The commit kills support for deprecated ephemeral Boost messages: signed/unsigned transaction sets, pending transactions, reserve proofs, MMS messages, etc.
It does NOT kill support for loading very old wallets in Boost format, that should be supported indefinitely. These messages were deprecated 5 years ago. Since
then, we have had a hard fork to enable a new non-compatible transaction type (w/ view tags), and disable the old transaction type. This renders basically all
of the aforementioned messages before that HF useless, with the possible exception of reserve proofs.
This commit also cleans up dead inclusions of boost serialization headers.
This commit is part of upstreaming Carrot/FCMP++. Killing support for Boost messages now means less boilerplate Boost serialization review for Carrot/FCMP++.
This reduces the attack surface for data that can come from
malicious sources (exported output and key images, multisig
transactions...) since the monero serialization is already
exposed to the outside, and the boost lib we were using had
a few known crashers.
For interoperability, a new load-deprecated-formats wallet
setting is added (off by default). This allows loading boost
format data if there is no alternative. It will likely go
at some point, along with the ability to load those.
Notably, the peer lists file still uses the boost serialization
code, as the data it stores is define in epee, while the new
serialization code is in monero, and migrating it was fairly
hairy. Since this file is local and not obtained from anyone
else, the marginal risk is minimal, but it could be migrated
later if needed.
Some tests and tools also do, this will stay as is for now.
- Add abstract_http_client.h which http_client.h extends.
- Replace simple_http_client with abstract_http_client in wallet2,
message_store, message_transporter, and node_rpc_proxy.
- Import and export wallet data in wallet2.
- Use #if defined __EMSCRIPTEN__ directives to skip incompatible code.
Thomas