block producer needs access to miner worker key

[whyrusleeping]

i'm working on moving the block miner to be spec compliant. Part of this involves several signatures with the miners worker key.

This means that the process creating blocks on behalf of a given storage miner needs access to that storage miners key.

I think the most straightforward way of doing this would be to just have the full node keep the key for the storage miner, instead of the current situation where the storage-miner has its own wallet.

thoughts @magik6k @Kubuxu ?

[whyrusleeping]

having all the keys be on the full node does make me a little nervous, But i think it could be pretty straightforward to move them all to a 'signing server', and have configurations to allow the node to use a different api target to fulfill wallet requests

[magik6k]

Why does block mining involve using the worker key? Shouldn't the owner key be sufficient?

[whyrusleeping]

The owner isnt necessarily a key (could be a multisig) and the idea is that the key is kept somewhere more secure than on a machine that is able to use it to sign things in an automated fashion

[magik6k]

Ok, makes sense

[whyrusleeping]

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