6439 sats \ 7 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 21 Sep 2023 \ on: Lexe - 24/7 Lightning wallet bitcoin
Cool to see them surface. They've been building in the LDK ecosystem since about the same time we were. Except on hard mode with no-std in an SGX environment. You think running in the browser is hard lmao.
It's basically greenlight but the user keys are in an SGX server. I don't know how you prove that they are secure or that they are operating it in that way. Also you gotta trust SGX and there's been many SGX fail research. I don't know what is FUD or not.
The nodes are cheap to manage tho since LDK is incredibly lightweight. So they can always run, unlike with greenlight (unless they're working on making that scale better). So you can have more "offline receive" potential. Think of this as a less or more (depends on your assessment) trusted voltage with a wallet interface.
Oh so it’s like ACINQ’s system as a service with a wallet interface?!
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I think the difference here. Is that for ACINQ its how they urn their LSP. In this case its for your individual node tied to your mobile app. This is cool approach and great that they have open sourced it and documented so well.
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I'm not sure what you mean by acinq system as a service.
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ACINQ uses a nitro enclave: https://acinq.co/blog/securing-a-100M-lightning-node
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Oh nice didn't realize that. Yeah basically! At least as far as the keys go I think. They do a lot of other distributed systems kind of stuff to the rest of the "node" too.
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What's SGX? A bit of googlign turned up no obvious answer.
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Secure enclave technology in the cloud, mostly referring to intels.
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