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Informational 19 Bitcoin

Api: Make payment_request generic instead of bitcoin specific

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Cedric Wiese

50/100 · Thin
Api: Make payment_request generic instead of bitcoin specific
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup that makes the payment-request code less Bitcoin-specific so it can be reused for other coins in the future. It does not add new user-facing features or fix a known bug. The changes move amount formatting and coin-type handling from the shared payment-request module into the Bitcoin signing code, and adjust internal test helpers. There is no indication in the commit that this fixes a security vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal refactoring review: verify that the new generic helpers still enforce the same invariants (amount equality, address match, signature validity, recipient identity) for all call sites, especially any future non-Bitcoin callers.

Security signals we found

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Refactor only: no new cryptographic operations, no change to trust boundaries, no change to signature verification algorithm.

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Amount comparison in `validate()` remains byte-for-byte against `payment_request.total_amount.to_le_bytes()`, preserving prior semantics for 64-bit little-endian values.

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UI text formatting is moved to the caller; this does not remove user confirmation, only changes where the formatted string is produced.

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No vendor disclosure of security relevance, no CVE, no advisory, no attribution in the commit.

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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