The new 'Domain' field allows validator operators to associate a domain
name with their manifest in a transparent and independently verifiable
fashion.
It is important to point out that while this system can cryptographically
prove that a particular validator claims to be associated with a domain
it does *NOT* prove that the validator is, actually, associated with that
domain.
Domain owners will have to cryptographically attest to operating particular
validators that claim to be associated with that domain. One option for
doing so would be by making available a file over HTTPS under the domain
being claimed, which is verified separately (e.g. by ensuring that the
certificate used to serve the file matches the domain being claimed) and
which contains the long-term master public keys of validator(s) associated
with that domain.
Credit for an early prototype of this idea goes to GitHub user @cryptobrad
who introduced a PR that would allow a validator list publisher to attest
that a particular validator was associated with a domain. The idea may be
worth revisiting as a way of verifying the domain name claimed by the
validator's operator.
Problem:
- There are several specific overloads with some custom code that can be
easily replaced using Boost.Hex.
Solution:
- Introduce `strHex(itr, itr)` to return a string given a begin and end
iterator.
- Remove `strHex(itr, size)` in favor of the `strHex(T)` where T is
something that has a `begin()` member function. This allows us to
remove the strHex overloads for `std::string`, Blob, and Slice.
* RIPD-1617, RIPD-1619, RIPD-1621:
Verify serialized public keys more strictly before
using them.
* RIPD-1618:
* Simplify the base58 decoder logic.
* Reduce the complexity of the base58 encoder and
eliminate a potential out-of-bounds memory access.
* Improve type safety by using an `enum class` to
enforce strict type checking for token types.
* RIPD-1616:
Avoid calling `memcpy` with a null pointer even if the
size is specified as zero, since it results in undefined
behavior.
Acknowledgements:
Ripple thanks Guido Vranken for responsibly disclosing these
issues.
Bug Bounties and Responsible Disclosures:
We welcome reviews of the rippled code and urge researchers
to responsibly disclose any issues that they may find. For
more on Ripple's Bug Bounty program, please visit:
https://ripple.com/bug-bounty
The RippleAddress class was used to represent a number of fundamentally
different types: account public keys, account secret keys, node public
keys, node secret keys, seeds and generators.
The class is replaced by the following types:
* PublicKey for account and node public keys
* SecretKey for account and node private keys
* Generator for generating secp256k1 accounts
* Seed for account, node and generator seeds
* Remove cxx14 compatibility layer from ripple
* Update travis to clang 3.6 and drop gcc 4.8
* Remove unneeded beast CXX14 defines
* Do not run clang build with gdb with travis
* Update circle ci to clang 3.6 & gcc-5
* Don't run rippled in gdb, clang builds crash gdb
* Staticly link libstdc++, boost, ssl, & protobuf
* Support builds on ubuntu 15.10
