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Informational 15 Cryptographic libraries

Remove obsolete test-drop-download debug options

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What the developer wrote

Authored by selsta

78/100 · Adequate
Remove obsolete test-drop-download debug options

These options were introduced in 2015 as manual debug helpers for
network-limit testing. They are not used by the current test suite.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes two old command-line debug options, --test-drop-download and --test-drop-download-height, that were added in 2015 to help developers manually test network behavior by discarding downloaded blocks. The commit deletes the option definitions, the code that read them, the code that skipped block processing when they were set, and related shell-completion hints. There is no security fix here; it is a cleanup of unused debugging flags.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as routine code cleanup. If running custom tests or scripts that relied on --test-drop-download or --test-drop-download-height, update them to no longer use these flags.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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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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