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Informational 19 Bitcoin

crypto: Remove error conversion From impls

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

68/100 · Adequate
crypto: Remove error conversion From impls

From impls for conversions between error types represent a public api
commitment. Since we can't know how the error types may need to change
as the crate progresses, it's best to remove these now and reintroduce
them later if we find them necessary and/or useful for users.

Remove all From<BarError> for FooError in crypto, replacing uses with
map_err where appropriate.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes automatic error-conversion shortcuts in the crypto module of the rust-bitcoin library. It does not fix a bug or vulnerability; it is a deliberate API cleanup to avoid promising too much to future users. Existing code that relied on the removed conversions will need minor updates, but runtime behavior is unchanged.

Recommended action

No security action required. Downstream users should update code that depended on the removed `From` impls to use explicit `map_err` or matching constructors when upgrading rust-bitcoin.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signal present

02

API-breaking change only

03

Explicit error mapping preserves identical runtime behavior

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
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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