This commit implements the new ping/pong messages along with their new
behavior. The new set of ping/pong messages allow clients to generate
fake cover traffic as the ping messages tells the pong message how many
bytes to included and can also be padded itself.
This commit modifies most of the wire messages to uniquely identify any
*active* channels by their funding output. This allows the wire
protocol to support funding transactions which open several channels in
parallel.
Any pending channels created by partial completion of the funding
workflow are to be identified by a uint64 initialized by both sides as
follows: the initiator of the connection starts from 0, while the
listening node starts from (1 << 63). These pending channel identifiers
are expected to be monotonically increasing with each new funding
workflow between two nodes. This identifier is volatile w.r.t to each
connection initiation.
This commit adds some cursory documentation along wit minor field
modifications to all messages which deal with adding HTLC’s, or
updating remote commitment transactions.
The messages for dual funding of channel is left purposefully
undocumented as all initial negotiations will be single funder by
default.
A revamp of the testing infrastructure of lnwire will be committed in
the near future.
