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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Decrypt Lightning Node Client Traffic
by
simpleSliv3r
on 20/09/2023, 19:24:27 UTC
Assuming you are running the node and using LND as an example in the lnd.conf file you can specify the TLS certificate used:
https://docs.lightning.engineering/lightning-network-tools/lnd/lnd.conf

Not perfect and you won't get everything but anything connecting to your node can then be read.
As a cheat, if you just want to see what is going on in general you can setup a bunch of nodes that just talk to each other and read all of their traffic.

-Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your answer!

Checking the link you provided, I'm only able to see configuration for the TLS certificate on RPC connections.
I don't know if the node will use the same certificate, but I'm looking to read the p2p network messages (gossip protocol). I mean, the messages that are sent between the nodes.