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Informational 15 Bitcoin

primitives: Add Default and new to all decoders

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Authored by Mitchell Bagot

80/100 · Strong
primitives: Add Default and new to all decoders

In order to simplify composition of decoder types, the Default trait
and new() function should be provided for all decoder types.

Add Default and new to BlockDecoder, HeaderDecoder, TxInDecoder and
TxOutDecoder.
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What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds convenient ways to create certain Bitcoin data decoders (Default and new()) in the rust-bitcoin library. It does not change how data is parsed or validated, and there is no indication it fixes or introduces a security problem.

Recommended action

No security action required; review as normal API addition.

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No strong security signals were identified.

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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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