From 7333c8d304fe9d7d8725c22c64d1a5f4d06d1371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Gureev <artguril@proton.me>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 15:58:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(lee_core): expose ciphertext bytes and nullifier
 byte-array

---
 lee/state_machine/core/src/encoding.rs  | 10 +++++-----
 lee/state_machine/core/src/nullifier.rs |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lee/state_machine/core/src/encoding.rs b/lee/state_machine/core/src/encoding.rs
index 0fe3e08f..124aca8a 100644
--- a/lee/state_machine/core/src/encoding.rs
+++ b/lee/state_machine/core/src/encoding.rs
@@ -97,11 +97,6 @@ impl NullifierPublicKey {
 
 #[cfg(feature = "host")]
 impl Nullifier {
-    #[must_use]
-    pub const fn to_byte_array(&self) -> [u8; 32] {
-        self.0
-    }
-
     #[cfg(feature = "host")]
     #[must_use]
     pub const fn from_byte_array(bytes: [u8; 32]) -> Self {
@@ -117,6 +112,11 @@ impl Nullifier {
 }
 
 impl Ciphertext {
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn as_bytes(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        &self.0
+    }
+
     /// Serializes the ciphertext to bytes.
     #[must_use]
     pub fn to_bytes(&self) -> Vec<u8> {
diff --git a/lee/state_machine/core/src/nullifier.rs b/lee/state_machine/core/src/nullifier.rs
index b7f86289..cae73fd5 100644
--- a/lee/state_machine/core/src/nullifier.rs
+++ b/lee/state_machine/core/src/nullifier.rs
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ impl Nullifier {
         bytes.extend_from_slice(nullifier_seed);
         Self(Impl::hash_bytes(&bytes).as_bytes().try_into().unwrap())
     }
+
+    #[must_use]
+    pub const fn to_byte_array(&self) -> [u8; 32] {
+        self.0
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]