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Informational 12 Bitcoin

net_processing: store transactions for private broadcast in PeerManager

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Vasil Dimov

73/100 · Adequate
net_processing: store transactions for private broadcast in PeerManager

Extend `PeerManager` with a transaction storage and a new method
`InitiateTxBroadcastPrivate()` which:
* adds a transaction to that storage and
* calls `CConnman::PrivateBroadcast::NumToOpenAdd()` to open dedicated
privacy connections that will pick an entry from the transaction
storage and broadcast it.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds infrastructure for a new privacy feature in Bitcoin Core. It creates a storage area for transactions that should be broadcast privately, and a method to request short-lived connections to privacy-network peers to broadcast them. The code is purely additive scaffolding; it does not by itself introduce a vulnerability, nor does it complete the private-broadcast feature. It simply wires a new code path into the existing transaction-broadcast logic.

Recommended action

No immediate security action is required. Treat this as normal feature code review. If auditing the broader private-broadcast feature, verify that: (1) the unsalted transaction hash map cannot be influenced by remote peers, (2) the new connections opened via NumToOpenAdd are rate-limited and authenticated appropriately, (3) the storage does not grow unbounded, and (4) the eventual send path confirms receipt and removes entries to prevent rebroadcast leaks.

Security signals we found

01

New network-facing code path added for private transaction broadcast

02

Use of unsalted hash for CTransactionRef in unordered_map (developer comment asserts low risk because only local transactions are stored)

03

Addition of concurrency primitive (Mutex) around new transaction storage

04

Partial feature: storage and request for connections exist, but actual broadcast mechanism is not in this commit

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

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