On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:48 AM, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 17:25 -0700, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> The best argument for why Graftroot does not need to be optional I >> think was how Greg put it: "since the signer(s) could have signed an >> arbitrary transaction instead, being able to delegate is strictly >> less >> powerful.".
... > So > I think Graftroot delegation is not "strictly less powerful" than just > using a normal transaction: Graftroot enables to delegate in a way such > that the delegation itself cannot be fixed in the chain. I think this > is not possible currently. (Okay, you can just pass around the secret > keys but has other problems obviously). > > Does this have practical implications? > I don't see any but maybe this helps someone to identify an undesirable > implication. Interesting point; I don't see any relevant implications to this either, but it's indeed good to point out this as a distinction. > One way to be on the safe side and probably make Greg's argument go > through is to just define the semantics such that (*) is allowed, i.e., > call g-sig a "Graftroot transaction" and give it transaction semantics. > This provides a new perspective on Graftroot: Then Graftroot does not > introduce new semantics but (*) is just an optimized version of (**) > that uses fewer bytes and may be better for privacy. So you're saying: the Graftroot signature data could be made identical to the signature hash of an implicit 1-input-1-output transaction spending the coin and creating a new output with the delegated script as sPK, and the same amount. I like that idea, but I don't think it can be *exactly* that. If it's possible to take a Graftroot signature and instead construct a transaction with it, you have inherently introduced a malleability. The created outpoint will be different in both cases (different txid), meaning that a chain of dependent unconfirmed transactions may be broken by giving one participant the ability to choose between Graftroot delegation or actual spending. Two points here: (1) the implicit transaction would be 0 fee (unless we somehow assign a portion of the fee to the delegation itself for purposes of sighash computing), and (2) this sounds very similar to the issue SIGHASH_NOINPUT is intended to solve. About that... > Interestingly Andrew's blind-sig example and Johnson's fix (g-sig signs > the outpoint) are just a special case. If g-sig has transaction > semantics, it must sign the outpoint (and other stuff). You're right when you're comparing with existing transaction sighash semantics, but not when SIGHASH_NOINPUT would exist. If that were the case, the only real difference is your point above of not being able to commit the implicit transaction separately. In other words, we're back to something Johnson pointed out earlier: some of the perceived problems with Graftroot are also issues with SIGHASH_NOINPUT. I wonder if we can make this explicit: Graftroot spending becomes a special sighash flag (which possibly is only allowed at the top level) - it builds an implicit transaction which moves all the coins to a newly provided script, computes the sighash of that transaction (taking all of the Graftroot signature's sighash flags into account - including potentially SIGHASH_NOINPUT), and requires a signature with that. The delegated script is then evaluated in the context of that implicit transaction. However, in order to avoid the malleability issue I think the actual signature should still be different - possibly by simply passing through the Graftroot sighash flag into the sighash being computed. Cheers, -- Pieter _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
