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Accumulate private key using blinding factor when deriving routing keys #2

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youngjoon-lee opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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youngjoon-lee commented Jan 12, 2024

In the current implementation, only an initial ephemeral private key is used to derive the routing keys of all mix nodes in the route.

To make this consistent with https://github.com/nymtech/sphinx, an initial ephemeral private key must be accumulated for each mix node using a blinding factor.
https://github.com/nymtech/sphinx/blob/ca107d94360cdf8bbfbdb12fe5320ed74f80e40c/src/header/keys.rs#L128-L128

At the same time, we must blind the shared key when deriving a shared public key to unwrap a SphinxHeader.
https://github.com/nymtech/sphinx/blob/ca107d94360cdf8bbfbdb12fe5320ed74f80e40c/src/header/mod.rs#L236-L236

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