crypto: Add pub extern crate for crates with public api types
What the developer wrote
Authored by Mitchell Bagot
crypto: Add pub extern crate for crates with public api types
In crypto, various types from child crates are present in the public
api, including base58::Error, network::NetworkKind, secp256k1 keys and
io traits. In order to simplify dependency handling, these crates
should be exposed through pub extern crate exports in the root of the
crypto crate.
Add pub extern crate statements for base58, network, io and secp256k1.
Remove comment on hex_stable re-export to match new policy.
What changed, and why it matters
This change simply re-exports a few internal Rust crates through the public API of the `crypto` sub-crate so users don't have to add those dependencies manually. It is a routine dependency-management and API-ergonomics patch with no apparent security relevance.
No security action required; review as normal API-maintenance change.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The commit adds pub extern crate re-exports for base58, network, io, and secp256k1 in crypto/src/lib.rs, and removes a doc comment on the existing hex_stable re-export. These are compile-time visibility/dependency-handling changes; no logic, parsing, cryptography, or unsafe code is modified.
Changed components
crypto/src/lib.rsInspect captured patch +8 / −1
diff --git a/crypto/src/lib.rs b/crypto/src/lib.rs
index 1574571c..20a6c692 100644
--- a/crypto/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crypto/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,9 +15,16 @@ extern crate alloc;
#[cfg(feature = "std")]
extern crate std;
-/// Re-export the `hex-conservative` crate.
pub extern crate hex_stable as hex;
+pub extern crate base58;
+
+pub extern crate network;
+
+pub extern crate io;
+
+pub extern crate secp256k1;
+
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
pub mod ecdsa;
#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
Why this scored 16/100
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