Round-9 review (Claude, N1). The brief said "assume there are more"; there
were eleven, and two were introduced by the round-8 fix itself.
INTRODUCED BY THE ARITHMETIC TOKENISATION — the round-8 fix for a false
NEGATIVE created two false POSITIVES. The interior of `$(( ))` was tokenised
with `[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*`, which starts matching at the letter-bearing tail
of a numeric literal:
echo $((0x1F)) -> FATAL: reads x1F
echo $((1e3)) -> FATAL: reads e3
Now anchored so a match cannot begin after a digit or word character.
INTRODUCED BY THE INDIRECT-EXPANSION REFUSAL, and this is the one that matters.
`${!...}` has three meanings and `re.search(r'\$\{!')` cannot tell them apart:
${!name} indirect expansion — genuinely unanalysable
${!arr[@]} ${!arr[*]} array KEY expansion — ordinary
${!prefix*} ${!prefix@} variable-NAME listing — ordinary
A refusal is the most expensive verdict this tool has — it hard-fails the lift
— and it was firing on two ordinary constructs with a diagnostic naming a
feature they do not use. The reviewer found it LIVE: ltl-accumulator
check.sh:274 is `for cert in "${!CONES[@]}"`, so the day lift-guard is ported
there, any lift covering that line would have refused. The four forks carry
five arrays each, so it was one ordinary edit away from firing there too.
Now matched only for genuine `${!name}`.
SEVEN MORE BINDING FORMS the driver uses and the guard demanded anyway:
let FOO=1 · (( FOO = 1 )) · BAR+=b · FOO[0]=x
for (( i=0; i<3; i++ )) · select FOO in · getopts "o" FOO
Arithmetic contexts bind as well as read, so `(( i++ ))` and the C-style `for`
now contribute to assigns — without that, the reads-extraction added by the
round-8 fix demanded the very names those expressions assign.
Verified: all eleven silent, genuine `${!n}` still refuses, `$((X+1))` and
`((Y>0))` still caught by name, the whole round-8 matrix unchanged, a genuine
missing variable still fails, and the four lifting self-tests green in all four
forks.
The reviewer also discarded one candidate rather than report it — `i=0;
(( i++ ))` looks like a demand but is silent under driver ⊇ payload, which is
how the self-tests invoke it. That restraint is worth recording: a guard edited
twice for false alarms should not be handed a false alarm by its reviewer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 ℓ │ Scalar52 ops correct mod ℓ
├──────────────────────────────┤
│ 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 ℓ | scalarImplementation (add ✅ sub ✅ mul ✅) |
✅ proven | [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] |
| Signature (EdDSA) | verify_accepts_iff … verify_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 pointcompress([s]·B − [k]·A)equals the signature'sR, byte-for-byte — wherekis 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) toVerificationKey::verify_dalek— the dalek-style canonical-Rbyte-comparison path, including this crate's legacy filters (all-zero key, excluded-Rlist) and the stricts < ℓcheck. The crate's defaultverify()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
(y²−1)/(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).