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consensus_encoding: add common trait implementations

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Authored by Nick Johnson

85/100 · Strong
consensus_encoding: add common trait implementations

Following API guidelines C-COMMON-TRAITS, adding Debug and Clone
implementations where we can to encoders and decoders.

A lot of the common traits, including PartialEq, Hash, Ord, Display,
Default, and Copy don't have semantic value for the stateful encoders
and decoders. For example, comparing two encoders with PartialEq would
be comparing a buffer and a cursor, not a logical value.

The composite decoders do not implement Clone because it would require a
Clone bound on the intermediate A::Output types, which seems too
constraining.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds standard Rust helper traits (Debug for printing, Clone for copying) to the library's byte encoders and decoders. It also adds a few new unit tests. There is no security fix or vulnerability here; it is a routine API-quality improvement.

Recommended action

No security action needed. Review as normal API-maintenance change.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

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