Commit Graph

249 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
luigi1111
63c7ca07fb
Merge pull request #7136
23aae55 Remove payload copy in all outgoing p2p messages (Lee Clagett)
2021-04-16 12:45:30 -05:00
mj-xmr
673c6d2d11 Reduce compilation time of epee/portable_storage_template_helper.h 2021-03-28 15:41:48 +02:00
luigi1111
f2f33f6230
Merge pull request #7402
240d382 Epee: add headers to project files (via glob), to be able to search for them easily. (mj-xmr)
2021-03-20 01:46:34 -04:00
luigi1111
602926fe9d
Merge pull request #7366
9867a91 Store RPC SSL key/cert for consistent authentication between runs (Lee Clagett)
2021-03-20 01:38:03 -04:00
luigi1111
7bf89dcbd3
Merge pull request #7005
249eae5 Allow byte_stream->byte_slice conversion to shrink unused buffer space (Lee Clagett)
2021-03-20 01:35:13 -04:00
mj-xmr
240d382db4 Epee: add headers to project files (via glob), to be able to search for them easily.
Use case: IDEs
2021-02-25 20:16:02 +01:00
Lee Clagett
9867a913dc Store RPC SSL key/cert for consistent authentication between runs 2021-02-13 20:26:26 +00:00
mj-xmr
dc48de74e8 Reduce compilation time of epee/portable_storage.h 2021-02-06 08:18:42 +01:00
Lee Clagett
23aae5571b Remove payload copy in all outgoing p2p messages 2021-01-16 22:53:28 +00:00
luigi1111
218981eba1
Merge pull request #7137
f2ad539 readline_buffer: Avoid consecutive duplicates in the history (codesoap)
2021-01-15 23:46:14 -05:00
anon
f7ab8bc6d4 ssl: buffered handshake detection 2020-12-28 14:25:37 +01:00
codesoap
f2ad539f5f readline_buffer: Avoid consecutive duplicates in the history 2020-12-13 14:47:07 +01:00
Alexander Blair
1e9483a2d5
Merge pull request #7009
7414e2bac Change epee binary output from std::stringstream to byte_stream (Lee Clagett)
2020-12-10 17:34:50 -08:00
Alexander Blair
6bddd54f9d
Merge pull request #7003
08eb0949f Change to more efficient allocation strategy in byte_stream (Lee Clagett)
2020-12-10 17:33:50 -08:00
moneromooo
ff7fdf6db2
protocol: drop peers that don't reply to queries 2020-12-06 15:57:40 +00:00
moneromooo
89e984d93b
keep only the last seen node on a given host in the white list 2020-12-04 01:55:22 +00:00
xiphon
60bc676c14 epee: readline_buffer - fix thread safety, fix sync() after stop() 2020-11-07 14:15:29 +00:00
Lee Clagett
08eb0949f3 Change to more efficient allocation strategy in byte_stream 2020-10-13 15:10:54 +00:00
Lee Clagett
249eae5f4a Allow byte_stream->byte_slice conversion to shrink unused buffer space 2020-10-13 15:09:18 +00:00
Lee Clagett
7414e2bac1 Change epee binary output from std::stringstream to byte_stream 2020-10-10 15:28:40 +00:00
xiphon
76c16822d0 wallet2_api: implement runtime proxy configuration 2020-07-20 13:45:12 +00:00
Alexander Blair
9871fefbf9
Merge pull request #6565
72cdfa4a2 fix a few typos in error messages (moneromooo-monero)
2020-07-19 03:40:19 -07:00
Alexander Blair
a0d179e528
Merge pull request #6512
5ef0607da Update copyright year to 2020 (SomaticFanatic)
2020-07-19 03:32:59 -07:00
luigi1111
be170c485c
Merge pull request #6584
78d435a rpc: don't display invalid json errors on default log level (moneromooo-monero)
2020-07-08 17:12:43 -05:00
luigi1111
35e2520115
Merge pull request #6559
15538f7 ByteSlice: Fix persisting ptr to std::moved SSO buffer (Doy-lee)
2020-07-08 17:07:50 -05:00
moneromooo-monero
78d435a5fa
rpc: don't display invalid json errors on default log level
It's not something the user needs to know, and will display
attacker controlled data
2020-05-23 12:26:49 +00:00
Doyle
15538f7e3f ByteSlice: Fix persisting ptr to std::moved SSO buffer
The Bug:
1. Construct `byte_slice.portion_` with `epee::span(buffer)` which copies a pointer to the SSO buffer to `byte_slice.portion_`
2. It constructs `byte_slice.storage_` with `std::move(buffer)` (normally this swap pointers, but SSO means a memcpy and clear on the original SSO buffer)
3. `slice.data()` returns a pointer from `slice.portion_` that points to the original SSO cleared buffer, `slice.storage_` has the actual string.
2020-05-20 10:13:58 +10:00
moneromooo-monero
72cdfa4a20
fix a few typos in error messages
Reported by adrelanos
2020-05-19 15:59:26 +00:00
Lee Clagett
29e563bb1e Fixed bugs for take_slice and byte_stream->byte_slice 2020-05-12 01:26:37 -04:00
SomaticFanatic
5ef0607da6 Update copyright year to 2020
Update copyright year to 2020
2020-05-06 22:36:54 -04:00
Lee Clagett
c26c93019a Add byte_stream for zero-copy serialization, and add support in ZMQ-JSON. 2020-04-11 04:12:11 +00:00
Lee Clagett
da99157462 Use byte_slice for sending zmq messages - removes data copy within zmq 2020-04-03 01:56:17 +00:00
luigi1111
06c81b6527
Merge pull request #6359
f9441c5 Fixed string_ref usage bug in epee::from_hex::vector (vtnerd)
2020-04-21 08:38:21 -05:00
woodser
87d75584e8 Allow wallet2.h to run in WebAssembly
- Add abstract_http_client.h which http_client.h extends.
- Replace simple_http_client with abstract_http_client in wallet2,
message_store, message_transporter, and node_rpc_proxy.
- Import and export wallet data in wallet2.
- Use #if defined __EMSCRIPTEN__ directives to skip incompatible code.
2020-04-15 13:22:46 -04:00
luigi1111
00ede0038d
Merge pull request #6387
0dbdba8 epee: avoid spamming 'Generating SSL certificate' in the logs (xiphon)
2020-04-04 13:16:55 -05:00
luigi1111
d86d1a4d29
Merge pull request #6370
3031deb Bump downloaded boost version to 1.72 (omartijn)
6079042 Use boost::asio::ssl::context::sslv23 for backwards compatibility (omartijn)
2020-04-04 13:06:36 -05:00
luigi1111
cfc0f4a7fa
Merge pull request #6351
81c5943 Remove temporary std::string creation in some hex->bin calls (vtnerd)
5fcc23a Move hex->bin conversion to monero copyright files and with less includes (vtnerd)
3387f0e Reduce template bloat in hex->bin for ZMQ json (vtnerd)
2020-04-04 12:55:02 -05:00
luigi1111
292e2d8f28
Merge pull request #6335
0078ce7 wipeable_string: split - treat CR, LF and Tabs as separators (xiphon)
2020-04-04 12:42:50 -05:00
Lee Clagett
f9441c5759 Fixed string_ref usage bug in epee::from_hex::vector 2020-03-30 16:53:34 +00:00
xiphon
0dbdba876e epee: avoid spamming 'Generating SSL certificate' in the logs 2020-03-13 22:48:04 +00:00
Martijn Otto
6079042cce
Use boost::asio::ssl::context::sslv23 for backwards compatibility
All the insecure protocols that this enables are then disabled, so they
cannot be actually used. The end-result is the same.
2020-03-11 09:28:02 +01:00
Lee Clagett
5fcc23ae0a Move hex->bin conversion to monero copyright files and with less includes 2020-03-09 05:23:59 +00:00
Alexander Blair
8d5e043981
Merge pull request #6205
021cf733 ssl: server-side: allow multiple version of TLS (Bertrand Jacquin)
2020-02-28 19:35:48 -08:00
xiphon
0078ce7fac wipeable_string: split - treat CR, LF and Tabs as separators 2020-02-12 21:16:07 +00:00
Alexander Blair
5e384f21b5
Merge pull request #6184
2d1afceb net_ssl: load default certificates in CA mode on Windows (moneromooo-monero)
2020-02-06 00:35:46 -08:00
Bertrand Jacquin
021cf733c6
ssl: server-side: allow multiple version of TLS
boost::asio::ssl::context is created using specifically TLSv1.2, which
blocks the ability to use superior version of TLS like TLSv1.3.

Filtering is also made specially later in the code to remove unsafe
version for TLS such SSLv2, SSLv3 etc..

This change is removing double filtering to allow TLSv1.2 and above to
be used.

testssl.sh 3.0rc5 now reports the following (please note monerod was
built with USE_EXTRA_EC_CERT):

 $ ./testssl.sh --openssl=/usr/bin/openssl \
     --each-cipher --cipher-per-proto \
     --server-defaults --server-preference \
     --vulnerable --heartbleed --ccs --ticketbleed \
     --robot --renegotiation --compression --breach \
     --poodle --tls-fallback --sweet32 --beast --lucky13 \
     --freak --logjam --drown --pfs --rc4 --full \
     --wide --hints 127.0.0.1:38081

 Using "OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019" [~80 ciphers]
 on ip-10-97-15-6:/usr/bin/openssl
 (built: "Dec  3 21:14:51 2019", platform: "linux-x86_64")

 Start 2019-12-03 21:51:25        -->> 127.0.0.1:38081 (127.0.0.1) <<--

 rDNS (127.0.0.1):       --
 Service detected:       HTTP

 Testing protocols via sockets except NPN+ALPN

 SSLv2      not offered (OK)
 SSLv3      not offered (OK)
 TLS 1      not offered
 TLS 1.1    not offered
 TLS 1.2    offered (OK)
 TLS 1.3    offered (OK): final
 NPN/SPDY   not offered
 ALPN/HTTP2 not offered

 Testing for server implementation bugs

 No bugs found.

 Testing cipher categories

 NULL ciphers (no encryption)                  not offered (OK)
 Anonymous NULL Ciphers (no authentication)    not offered (OK)
 Export ciphers (w/o ADH+NULL)                 not offered (OK)
 LOW: 64 Bit + DES, RC[2,4] (w/o export)       not offered (OK)
 Triple DES Ciphers / IDEA                     not offered (OK)
 Average: SEED + 128+256 Bit CBC ciphers       not offered
 Strong encryption (AEAD ciphers)              offered (OK)

 Testing robust (perfect) forward secrecy, (P)FS -- omitting Null Authentication/Encryption, 3DES, RC4

 PFS is offered (OK), ciphers follow (client/browser support is important here)

Hexcode  Cipher Suite Name (OpenSSL)       KeyExch.   Encryption  Bits     Cipher Suite Name (IANA/RFC)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 x1302   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 x1303   TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256      ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 xc030   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xc02c   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xcca9   ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305     ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 xcca8   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 x1301   TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256            ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 xc02f   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256       ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 xc02b   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256     ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

 Elliptic curves offered:     prime256v1 secp384r1 secp521r1 X25519 X448

 Testing server preferences

 Has server cipher order?     yes (OK)
 Negotiated protocol          TLSv1.3
 Negotiated cipher            TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, 253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Cipher order
    TLSv1.2:   ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
    TLSv1.3:   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

 Testing server defaults (Server Hello)

 TLS extensions (standard)    "renegotiation info/#65281" "EC point formats/#11" "supported versions/#43" "key share/#51" "max fragment length/#1" "extended master secret/#23"
 Session Ticket RFC 5077 hint no -- no lifetime advertised
 SSL Session ID support       yes
 Session Resumption           Tickets no, ID: no
 TLS clock skew               Random values, no fingerprinting possible

  Server Certificate #1 (in response to request w/o SNI)
   Signature Algorithm          SHA256 with RSA
   Server key size              RSA 4096 bits
   Server key usage             --
   Server extended key usage    --
   Serial / Fingerprints        01 / SHA1 132E42981812F5575FA0AE64922B18A81B38C03F
                                SHA256 EBA3CC4AA09DEF26706E64A70DB4BC8D723533BB67EAE12B503A845019FB61DC
   Common Name (CN)             (no CN field in subject)
   subjectAltName (SAN)         missing (NOT ok) -- Browsers are complaining
   Issuer
   Trust (hostname)             certificate does not match supplied URI
   Chain of trust               NOT ok (self signed)
   EV cert (experimental)       no
   "eTLS" (visibility info)     not present
   Certificate Validity (UTC)   181 >= 60 days (2019-12-03 21:51 --> 2020-06-02 21:51)
   # of certificates provided   1
   Certificate Revocation List  --
   OCSP URI                     --
                                NOT ok -- neither CRL nor OCSP URI provided
   OCSP stapling                not offered
   OCSP must staple extension   --
   DNS CAA RR (experimental)    not offered
   Certificate Transparency     --

  Server Certificate #2 (in response to request w/o SNI)
   Signature Algorithm          ECDSA with SHA256
   Server key size              EC 256 bits
   Server key usage             --
   Server extended key usage    --
   Serial / Fingerprints        01 / SHA1 E17B765DD8124525B1407E827B89A31FB167647D
                                SHA256 AFB7F44B1C33831F521357E5AEEB813044CB02532143E92D35650A3FF792A7C3
   Common Name (CN)             (no CN field in subject)
   subjectAltName (SAN)         missing (NOT ok) -- Browsers are complaining
   Issuer
   Trust (hostname)             certificate does not match supplied URI
   Chain of trust               NOT ok (self signed)
   EV cert (experimental)       no
   "eTLS" (visibility info)     not present
   Certificate Validity (UTC)   181 >= 60 days (2019-12-03 21:51 --> 2020-06-02 21:51)
   # of certificates provided   1
   Certificate Revocation List  --
   OCSP URI                     --
                                NOT ok -- neither CRL nor OCSP URI provided
   OCSP stapling                not offered
   OCSP must staple extension   --
   DNS CAA RR (experimental)    not offered
   Certificate Transparency     --

 Testing HTTP header response @ "/"

 HTTP Status Code             404 Not found (Hint: supply a path which doesn't give a "404 Not found")
 HTTP clock skew              Got no HTTP time, maybe try different URL?
 Strict Transport Security    not offered
 Public Key Pinning           --
 Server banner                Epee-based
 Application banner           --
 Cookie(s)                    (none issued at "/") -- maybe better try target URL of 30x
 Security headers             --
 Reverse Proxy banner         --

 Testing vulnerabilities

 Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160)                not vulnerable (OK), no heartbeat extension
 CCS (CVE-2014-0224)                       not vulnerable (OK)
 Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244), experiment.  not vulnerable (OK), no session ticket extension
 ROBOT                                     Server does not support any cipher suites that use RSA key transport
 Secure Renegotiation (CVE-2009-3555)      not vulnerable (OK)
 Secure Client-Initiated Renegotiation     not vulnerable (OK)
 CRIME, TLS (CVE-2012-4929)                not vulnerable (OK)
 BREACH (CVE-2013-3587)                    no HTTP compression (OK)  - only supplied "/" tested
 POODLE, SSL (CVE-2014-3566)               not vulnerable (OK)
 TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV (RFC 7507)              No fallback possible, no protocol below TLS 1.2 offered (OK)
 SWEET32 (CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6329)    not vulnerable (OK)
 FREAK (CVE-2015-0204)                     not vulnerable (OK)
 DROWN (CVE-2016-0800, CVE-2016-0703)      not vulnerable on this host and port (OK)
                                           make sure you don't use this certificate elsewhere with SSLv2 enabled services
                                           https://censys.io/ipv4?q=EBA3CC4AA09DEF26706E64A70DB4BC8D723533BB67EAE12B503A845019FB61DC could help you to find out
 LOGJAM (CVE-2015-4000), experimental      not vulnerable (OK): no DH EXPORT ciphers, no DH key detected with <= TLS 1.2
 BEAST (CVE-2011-3389)                     no SSL3 or TLS1 (OK)
 LUCKY13 (CVE-2013-0169), experimental     not vulnerable (OK)
 RC4 (CVE-2013-2566, CVE-2015-2808)        no RC4 ciphers detected (OK)

 Testing ciphers per protocol via OpenSSL plus sockets against the server, ordered by encryption strength

Hexcode  Cipher Suite Name (OpenSSL)       KeyExch.   Encryption  Bits     Cipher Suite Name (IANA/RFC)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SSLv2
SSLv3
TLS 1
TLS 1.1
TLS 1.2
 xc030   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xc02c   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 xcca9   ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305     ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 xcca8   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 xc02f   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256       ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
 xc02b   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256     ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS 1.3
 x1302   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            ECDH 253   AESGCM      256      TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
 x1303   TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256      ECDH 253   ChaCha20    256      TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
 x1301   TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256            ECDH 253   AESGCM      128      TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

 Running client simulations (HTTP) via sockets

 Browser                      Protocol  Cipher Suite Name (OpenSSL)       Forward Secrecy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Android 4.2.2                No connection
 Android 4.4.2                TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Android 5.0.0                TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Android 6.0                  TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Android 7.0                  TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Android 8.1 (native)         No connection
 Android 9.0 (native)         TLSv1.3   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Chrome 65 Win 7              TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Chrome 74 (Win 10)           No connection
 Firefox 62 Win 7             TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Firefox 66 (Win 8.1/10)      TLSv1.3   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 IE 6 XP                      No connection
 IE 7 Vista                   No connection
 IE 8 Win 7                   No connection
 IE 8 XP                      No connection
 IE 11 Win 7                  No connection
 IE 11 Win 8.1                No connection
 IE 11 Win Phone 8.1          No connection
 IE 11 Win 10                 TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Edge 15 Win 10               TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Edge 17 (Win 10)             TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Opera 60 (Win 10)            No connection
 Safari 9 iOS 9               TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Safari 9 OS X 10.11          TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Safari 10 OS X 10.12         TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Apple ATS 9 iOS 9            TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384       256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Tor 17.0.9 Win 7             No connection
 Java 6u45                    No connection
 Java 7u25                    No connection
 Java 8u161                   TLSv1.2   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 Java 9.0.4                   TLSv1.2   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 OpenSSL 1.0.1l               TLSv1.2   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 OpenSSL 1.0.2e               TLSv1.2   ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384     256 bit ECDH (P-256)
 OpenSSL 1.1.0j (Debian)      TLSv1.2   ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305       253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 OpenSSL 1.1.1b (Debian)      TLSv1.3   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            253 bit ECDH (X25519)
 Thunderbird (60.6)           TLSv1.3   TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384            253 bit ECDH (X25519)
2019-12-03 22:02:16 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
2d1afceb0d
net_ssl: load default certificates in CA mode on Windows
Because it always does things wonkily doens't it
2019-11-26 19:34:16 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
e896cca86e
epee: reorder a couple init list fields to match declaration
This is a bug waiting to happen
2019-11-25 19:27:54 +00:00
moneromooo-monero
2899379791
daemon, wallet: new pay for RPC use system
Daemons intended for public use can be set up to require payment
in the form of hashes in exchange for RPC service. This enables
public daemons to receive payment for their work over a large
number of calls. This system behaves similarly to a pool, so
payment takes the form of valid blocks every so often, yielding
a large one off payment, rather than constant micropayments.

This system can also be used by third parties as a "paywall"
layer, where users of a service can pay for use by mining Monero
to the service provider's address. An example of this for web
site access is Primo, a Monero mining based website "paywall":
https://github.com/selene-kovri/primo

This has some advantages:
 - incentive to run a node providing RPC services, thereby promoting the availability of third party nodes for those who can't run their own
 - incentive to run your own node instead of using a third party's, thereby promoting decentralization
 - decentralized: payment is done between a client and server, with no third party needed
 - private: since the system is "pay as you go", you don't need to identify yourself to claim a long lived balance
 - no payment occurs on the blockchain, so there is no extra transactional load
 - one may mine with a beefy server, and use those credits from a phone, by reusing the client ID (at the cost of some privacy)
 - no barrier to entry: anyone may run a RPC node, and your expected revenue depends on how much work you do
 - Sybil resistant: if you run 1000 idle RPC nodes, you don't magically get more revenue
 - no large credit balance maintained on servers, so they have no incentive to exit scam
 - you can use any/many node(s), since there's little cost in switching servers
 - market based prices: competition between servers to lower costs
 - incentive for a distributed third party node system: if some public nodes are overused/slow, traffic can move to others
 - increases network security
 - helps counteract mining pools' share of the network hash rate
 - zero incentive for a payer to "double spend" since a reorg does not give any money back to the miner

And some disadvantages:
 - low power clients will have difficulty mining (but one can optionally mine in advance and/or with a faster machine)
 - payment is "random", so a server might go a long time without a block before getting one
 - a public node's overall expected payment may be small

Public nodes are expected to compete to find a suitable level for
cost of service.

The daemon can be set up this way to require payment for RPC services:

  monerod --rpc-payment-address 4xxxxxx \
    --rpc-payment-credits 250 --rpc-payment-difficulty 1000

These values are an example only.

The --rpc-payment-difficulty switch selects how hard each "share" should
be, similar to a mining pool. The higher the difficulty, the fewer
shares a client will find.
The --rpc-payment-credits switch selects how many credits are awarded
for each share a client finds.
Considering both options, clients will be awarded credits/difficulty
credits for every hash they calculate. For example, in the command line
above, 0.25 credits per hash. A client mining at 100 H/s will therefore
get an average of 25 credits per second.
For reference, in the current implementation, a credit is enough to
sync 20 blocks, so a 100 H/s client that's just starting to use Monero
and uses this daemon will be able to sync 500 blocks per second.

The wallet can be set to automatically mine if connected to a daemon
which requires payment for RPC usage. It will try to keep a balance
of 50000 credits, stopping mining when it's at this level, and starting
again as credits are spent. With the example above, a new client will
mine this much credits in about half an hour, and this target is enough
to sync 500000 blocks (currently about a third of the monero blockchain).

There are three new settings in the wallet:

 - credits-target: this is the amount of credits a wallet will try to
reach before stopping mining. The default of 0 means 50000 credits.

 - auto-mine-for-rpc-payment-threshold: this controls the minimum
credit rate which the wallet considers worth mining for. If the
daemon credits less than this ratio, the wallet will consider mining
to be not worth it. In the example above, the rate is 0.25

 - persistent-rpc-client-id: if set, this allows the wallet to reuse
a client id across runs. This means a public node can tell a wallet
that's connecting is the same as one that connected previously, but
allows a wallet to keep their credit balance from one run to the
other. Since the wallet only mines to keep a small credit balance,
this is not normally worth doing. However, someone may want to mine
on a fast server, and use that credit balance on a low power device
such as a phone. If left unset, a new client ID is generated at
each wallet start, for privacy reasons.

To mine and use a credit balance on two different devices, you can
use the --rpc-client-secret-key switch. A wallet's client secret key
can be found using the new rpc_payments command in the wallet.
Note: anyone knowing your RPC client secret key is able to use your
credit balance.

The wallet has a few new commands too:

 - start_mining_for_rpc: start mining to acquire more credits,
regardless of the auto mining settings
 - stop_mining_for_rpc: stop mining to acquire more credits
 - rpc_payments: display information about current credits with
the currently selected daemon

The node has an extra command:

 - rpc_payments: display information about clients and their
balances

The node will forget about any balance for clients which have
been inactive for 6 months. Balances carry over on node restart.
2019-10-25 09:34:38 +00:00
luigi1111
6b58d6248a
Merge pull request #5996
23ba69e epee: fix SSL server handshake, run_one() can block, use poll_one() (xiphon)
2019-10-22 10:26:31 -05:00