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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Support held_htlc_available counterparty reply path

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Authored by Valentine Wallace

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Support held_htlc_available counterparty reply path

As part of supporting sending payments as an often-offline sender, the sender
needs to send held_htlc_available onion messages such that the reply path to
the message terminates at their always-online channel counterparty that is
holding the HTLC. That way when the recipient responds with release_held_htlc,
the sender's counterparty will receive that message.

Here we lay some groundwork for using a counterparty-created reply path when
sending held_htlc_available as an async sender in the next commit.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine code refactor in the Lightning Dev Kit library. It restructures how reply paths are specified for a new type of onion message (held_htlc_available) used in an experimental async-payments feature. The change adds a new enum so that future code can choose whether the reply path should end at the sender's own node or at an always-online channel counterparty. There is no security fix, vulnerability, or exploit here.

Recommended action

No security action required. Review as normal feature/refactor code.

Security signals we found

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Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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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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