Struct diem_types::network_address::NetworkAddress[][src]

pub struct NetworkAddress(_);
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Overview

Diem NetworkAddress is a compact, efficient, self-describing and future-proof network address represented as a stack of protocols. Essentially libp2p’s multiaddr but using bcs to describe the binary format.

Most validators will advertise a network address like:

/dns/example.com/tcp/6180/ln-noise-ik/<x25519-pubkey>/ln-handshake/1

Unpacking, the above effectively means:

  1. Resolve the DNS name “example.com” to an ip address, addr.
  2. Open a TCP connection to (addr, 6180).
  3. Perform a Noise IK handshake and assume the peer’s static pubkey is <x25519-pubkey>. After this step, we will have a secure, authenticated connection with the peer.
  4. Perform a DiemNet version negotiation handshake (version 1).

Self-describing, Upgradable

One key concept behind NetworkAddress is that it is fully self-describing, which allows us to easily “pre-negotiate” protocols while also allowing for future upgrades. For example, it is generally unsafe to negotiate a secure transport in-band. Instead, with NetworkAddress we can advertise (via discovery) the specific secure transport protocol and public key that we support (and even advertise multiple incompatible versions). When a peer wishes to establish a connection with us, they already know which secure transport protocol to use; in this sense, the secure transport protocol is “pre-negotiated” by the dialier selecting which advertised protocol to use.

Each network address is encoded with the length of the encoded NetworkAddress and then the serialized protocol slices to allow for transparent upgradeability. For example, if the current software cannot decode a NetworkAddress within a Vec<NetworkAddress> it can still decode the underlying Vec<u8> and retrieve the remaining Vec<NetworkAddress>.

Transport

In addition, NetworkAddress is integrated with the DiemNet concept of a Transport, which takes a NetworkAddress when dialing and peels off Protocols to establish a connection and perform initial handshakes. Similarly, the Transport takes NetworkAddress to listen on, which tells it what protocols to expect on the socket.

Example

An example of a serialized NetworkAddress:

// human-readable format:
//
//   "/ip4/10.0.0.16/tcp/80"
//
// serialized NetworkAddress:
//
//      [ 09 02 00 0a 00 00 10 05 80 00 ]
//          \  \  \  \           \  \
//           \  \  \  \           \  '-- u16 tcp port
//            \  \  \  \           '-- uvarint protocol id for /tcp
//             \  \  \  '-- u32 ipv4 address
//              \  \  '-- uvarint protocol id for /ip4
//               \  '-- uvarint number of protocols
//                '-- length of encoded network address

use diem_types::network_address::NetworkAddress;
use bcs;
use std::{str::FromStr, convert::TryFrom};

let addr = NetworkAddress::from_str("/ip4/10.0.0.16/tcp/80").unwrap();
let actual_ser_addr = bcs::to_bytes(&addr).unwrap();

let expected_ser_addr: Vec<u8> = [9, 2, 0, 10, 0, 0, 16, 5, 80, 0].to_vec();

assert_eq!(expected_ser_addr, actual_ser_addr);

Implementations

Given a base NetworkAddress, append production protocols and return the modified NetworkAddress.

Example

use diem_crypto::{traits::ValidCryptoMaterialStringExt, x25519};
use diem_types::network_address::NetworkAddress;
use std::str::FromStr;

let pubkey_str = "080e287879c918794170e258bfaddd75acac5b3e350419044655e4983a487120";
let pubkey = x25519::PublicKey::from_encoded_string(pubkey_str).unwrap();
let addr = NetworkAddress::from_str("/dns/example.com/tcp/6180").unwrap();
let addr = addr.append_prod_protos(pubkey, 0);
assert_eq!(
    addr.to_string(),
    "/dns/example.com/tcp/6180/ln-noise-ik/080e287879c918794170e258bfaddd75acac5b3e350419044655e4983a487120/ln-handshake/0",
);

Check that a NetworkAddress looks like a typical DiemNet address with associated protocols.

“typical” DiemNet addresses begin with a transport protocol:

"/ip4/<addr>/tcp/<port>" or "/ip6/<addr>/tcp/<port>" or "/dns4/<domain>/tcp/<port>" or "/dns6/<domain>/tcp/<port>" or "/dns/<domain>/tcp/<port>" or cfg!(test) "/memory/<port>"

followed by transport upgrade handshake protocols:

"/ln-noise-ik/<pubkey>/ln-handshake/<version>"

Example

use diem_types::network_address::NetworkAddress;
use std::str::FromStr;

let addr_str = "/ip4/1.2.3.4/tcp/6180/ln-noise-ik/080e287879c918794170e258bfaddd75acac5b3e350419044655e4983a487120/ln-handshake/0";
let addr = NetworkAddress::from_str(addr_str).unwrap();
assert!(addr.is_diemnet_addr());

Retrieves the IP address from the network address

A temporary, hacky function to parse out the first /ln-noise-ik/<pubkey> from a NetworkAddress. We can remove this soon, when we move to the interim “monolithic” transport model.

A function to rotate public keys for NoiseIK protocols

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