A lift is evidence about the shipping gate only if it executes the way the shipping gate executes. Every button here runs `set -euo pipefail`. Eighteen lift sites prefixed their driver with `set -uo pipefail` and no -e — four per fork (selftest-harness, selftest-scalar-statements, selftest-statements twice) and both accumulator lifts — while sixteen other sites got it right. The estate did it both ways, which is what made this a defect and not a convention. Without -e a failing command does not abort: execution continues and the driver returns the LAST command status. A lifted phase can therefore reach a verdict the shipping phase would never reach while the self-test reports the gate "works". selftest_statements.sh:27 claims the tested logic IS the shipping logic; in this respect it was not. NO VERDICT CHANGED. Every self-test that passed before passes now, at the same timings, so -e was not masking a false green at these commits. The defect was fidelity and the claim is no larger than that. The durable part is not the 18 edits. lift-guard.sh already inspects every driver, so it now REFUSES any lift whose driver does not enable errexit and prints the drivers actual shell options. Negative-tested four ways: no -e rejects, `set -euo` passes, bare `set -e` passes, no set line at all rejects. Byte-identical across the four forks. The nineteenth lift someone writes fails closed rather than silently testing a more permissive shell. Certified by the round-15 sweep: 50/50 GREEN, six repositories, both buttons and every self-test, exit 0. Registered and NOT fixed here: ltl-accumulator-verified has no lift-guard.sh at all and calls it zero times, so its two lifts remain unguarded — the one place this class can still recur silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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betrusted-ed25519-verified
Formal verification of the ed25519 implementation in betrusted-io/curve25519-dalek (Precursor/Xous fork, v4.1.2), 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: the vendored ed25519-dalek verify glue is extracted as gen/CurveSig, whose
hand-maintained externals import gen/CurveField — every curve and scalar call
resolves by fully-qualified name to a proven definition. Only SHA-512 (a
single monomorphic sha512_hash3(R, A, m) oracle — this fork's sha2-0.10 stack
makes the incremental-hasher types untranslatable) and the wire-format types
stay opaque.
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, verifying.sha512_hash3, ed25519.Signature.to_bytes, signature.error.Error, signature.error.Error.new}
— 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]·(−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]·(−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]·(−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: betrusted-io/curve25519-dalek, commit
16e087a - Pinned/patched source: saymrwulf/betrusted-curve25519-dalek-source, commit
cee0e17(adds the decompress step_2 negate-then-assign patch) - Patches: minimal Aeneas-compatibility only (documented in the source repo)
- Scope caveat: this verifies the fork's pure-Rust
serial/u64path. The Engine25519 hardware-accelerator path on Precursor is different code and is NOT covered by these proofs.
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).