When forced to deal with an untrusted node, a wallet will quantize
its current height to disguise the real height to the adversary, to
try and minimize the daemon's ability to distinguish returning
wallets.
Daemons will thus return more blocks than the wallet needs, starting
from earlier in the chain. These extra blocks will be disregarded
by the wallet, which had already scanned them.
However, for the purposes of reorg size detection, the wallet assumes
all blocks the daemon sends are different, which is only correct if
the wallet hasn't been coy, which is only the case for trusted
daemons (which you should use). This causes an issue when the size
of this "fake reorg" is above the sanity check threshold at which
the wallet refuses a reorg.
To fix this, the reorg size check is moved later on, when the reorg
is about to actually happen, after the wallet has checked which
blocks are actually different from the ones it expects.
While copying my data dir to another drive, I missed copying the rpc_ssl.key file b/c of the file permissions.
This change will give a much more clear, descriptive error in that scenario.
Actions:
1. Remove unused functions from misc_os_dependent.h
2. Move three remaining functions, get_gmt_time, get_ns_count, and get_tick_count into time_helper.h
3. Remove unused functions from time_helper.h
4. Refactor get_ns_count and get_internet_time_str and get_time_interval_string
5. Remove/add includes as needed
Relevant commits on the old PR:
a9fbe52b02ffab451e90c977459fea4642731cd1
9a59b131c4ed1be8afe238fff3780fe203c65a46
7fa9e2817df9b9ef3f0290f7f86357939829e588
Here lies dozens of unused files. This commit is ONLY file deletions except
for the removing of a couple of #includes and removing filenames from CmakeLists
where appropriate.
All tests were conducted on the same PC (Ryzen 5 5600X running at fixed 4.65 GHz).
Before:
test_cn_fast_hash<32> (100000 calls) - OK: 1 us/call
test_cn_fast_hash<16384> (1000 calls) - OK: 164 us/call
After:
test_cn_fast_hash<32> (100000 calls) - OK: 0 us/call
test_cn_fast_hash<16384> (1000 calls) - OK: 31 us/call
More than 5 times speedup for cn_fast_hash.
Also noticed consistent 1-2% improvement in test_construct_tx results.
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.
* `IWallet.h` hasn't been touched since 2014, and has been replaced by `src/wallet/api/wallet2_api.h`
* `INode.h` is in a similar situation with `src/p2p/net_node.h`
