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For questons about RLPx, a cryptographic peer-to-peer network and protocol suite which provides a general-purpose transport and interface for applications to communicate via a p2p network.

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We had a question from our client as such they need to know in which Network layer is the RLPx protocol being used for the peering process I have got to know that peering process happens using RLPx ...
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I'm using the go-ethereum code (mainly discover (discv4) and rlpx) to write a node discovery tool. The Programm is using discv4 to discover nodes on the internet and putting the discovered nodes into ...
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I need to create something like ethernodes.org or etherscan.io/nodetracker. First of all, I tried to implement Discovery Protocol by own, but after couple of minutes I realized that specs are too hard ...
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I am currently having a look into the RLPx protocol and trying to understand on how two nodes exchange their capabilities. Each subprotocol has a number of defined messages. eth has 12 messages (ids ...
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I'm currently trying to understand the Kademlia protocol implemented in Ethereum in order to discover other peers in the network. If I understand these lines correctly, a nodes uses both random ...
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I am currently trying to understand the node discovery protocol in ethereum. I found a few docs, where one of it is: https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/discv4.md It says, that the ...
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I am currently analysing the encryption mechanisms used in geth. Currently I have gathered the following information from the source code (https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/p2p/rlpx....
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I'm currently trying to understand the structure of the rlpx transport protocol messages, so I depicted these scheme, based on my understanding of the description of the single frame packet at this ...
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Rlp vs rlpx - the specified difference between rlp and rlpx?
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Can anyone decrypts cipher-text using Public Key? as I know we can only decrypt using private key, but in this RLPx documentation what this line means? Receiver receives the initiator handshake and ...
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I'm curious about the origin of the RLPx protocol suite's name and the ÐΞV's name, but I cannot find information in the official documentation and RLPx documentation. RLPx I read in a blog (not an ...
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I'm trying to understand the algorithms underlying the ethereum overlay network and how do the peers communicate between each other. By looking around I arrived finally to the RLPx and devp2p ...
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I am using BouncyCastle to generate .NET core packet signatures. I want to be able to get the v value for the Ethereum signature. To these ends, and with my understanding of the meaning of the v ...
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I need a precise spec for the RLPx p2p algorithms. Right now the wiki says "kademlia like" and that is not sufficient. The original paper from Maymounkov and Mazieres is confusing, widely ...
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Looking at the DEVp2p protocol, I see that a peer can return info on capabilities ETH or SHH . I do not see in the protocol docs what those mean. How does a client discover if the peer is only ...
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