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[role="pagenumrestart"]
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[[ch04_The_communications_protocol]]
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== The communication protocol
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After you discovered the overview of how the lightning network protocol worked in the last chapter we now want to present a few more details about the actual communication that takes place between the nodes to fulfill the most important tasks like opening a channel, forwarding a payment and closing the channel.
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All communication takes place over a secure, encrypted and authenticated connection.
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[NOTE]
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While the specification of how to set up such a connection is part of the lightnig network protocol and can be read upon in BOLT08 we will omit this in the book.
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The reason is that BOLT08 mainly follows the handshake patterns from the noise protocol framework which is a standard template system for secure cryptographic handshakes.
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This protocol framework is also used by Whatsapp and Wireguard and is very well documented.
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If you want to learn more we suggest you check out http://www.noiseprotocol.org/
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====
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=== Ligtning Messages
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=== Opening a Payment channel
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=== forwarding, making and receiving a payment
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=== closing the channel
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