Do not allow relays to have point-at-infinity pubkey #493
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📝 Summary
⛱ Motivation and Context
@asanso pointed out that if a relay were configured with the point-at-infinity public key, it could essentially bypass signature verification checks when receiving bids. In practice, this isn't a problem. A user would need to configure mev-boost with this and there's already a trusted relationship with relays (i.e., we trust them to only send valid bids/payloads). But I do think it's a good situation to avoid and that's why I'm making this PR.
✅ I have run these commands
make lint
make test-race
go mod tidy