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Informational 23 Bitcoin

WIF tests, support paper wallet format

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Authored by Peter D. Gray

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WIF tests, support paper wallet format
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit updates the COLDCARD firmware's WIF (Wallet Import Format) import feature so it can read paper wallet backup files and is more forgiving of extra text or formatting. It also moves and expands the related tests. The main code change is a usability improvement, not a clear security fix, but it does make the import parser ignore invalid lines instead of stopping with an error. That change could hide a corrupted or malicious file, though it does not obviously create a new vulnerability.

Recommended action

Review whether silent skipping of malformed WIF lines is acceptable for the threat model; consider warning the user how many lines were ignored. Verify that the increased file size limit and .csv support do not introduce memory exhaustion or path-handling issues. Run the new test_wif.py suite to confirm behavior.

Security signals we found

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Parser now silently skips undecodable WIF lines instead of failing fast

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File size limit increased from 2000 to 11000 bytes and .csv added

03

Import logic moved from fail-on-first-error to collect-valid-then-report

04

Error handling added for missing SD card and file read failures

05

Tests updated to expect 'no valid WIF found' / 'duplicate WIF(s)' rather than 'wif decode'

Risk score

Why this scored 23/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 4/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 3/15
Affected reach 4/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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