Litecoin MimbleWimble August Replace.

The August MimbleWimble replace from David Burkett has simply been revealed, overlaying the newest work completed on the challenge within the final month, together with discussing future plans and the testnet launch on the finish of September. So with out additional ado, over to David:

I apologize prematurely for the much-briefer-than-usual replace. I’ve been busy with tying up free ends, that are vital & needed, however not very thrilling to put in writing about.
August Progress:
As deliberate, I used to be in a position to wrap up the Preliminary State Obtain, particularly the validation of the MWSTATE messages. There are nonetheless quite a few methods the place malicious friends can use these new messages to DoS nodes. I’m not but guarding towards all of these assaults, however there will likely be loads of time to deal with that after the testnet is launched.
I additionally took benefit of the chance to return and clear up some code & strengthen a few of the extra fragile logic, significantly round administration of the UTXO set (the gathering of unspent cash).
Remaining work:
All the pieces is on monitor for a testnet launch on the finish of this month. I’m nonetheless determining a number of last particulars, however I’ll share extra data later this month about what the testnet will seem like, and the way everybody can become involved. I’m hoping to have a primary CLI or JSON-RPC possibility for superior customers to experiment with whereas I transition to specializing in including non-interactive transaction assist.
Sidenote:
For these , I lately gave a discuss future instructions in Mimblewimble which highlighted the weaknesses of vanilla Mimblewimble, and what we are able to do/are doing to attempt to clear up these. Right here’s a recording of the discuss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5vJzp1ehaI&characteristic=youtu.be 16