Formally verified ed25519 (anza-xyz solana-ed25519): field + complete Edwards addition law proven in Lean 4 via Charon/Aeneas; axiom-audited certificates
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THE DEFECT, as found. GPT-5.6 showed the textual classifier could report
PROVEN for a name Lean resolves to an axiom: a definition appearing only
inside a `/- -/` comment was read as real. Repairing that exposed something
larger and already live. Aeneas wraps long declarations:

    axiom
      curve25519_dalek.edwards.EdwardsPoint.Insts.CoreOpsArithNegEdwardsPoint.neg

The old scanner required keyword and name on one physical line, so it matched
nothing there and SILENTLY DROPPED the declaration — no MODEL row, no PROVEN
row, no failure. Nine to ten externals per fork had no row at all, and the
tier-A/B `neg` was missing from every committed table while the trust
documents claimed that class was machine-checked. Four pinned tables were
wrong, in four repositories, with the buttons green over them. No attacker
was required; Aeneas's own formatting did it.

The lesson is not "write a better regex". The scanner was FAIL-OPEN: input it
could not parse produced silence instead of a stop. A gate that drops what it
cannot read is worse than no gate, because the green covers a gap that is
invisible in the diff.

THE REPAIR, in three layers that each do only what they honestly can.

  · DISCOVERY stays textual, because the template cannot be imported — it
    declares the same names as the model and they would clash. It now strips
    NESTED `/- -/` blocks, reads a name that wraps to a later line, tracks
    namespace/section/end, and FAILS CLOSED: an unparseable keyword exits 2
    naming file and line.
  · Phase 0d keeps the cheap pre-compile comparison against the table.
  · Phase 2d is new and authoritative. After compilation it generates a temp
    Lean driver (the Phase 2b idiom, so no permanent module and no manifest
    churn), imports every non-template gen module, and asks env.find? what
    each external IS: kind and originating module. Model module -> MODEL;
    non-axiom in a generated module -> PROVEN; an axiom outside the model, or
    a name that does not resolve, is a failure. Lean's verdict must equal the
    committed table's, and the answer count must equal the question count so
    a truncated resolver cannot pass.

THE TABLES were regenerated and verified three ways before being committed:
an independently written second scanner agreed on 228/228 rows across the
four forks; all 47 changed rows carry file:line evidence; and the PROVEN row
was put to Lean directly — kind = def, module = CurveField.Funs.

  dalek 54 -> 64 rows   anza 42 -> 51   risc0 48 -> 57   betrusted 47 -> 56

Also corrected: `from_residual` was recorded EXTRA in every fork; the
template does demand it, so it is MODEL. anza carried a spurious `hash|EXTRA`
row from a mis-parse.

NEGATIVE-TESTED. With Phase 0d neutered so Phase 2d was the gate under test,
a PROVEN row edited to MODEL produces:

    SEMANTIC DRIFT: ...neg — table says MODEL, Lean says PROVEN

selftest-correspondence.sh grew 4 cases -> 7: GPT's comment counterexample,
the wrapped declaration that was actually live, and a fail-closed check.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT CLOSE. Phase 2d resolves names in the environment built
from gen/. It establishes what a name IS — assumption or proof, and where —
not that the extraction faithfully represents the Rust. That remains the
Charon/Aeneas trust assumption and no gate here can close it.

Certified: both buttons, all four forks, purged trees. 8/8 green, with
62/48/53/52 externals resolved by Lean and every verdict matching.
2026-08-02 02:24:15 +02:00
verification Round-7 F1: make model/template correspondence SEMANTIC, and fail closed 2026-08-02 02:24:15 +02:00
.gitignore Round-7 F1: make model/template correspondence SEMANTIC, and fail closed 2026-08-02 02:24:15 +02:00
README.md Coherence pass 4 (the closing pass): 4-tier apex documentation + hygiene 2026-07-06 04:01:17 +02:00
TRUSTED-BASE.md P2-c: classify and pin the extraction boundary 2026-07-31 17:53:31 +02:00

anza-ed25519-verified

Formal verification of the ed25519 implementation in anza-xyz/cryptography (Solana, solana-ed25519 crate), built as a coherent proof pyramid in Lean 4 via the Charon/Aeneas transpilation pipeline:

        ┌──────────────────────────────┐
        │  Signature (EdDSA verify)    │   accepted ⇔ decompress(R) = [k](A)+[s]B
        ├──────────────────────────────┤
        │  Scalar arithmetic mod      │   Scalar52 ops correct mod 
        ├──────────────────────────────┤
        │  Group law (twisted Edwards) │   point ops = complete addition law
        ├──────────────────────────────┤
        │  Field 𝔽_p, p = 2²⁵⁵  19    │   FieldElement51 ops correct mod p
        └──────────────────────────────┘

Every layer states its theorems about the actual Aeneas-transpiled Rust code (never about a hand-written re-model), and every claim in the status table below is backed by a compiled proof plus an axiom audit of the named certificate. Files that do not compile under verification/check.sh are not in this repository.

Layer status

Layer Certificate Status Axioms of certificate
Field 𝔽_p fieldImplementation proven [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
Group law (Edwards) edwardsImplementation proven [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
Scalar mod scalarImplementation (add sub mul ) proven [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]
Signature (EdDSA) verify_accepts_iffverify_accepts_iff_decompress (4 tiers) proven (phases 1+2) standard three + the button-enforced SHA-512/wire-format boundary — see The signature apex

Status legend: proven & axiom-audited · in progress · not started. This table is updated only when verification/check.sh passes for the layer.

The signature apex (phases 1 and 2)

The apex certificate CurveFieldProofs.verify_accepts_iff is the literal EdDSA acceptance criterion, proven about the extracted verifier:

For a signature that parses, the verifier returns Ok(()) iff the recomputed compressed point compress([s]·B [k]·A) equals the signature's R, byte-for-byte — where k is whatever scalar the opaque SHA-512 oracle produces from (R, A, msg).

The recomputation runs entirely through the proven model: anza's verify code lives in the same crate as the curve (src/ed_sigs), so the whole verify path joins the one merged gen/CurveField extraction directly — no glue layer, no name-welding. The Error enum and the parse/filter helpers are real extracted code; only the SHA-512 oracle (sha512_hash3) and the foreign ed25519::Signature type with its two byte accessors stay opaque — the tightest boundary of the four sibling repos.

Which verifier is verified? The certificate is about VerificationKey::verify_sha512, which is semantically identical (documented, pure refactor) to VerificationKey::verify_dalek — the dalek-style canonical-R byte-comparison path, including this crate's legacy filters (all-zero key, excluded-R list) and the strict s < check. The crate's default verify() uses the HEEA-accelerated Zebra/ZIP-215 path, which is a different acceptance criterion and is not covered by this certificate.

check.sh has a dedicated audit phase (Phase 3b) that fails the build unless each apex-tier certificate's axiom cone is exactly

[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] + {ed25519.Signature, ed_sigs.sha512_hash3, ed25519.Signature.r_bytes, ed25519.Signature.s_bytes}

— i.e. the three Lean foundations plus the documented SHA-512/wire-format boundary. Zero curve, scalar, or backend axioms. The companion certificate verify_loop_full (the 32-byte comparison loop computes array equality) carries the standard three axioms only.

Phase 2 (complete): the point-level lift. Phase 3b enforces the SAME axiom boundary on three further tiers that lift the byte equation to points:

Tier Certificate Statement
half-lift verify_accepts_iff_point accepted ⇔ R = the canonical encoding of [k]·minus_A + [s]·B (compress semantics + as_bytes canonicity + hash-to-scalar, recompute chain inverted)
point equation verify_accepts_iff_point_eq for any valid on-curve Q canonically encoded by R: accepted ⇔ Q = [k]·minus_A + [s]·B as points (encoding-injectivity: d non-square + parity root-selection)
full lift verify_accepts_iff_decompress R decompresses to a valid on-curve Pt, and accepted ⇔ Pt = [k]·minus_A + [s]·B — the constructive capstone

The full lift runs through the extracted CompressedEdwardsY::decompress itself, proven end-to-end: from_bytes parses the y-residue exactly below bit 255 (from_bytes_spec), sqrt_ratio_i returns the even square root of (y²1)/(dy²+1) (sqrt_ratio_i_sq_spec, Fermat-exponent square root), and the sign bit selects the x-parity (decompress_of_canonical, standard three axioms). Byte comparison ↔ encoding equality ↔ point equality ↔ decompressed-point equality: every link is machine-checked over the extracted code, and check.sh fails the build if any of the four tiers' cones deviates from the boundary above.

Source

  • Upstream: anza-xyz/cryptography, commit 0a54cca
  • Pinned/patched source: saymrwulf/anza-cryptography-source, commit 5f8e70e (adds the decompress step_2 negate-then-assign patch)
  • Patches: minimal Aeneas-compatibility only (documented in the source repo)
  • Closest relative of the reference solution (same crate layout as solana-ed25519).

Toolchain (pinned)

Component Version
Aeneas bf13c42e
Charon 9dd7f23c
Lean v4.30.0-rc2
OCaml 5.3.0

Reproducing

source ~/aeneas-toolchain/env.sh
cd verification
./extract.sh    # Rust → LLBC → Lean (regenerates gen/)
./check.sh      # compiles EVERY shipped file + axiom-audits EVERY certificate

The gen model is ONE merged universe (gen/CurveField: field + curve + scalar + the verify path's reachable code), regenerated in full by extract.sh. The scalar layer keeps its own check button:

./check-scalar.sh     # compiles the merged gen + all scalar proofs (add, sub,
                      # Montgomery mul, byte-parsing) and kernel-audits the
                      # scalar certificates, incl. the scalarImplementation
                      # aggregate

Trusted base

See TRUSTED-BASE.md for the complete list of assumptions (Lean kernel, mathlib, Charon/Aeneas semantics, external-function models, and — in the signature layer only — an opaque SHA-512 model).