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chore(core, crypto): introduce `AuthenticationError`

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Authored by M1nd3r

77/100 · Adequate
chore(core, crypto): introduce `AuthenticationError`

- Used in aes-gcm-decrypt finish and chacha20poly1305-decrypt finish functions.

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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a code cleanup, not a security fix. It creates a new, more specific error type called AuthenticationError and changes AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 decryption to throw that error instead of a generic RuntimeError when authentication fails. It also updates the Python code that catches those errors to catch the new type. The cryptographic behavior itself is unchanged.

Recommended action

No security action required. This is a refactoring commit. Reviewers may verify that all callers previously catching RuntimeError for AEAD failures have been updated, which the diff appears to cover.

Security signals we found

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Changed exception type for AEAD authentication failures from RuntimeError to a dedicated AuthenticationError

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Updated all Python exception handlers to catch the new specific exception type

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No change to cryptographic verification logic or constant-time comparison

Risk score

Why this scored 20/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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