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Informational 18 Bitcoin

crypto: Remove with_serialized from LegacyPublicKey

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

73/100 · Adequate
crypto: Remove with_serialized from LegacyPublicKey

The with_serialized method on LegacyPublicKey has been used for
serialising the legacy public key in an optionally compressed form
without allocating a vec. With the introduction of the
SerialisedLegacyPublicKey type, the to_bytes() method can now trivially
replace this method with a simpler interface.

Replace all uses of with_serialized with to_bytes and remove method
from LegacyPublicKey.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine internal cleanup in the rust-bitcoin crypto library. It removes an older helper method named with_serialized from LegacyPublicKey and replaces its uses with a newer, simpler method called to_bytes. There is no indication of a bug fix or security patch in the change itself or the commit message.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal maintenance/refactoring. Reviewers may optionally verify that SerialisedLegacyPublicKey::to_bytes preserves the same compressed/uncompressed selection as the removed with_serialized method.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant keywords in commit title or message

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No change to serialization semantics or key handling logic

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No new dependencies, unsafe blocks, or input parsing changes

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Pure API refactor with equivalent call-site behavior

Risk score

Why this scored 18/100

Our methodology →
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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