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Remove public access to inner field of PublicKey and PrivateKey

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

73/100 · Adequate
Remove public access to inner field of PublicKey and PrivateKey

While all construction of PublicKey and PublicKey now goes through the
from_secp constructors, read access to the inner fields are still
commonplace.

Introduce as_inner function for PrivateKey and to_inner for PublicKey
and remove all direct access to the inner fields.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit hides the internal cryptographic key fields of PublicKey and PrivateKey from outside code, replacing direct access with controlled getter methods. It is a defensive hardening change that reduces the chance future callers will accidentally misuse or mutate the raw secp256k1 keys, but the commit itself does not fix a known exploitable bug.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine hardening/API-cleanup commit. No urgent security response is indicated, but downstream users relying on `.inner` will need to migrate to `to_inner()`/`as_inner()` when upgrading.

Security signals we found

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Encapsulation of sensitive cryptographic key material

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Reduction of direct access to raw secp256k1 SecretKey/PublicKey

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API hardening to prevent future misuse or invariant violations

04

No direct memory-safety or cryptographic vulnerability patched

Risk score

Why this scored 35/100

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