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Revert "lightningd: add dev-uniform-padding flag to lightningd"

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Sangbida Chaudhuri

65/100 · Adequate
Revert "lightningd: add dev-uniform-padding flag to lightningd"

This reverts commit 5cb8ac43aaa7d2fb49b8a3eedbb4267b9858ceb3.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes a developer-only experimental feature called --dev-uniform-padding that padded peer network messages to fixed 1460-byte chunks. It is a clean revert of an earlier feature addition and does not fix any known security vulnerability. The change simply deletes the option and its wiring; no bug or exploit is present in the diff.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as ordinary feature removal. If the revert was motivated by an undisclosed issue, monitor project release notes and mailing lists for follow-up disclosure.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant bug fix present

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Removal of an experimental developer-only privacy feature

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No changes to authentication, encryption, parsing, or memory handling

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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