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Informational 15 Bitcoin

gossipd: don't need hsm fd any more.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

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gossipd: don't need hsm fd any more.

gossipd no longer makes gossip messages, and hasn't since v24.02, so it
doesn't actually need to talk to the hsm daemon.

Also, various comments were out of date, so fix those too.

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

What changed, and why it matters

This is a routine cleanup patch. The gossipd subdaemon used to need a secure connection to the wallet's signing daemon (hsmd) to sign network gossip messages, but that work was moved elsewhere in version 24.02. The patch removes the now-unused connection and updates stale comments. There is no security bug being fixed here.

Recommended action

No security action needed. Reviewers may optionally verify that gossip message signing is still handled by another daemon (as the commit message states, since v24.02) and that no other code still expects HSM_FD in gossipd.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 10/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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