From ee75a90ab41fd9a2e5676a2371e529ac2908befa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 16:04:09 +0100 Subject: whisper: topics replaced by bloom filters --- cmd/wnode/main.go | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'cmd/wnode/main.go') diff --git a/cmd/wnode/main.go b/cmd/wnode/main.go index f8606bf82..ccfdd4626 100644 --- a/cmd/wnode/main.go +++ b/cmd/wnode/main.go @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package main import ( "bufio" "crypto/ecdsa" + crand "crypto/rand" "crypto/sha512" "encoding/binary" "encoding/hex" @@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ import ( ) const quitCommand = "~Q" +const entropySize = 32 // singletons var ( @@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ var ( shh *whisper.Whisper done chan struct{} mailServer mailserver.WMailServer + entropy [entropySize]byte input = bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin) ) @@ -274,6 +277,11 @@ func initialize() { TrustedNodes: peers, }, } + + _, err = crand.Read(entropy[:]) + if err != nil { + utils.Fatalf("crypto/rand failed: %s", err) + } } func startServer() { @@ -614,10 +622,10 @@ func writeMessageToFile(dir string, msg *whisper.ReceivedMessage) { } func requestExpiredMessagesLoop() { - var key, peerID []byte + var key, peerID, bloom []byte var timeLow, timeUpp uint32 var t string - var xt, empty whisper.TopicType + var xt whisper.TopicType keyID, err := shh.AddSymKeyFromPassword(msPassword) if err != nil { @@ -640,18 +648,19 @@ func requestExpiredMessagesLoop() { utils.Fatalf("Failed to parse the topic: %s", err) } xt = whisper.BytesToTopic(x) + bloom = whisper.TopicToBloom(xt) + obfuscateBloom(bloom) + } else { + bloom = whisper.MakeFullNodeBloom() } if timeUpp == 0 { timeUpp = 0xFFFFFFFF } - data := make([]byte, 8+whisper.TopicLength) + data := make([]byte, 8, 8+whisper.BloomFilterSize) binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(data, timeLow) binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(data[4:], timeUpp) - copy(data[8:], xt[:]) - if xt == empty { - data = data[:8] - } + data = append(data, bloom...) var params whisper.MessageParams params.PoW = *argServerPoW @@ -685,3 +694,20 @@ func extractIDFromEnode(s string) []byte { } return n.ID[:] } + +// obfuscateBloom adds 16 random bits to the the bloom +// filter, in order to obfuscate the containing topics. +// it does so deterministically within every session. +// despite additional bits, it will match on average +// 32000 times less messages than full node's bloom filter. +func obfuscateBloom(bloom []byte) { + const half = entropySize / 2 + for i := 0; i < half; i++ { + x := int(entropy[i]) + if entropy[half+i] < 128 { + x += 256 + } + + bloom[x/8] = 1 << uint(x%8) // set the bit number X + } +} -- cgit v1.2.3