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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Introduce fuzz targets to test roundtrip for all encodable types

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Authored by Mitchell Bagot

95/100 · Strong
Introduce fuzz targets to test roundtrip for all encodable types

Since bitcoin 0.32, consensus encoding has been rebuilt from the ground
up with the consensus_encoding crate. To improve confidence in the new
encoder and decoder implementations, they should be fuzzed to ensure
consistent roundtrip behaviour.
To improve efficiency, each type should be fuzzed in it's own target
file, generated programmatically by a script when calling
generate-files.sh.

Add a script to generate type encoding roundtrip targets that verify
type -> encoding -> type roundtrips.

Assisted by: Claude Opus 4.6
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only adds new fuzz-testing scripts and helper code. It does not change any production library code, fix a bug, or alter behavior visible to users. It is a testing/infrastructure addition meant to catch encoding bugs in the future, not a security patch for an existing issue.

Recommended action

No security action required; treat as normal test-infrastructure commit. Continue existing fuzzing and code-review practices.

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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