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lightningd: save previous short_channel_ids during splice, and keep in db.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

73/100 · Adequate
lightningd: save previous short_channel_ids during splice, and keep in db.

There can be any number of these, and it will be useful to allow
routing by older scids (when other nodes haven't seen our gossip, or
even before we *can* announce the new post-splice channel).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds bookkeeping for previous channel identifiers (short_channel_ids) when a Lightning channel is spliced. Splicing changes the channel's identifier, so the software now remembers old identifiers in memory and in the wallet database. This is a routing/reliability improvement, not a security fix, and the commit message does not describe any vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required; treat as normal feature/maintenance commit. Reviewers may verify the database migration is backward-compatible and that old_scids are only persisted for public channels as intended.

Security signals we found

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No security relevance claimed by commit message or diff

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Database schema migration adds nullable BLOB column

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No input sanitization, authentication, or cryptographic logic changed

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Routing feature enhancement for splice channel identifier continuity

Risk score

Why this scored 23/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 3/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 4/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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