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This replace was written and supplied by Litecoin MimbleWimble lead developer David Burkett.
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Audit
Quarkslab has completed their audit of the code! 🚀
I’ll be assembly with them Friday to debate their findings. After that, they’ll work on releasing the audit report in a weblog put up, which I look ahead to sharing with you all.
Findings
Because you’ll have the ability to learn the complete report as soon as they share their weblog put up, I gained’t dive too deeply into the findings right here. However at a fast look:
There was one crucial situation discovered that resulted from a mistake whereas merging the MWEB code & v0.21.1 code collectively. So when copying the modifications into the most recent launch code, I missed a small, however essential line of validation code that would’ve been exploited by a malicious attacker to trigger severe disruptions to the chain 😳
This tells us…
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We may actually profit from higher practical check protection round our validation logic to verify we might catch related points ourselves in future releases.
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We should always take into consideration including some processes we are able to comply with to reduce the potential of this taking place. That might imply documenting all modifications, or having 2 folks carry out the merge individually then evaluating outcomes, or a change to how we strategy the code evaluations.
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The audit was a very good concept (thanks Quarkslab!)
There have been additionally some smaller findings, and a few nice options for the way we may enhance the standard and security of the code. General, they have been impressed with the code high quality, which was thrilling to listen to 🥳
v0.21.1 (Taproot) Launch
The launch course of 5 we inherited from bitcoin could be fairly painful. It makes use of gitian 4 to construct repeatable and deterministic binaries from the supply code. Which means a number of folks can all construct the code on completely different machines (and even completely different working techniques) and nonetheless get the identical precise launch binaries. We are able to then all examine the outcomes after which signal the discharge, certifying that all of us agree that the revealed launch is protected & correct.
There’s lots of magic concerned to make this work, which ends up in a time-consuming & typically irritating expertise (particularly for n00bs like me). So I actually dragged my ft on this one 😬
. I lastly compelled myself to push by this just a few days in the past, and after preventing with some outdated scripts, was capable of construct the entire binaries efficiently. I’ll end signing these tomorrow and hand them off for the opposite builders to repeat the construct & confirm outcomes.
MWEB Testnet
After a number of guarantees after which take-backs, I’ve lastly determined to launch a binary that enables non-technical customers to check out the MWEB testnet. I solely have the home windows launch accessible proper now, however I’ll work on getting binaries for Mac OS X on Friday. Linux customers can construct their very own, as a result of I’m drained 😝
Hyperlink: MWEB Testnet Launch 26
Right here’s my gpg key 8 in the event you’d wish to confirm the binaries first (you need to). I’ll add directions on how to do this on the discharge web page when I’ve a while.
There’s no installer, as a result of I didn’t need anybody unintentionally changing their precise litecoin pockets, so to make use of it:
- Obtain (and confirm) the zip file
- Extract the
litecoin-63fe928e4e8a
folder - Discover and run
litecoin-qt.exe
from contained in the bin folder
It will default to utilizing the MWEB testnet, which you’ll be able to inform by the off-colored brand and the [mwebtest]
within the title bar. These use mwebtest cash, not precise litecoin cash. So pleeease don’t attempt to use it with actual cash.
You’ll both need to mine a block to get mwebtest cash (you may CPU mine a block very quickly), or discover somebody to offer you some. If anybody is keen to setup a faucet, I’ve received a ton of cash you may have 🙂
Additionally, if somebody looks like writing a information for create stealth addresses, ship to and obtain from them, and the entire enjoyable stuff that goes together with it, you’d be my new favourite particular person.
Remaining Schedule
You’re just about again to only ready on me once more ⏱
whereas I end making use of audit options after which pushing by the tedious strategy of merging, coordinating last evaluations, writing launch notes, and eventually kicking off the beloved gitian builds. I don’t know precisely how lengthy that can take, however rumor has it that it will increase by a full day for each individual that asks me 😜
What a protracted journey this has been 😅
P.S. https://wenmweb.com 132 is updated.
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