Introduce an ECDSA signature verification into btcd in order to
mitigate a certain DoS attack and as a performance optimization.
The benefits of SigCache are two fold. Firstly, usage of SigCache
mitigates a DoS attack wherein an attacker causes a victim's client to
hang due to worst-case behavior triggered while processing attacker
crafted invalid transactions. A detailed description of the mitigated
DoS attack can be found here: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/fixed-bitcoin-vulnerability-explanation-why-the-signature-cache-is-a-dos-protection/
Secondly, usage of the SigCache introduces a signature verification
optimization which speeds up the validation of transactions within a
block, if they've already been seen and verified within the mempool.
The server itself manages the sigCache instance. The blockManager and
txMempool respectively now receive pointers to the created sigCache
instance. All read (sig triplet existence) operations on the sigCache
will not block unless a separate goroutine is adding an entry (writing)
to the sigCache. GetBlockTemplate generation now also utilizes the
sigCache in order to avoid unnecessarily double checking signatures
when generating a template after previously accepting a txn to the
mempool. Consequently, the CPU miner now also employs the same
optimization.
The maximum number of entries for the sigCache has been introduced as a
config parameter in order to allow users to configure the amount of
memory consumed by this new additional caching.
SFNodeBloom is a new service flag that a node is required to use to
indicate that it supports bloom filtering. This includes a protocol
version bump to 70011 and a wire version bump to 0.3.0.
btcd:
The SFNodeBloom flag is set by default. A new configuration option
--nopeerbloomfilters has been added to to disable bloom filtering.
Any node advertising a version greater than or equal to 70011 that
attempts to use bloom filtering will be disconnected if bloom
filtering is disabled.
This mimics Bitcoin Core commit afb0ccaf9c9e4e8fac7db3564c4e19c9218c6b03
The configured onion proxy was not being used due to checking if the
passed string had suffix '.onion', which never matched because the
port number is part of the string.
Tor stream isolation randomizes proxy user credentials resulting in
Tor creating a new circuit for each connection. This makes it more
difficult to correlate connections.
Idea from Wladimir J. van der Laan via Bitcoin Core.
The option -maxorphantx allows the user to specify the number of
orphan transactions to keep in memory.
Also, lower the default max orphan count from 10000 to 1000.
The limited user is specified with the --rpclimituser and
--rpclimitpass options (or the equivalent in the config file).
The config struct and loadConfig() are updated to take the
new options into account. The limited user can have neither
the same username nor the same password as the admin user.
The package-level rpcLimit map in rpcserver.go specifies
the RPC commands accessible by limited users. This map
includes both HTTP/S and websocket commands.
The checkAuth function gets a new return parameter to
signify whether the user is authorized to change server
state. The result is passed to the jsonRPCRead function and
to the WebsocketHandler function in rpcwebsocket.go.
The wsClient struct is updated with an "isAdmin" field
signifying that the client is authorized to change server
state, written by WebsocketHandler and handleMessage.
The handleMessage function also checks the field to
allow or disallow an RPC call.
The following documentation files are updated:
- doc.go
- sample-btcd.conf
- docs/README.md
- docs/json_rpc_api.md
- docs/configure_rpc_server_listen_interfaces.md
By default, have the mempool reject free and low-fee transactions that
have insufficient priority to be mined in the next block.
Addtionally, add a new configuration option, -norelaypriority, to
disable the check.
* Address index is built up concurrently with the `--addrindex` flag.
* Entire index can be deleted with `--dropaddrindex`.
* New RPC call: `searchrawtransaction`
* Returns all transacitons related to a particular address
* Includes mempool transactions
* Requires `--addrindex` to be activated and fully caught up.
* New `blockLogger` struct has been added to factor our common logging
code
* Wiki and docs updated with new features.
This commit introduces a new flag, --notls, which can be used to disable
TLS for the RPC server. However, the flag can only be used when the RPC
server is bound to localhost interfaces. This is intended to prevent the
situation where someone decides they want to expose the RPC server to the
web for remote management/access, but forgot they have TLS disabled.
This commit improves a couple of issues surrounding the creation of the
btcd home directory.
First, the code was previously attempting to log any errors that occurred
while creating the directory using the logging system which is not
initialized at that point. Thus, nothing was displayed to the user.
Second, if any component of btcd home directory path already exists, but
is not a directory, such as in the case of symlinks, the error returned
from the os.MkDirAll call indicates the directory can't be created. While
this is true, it's not always the most helpful error to display to the
user. So, this commit adds logic to detect when the failure case is due
to an existing symlink and displays a nicer error message suggesting the
user check if the destination of the link is mounted.
Fixes#193.
This commit resolves a minor issue where an error in the config file would
prevent the help from being shown until the config file error was
resolved.
This results in the following behavior:
- With a malformed header:
$ ./btcd
Error parsing config file: ~/btcd/btcd.conf:14: malformed section header
Use btcd -h to show usage
- With an invalid option:
$ ./btcd
Error parsing config file: unknown option: bogus
Use btcd -h to show usage
- Invoking help with an error in the config file:
$ ./btcd -h
Usage:
...
- Invoking with an invalid command line option:
$ ./btcd --bogus=bogus
unknown flag `bogus'
Use btcd -h to show usage
ok @jrick
Rather than showing the usage when an error is encounted during options
parsing, show a message that describes how to invoke help instead. This
is useful because the help is long enough now that the error is often
overlooked since it scrolls out of view.
ok @jrick
This commits removes a number of golint warnings. There is a class of
warnings which I can't fix due to unsufficient knowledge of the domain
at this point. These are listed here:
addrmanager.go:907:1: comment on exported method AddrManager.Attempt
should be of the form "Attempt ..."
addrmanager.go:1048:1: exported function RFC1918 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1058:1: exported function RFC3849 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1065:1: exported function RFC3927 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1073:1: exported function RFC3964 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1081:1: exported function RFC4193 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1089:1: exported function RFC4380 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1097:1: exported function RFC4843 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1105:1: exported function RFC4862 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1113:1: exported function RFC6052 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1121:1: exported function RFC6145 should have comment or
be unexported
addrmanager.go:1128:1: exported function Tor should have comment or be
unexported
addrmanager.go:1143:1: exported function Local should have comment or be
unexported
addrmanager.go:1228:2: exported const InterfacePrio should have comment
(or a comment on this block) or be unexported
discovery.go:26:2: exported var ErrTorInvalidAddressResponse should have
comment or be unexported
limits/limits_unix.go:19:1: exported function SetLimits should have
comment or be unexported
limits/limits_windows.go:7:1: exported function SetLimits should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:22:6: exported type ShaHash should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:38:2: exported const ArgSha should have
comment (or a comment on this block) or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:128:5: exported var ErrBadShaPrefix should
have comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:129:5: exported var ErrBadShaLen should have
comment or be unexported
util/dropafter/dropafter.go:130:5: exported var ErrBadShaChar should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:24:6: exported type ShaHash should have
comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:46:2: exported const ArgSha should have
comment (or a comment on this block) or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:163:1: exported function DumpBlock should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:211:5: exported var ErrBadShaPrefix should
have comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:212:5: exported var ErrBadShaLen should have
comment or be unexported
util/showblock/showblock.go:213:5: exported var ErrBadShaChar should
have comment or be unexported
This commit implements a built-in concurrent CPU miner that can be enabled
with the combination of the --generate and --miningaddr options. The
--blockminsize, --blockmaxsize, and --blockprioritysize configuration
options wich already existed prior to this commit control the block
template generation and hence affect blocks mined via the new CPU miner.
The following is a quick overview of the changes and design:
- Starting btcd with --generate and no addresses specified via
--miningaddr will give an error and exit immediately
- Makes use of multiple worker goroutines which independently create block
templates, solve them, and submit the solved blocks
- The default number of worker threads are based on the number of
processor cores in the system and can be dynamically changed at
run-time
- There is a separate speed monitor goroutine used to collate periodic
updates from the workers to calculate overall hashing speed
- The current mining state, number of workers, and hashes per second can
be queried
- Updated sample-btcd.conf file has been updated to include the coin
generation (mining) settings
- Updated doc.go for the new command line options
In addition the old --getworkkey option is now deprecated in favor of the
new --miningaddr option. This was changed for a few reasons:
- There is no reason to have a separate list of keys for getwork and CPU
mining
- getwork is deprecated and will be going away in the future so that means
the --getworkkey flag will also be going away
- Having the work 'key' in the option can be confused with wanting a
private key while --miningaddr make it a little more clear it is an
address that is required
Closes#137.
Reviewed by @jrick.
This commit, along with recent commits to btcnet and btcwire, expose a new
network that is intended to provide a private network useful for
simulation testing. To that end, it has the special property that it has
no DNS seeds and will actively ignore all addr and getaddr messages. It
will also not try to connect to any nodes other than those specified via
--connect. This allows the network to remain private to the specific
nodes involved in the testing and not simply become another public
testnet.
The network difficulty is also set extremely low like the regression test
network so blocks can be created extremely quickly without requiring a lot
of hashing power.
This change modifies the params struct to embed a *btcnet.Params,
removing the old parameter fields that are handled by the btcnet
package.
Hardcoded network checks have also been removed in favor of modifying
behavior based on the current active net's parameters.
Not all library packages, notable btcutil and btcchain, have been
updated to use btcnet yet, but with this change, each package can be
updated one at a time since the active net's btcnet.Params are
available at each callsite.
ok @davecgh
This commit adds a new configuration option, --rpcmaxclients, to limit the
number of max standard RPC clients that are served concurrently. Note
that this value does not apply to websocket connections. A future commit
will add support for limiting those separately.
Closes#68.
This commit adds a new option, --logdir, which works in the same fashion
as the --datadir option. Consequently, the logging directory is name
"namespaced" by the network as well. This resolves the issue where two
btcd instances running (one for mainnet and one for testnet) would
overwrite each other's log files by default.
It also provides the user with a method to change the logging location to
non-default locations if they prefer. For example, it enables multiple
btcd instances on the same network to specify unique logging directories
(even though running multiple btcd instances on the same network is not
the most sane configuration).
Closes#95.
This commit adds the btcdb memdb backend as a supported database type.
Note that users will NOT want to run in this mode because, being memory
only, it obviously does not persist the database when shutdown.
It is being added for testing purposes to help prevent constant abuse to
developer's hard drive when churning the block database multiple times a
day.
The warning about a missing config file should only be shown after all
other configuration has succeeded so it's not shown when there are invalid
options specified. Also add a comment about it where its intended
placement is for the future.
This implements --onion (and --onionuser/--onionpass) that enable a
different proxy to be used to connect to .onion addresses. If no main
proxy is supplied then no proxy will be used for non-onion addresses.
Additionally we add --noonion that blocks connection attempts to .onion
addresses entirely (and avoids using tor for proxy dns lookups).
the --tor option has been supersceded and thus removed.
Closes#47
This code borrows and fixes up a chunk of code to handle upnp from
Taipei-Torrent (https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent), under
current versions of go none of the xml parsing was working correctly.
This fixes that and also refactors the SOAP code to be a little nicer by
stripping off the soap containers. It is still rather rough but seems to
correctly redirect ports and advertise the correct address.
Upnp is not run by default. --upnp will enable it, but it will still not
run if we are not listening or if --externalip is in use.
Closes#51
This commit modifies btcd to run cleanly as a Windows service. btcd is
intended to be a long running process that stays synchronized with the
bitcoin block chain and provides chain services to multiple users. It
follows that a service is the best option on Windows for this
functionality.
A few key points are:
- Supports graceful shutdown via the service stop/shutdown commands
- Integrates cleanly with the Windows event log
- Adds a new /s flag that can be used to install/remove/start/stop the
service
One outstanding issue is that the application data directory is currently
user specific which means, by default, if you start btcd as a user, the
same data won't be used as when it's running as a service. This needs to
be resovled. The most likely approach will be to put all data into the
common appdata directory Windows provides, but it will require some
additional work to deal with permissions properly as user processes can't
write there by default.
Closes#42.
This commit modifies the logging to also log all output to a rolling log
file in the btcd home directory under the logs folder. It uses a maximum
size of 10MB per log file and a max rotation size of 3. This means the
log files will not exceed 30 megabytes.
