2023-12-25 Vac weekly

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Fixing bumper jobs - https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p/issues/1005
  • Remove rules related to Nim 1.2 jobs from master branch on github settings
  • Reading and Understanding
    • Disable flood publishing https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/4383
    • More lenient flood publishing https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/3666
    • Testing latency on different flood publish strategies https://github.com/sigp/gossipsub-testground/pull/15
    • testing gossipsub(flood publish) with quic https://github.com/ackintosh/gossipsub-testground/p
  • Case 'FloodSub message size validation 2':
    • Issue: Combination between message size and timeout; Big message size takes a big time, and sometimes exceeds timeout
    • Still begs the question: “Why it passed when running the full suite instead of the isolated test

vac:tke: §

vac:dst: §

• eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:
  • Keep investigating packets drop (https://www.notion.so/Results-3-43142115f7764d3ca9954490f232b242)
    • Created same test node with Rust (borrowed some time from Alex)(https://github.com/vacp2p/dst-gossipsub-test-node-rust/tree/master)
      • Got some preliminary results (https://www.notion.so/Results-Rust-011fb77dea4b482ba8283f1adb762c9c)
  • sync with p2p team regarding weird behavior
  • Use iperf to create artificial bandwidth and keep investigating (Done, no package drop).
• admin/misc
  • hiring
• vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-js-waku
  • Investigated and helped fixing js-waku tests that failed with latest nwaku
• vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-interop-testing
  • Implemented the idle subscription tests requested by the nwaku team + multi-node filter tests: PR
  • Issues reported:
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/967
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/968
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/969
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/970
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/971
    • https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/issues/972
    • https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2315
• software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku
  • Test failure
    • Investigate
    • Issue
  • Merge
    • Direction refactor
      • PR
    • Store Tests
      • PR1
      • PR2
    • Lightpush Tests
      • PR
  • Implemented autoshard tests
    • Missing one. Asked about how to mock.

vac:acz: §

• secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat
  • Worked on Ethereum as Authentication Service. (https://www.notion.so/WiP-Ethereum-based-Authentication-cb7b0ff07ba74886847ec8e23e8a7a62)
  • Specification for the MLS in our setting. (https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/blob/master/content/docs/rfcs/70/README.md)
  • RFC updates: ADKG + DR removed and replaced with MLS.

vac:sc:: §

vac:nescience: §

• state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc
  • Finished researching Az, Pol, Ola
  • Continue readings on privacy-focused models (Nmd, Zc)
  • Looking at privacy related questions for UTXO
  • Continue with binary towers paper
  • Continued research on mimblewimble.
  • Read HEX-Bloom
  • Read NOTRY; this paper deals with messaging, but has an interesting property in their scheme called avowal and proof of non-knowledge.
  • Work on propsal about the private execution that affects public state and start to write it.
  • Read a paper about the proposal

vac:dr: §

• gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-improvements-paper
  • Completed article writeup for GossipSub scaling for large messages

vac:rfc: §

• waku:waku-keystore
  • Made changes based on feedback for waku-RLN-keystore - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631
• admin/misc
  • Read waku2 specs, message, filter, store, payload - https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/10/
  • read libp2p docs to prepare for excutable specs of waku2 node