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Bincode dependency unmaintained

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
security

Research direction

Start by reviewing deny.toml at the linked advisory entry and the bincode, wincode, and rkyv project pages. Check how bincode is used in ix and the linked multi-stark project; done means selecting and migrating to a maintained replacement across the affected projects, rather than only allowing RUSTSEC-2025-0141.

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Description

Bincode is now unmaintained per https://git.sr.ht/~stygianentity/bincode/tree/v3.0/item/README.md, we should switch to https://github.com/anza-xyz/wincode as a drop-in or https://github.com/rkyv/rkyv for potentially better performance. https://github.com/argumentcomputer/multi-stark needs to switch as well.

Until then we should allow RUSTSEC-2025-0141 in https://github.com/argumentcomputer/ix/blob/main/deny.toml#L72

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