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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Remove BytesEncoder::with_length_prefix

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Tobin C. Harding

58/100 · Thin
Remove BytesEncoder::with_length_prefix

Users can use an `Encoder2` to achive this at the cost of a little
more code with the benefit of being more explicit and hence clearer.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit simply removes a convenience function (`with_length_prefix`) from an internal byte-slice encoder in a work-in-progress Rust Bitcoin consensus-encoding module. Users are told to compose an explicit length-prefix encoder manually instead. There is no bug fix, no security patch, and no indication this change addresses any vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required; treat as routine API cleanup. If this is a dependency, verify downstream code no longer relies on the removed `BytesEncoder::with_length_prefix` symbol.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

Our methodology →
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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