The low-S rule for ecdsa signatures is mandated by Bitcoin Core policy/standardness (though not by consensus). If we get signatures from untrusted sources, we should mandate they obey the policy rules. (e.g. from LN peers)
Note that we normalize the signatures in the sig format conversion methods (DER <-> (r,s) <-> sig64).
The BOLTs treat high-S signatures as invalid, and this changes our behaviour to that.
(previously we would silently normalize the S value)
see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6769
see https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/807
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