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Informational 15 Bitcoin

Drop `ChannelManager`-built-in BIP 353 resolution logic

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Authored by Matt Corallo

73/100 · Adequate
Drop `ChannelManager`-built-in BIP 353 resolution logic

Since we shipped the `bitcoin-payment-instructions` crate we
generally expect downstream code to use that rather than doing
BIP 353 DNS resolutions over onion messages directly from the
`ChannelManager`. Thus, in 0.2 we marked
`pay_for_offer_from_human_readable_name` deprecated and here remove
it in favor of explicit references to the
`bitcoin-payment-instructions` crate in documentation.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes an old, already-deprecated feature from the Lightning Dev Kit's core ChannelManager: the ability to pay a BOLT 12 offer by resolving a human-readable BIP 353 name (like an email-style address) through DNS-over-onion-message inside the library. The project now expects users to use a separate, dedicated `bitcoin-payment-instructions` crate for that name resolution instead. The change is a routine API cleanup, not a security fix, and does not introduce any vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Developers using the deprecated `pay_for_offer_from_human_readable_name` API should migrate to the `bitcoin-payment-instructions` crate and then call `pay_for_offer_from_hrn` or `pay_for_offer` as appropriate.

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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