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: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fix merge and warning

* Fix docs

Co-authored-by: André Silva <123550+andresilva@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit is contained in:
Bastian Köcher
2022-11-27 16:34:07 +01:00
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@@ -8667,6 +8667,7 @@ dependencies = [
"sp-consensus",
"sp-core",
"sp-externalities",
"sp-io",
"sp-panic-handler",
"sp-runtime",
"sp-state-machine",
@@ -9660,6 +9661,7 @@ name = "sp-io"
version = "7.0.0"
dependencies = [
"bytes",
"ed25519-dalek",
"futures",
"hash-db",
"libsecp256k1",