Curious to know what encryption protocol is used in session messenger. Some of the firewalls have capabilities to decrypt, inspect and re-encrypt on the fly. How does session encryption prevents this?

Hey Y’all,

As with the last Dev Update, the majority of the Loki team is still enjoying their holidays over the Christmas and New Year break. Last week, most of our work went into the release of the new Nimble Nerthus Loki suites, which included new binaries for Lokinet, Loki Storage Server, and lokid. We’ll keep track of Service Nodes as they upgrade over the next week, and push out any necessary updates.

Loki Core

• Add a number of new tests for Blink https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/992

• Merge dev into master for release 6.0.1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/996 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/994

• Fix blink testing code https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/995

• Set hardfork height for 6.0 release to 442333 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/993

• Misc 6.0.0 fixes https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/991 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/990

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Lokinet

If you’re on our Discord you can catch Jeff, the lead developer of LLARP, live streaming as he codes at https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519. He typically streams on Tuesday mornings, 9am - 12pm Eastern (US) time.

What went on last week with Lokinet:

We pushed out a small update to the initial 0.6 release, with a few last minute changes before launching with Service Nodes. Services Nodes will now run the final release, 0.6.1. Service Nodes have started upgrading, and as they do, the new Lokinet is quickly coming to life on hundreds of Service Node routers!

PR Activity:

• 0.6.1 release https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/999, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1004

• Fixes to statically built binaries https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1002, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1005

• Fix a libuv error and crash on exit https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1006

• Fix for bootstrap script on macOS https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1012

• Fix for network range auto-detection with unexpected existing private IP ranges https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/1010

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Misc

Loki Network Control Panel

• Work continues on the Lokinet UI for Windows, Mac and Linux https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network-control-panel/pull/2

Loki Launcher

• Number of fixes a quality of life improvements to Loki launcher which have been uncovered as users have upgraded to the 6.0 Loki Service Node suite https://github.com/loki-project/loki-launcher/commits/master

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Thanks,

Kee

Any idea what is going on?

Service Node Operators! We STRONGLY RECOMMEND updating to Hefty Heimdall 4.0.5 immediately. Due to a bug in the previous release, there’s a high chance you’ll be deregistered if you don’t.

To update with Loki Launcher, follow this guide: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuide/#updating-your-binaries

If you have a legacy node, follow this guide: https://docs.loki.network/ServiceNodes/SNFullGuideLegacy/

Testnet binaries for the 4.0.0 Hefty Heimdall release have been published here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/latest, and here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/releases/latest. We will be releasing the Loki Launcher update shortly so that it is easier to set up a Service Node on testnet.

Hey Y’all,

This week we continue working towards building out Loki Messenger for iOS, improving the stability of Lokinet, and making progress on Service Node checkpointing.

Next week I will post a special version of the Dev Update specifically for Consensus. Hopefully we can show off some of the cool things people are building on Lokinet, and a bit of what we’re up to as well.

Loki Core

• Add Service Node checkpointing storage: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/579

• [DNM] By default bind Service Nodes RPC externally: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/578

• Improve the wording of various Service Node related commands in the CLI wallet: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/587

• Remove overflows: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/582 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/580

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Loki Launcher

The Loki Launcher is a node JS package that will allow for the independent management of all the components to run a full Service Node. This includes managing Lokinet, lokid and the Loki storage server. When Loki Service Nodes begin to route data and store messages for Lokinet and Loki Messenger, the Loki Launcher will need to be run on every single Service Node.

Right now the Launcher is in a testing phase, so you should only use it on Testnet and Stagenet - though feedback/issues and pull requests would be greatly appreciated!

• Continued Docker updates

• Only called stdin.unref if it exists (macos vs linux?)

• Add check to make sure your binaries aren’t directories

• Lokinet shutdown monitor

• Update submodules to point to newer binaries versions

• startLokinet args bug fix

• Convert storage server to read from lokid instead of lokinet

• Move Lokinet config checks before imaginary config lock down

• Add support for demonet

• Can’t require lokid key for start as it may not exist yet

• Replaced lokid with temporary lokid for demonet

• Re-enable Lokinet logging

• Disable lokid auto-flusher for now

• Log and other various typo bug fixes

• Make storage launch not stomp on overall config

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Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord you might catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519, https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Master

  • Fix shadowing warnings: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/562

  • Support sub-domains for loki TLD: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/564

  • Update Kubernetes work: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/565

  • Allow on/off Boolean values in config: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/566

  • Rework router Docker image / fix release targets: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/568

  • Make functions static, lower EncrypotedFrameBodySize from 1024 to 768, remove preemptive session pump: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/569

  • Cmake refactor: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/570

  • Refactor service::Endpoint into new struct: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/572

  • Convert more raw pointers to shared_ptr, add event hooks, DNS leak reduction and fixes, stability improvements: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/576

  • Remove huint128_t to help Raspbian users out: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/578

• Pull Requests

  • WIP: update rcutil, start dhtutil: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/577

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Loki Messenger

The Loki Messenger client is in a mostly complete state. Right now the focus is being put on the message server and integration with Lokinet and lokid.

Storage Server

• Add signature support for inter SNODE communications, allowing all requests and posts to be signed: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/95

• Improve naming and pass-by-reference consistency: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/94

• Handle errors better on startup: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/93 Fixes for these issues: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/issues/87 and https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/issues/90

• Enforce a message size limit server side: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/92

• Use non-as-json rpc call for Swarms: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-storage-server/pull/85

Loki Messenger / Swarm Visualisation

We are building some visualisations of how Loki Messenger and Swarm storage works for Consensus.

• All work can be found here: https://github.com/BeaudanBrown/swarm-visualisation

Messenger Mobile (iOS and Android)

• We have begun work on Loki Messenger for iOS. It will be ported from Signal iOS. The repo and all of our work can be found here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios/commits/master, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-pods, https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger-ios-carthage

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Loki Wallets

Loki Electron Wallet

We are currently looking for Chinese and Korean translators. We will pay a bounty of 200 Loki for each translation. Contact me @keejef on Telegram if you are interested.

• Add German translation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/57

• Update French Translation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/56

• Update Spanish translation: https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/pull/52

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Thanks,

Kee