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Informational 17 Bitcoin

signtx: add BIP388 policy support

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Sjors Provoost

68/100 · Adequate
signtx: add BIP388 policy support

Accept registered descriptor policies throughout the signing API. Device
implementations reject registrations until support is added in
subsequent commits.
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new command-line option and API parameter for BIP388 registered descriptor policies to the transaction-signing flow. It does not implement actual signing support in any hardware wallet driver; every device implementation explicitly rejects the new option with an error message. There is no security vulnerability here—it's a feature plumbing change that prepares the codebase for future per-device support.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal feature/refactoring commit. Future commits that add actual BIP388 signing support in individual device drivers should be reviewed for correct policy validation and user confirmation behavior.

Security signals we found

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New API surface added for BIP388 policy registration

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All device implementations explicitly reject BIP388 policy signing with UnavailableActionError

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No existing signing path is modified; default behavior unchanged

04

No input validation, parsing, or deserialization of registrations beyond existing RegisteredDescriptor.deserialize

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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