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Merge bitcoin-core/secp256k1#1915: refactor: Move (de)ser helpers from musig and eckey to group

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Merge bitcoin-core/secp256k1#1915: refactor: Move (de)ser helpers from musig and eckey to group

bfd40bd0ce0e7cac4f6bb395ccfe90eaf625feb1 refactor: Rename privkey to seckey in eckey helpers (Fabian Jahr)
d8ee6e6cf6706c00562a584715cb2b8c41df7cb2 refactor: Move parsing helpers from musig to group (Fabian Jahr)
2577fb1888c021752dc6edbfa6df3216daa9ccb1 refactor: Move pubkey parsing and serialization from eckey to group (Fabian Jahr)

Pull request description:

These two helpers, `secp256k1_musig_ge_serialize_ext` and `secp256k1_musig_ge_parse_ext`, aren't really musig-specific. They (de)serialize a group element that can also be the point at infinity. This moves them to `eckey` as `secp256k1_eckey_serialize_ext` and `secp256k1_eckey_parse_ext`. They can't move further down to group.h because they depend on other `eckey` functions internally. There should be no functional change here.

I stumbled upon this while working on #1754 where I would want to reuse these helpers in that module, so it is split out of that. But the change seems to make sense on its own as well, so I wouldn't consider this prep work alone.

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a routine internal code cleanup: it moves helper functions that convert between group elements and byte strings from one internal file to another, and renames a couple of private-key tweak helpers from 'privkey' to 'seckey'. The public behavior of the library is unchanged, and the commit message explicitly states there should be no functional change.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal refactoring.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

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