The main difference is that there is now explicit simplicity deallocation functions to go with the allocation functions in the API.
There are some minor changes to error message text.
The deserialization code is now automatically generated.
The are some other minor internal changes.
We have the code fragment `txTo.GetHash().begin()`, which takes a
transaction, computes its txid as a uint256, and then saves a pointer to
the internal data of the uint256.
However, in C++, expressions of the form a.b().c() lead to the return
value of `b` being dropped immediately after the call to `c`. This is
fine if `c` is something like `GetHex` which returns a new independently
allocated object with no pointers to its input. It is not fine for
`begin` which returns a pointer into the return value of `GetHash`.
So this fragment returns a dangling pointer, which is later used by the
Simplicity interpreter, leading to UB.
In practice this code appeared to work, possibly because the stack
layout was such that it actually did work ok. Or possibly because we
don't test with enough fidelity to tell that Simplicity's view of the
txid of a transaction was mangled.
fa5d2e678c Remove unused char serialize (MarcoFalke)
fa24493d63 Use spans of std::byte in serialize (MarcoFalke)
fa65bbf217 span: Add BytePtr helper (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This changes the serialize code (`.read()` and `.write()` functions) to take a `Span` instead of a pointer and size. This is a breaking change for the serialize interface, so at no additional cost we can also switch to `std::byte` (instead of using `char`).
The benefits of using `Span`:
* Less verbose and less fragile code when passing an already existing `Span`(-like) object to or from serialization
The benefits of using `std::byte`:
* `std::byte` can't accidentally be mistaken for an integer
The goal here is to only change serialize to use spans of `std::byte`. If needed, `AsBytes`, `MakeUCharSpan`, ... can be used (temporarily) to pass spans of the right type.
Other changes that are included here:
* [#22167](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22167) (refactor: Remove char serialize by MarcoFalke)
* [#21906](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21906) (Preserve const in cast on CTransactionSignatureSerializer by promag)
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The logic for computing the uncached version of the sighash changed during
the 0.21 rebase, such that it no longer matched the cached version. As the
changed hash is used during signing (not verification!), this was not a
forking change (and our existing functional test would have caught such a
forking change since it uses Python to independently compute the hash).
But it still broke signing.
Test in next commit.
Messy merge conflicts because this PR backported some ad-hoc stuff from
upstream while keeping a few things that upstream deleted. Hopefully
reviewing is easier than doing this in the first place, since ultimately
all I did was delete code from one side or another of the conflicts.
(Ok, I also changed some boost optional stuff to std::optional, and had
to patch up a test file for test framework changes.)
When reviewing the detailed crypto, bear in mind that taptweaks, like all
hashes are the kind of crypto that cannot be subtly wrong -- it will either
fail very hard or be correct. And we have independent implementations in
C++ and Python that cross-check each other, si it's unlikely to be the former.
This forward-ports the new Taproot sighash but does not fix a couple
22-blocked TODOs related to the MissingDataBehavior enum. Should be fixed
in a followup commit.
One nontrivial change I had to make was feeding the genesis hash to SignTransaction
(the "global" one in script/sign.cpp) so that it could correctly compute
the sighash at signing time.
That results in a much safer interface (making the tweak commit
to the key implicitly using a fixed tag means it can't be used for
unrelated tweaking).
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22051 (5/9)
We actually preserve the "unrelated tweaking" method so we can
use it in OP_TWEAKVERIFY
As XOnlyPubKey has a Span-based constructor, that can be used directly
without needing to first convert the byte sequence into a vector, only
to convert that to a uint256, which only then can then be passed as a
span to the constructor.
This introduces Taproot wallet support. I fixed all the merge conflicts
and ensured that the tests pass, but this is still using the old sighash
(before Russell/Sanket/I redid it) so is not actually production ready.
Will be fixed when we bring Elements #1002 in.
Does the bare minimum to introduce Taproot wallet support with CT; just
adds a CPubKey blinding_pubkey to the taproot destination variant and
updates some visitors.
In future when we define blech32 we will need to make sure we are using
that encoding and using the pubkey.
f9e37f33ce doc: IsFinalTx comment about nSequence & OP_CLTV (Yuval Kogman)
Pull request description:
It's somewhat surprising that a transaction's `nLockTime` field is ignored
when all `nSequence` fields are final, so this change aims to clarify this
behavior and cross reference relevant details of `OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY`.
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