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CD79: lightning development, bugs, and the path forward

Citadel Dispatch

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The HCL Attack Vector, Is That Correct?

Ben: I found out yesterday when my hidden lighting network project, the project that just probes for private channels, I launched it yesterday because Ben had his first successful Vortex channel open. So I wanted to see if I could figure out which output was his that he opened the channel with because he didn't use sort channel ID aliases. But that's an unmaintained, you know, kind of like a throwaway project at this point, but that's, it was kind of funny that came back full circle on that. Tony: In either situation an attacker had to essentially be set up as your channel peer before the transaction goes out; they have to have a channel with you.

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