wire: check TXID length before creating outpoint #2233
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chainhash.NewHashFromStr
will zero-pad the given string if it's smaller than 32 bytes / 64 hex chars.That's fine, but when creating an OutPoint from a string, the TXID part of the string must be exactly 64 hex chars to (possibly) be a valid TXID. Right now,
NewOutPointFromString
accepts a TXID of less than 64 chars, and will end up padding the end with 0's.This PR rejects incorrectly-sized TXID strings in
NewOutPointFromString
.