Canonicity pass (the layer is now closed under its own preconditions):
- sub_val_spec post carries the exact value equation
(exists beta <= 1, scVal r + scVal b = scVal a + ell*beta, with the
underflow guard beta = 1 -> scVal a < scVal b)
- add/montgomery_reduce/mul/aggregate posts all carry scVal r < ell:
canonical inputs give canonical outputs everywhere. Needed because
from_bytes_wide (hash-to-scalar) feeds Montgomery outputs into add.
Hash-to-scalar foundation (toward Scalar::from_hash / EdDSA verify):
- extraction scope + from_bytes_wide (brings constants::R); regenerated gen
- source repos carry a documented Aeneas-compat patch: the bare
`hi[4] = words[7] >> 20` extracts ill-typed at pin bf13c42e; masked
(semantic no-op, words[7] >> 20 < 2^44)
- Proofs/ScalarWideSpec.lean: R constant lemmas (R = 2^260 mod ell,
witness 2^260 = R + 255*ell) and montgomery_mul_spec, the single
Montgomery round: [r]*2^260 = [a]*[b], canonical bounded output
check-scalar.sh: 10 proof files, 11 kernel audits, all exactly
[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]. Button pressed fresh: green.
This v4.1.x fork implements Scalar52::sub with TWO loops (loop0 = borrow
chain; loop1 adds L &&& underflow_mask — the arithmetic-mask constant-time
conditional), a genuinely different code path from upstream v5's
subtle-based conditional_add_l. Verified per R2 against this fork's own gen:
- sub_loop_spec (= loop0): borrow chain, verbatim technique from dalek
- sub_loop1_zero_spec / sub_loop1_one_spec: the masked-L add, both mask
values (0 / 2^64-1), full carry chains
- sub_val_spec: denote(sub a b) = denote a - denote b in ZMod l; the
underflow mask um = ((borrow>>>63) XOR 1) - 1 resolved per case
- add_loop_spec + add_val_spec: denote(add a b) = denote a + denote b
(v4 add_loop extracts token-identical to v5; composition through this
fork's own sub_val_spec)
check-scalar.sh: full manifest, 5/5 kernel axiom audit
[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound], green at 300-400s/4096MB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>