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Informational 15 Bitcoin

silentpayments: receiving

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What the developer wrote

Authored by josibake

70/100 · Adequate
silentpayments: receiving

Add routine for scanning a transaction and returning the necessary
spending data for any found outputs. This function works with labels via
a lookup callback and requires access to the transaction outputs.
Requiring access to the transaction outputs is not suitable for light
clients, but light client support is enabled in a future release.

Add an opaque data type for passing around the prevout public key sum
and the input hash tweak (input_hash). This data is passed to the scanner
before the ECDH step as two separate elements so that the scanner can
multiply the scan_key * input_hash before doing ECDH.

Finally, add test coverage for the receiving API.

Co-authored-by: w0xlt <94266259+w0xlt@users.noreply.github.com>
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Explains rationale or failure mode✓ Mentions testing or verification! Too few words to establish purpose
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds new code for receiving BIP352 Silent Payments in the libsecp256k1 cryptography library. It introduces functions that let a wallet scan a Bitcoin transaction to find outputs sent to it and compute the secret tweaks needed to spend them later. The change is a feature addition with extensive tests; nothing in the commit message or diff indicates a security bug fix or vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal feature review; consider following up on the TODOs regarding scanning performance and quadratic iteration limits in future releases.

Security signals we found

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New feature code, not a security patch

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Extensive input validation and NULL checks added

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Sensitive scalars cleared after use (shared_secret, scan_key_scalar, t_k_scalar)

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Magic-byte integrity check on opaque prevouts_summary object

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Early rejection of prevout public key sums to infinity (potential DoS/malicious transaction)

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TODO comments about future quadratic scaling and batch inversion improvements

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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