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Commit 0c934a93 authored by Bastian Köcher's avatar Bastian Köcher Committed by GitHub
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ed25519_verify: Support using dalek for historical blocks (#12661)



* ed25519_verify: Support using dalek for historical blocks

The switch from `ed25519-dalek` to `ed25519-zebra` was actually a breaking change. `ed25519-zebra`
is more permissive. To support historical blocks when syncing a chain this pull request introduces
an externalities extension `UseDalekExt`. This extension is just used as a signaling mechanism to
`ed25519_verify` to use `ed25519-dalek` when it is present. Together with `ExtensionBeforeBlock` it
can be used to setup a node in way to sync historical blocks that require `ed25519-dalek`, because
they included a transaction that verified differently as when using `ed25519-zebra`.

This feature can be enabled in the following way. In the chain service file, directly after the
client is created, the following code should be added:

```
use sc_client_api::ExecutorProvider;
client.execution_extensions().set_extensions_factory(
	sc_client_api::execution_extensions::ExtensionBeforeBlock::<Block, sp_io::UseDalekExt>::new(BLOCK_NUMBER_UNTIL_DALEK_SHOULD_BE_USED)
);
```

* Fix doc

* More fixes

* Update client/api/src/execution_extensions.rs

Co-authored-by: default avatarAndré Silva <[email protected]>

* Fix merge and warning

* Fix docs

Co-authored-by: default avatarAndré Silva <[email protected]>
parent 0068716b
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