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descriptor: add derive_bip32_key to derive a given descriptor key

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Jon Griffiths

73/100 · Adequate
descriptor: add derive_bip32_key to derive a given descriptor key

Make key fetching consistent by handling blinding keys in the key
lookup.

Mark slip77 node flags correctly so their key features are returned
correctly.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new public API to libwally-core that lets users derive BIP32 keys directly from a parsed Bitcoin/Elements descriptor. It also fixes two consistency bugs in how descriptor keys are looked up: it now correctly routes requests for the special 'blinding key' index, and it correctly marks SLIP77 blinding key nodes so callers can tell what kind of key they are getting. There is no direct evidence in the commit that these changes fix an exploitable vulnerability; they appear to be correctness and API-completeness improvements.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine feature/correctness patch. Review callers of the new derive API to ensure they do not accidentally expose derived private keys or misuse SLIP77 private-key output. Verify the refactored public-key offset in generate_script against the test suite and any downstream consumers that depend on exact descriptor script generation.

Security signals we found

01

New API exposes derivation of private BIP32 keys from descriptors; misuse by callers could leak private key material

02

SLIP77 blinding keys are returned in the private-key field of an ext_key, which may surprise callers and lead to incorrect handling

03

Refactoring of generate_script changes the public-key extraction offset logic from a conditional x-only offset to EC_PUBLIC_KEY_LEN - output_len; this is intended to be equivalent but is a sensitive crypto code path

04

Blinding-key lookup now consistently handled across get_key and get_key_features, fixing prior inconsistency

05

No explicit security bug, CVE, or vulnerability description in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 33/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 6/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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