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lightningd: add dev-uniform-padding flag to lightningd

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Sangbida Chaudhuri

50/100 · Thin
lightningd: add dev-uniform-padding flag to lightningd
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new hidden developer-only command-line flag called --dev-uniform-padding. When enabled, it tells the daemon to pad outgoing peer messages to fixed 1460-byte chunks as a defense against traffic analysis. The change only wires the flag through the daemon; the actual padding logic is not present in this commit. There is no security vulnerability here.

Recommended action

No action required. This is a benign feature-flag addition. If reviewing the eventual padding implementation, verify that padding does not leak message boundaries, does not break protocol framing, and handles memory/DoS limits safely.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
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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