This commit implements a dual state approach. The dual state approach
separates public and private state by making the core vm environment
context aware.
Although not currently implemented it will need to prohibit value
transfers and it must initialise all transactions from accounts on the
public state. This means that sending transactions increments the
account nonce on the public state and contract addresses are derived
from the public state when initialised by a transaction. For obvious
reasons, contract created by private contracts are still derived from
public state.
This is required in order to have consensus over the public state at all
times as non-private participants would still process the transaction on
the public state even though private payload can not be decrypted. This
means that participants of a private group must do the same in order to
have public consensus. However the creation of the contract and
interaction still occurs on the private state.
It implements support for the following calling model:
S: sender, (X): private, X: public, ->: direction, [ ]: read only mode
1. S -> A -> B
2. S -> (A) -> (B)
3. S -> (A) -> [ B -> C ]
It does not support
1. (S) -> A
2. (S) -> (A)
3. S -> (A) -> B
Implemented "read only" mode for the EVM. Read only mode is checked
during any opcode that could potentially modify the state. If such an
opcode is encountered during "read only", it throws an exception.
The EVM is flagged "read only" when a private contract calls in to
public state.
The chain maker and the simulated backend now run with a homestead phase
beginning at block 0 (i.e. there's no frontier).
This commit also fixes up #2388
Added chain configuration options and write out during genesis database
insertion. If no "config" was found, nothing is written to the database.
Configurations are written on a per genesis base. This means
that any chain (which is identified by it's genesis hash) can have their
own chain settings.
This removes the burden on a single object to take care of all
validation and state processing. Now instead the validation is done by
the `core.BlockValidator` (`types.Validator`) that takes care of both
header and uncle validation through the `ValidateBlock` method and state
validation through the `ValidateState` method. The state processing is
done by a new object `core.StateProcessor` (`types.Processor`) and
accepts a new state as input and uses that to process the given block's
transactions (and uncles for rewords) to calculate the state root for
the next block (P_n + 1).
Added a `Difference` method to `types.Transactions` which sets the
receiver to the difference of a to b (NOTE: not a **and** b).
Transaction pool subscribes to RemovedTransactionEvent adding back to
those potential missing from the chain.
When a chain re-org occurs remove any transactions that were removed
from the canonical chain during the re-org as well as the receipts that
were generated in the process.
Closes#1746
* Miners do now verify their own header, not their state.
* Changed old putTx and putReceipts to be exported
* Moved writing of transactions and receipts out of the block processer
in to the chain manager. Closes#1386
* Miner post ChainHeadEvent & ChainEvent. Closes#1388
Qvintvs
Patrick Mylund Nielsen
Jeffrey Wilcke
Bas van Kervel
Felix Lange
Péter Szilágyi
Jeffrey Wilcke
Gustav Simonsson