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htlcswitch: attributable errors #7139

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This PR adds the ability for routing nodes and nodes that are the destination of a payment to generate and relay attributable errors. This capability is signaled through a new feature bit option_attributable_errors.

Sender nodes will examine the route and request attributable errors via the attributable_errors tlv field when each node on the path supports it. There is no preference for attributable error-supporting nodes (yet).

Intermediate and final nodes report the htlc hold time in their failure message payload. The sender node only logs the hold times (Hold times: 2526/1125/0). Updating a node's reputation based on the time they held an htlc is left for a follow-up pr.

Depends on lightningnetwork/lightning-onion#60

Corresponding spec PR: lightning/bolts#1044

By default, attributable errors is only enabled for intermediate and final hops. If requested by the sender through the forward onion, they'll return attributable errors. For the sender node, the user needs to opt-in to use the feature by specifying --routerrpc.attrerrors on the command line.

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@joostjager joostjager changed the title build: bump lightning-onion to fat errors htlcswitch: fat errors Dec 7, 2022
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@saubyk saubyk added this to the v0.17.0 milestone Jan 12, 2023
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resolutionFormat := attempt.Route.Hops[0].ResolutionFormat

errorDecryptor := htlcswitch.NewSphinxErrorDecrypter(
circuit, resolutionFormat,
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One case to consider here is that if for some reason one of the nodes had to return InvalidOnionPayload, that node wasn't able to read the resolution format. Instead if will return an old-style error that we're not decoding properly. Not sure if we care because it should only happen in case of a bug?

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From a routing node's perspective, attributable errors may not be so nice if they know they are slow and could get penalized for it, but if the network should have fast payments this may be needed?

I think that ultimately they won't have a choice. At some point, I expect senders to avoid routing nodes that do not support attr errors.

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Added integration test.

@saubyk saubyk requested a review from Crypt-iQ June 22, 2023 15:22
@saubyk saubyk modified the milestones: High Priority, v0.18.0 Aug 4, 2023
Preparation for the instantiation of an attributable error encrypter. This gets rid
of the sphinx encrypter instantiation in OnionProcessor. This would
otherwise be problematic when an attributable encrypter would need to be
created there without having access to the error structure.
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Updated lightning-onion dependency after adding updated test vector.

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@saubyk saubyk added P1 MUST be fixed or reviewed onion routing error messages labels Aug 10, 2023
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Updated feature bit to 36/37

// encryption parameters.
// encryption parameters. Don't assume attributable errors,
// because first the resolution format needs to be decoded from
// the onion payload.
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Fallback to legacy format is probably fine. If this happens to be an attributable error route, the upstream node will substitute with an attributable error?

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This should be added to the spec.

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