Implements view tags as proposed by @UkoeHB in MRL issue
https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/73
At tx construction, the sender adds a 1-byte view tag to each
output. The view tag is derived from the sender-receiver
shared secret. When scanning for outputs, the receiver can
check the view tag for a match, in order to reduce scanning
time. When the view tag does not match, the wallet avoids the
more expensive EC operations when deriving the output public
key using the shared secret.
It avoids dividing by 8 when deserializing a tx, which is a slow
operation, and multiplies by 8 when verifying and extracing the
amount, which is much faster as well as less frequent
In this repo, `boost::interprocess` was being used soley to make `uint32_t` operations atomic. So I replaced each instance of
`boost::interprocess::ipcdetail::atomic(...)32` with `std::atomic` methods. I replaced member declarations as applicable. For example,
when I needed to change a `volatile uint32_t` into a `std::atomic<uint32_t>`. Sometimes, a member was being used a boolean flag, so
I replaced it with `std::atomic<bool>`.
You may notice that I didn't touch `levin_client_async.h`. That is because this file is entirely unused and will be deleted in PR monero-project#8211.
Additional changes from review:
* Make some local variables const
* Change postfix operators to prefix operators where value was not need
Adds the following:
- "get_miner_data" to RPC API
- "json-miner-data" to ZeroMQ subscriber contexts
Both provide the necessary data to create a custom block template. They are used by p2pool.
Data provided:
- major fork version
- current height
- previous block id
- RandomX seed hash
- network difficulty
- median block weight
- coins mined by the network so far
- mineable mempool transactions
There are quite a few variables in the code that are no longer
(or perhaps never were) in use. These were discovered by enabling
compiler warnings for unused variables and cleaning them up.
In most cases where the unused variables were the result
of a function call the call was left but the variable
assignment removed, unless it was obvious that it was
a simple getter with no side effects.
d20ff4f64 functional_tests: add a large (many randomx epochs) p2p reorg test (moneromooo-monero)
6a0b3b1f8 functional_tests: add randomx tests (moneromooo-monero)
9d42649d5 core: fix mining from a block that's not the current top (moneromooo-monero)
This reduces the attack surface for data that can come from
malicious sources (exported output and key images, multisig
transactions...) since the monero serialization is already
exposed to the outside, and the boost lib we were using had
a few known crashers.
For interoperability, a new load-deprecated-formats wallet
setting is added (off by default). This allows loading boost
format data if there is no alternative. It will likely go
at some point, along with the ability to load those.
Notably, the peer lists file still uses the boost serialization
code, as the data it stores is define in epee, while the new
serialization code is in monero, and migrating it was fairly
hairy. Since this file is local and not obtained from anyone
else, the marginal risk is minimal, but it could be migrated
later if needed.
Some tests and tools also do, this will stay as is for now.
