Rendez-vous routing

Also covering Hidden destinations and Blinded paths

Rendez-vous routing, hidden destinations, and blinded paths are names for techniques that allow an LN node to send a payment to an unannounced node without learning where that node is in the network topology or what channels it shares with other nodes.

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Primary code and documentation

• Route blinding

Optech newsletter and website mentions

2022

• Core Lightning #5646 adds support for forwarding blinded payments
• Eclair #2418 and #2408 add support for receiving payments sent with blinded routes
• Eclair #2253 adds support for relaying blinded payments
• Discussion about the need for LNURL or offers for effective blinded paths

2020

• C-Lightning #3623 adds a minimal implementation for spending payments using blinded paths
• C-Lightning #3600 adds experimental support for onion messages using blinded paths
• Decoy nodes and lightweight rendez-vous routing (blinded paths)

2018

• Lightning Network protocol 1.1 goals: hidden destinations

See also

• Unannounced channels

  
  

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