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10/WAKU2
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Waku v2
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<p>Waku v2 is family of modular peer-to-peer protocols for secure communication.
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The protocols are designed to be secure, privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant and being able to run in resource restricted environments.
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At a high level, it implements Pub/Sub over <a href="https://github.com/libp2p/specs">libp2p</a> and adds a set of capabilities to it.
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These capabilities are things such as:
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(i) retrieving historical messages for mostly-offline devices
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(ii) adaptive nodes, allowing for heterogeneous nodes to contribute to the network
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(iii) preserving bandwidth usage for resource-restriced devices</p>
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<p>This makes Waku ideal for running a p2p protocol on mobile and in similarly restricted environments.</p>
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<p>Historically, it has its roots in <a href="/spec/6">Waku v1</a>,
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which stems from <a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-627">Whisper</a>, originally part of the Ethereum stack.
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However, Waku v2 acts more as a thin wrapper for PubSub and has a different API.
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It is implemented in an iterative manner where initial focus is on porting essential functionality to libp2p.
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See <a href="https://vac.dev/waku-v2-plan">rough road map (2020)</a> for more historical context.</p>
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Motivation and goals
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<p>Waku as a family of protocols is designed to have a set of properties that are useful for many applications:</p>
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<li><strong>Useful for generalized messaging.</strong></li>
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<p>Many applications require some form of messaging protocol to communicate between different subsystems or different nodes.
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This messaging can be human-to-human or machine-to-machine or a mix.
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Waku is designed to work for all these scenarios.</p>
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<li><strong>Peer-to-peer.</strong></li>
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<p>Applications sometimes have requirements that make them suitable for peer-to-peer solutions:</p>
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<li>Censorship-resistant with no single point of failure</li>
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<li>Adaptive and scalable network</li>
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<li>Shared infrastructure</li>
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<li><strong>Runs anywhere.</strong></li>
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<p>Applications often run in restricted environments, where resources or the environment is restricted in some fashion.
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For example:</p>
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<li>Limited bandwidth, CPU, memory, disk, battery, etc</li>
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<li>Not being publicly connectable</li>
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<li>Only being intermittently connected; mostly-offline</li>
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<li><strong>Privacy-preserving.</strong></li>
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<p>Applications often have a desire for some privacy guarantees, such as:</p>
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<li>Pseudonymity and not being tied to any personally identifiable information (PII)</li>
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<li>Metadata protection in transit</li>
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<li>Various forms of unlinkability, etc</li>
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<li><strong>Modular design.</strong></li>
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<p>Applications often have different trade-offs when it comes to what properties they and their users value.
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Waku is designed in a modular fashion where an application protocol or node can choose what protocols they run.
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We call this concept <em>adaptive nodes</em>.</p>
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<p>For example:</p>
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<li>Resource usage vs metadata protection</li>
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<li>Providing useful services to the network vs mostly using it</li>
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<li>Stronger guarantees for spam protection vs economic registration cost</li>
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<p>For more on the concept of adaptive nodes and what this means in practice,
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please see the <a href="/spec/30">30/ADAPTIVE-NODES</a> spec.</p>
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Network interaction domains
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<p>While Waku is best thought of as a single cohesive thing, there are three network interaction domains:</p>
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<p>(a) gossip domain
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(b) discovery domain
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(c) req/resp domain</p>
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Protocols and identifiers
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<p>Since Waku v2 is built on top of libp2p, many protocols have a libp2p protocol identifier.
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The current main <a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/">protocol identifiers</a> are:</p>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/relay/2.0.0</code></li>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/store/2.0.0-beta4</code></li>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/filter/2.0.0-beta1</code></li>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/lightpush/2.0.0-beta1</code></li>
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<p>This is in addition to protocols that specify messages, payloads, and recommended usages.
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Since these aren’t negotiated libp2p protocols, they are referred to by their RFC ID.
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For example:</p>
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<li><a href="/spec/14">14/WAKU2-MESSAGE</a>and <a href="/spec/26">26/WAKU2-PAYLOAD</a> for message payloads</li>
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<li><a href="/spec/23">23/WAKU2-TOPICS</a> and <a href="/spec/27">27/WAKU2-PEERS</a> for recommendations around usage</li>
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<p>There are also more experimental libp2p protocols such as:</p>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/swap/2.0.0-beta1</code></li>
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<li><code>/vac/waku/waku-rln-relay/2.0.0-alpha1</code></li>
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<p>These protocols and their semantics are elaborated on in their own specs.</p>
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Use of libp2p and protobuf
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<p>Unless otherwise specified, all protocols are implemented over libp2p and use Protobuf by default.
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Since messages are exchanged over a <a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/">bi-directional binary stream</a>,
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as a convention, libp2p protocols prefix binary message payloads with the length of the message in bytes.
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This length integer is encoded as a <a href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding#varints">protobuf varint</a>.</p>
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Gossip domain
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<p>Waku is using gossiping to disseminate messages throughout the network.</p>
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<p><strong>Protocol identifier</strong>: <code>/vac/waku/relay/2.0.0</code></p>
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<p>See <a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY</a> spec for more details.</p>
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<p>For an experimental privacy-preserving economic spam protection mechanism, see <a href="/spec/17">17/WAKU2-RLN-RELAY</a>.</p>
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<p>See <a href="/spec/23">23/WAKU2-TOPICS</a> for more information about recommended topic usage.</p>
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Direct use of libp2p protocols
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<p>In addition to <code>/vac/waku/*</code> protocols, Waku v2 MAY directly use the following libp2p protocols:</p>
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<li><a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/#ping">libp2p ping protocol</a> with protocol id</li>
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</code></pre><p>respectively, as basic means for capability discovery.
|
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These protocols are anyway used by the libp2p connection establishment layer Waku v2 is built on.
|
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We plan to introduce a new Vac capability discovery protocol with better anonymity properties and more functionality.</p>
|
|
<h1 id="transports">
|
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Transports
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<a class="anchor" href="#transports">#</a>
|
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</h1>
|
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<p>Waku v2 is built in top of libp2p, and like libp2p it strives to be transport agnostic.
|
|
We define a set of recommended transports in order to achieve a baseline of interoperability between clients.</p>
|
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<p>This section describes these recommended transports.</p>
|
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<p>Waku client implementations SHOULD support the TCP transport.</p>
|
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<p>Where TCP is supported it MUST be enabled for both dialing and listening, even if other transports are available.</p>
|
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<p>Waku v2 nodes where the environment do not allow to use TCP directly, MAY use other transports.</p>
|
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<p>A Waku v2 node SHOULD support secure websockets for bidirectional communication streams, for example in a web browser context.</p>
|
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<p>A node MAY support unsecure websockets if required by the application or running environment.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="discovery-domain">
|
|
Discovery domain
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#discovery-domain">#</a>
|
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</h3>
|
|
<h4 id="discovery-methods">
|
|
Discovery methods
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#discovery-methods">#</a>
|
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</h4>
|
|
<p>Waku v2 can retrieve a list of nodes to connect to using DNS-based discovery as per <a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1459">EIP-1459</a>.
|
|
While this is a useful way of bootstrapping connection to a set of peers,
|
|
it MAY be used in conjunction with an <a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/publish-subscribe/#discovery">ambient peer discovery</a> procedure to find still other nodes to connect to,
|
|
such as <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/8fd5f7e1c1ec496a9d8dc1640a8548b8a8b5986b/discv5/discv5.md">Node Discovery v5</a>.
|
|
More ambient peer discovery methods are being tested for Waku v2,
|
|
and will be specified for wider adoption.
|
|
It is possible to bypass the discovery domain by specifying static nodes.</p>
|
|
<h4 id="use-of-enr">
|
|
Use of ENR
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#use-of-enr">#</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p><a href="/spec/31">31/WAKU2-ENR</a> describes the usage of <a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-778">EIP-778 ENR (Ethereum Node Records)</a> for Waku v2 discovery purposes.
|
|
It introduces two new ENR fields, <code>multiaddrs</code> and <code>waku2</code>, that a Waku v2 node MAY use for discovery purposes.
|
|
These fields MUST be used under certain conditions, as set out in the spec.
|
|
Both EIP-1459 DNS-based discovery and Node Discovery v5 operates on ENR,
|
|
and it’s reasonable to expect even wider utility for ENR in Waku v2 networks in future.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="requestreply-domain">
|
|
Request/Reply domain
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#requestreply-domain">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>In addition to the Gossip domain,
|
|
Waku provides a set of Request/Reply protocols.
|
|
They are primarily used in order to get Waku to run in resource restricted environments,
|
|
such as low bandwidth or being mostly offline.</p>
|
|
<h4 id="historical-message-support">
|
|
Historical message support
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#historical-message-support">#</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p><strong>Protocol identifier</strong>*: <code>/vac/waku/store/2.0.0-beta4</code></p>
|
|
<p>This is used to fetch historical messages for mostly offline devices.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a> spec for more details.</p>
|
|
<p>There is also an experimental fault-tolerant addition to the store protocol that relaxes the high availability requirement.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/21">21/WAKU2-FT-STORE</a></p>
|
|
<h4 id="content-filtering">
|
|
Content filtering
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#content-filtering">#</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p><strong>Protocol identifier</strong>*: <code>/vac/waku/filter/2.0.0-beta1</code></p>
|
|
<p>This is used to make fetching of a subset of messages more bandwidth preserving.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/12">12/WAKU2-FILTER</a> spec for more details.</p>
|
|
<h4 id="light-push">
|
|
Light push
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#light-push">#</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p><strong>Protocol identifier</strong>*: <code>/vac/waku/lightpush/2.0.0-beta1</code></p>
|
|
<p>This is used for nodes with short connection windows and limited bandwidth to publish messages into the Waku network.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/19">19/WAKU2-LIGHTPUSH</a> spec for more details.</p>
|
|
<h4 id="other-protocols">
|
|
Other protocols
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#other-protocols">#</a>
|
|
</h4>
|
|
<p>The above is a non-exhaustive list,
|
|
and due to the modular design of Waku there may be other protocols here that provide a useful service to the Waku network.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="overview-of-protocol-interaction">
|
|
Overview of protocol interaction
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#overview-of-protocol-interaction">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>See the sequence diagram below for an overview of how different protocols interact.</p>
|
|
<p><img src="../../../../rfcs/10/overview.png" alt="Overview of how protocols interact in Waku v2." /></p>
|
|
<ol start="0">
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>We have six nodes, A-F.
|
|
The protocols initially mounted are indicated as such.
|
|
The PubSub topics <code>pubtopic1</code> and <code>pubtopic2</code> is used for routing and indicates that it is subscribed to messages on that topic for relay, see <a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY</a> for details.
|
|
Ditto for <a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a> where it indicates that these messages are persisted on that node.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Node A creates a WakuMessage <code>msg1</code> with a ContentTopic <code>contentTopic1</code>.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/14">14/WAKU2-MESSAGE</a> for more details.
|
|
If WakuMessage version is set to 1, we use the <a href="/spec/6">6/WAKU1</a> compatible <code>data</code> field with encryption.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/7">7/WAKU-DATA</a> for more details.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Node F requests to get messages filtered by PubSub topic <code>pubtopic1</code> and ContentTopic <code>contentTopic1</code>.
|
|
Node D subscribes F to this filter and will in the future forward messages that match that filter.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/12">12/WAKU2-FILTER</a> for more details.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Node A publishes <code>msg1</code> on <code>pubtopic1</code> and subscribes to that relay topic pick it up.
|
|
It then gets relayed further from B to D, but not C since it doesn’t subscribe to that topic.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Node D saves <code>msg1</code> for possible later retrieval by other nodes.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Node D also pushes <code>msg1</code> to F, as it has previously subscribed F to this filter.
|
|
See <a href="/spec/12">12/WAKU2-FILTER</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>At a later time, Node E comes online.
|
|
It then requests messages matching <code>pubtopic1</code> and <code>contentTopic1</code> from Node D.
|
|
Node D responds with messages meeting this (and possibly other) criteria. See <a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ol>
|
|
<h2 id="appendix-a-upgradability-and-compatibility">
|
|
Appendix A: Upgradability and Compatibility
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#appendix-a-upgradability-and-compatibility">#</a>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<h3 id="compatibility-with-waku-v1">
|
|
Compatibility with Waku v1
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#compatibility-with-waku-v1">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>Waku v1 and Waku v2 are different protocols all together.
|
|
They use a different transport protocol underneath; Waku v1 is devp2p RLPx based while Waku v2 uses libp2p.
|
|
The protocols themselves also differ as does their data format.
|
|
Compatibility can be achieved only by using a bridge that not only talks both devp2p RLPx and libp2p, but that also transfers (partially) the content of a packet from one version to the other.</p>
|
|
<p>See <a href="/spec/15">15/WAKU-BRIDGE</a> for details on a bidirectional bridge mode.</p>
|
|
<h1 id="appendix-b-security">
|
|
Appendix B: Security
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#appendix-b-security">#</a>
|
|
</h1>
|
|
<p>Each protocol layer of Waku v2 provides a distinct service and is associated with a separate set of security features and concerns.
|
|
Therefore, the overall security of Waku v2 depends on how the different layers are utilized.
|
|
In this section, we overview the security properties of Waku v2 protocols against a static adversarial model which is described below.
|
|
Note that a more detailed security analysis of each Waku protocol is supplied in its respective specification as well.</p>
|
|
<h2 id="primary-adversarial-model">
|
|
Primary Adversarial Model
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#primary-adversarial-model">#</a>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<p>In the primary adversarial model, we consider adversary as a passive entity that attempts to collect information from others to conduct an attack,
|
|
but it does so without violating protocol definitions and instructions.</p>
|
|
<p>The following are <strong>not</strong> considered as part of the adversarial model:</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>An adversary with a global view of all the peers and their connections.</li>
|
|
<li>An adversary that can eavesdrop on communication links between arbitrary pairs of peers
|
|
(unless the adversary is one end of the communication).
|
|
Specifically, the communication channels are assumed to be secure.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2 id="security-features">
|
|
Security Features
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#security-features">#</a>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<h3 id="pseudonymity">
|
|
Pseudonymity
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#pseudonymity">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>Waku v2 by default guarantees pseudonymity for all of the protocol layers since parties do not have to disclose their true identity
|
|
and instead they utilize libp2p <code>PeerID</code> as their identifiers.
|
|
While pseudonymity is an appealing security feature, it does not guarantee full anonymity since the actions taken under the same pseudonym
|
|
i.e., <code>PeerID</code> can be linked together and potentially result in the re-identification of the true actor.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="anonymity--unlinkability">
|
|
Anonymity / Unlinkability
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#anonymity--unlinkability">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>At a high level, anonymity is the inability of an adversary in linking an actor to its data/performed action (the actor and action are context-dependent).
|
|
To be precise about linkability, we use the term Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to refer to any piece of data that could potentially be used to uniquely identify a party.
|
|
For example, the signature verification key, and the hash of one’s static IP address are unique for each user and hence count as PII.
|
|
Notice that users’ actions can be traced through their PIIs (e.g., signatures) and hence result in their re-identification risk.
|
|
As such, we seek anonymity by avoiding linkability between actions and the actors / actors’ PII. Concerning anonymity, Waku v2 provides the following features:</p>
|
|
<p><strong>Publisher-Message Unlinkability</strong>:
|
|
This feature signifies the unlinkability of a publisher to its published messages in the 11/WAKU2-RELAY protocol.
|
|
The <a href="/spec/11#security-analysis">Publisher-Message Unlinkability</a> is enforced through the <code>StrictNoSign</code> policy due to which the data fields of pubsub messages that count as PII for the publisher must be left unspecified.</p>
|
|
<p><strong>Subscriber-Topic Unlinkability</strong>:
|
|
This feature stands for the unlinkability of the subscriber to its subscribed topics in the 11/WAKU2-RELAY protocol.
|
|
The <a href="/spec/11/#security-analysis">Subscriber-Topic Unlinkability</a> is achieved through the utilization of a single PubSub topic.
|
|
As such, subscribers are not re-identifiable from their subscribed topic IDs as the entire network is linked to the same topic ID.
|
|
This level of unlinkability / anonymity is known as <a href="https://www.privitar.com/blog/k-anonymity-an-introduction/">k-anonymity</a> where k is proportional to the system size (number of subscribers).
|
|
Note that there is no hard limit on the number of the pubsub topics, however, the use of one topic is recommended for the sake of anonymity.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="spam-protection">
|
|
Spam protection
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#spam-protection">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>This property indicates that no adversary can flood the system (i.e., publishing a large number of messages in a short amount of time), either accidentally or deliberately, with any kind of message i.e. even if the message content is valid or useful.
|
|
Spam protection is partly provided in <code>11/WAKU2-RELAY</code> through the <a href="https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/gossipsub-v1.1.md#spam-protection-measures">scoring mechanism</a> provided for by GossipSub v1.1.
|
|
At a high level, peers utilize a scoring function to locally score the behavior of their connections and remove peers with a low score.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="data-confidentiality-integrity-and-authenticity">
|
|
Data confidentiality, Integrity, and Authenticity
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#data-confidentiality-integrity-and-authenticity">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>Confidentiality can be addressed through data encryption whereas integrity and authenticity are achievable through digital signatures.
|
|
These features are provided for in <a href="/spec/14#version-1">14/WAKU2-MESSAGE (version 1)</a>` through payload encryption as well as encrypted signatures.</p>
|
|
<h2 id="security-considerations">
|
|
Security Considerations
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#security-considerations">#</a>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<p><strong>Lack of anonymity/unlinkability in the protocols involving direct connections including <code>13/WAKU2-STORE</code> and <code>12/WAKU2-FILTER</code> protocols</strong>:
|
|
The anonymity/unlinkability is not guaranteed in the protocols like <code>13/WAKU2-STORE</code> and <code>12/WAKU2-FILTER</code> where peers need to have direct connections to benefit from the designated service.
|
|
This is because during the direct connections peers utilize <code>PeerID</code> to identify each other,
|
|
therefore the service obtained in the protocol is linkable to the beneficiary’s <code>PeerID</code> (which counts as PII).
|
|
For <code>13/WAKU2-STORE</code>, the queried node would be able to link the querying node’s <code>PeerID</code> to its queried topics.
|
|
Likewise, in the <code>12/WAKU2-FILTER</code>, a full node can link the light node’s <code>PeerID</code>s to its content filter.</p>
|
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|
|
<h2 id="appendix-c-implementation-notes">
|
|
Appendix C: Implementation Notes
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#appendix-c-implementation-notes">#</a>
|
|
</h2>
|
|
<h3 id="implementation-matrix">
|
|
Implementation Matrix
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#implementation-matrix">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>There are multiple implementations of Waku v2 and its protocols:</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/">nim-waku (Nim)</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://github.com/status-im/go-waku/">go-waku (Go)</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="https://github.com/status-im/js-waku/">js-waku (NodeJS and Browser)</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<p>Below you can find an overview of the specs that they implement as they relate to Waku v2.
|
|
This includes Waku v1 specs, as they are used for bridging between the two networks.</p>
|
|
<table>
|
|
<thead>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<th>Spec</th>
|
|
<th>nim-waku (Nim)</th>
|
|
<th>go-waku (Go)</th>
|
|
<th>js-waku (Node JS)</th>
|
|
<th>js-waku (Browser JS)</th>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</thead>
|
|
<tbody>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/6">6/WAKU1</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/7">7/WAKU-DATA</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/8">8/WAKU-MAIL</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/9">9/WAKU-RPC</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/10">10/WAKU2</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>🚧</td>
|
|
<td>🚧</td>
|
|
<td>🚧</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/12">12/WAKU2-FILTER</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔*</td>
|
|
<td>✔*</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/14">14/WAKU2-MESSAGE</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/15">15/WAKU2-BRIDGE</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/16">16/WAKU2-RPC</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/17">17/WAKU2-RLN-RELAY</a></td>
|
|
<td>🚧</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/18">18/WAKU2-SWAP</a></td>
|
|
<td>🚧</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/19">19/WAKU2-LIGHTPUSH</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔**</td>
|
|
<td>✔**</td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
<tr>
|
|
<td><a href="/spec/21">21/WAKU2-FAULT-TOLERANT-STORE</a></td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td>✔</td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
<td></td>
|
|
</tr>
|
|
</tbody>
|
|
</table>
|
|
<p>*js-waku implements <a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE</a> as a querying node only.
|
|
**js-waku only implements <a href="/spec/19">19/WAKU2-LIGHTPUSH</a> requests.</p>
|
|
<h3 id="recommendations-for-clients">
|
|
Recommendations for clients
|
|
<a class="anchor" href="#recommendations-for-clients">#</a>
|
|
</h3>
|
|
<p>To implement a minimal Waku v2 client, we recommend implementing the following subset in the following order:</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="/spec/10">10/WAKU2</a> - this spec</li>
|
|
<li><a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY</a> - for basic operation</li>
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<li><a href="/spec/14">14/WAKU2-MESSAGE</a> - version 0 (unencrypted)</li>
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<p>For an interoperable keep-alive mechanism:</p>
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Appendix D: Future work
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<a class="anchor" href="#appendix-d-future-work">#</a>
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<p>The following features are currently experimental and under research and initial implementation:</p>
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<p><strong>Economic Spam resistance</strong>:
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More details on this can be found in <a href="/spec/17">17/WAKU2-RLN-RELAY</a>.
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In this advanced method, peers are limited to a certain rate of messaging per epoch and an immediate financial penalty is enforced for spammers who break this rate.</p>
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<p><strong>Prevention of Denial of Service (DoS) and Node Incentivization</strong>:
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Denial of service signifies the case where an adversarial node exhausts another node’s service capacity (e.g., by making a large number of requests) and makes it unavailable to the rest of the system.
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In a nutshell, peers have to pay for the service they obtain from each other.
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The accounting model can be used in <code>13/WAKU2-STORE</code> and <code>12/WAKU2-FILTER</code> to protect against DoS attacks.</p>
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<p>Additionally, this gives node operators who provide a useful service to the network an incentive to perform that service.
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See <a href="/spec/18">18/WAKU2-SWAP</a> for more details on this piece of work.</p>
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Copyright
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<a class="anchor" href="#copyright">#</a>
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<p>Copyright and related rights waived via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/libp2p/specs">libp2p specs</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/6">6/WAKU1 spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-627">Whisper spec (EIP627)</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://vac.dev/waku-v2-plan">Waku v2 plan</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/">Protocol Identifiers</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/11">11/WAKU2-RELAY spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/13">13/WAKU2-STORE spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/12">12/WAKU2-FILTER spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/15">15/WAKU2-BRIDGE spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/protocols/#ping">Ping protocol</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1459">EIP-1459</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/publish-subscribe/#discovery">Ambient peer discovery</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/8fd5f7e1c1ec496a9d8dc1640a8548b8a8b5986b/discv5/discv5.md">Node Discovery v5</a></p>
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<p><a href="/spec/31">31/WAKU2-ENR spec</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-778">EIP-778</a></p>
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