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Informational 17 Bitcoin

refactor: split bip32 derivation errors

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Trevor Arjeski

57/100 · Thin
refactor: split bip32 derivation errors
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup in the rust-bitcoin library. It splits one general BIP32 derivation error type into several more specific error types and renames the old one. It does not change how keys are actually derived or add any new security behavior; it only changes how error conditions are named and reported to programmers.

Recommended action

No security action required. Downstream users may wish to update code that matches on DerivationError variants, because the old enum variants are now wrapped in new struct types and the type alias is deprecated.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant logic change

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Public API surface change (error types)

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Deprecation of existing public type alias

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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