcoin-dev] TLA+ specification for Succint Atomic Swap

[Ruben Somsen <rsomsen@gmail.com>]

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Hi Dmitry,

>But it should be noted that it is not enough that Bob publishes success_tx
before refund_tx_1 became valid. The success_tx needs to be confirmed
before refund_tx_1 became valid.

Agreed, my write-up would benefit from pointing this out more explicitly.

Cheers,
Ruben

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:05 AM Dmitry Petukhov <dp@simplexum.com> wrote:

> В Thu, 14 May 2020 07:31:13 +0200
> Ruben Somsen <rsomsen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > >While refund_tx_1 is in the mempool, Bob gives success_tx to the
> > >friendly miner
> >
> > I see, so you're talking about prior to protocol completion, right
> > after Alice sends Bob the success_tx. The reason this is not an issue
> > is because Alice and Bob both had to misbehave in order for this to
> > happen. Bob is misbehaving here because he should have published the
> > success_tx before refund_tx_1 became valid, and Alice is misbehaving
> > here because she should have sent the revoke_tx (which invalidates
> > the success_tx) followed by refund_tx_2 (revealing her secret only
> > AFTER Bob can no longer claim the BTC). In other words: yes, the
> > protocol can fail if Alice and Bob together work towards that goal. A
> > feature, not a bug. This won't happen if either of them doesn't want
> > it to. I imagine this is difficult to model.
>
> Right. But it should be noted that it is not enough that Bob publishes
> success_tx before refund_tx_1 became valid. The success_tx needs to be
> confirmed before refund_tx_1 became valid.
>
> Only Bob can spend success_tx so this is unlikely to be the practical
> problem, unless the original fee of success_tx is too small and Bob
> epically screws up CPFP-ing it.
>
> > >Bob will receive BTC, and the LTC can be locked forever, but Bob
> > >doesn't
> > care, he got his BTC.
> >
> > No, because diagram step 5 comes before step 6 -- Alice won't give
> > her key until she learns secretBob.
>
> I somehow missed it, and steps 5 and 6 in the diagram was not modelled
> at all (on the other hand, it made the model simpler and I had
> something working relatively quick). I now made the `signers_map` into
> variable that can be changed to give Bob the ability to sign for Alice.
>
> With that change, step 6 can be modelled, but this will add a bunch of
> new txs to the model (each Alice&Bob spend will have 'Bob unilateral
> override' case)
>

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