By doing differential fuzzing between btcd and Bitcoin Core for address validation, we noticed that btcd accepts hex string as input in validateaddress RPC. Even if this is expected, I couldn't see any documentation about it?
./btcctl validateaddress "03319806666666666000000000000000000000000004067579826662920820cccc"
{
"isvalid": true,
"address": "16t7LdjXCmsrUed9VttNcTWSS32dyvUJHj",
"isscript": false,
"iswitness": false
}Bitcoin Core:
./build/bin/bitcoin-cli validateaddress "03319806666666666000000000000000000000000004067579826662920820cccc"
{
"isvalid": false,
"error_locations": [
],
"error": "Invalid checksum or length of Base58 address (P2PKH or P2SH)"
}
By doing differential fuzzing between btcd and Bitcoin Core for address validation, we noticed that btcd accepts hex string as input in
validateaddressRPC. Even if this is expected, I couldn't see any documentation about it?Bitcoin Core: