Eth Wire Protocol

[germsvel]

We are currently handling the encrypted handshake and deriving secrets needed to frame the rest of the messages.

Issue #166 will handle the DEVp2p handshake (and other messages). Once that handshake is successful, we can handle subprotocols.

The main subprotocol is the Ethereum Wire Protocol (https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Wire-Protocol). We should handle this first (both v62 and v63), and then deal with Whisper (issue #105) and Swarm (issue #104) later.

[masonforest]

Thanks for writing these! It's nice to have a better idea of where we are and where we are going.

I'd say implementing Whisper and Swarm should be postponed until other functionality is implemented because as far as I can tell they aren't part of the core protocol.

@igorbarinov you mentioned Whisper in Cincinnati. Does POA require the Whisper protocol?

Swarm seems like a separate project all together. I don't see any reference to it in Parity.

It's too bad so much of this is up in the air: part of the nature of decentralization I guess.

[germsvel]

Yeah, from my point of view (which is still limited) I think we can defer Whisper and Swarm until much later. I just mentioned them in this issue because I knew we had issues for them, and I know they're mentioned around.

[masonforest]

cool, yeah good to have them on the Radar 👍

[hayesgm]

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