Payment secrets
Payment secrets are extra data added to BOLT11 invoices that spenders include in their BOLT4 onion-encrypted payments. This allows the receiver to only accept a payment from the intended spender, preventing a probing attack against the receiver when simplified multipath payments are being used.
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2023
2022
2021
- BOLTs #887 updates BOLT11 to require that spenders specify the payment secret
- C-Lightning #4646 makes payment secrets required
- LND #5336 allows non-interactive reuse of AMP invoices by changing the payment secret
- Eclair #1810 makes it mandatory for peers to signal and comply with the payment_secret feature
- Rust-Lightning #893 requires payment secrets to prevent multipath probing
2020
- LND #4752 prevents the node from releasing a local payment preimage without a payment secret
- CVE-2020-26896 could have been prevented by payment secrets
2019
- BOLTs #643 adds payment secrets to LN specification
- LND #3788 adds support for “payment addresses” (payment secrets)
- C-Lightning #3259 adds payment secrets to prevent multipath probing
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