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Merge bitcoin-core/secp256k1#1849: musig: always clear out secret key in secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_counter

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8479eafa57 musig: always clear out secret key in `secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_counter` (Sebastian Falbesoner)

Pull request description:

  Even though `secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_internal` can currently only fail if the surrounding API function is misused (invalid `keypair` or `keyagg_cache` parameters, making the corresponding [seckey validation](c1a9e4fe64/src/modules/musig/session_impl.h (L391)) or [pubkey](c1a9e4fe64/src/modules/musig/session_impl.h (L397)) load calls fail), clearing out the stack memory holding the secret key as well in this case seems reasonable to follow best practices.

  The issue was reported off-band by l0rinc (thanks!), in the course of analyzing the secp repository with AI tooling.

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@@ -483,11 +483,9 @@ int secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_counter(const secp256k1_context* ctx, secp256k1_mu
(void) ret;
#endif
if (!secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_internal(ctx, secnonce, pubnonce, buf, seckey, &pubkey, msg32, keyagg_cache, extra_input32)) {
return 0;
}
ret = secp256k1_musig_nonce_gen_internal(ctx, secnonce, pubnonce, buf, seckey, &pubkey, msg32, keyagg_cache, extra_input32);
secp256k1_memclear_explicit(seckey, sizeof(seckey));
return 1;
return ret;
}
static int secp256k1_musig_sum_pubnonces(const secp256k1_context* ctx, secp256k1_gej *summed_pubnonces, const secp256k1_musig_pubnonce * const* pubnonces, size_t n_pubnonces) {