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feat(zcash): sign checked PCZTs with a single parse and in-memory postflight

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Adam Tucker

62/100 · Adequate
feat(zcash): sign checked PCZTs with a single parse and in-memory postflight
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new, more efficient way to sign Zcash shielded transactions on Keystone hardware wallets. Instead of parsing and serializing the transaction multiple times, it parses once, signs in memory, and verifies signatures before returning the result. The change also preserves the checked/verified transaction data through the signing process rather than discarding it. There is no clear security bug being fixed; it appears to be a hardening and performance improvement for the Zcash cypherpunk feature.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine hardening/refactoring change. Reviewers should verify that the new `sign_checked_pczt` path is used by the firmware's UI/transaction approval flow, that the in-memory verification correctly covers all supported shielded action types, and that no legacy multi-parse signing path remains exposed to users. No urgent security response is indicated by the diff alone.

Security signals we found

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New in-memory post-sign verification path reduces opportunities for serialization/deserialization attacks or state mismatches.

02

Previously discarded verifier output is now retained and propagated, eliminating a potential check-then-drop pattern.

03

Single-parse path reduces attack surface by avoiding repeated PCZT parsing.

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Foreign seed and unsupported Sapling rejection tests confirm existing access-control boundaries are preserved.

05

No explicit vulnerability, CVE, or security advisory is mentioned in the commit or supplied references.

Risk score

Why this scored 29/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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