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impl ed25519 backward compatibility #1982

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What does it do?

The host function ed25519_verify has changed its behavior in the substrate history, because of the change from lib ed25519-dalek to lib ed25519-zebra, which handles certain cases differently (at least the "zeroed" case).

moon* networks have old blocks that are not compatible with ed25519-zebra, this PR introduce a backward compatibility mechanism that allow to use the old lib (ed25519-dalek) to synchronize old blocks.

To be able to do that, we use the new extension UseDalekExt: paritytech/substrate#12661

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Is there something left for follow-up PRs?

What alternative implementations were considered?

Are there relevant PRs or issues in other repositories (Substrate, Polkadot, Frontier, Cumulus)?

What value does it bring to the blockchain users?

@librelois librelois added B5-clientnoteworthy Changes should be mentioned in any downstream projects' release notes D3-trivial PR contains trivial changes in a runtime directory that do not require an audit labels Dec 1, 2022
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#[cfg(feature = "moonbeam-native")]
impl ExecutorT for MoonbeamExecutor {
fn first_block_number_compatible_with_ed25519_zebra() -> Option<u32> {
Some(2_000_000)
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If I understand correctly, this block numbers are meant to indicate the height at which a substrate version changing ed25519 library was introduced in each runtime. Just to verify, are this block numbers (2_000_000, 3_000_000) correct?

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this block numbers are meant to indicate the height at which a substrate version changing ed25519 library was introduced in each runtime

No, this block number indicates from which block the behavior of the host function should change, knowing that this only applies when synchronizing past blocks. Normally our runtimes are "compatible" with the new behavior since runtime 1100, but for safety we take a more recent block.

@librelois librelois merged commit 7e0e865 into master Dec 6, 2022
@librelois librelois deleted the elois-ed25519-compatibility branch December 6, 2022 15:26
imstar15 pushed a commit to OAK-Foundation/moonbeam that referenced this pull request May 16, 2023
* update substrate fork

* impl backward ed25519 compatibility
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