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Author SHA1 Message Date
Callum Waters
ed002cea7e evidence: introduction of LightClientAttackEvidence and refactor of evidence lifecycle (#5361)
evidence: modify evidence types (#5342)

light: detect light client attacks (#5344)

evidence: refactor evidence pool (#5345)

abci: application evidence prepared by evidence pool (#5354)
2020-09-22 10:22:54 +02:00
Callum Waters
e2927d2088 light: move dropout handling and invalid data to the provider (#5308) 2020-09-02 18:28:48 +02:00
Marko
e0140e4beb evidence: remove ConflictingHeaders type (#5317)
## Description

Remove ConflictingHeaders & compositeEvidence types


Ref #5288
2020-09-01 16:34:37 +00:00
Callum Waters
2b58a62721 light: implement light block (#5298) 2020-09-01 17:45:55 +02:00
Marko
2d167aefcf ci: freeze golangci action version (#5196)
## Description

This PR updates golang-ci to latest and stops looking at master for the action. 

Closes: #XXX
2020-08-03 07:57:06 +00:00
Marko
2ac5a559b4 libs: wrap mutexes for build flag with godeadlock (#5126)
## Description

This PR wraps the stdlib sync.(RW)Mutex & godeadlock.(RW)Mutex. This enables using go-deadlock via a build flag instead of using sed to replace sync with godeadlock in all files

Closes: #3242
2020-07-20 07:55:09 +00:00
Anton Kaliaev
5223cbac27 light: return if target header is invalid (#5124)
Closes #5120
2020-07-17 06:13:00 +00:00
Anton Kaliaev
a08316f16a light: use bisection (not VerifyCommitTrusting) when verifying a head… (#5119)
Closes #4934

* light: do not compare trusted header w/ witnesses

we don't have trusted state to bisect from

* check header before checking height

otherwise you can get nil panic
2020-07-15 15:44:30 +04:00
Anton Kaliaev
42be533129 types: verify commit fully
Since the light client work introduced in v0.33 it appears full nodes
are no longer fully verifying commit signatures during block execution -
they stop after +2/3. See in VerifyCommit:
0c7fd316eb/types/validator_set.go (L700-L703)

This means proposers can propose blocks that contain valid +2/3
signatures and then the rest of the signatures can be whatever they
want. They can claim that all the other validators signed just by
including a CommitSig with arbitrary signature data. While this doesn't
seem to impact safety of Tendermint per se, it means that Commits may
contain a lot of invalid data. This is already true of blocks, since
they can include invalid txs filled with garbage, but in that case the
application knows they they are invalid and can punish the proposer. But
since applications dont verify commit signatures directly (they trust
tendermint to do that), they won't be able to detect it.

This can impact incentivization logic in the application that depends on
the LastCommitInfo sent in BeginBlock, which includes which validators
signed. For instance, Gaia incentivizes proposers with a bonus for
including more than +2/3 of the signatures. But a proposer can now claim
that bonus just by including arbitrary data for the final -1/3 of
validators without actually waiting for their signatures. There may be
other tricks that can be played because of this.

In general, the full node should be a fully verifying machine. While
it's true that the light client can avoid verifying all signatures by
stopping after +2/3, the full node can not. Thus the light client and
full node should use distinct VerifyCommit functions if one is going to
stop after +2/3 or otherwise perform less validation (for instance light
clients can also skip verifying votes for nil while full nodes can not).

See a commit with a bad signature that verifies here: 56367fd. From what
I can tell, Tendermint will go on to think this commit is valid and
forward this data to the app, so the app will think the second validator
actually signed when it clearly did not.
2020-07-02 15:41:49 +02:00
Callum Waters
65d7ce9c9c evidence: improve amnesia evidence handling (#5003)
fix bug so that PotentialAmnesiaEvidence is being gossiped

handle inbound amnesia evidence correctly

add method to check if potential amnesia evidence is on trial

fix a bug with the height when we upgrade to amnesia evidence

change evidence to using just pointers.

More logging in the evidence module

Co-authored-by: Marko <marbar3778@yahoo.com>
2020-06-23 17:09:14 +02:00
Callum Waters
b1dba352b0 light: added more tests for pruning, initialization and bisection (#4978) 2020-06-10 18:56:24 +02:00
Callum Waters
d53a8d0377 light: implement validate basic (#4916)
run a validate basic on inbound validator sets and headers before further processing them
2020-06-04 13:45:39 +02:00
Marko
c2578e2262 light: rename lite2 to light & remove lite (#4946)
This PR removes lite & renames lite2 to light throughout the repo

Signed-off-by: Marko Baricevic <marbar3778@yahoo.com>

Closes: #4944
2020-06-03 10:13:42 +00:00