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onion_message: iterate blinded paths for onion message requests

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Sander van Grieken

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onion_message: iterate blinded paths for onion message requests
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit finishes a previously unfinished feature in Electrum's Lightning onion-message handling. Before, when sending an onion message, the code only tried a single destination or blinded path. Now it can accept a list of paths and try them one by one (round-robin) if a request needs to be retried. This is a robustness improvement, not a fix for an active security bug. There is no evidence in the commit or supplied references that this addresses a disclosed vulnerability.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal feature/robustness commit. No urgent security action is indicated by the supplied materials. Reviewers may want to confirm that round-robin retry does not leak state between paths or retry indefinitely, but those are not flagged by the commit itself.

Security signals we found

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Removal of a TODO indicating incomplete routing/retry logic

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Addition of round-robin fallback across multiple blinded paths for onion message requests

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No mention of vulnerability, CVE, security issue, or bug disclosure in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

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