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Informational 12 Bitcoin

Drop local chacha20poly1305 implementation

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Abeeujah

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Drop local chacha20poly1305 implementation

Complete the migration process from the local chacha20poly1305 to the
rust-bitcoin chacha20-poly1305 crate.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes the project's own implementations of the ChaCha20 stream cipher, Poly1305 message-authentication code, and the ChaCha20-Poly1305 combined encryption mode. It is described as the final step of migrating to the external 'rust-bitcoin chacha20-poly1305' crate. The change itself is a pure deletion of local code and module declarations; it does not add the replacement crate or change any call sites in this diff. There is no direct evidence in the commit that this fixes a security vulnerability.

Recommended action

Verify that the migration to the rust-bitcoin chacha20-poly1305 crate is complete in adjacent commits (Cargo.toml dependency addition, import updates, and functional equivalence tests). Run the existing ChaCha20-Poly1305 test vectors against the new crate and confirm no callers still reference the deleted modules. Treat this commit as a maintenance/refactoring change unless additional context shows the old implementation had a known flaw.

Security signals we found

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Removal of custom cryptographic primitives in favor of an external crate

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Deleted ChaCha20, Poly1305, and ChaCha20-Poly1305 RFC implementations

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Commit message describes migration, not a security fix

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No CVE, advisory, or security-relevant description in commit metadata

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

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