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Add support for arbitrary length onion errors#2441

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@t-bast t-bast commented Sep 29, 2022

The specification recommends using a length of 256 for onion errors, but it doesn't say that we should reject errors that use a different length.

We may want to start creating errors with a bigger length than 256 if we need to transmit more data to the sender. In order to prepare for this, we keep creating 256-bytes onion errors, but allow receiving errors of arbitrary length.

See the specification here: lightning/bolts#1021

Fixes #2438

The specification recommends using a length of 256 for onion errors, but
it doesn't say that we should reject errors that use a different length.

We may want to start creating errors with a bigger length than 256 if we
need to transmit more data to the sender. In order to prepare for this,
we keep creating 256-bytes onion errors, but allow receiving errors of
arbitrary length.

See the specification here: lightning/bolts#1021

Fixes #2438
@t-bast t-bast merged commit c385ca2 into master Nov 4, 2022
@t-bast t-bast deleted the arbitrary-size-onion-errors branch November 4, 2022 11:14
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Add support for onion errors larger than 256 bytes

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