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Informational 16 Bitcoin

hashes: Add scalar SHA256d for 64-byte input

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What the developer wrote

Authored by jrakibi

68/100 · Adequate
hashes: Add scalar SHA256d for 64-byte input

add the three transforms for sha256(sha256(64_bytes)) without any
SIMD intrinsics, as a fallback for platforms without SHA-NI, AVX2,
or SSE4.1 support
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new, highly optimized software-only implementation for computing a double SHA-256 hash on exactly 64 bytes of data. It is intended as a fallback for older CPUs that lack hardware-accelerated hashing instructions. There is no indication in the commit that this fixes a security bug; it appears to be a performance or portability improvement.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat as a routine performance/portability patch. If this function is later exposed to attacker-controlled input, ensure it is covered by the project's existing test vectors for SHA256d and consider side-channel evaluation, though the scalar, branchless structure appears designed to avoid timing variability.

Security signals we found

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No memory-unsafe operations (no unsafe blocks in diff)

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No input-dependent branches or secret-dependent memory accesses visible in the implementation

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Constant-time style: hard-coded round sequence with no conditional logic on input bytes

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No changes to public API or parsing logic

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No vendor disclosure of security relevance

Risk score

Why this scored 16/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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