On 25 May 2019, at 4:59 AM, Jeremy <jlrubin@mit.edu> wrote:

Hi Johnson,

As noted on the other thread, witness replay-ability can be helped by salting the taproot key or the taproot leaf script at the last stage of a congestion control tree.


The salt will be published when it is first spent. Salting won’t help if the address is reused.

I also think that chaperone signatures should be opt-in; there are cases where we may not want them. OP_COSHV is compatible with an additional checksig operation.

There are also other mechanisms that can improve the safety. Proposed below:

OP_CHECKINPUTSHASHVERIFY -- allow checking that the hash of the inputs is a particular value. The top-level of a congestion control tree can check that the inputs match the desired inputs for that spend, and default to requiring N of N otherwise. This is replay proof! This is useful for other applications too.

It is circular dependent: the script has to commit to the txid, and the txid is a function of script



OP_CHECKFEEVERIFY -- allowing an explicit commitment to the exact amount of fee limits replay to txns which were funded with the exact amount of the prior. If there's a mismatch, an alternative branch can be used. This is a generally useful mechanism, but means that transactions using it must have all inputs/outputs set.


This restricts replayability to input with same value, but is still replay-able, just like ANYPREVOUT committing to the input value


Best,

Jeremy