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Informational 18 Bitcoin

Introduce from_secp constructors for PublicKey and PrivateKey

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Authored by Mitchell Bagot

73/100 · Adequate
Introduce from_secp constructors for PublicKey and PrivateKey

The PublicKey and PrivateKey types rely on public access to the inner
fields in many places to instantiate the type. Since we wish to
encapsulate the type, this inner access should instead be wrapped
through constructors.

Introduce from_secp, and from_secp_uncompressed constructors and
replace all instantiation of PublicKey and PrivateKey with calls to
these.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a routine code cleanup in the rust-bitcoin library. It introduces new constructor functions named from_secp for creating public and private keys, and replaces direct internal field access with calls to those constructors. The old constructors are kept but marked as deprecated. There is no security bug being fixed here; the change is about improving code structure and preparing to hide internal details in the future.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal API refactor; downstream users may eventually migrate from deprecated new() constructors to from_secp() variants.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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