dalek-ed25519-verified/verification/HARNESS.sha256
mrwulf 18e8753a62 verification: pin the harness, the audit drivers and the policy files (P1-c)
Every gate this repository has was executed by scripts that nothing pinned.
Round-5 review of the companion SLH-DSA repository stubbed the compiler
wrapper alone and its button printed ALL GREEN in 3.6 seconds over
deliberately destroyed proofs; flipping two guards in the audit driver
disabled every check with the digest byte-identical. Depth of checking is
worth nothing if the thing doing the checking is unbound — and every gate
added this week made that gap more valuable to an attacker, not less.

Phase 0c requires every harness file to match HARNESS.sha256. Two design
points carry the weight:

  - WHICH files must be pinned is POLICY and lives in check.sh, never in the
    map being consulted. If the required set were read from the pin file,
    deleting an entry would silently un-pin that file. It is instead derived
    from the filesystem, so a deleted entry is a set mismatch and a build
    failure. That is the exact defect SLH-DSA round-6 found, closed here by
    construction.
  - Membership self-derives from the executable bit: anything this script can
    shell out to must be pinned, so a NEW script fails closed until someone
    pins it deliberately. Load-bearing files that are not executable — the
    audit driver, the committed manifests, the policy tables — cannot be
    discovered that way and are listed explicitly.

lean-guard is inside the set, which finally makes the standing "lean-guard
stays hash-pinned" rule a property of the repository rather than a convention.

selftest-harness.sh replays five cases, each asserting a specific diagnostic:
an edited lean-guard, a new unpinned executable, a deleted pin entry, a
missing pin file, and a positive control. It was itself negative-tested — with
the hash comparison removed it goes red on exactly that case while cheerfully
reporting "10 harness files match their pins".

TRUSTED-BASE.md states the limit at equal length to the claim: pinning a
harness from inside that harness is circular, and an author who edits a script
and refreshes its pin in the same commit passes every phase. What the pin
changes is that the edit can no longer be SILENT — it must appear in the diff
at the commit being reviewed. A green button says "this is the apparatus that
was reviewed", never "this apparatus is trustworthy".

Also fixed, found by this sweep: both self-tests compared the working tree
against its starting state with `diff <(echo "$VAR") <(command)`, which is
asymmetric — for a clean tree the variable is empty and `echo` emits a blank
line the command does not. It reported a difference precisely when nothing was
wrong, and only surfaced once P1-a was committed and Proofs/ became clean.
Both now compare as strings.

Verified green: 20 runs across the four ed25519 repositories (four buttons,
four harness self-tests, four axiom-gate self-tests, four binding self-tests,
four scalar buttons), zero red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 20:12:57 +02:00

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64df281594fd38ac42aa06623839608a7fba74b0d91994c114b55e25a9233a33 check-scalar.sh
3259a791ce6996023909e7ea1033d55f73fc2881128787f383daa606c83fb2f1 check.sh
c0fd4ba1fdec8a6f37b28b5fbe3fc7e93a54f1365443d365ca44c48c117c56b7 extract.sh
d93d7b77831b7db7acc2f88c395526db850219389a967a0873f3d59ee1f64dd4 GEN-MODEL.sha256
736ea4be712e1b5bcda10ecb466f0dec7008a2a36eabdfd77563976299c43cce lean-guard
79a001107928713a22e679e4c4028549df76d0733455bb9937a4f438a0c315c8 Proofs/Audit.lean
79611f9689ba714fb8d3f57aee86ad9655509303445beaad766bf8b049de8c44 selftest-axgate.sh
3d5898161d663eccad162269a5a6c102319077e22e1f2d89a8bfcab6926d29f6 selftest-harness.sh
a14acaafe914aabb9df44fcd05fd50d475804280fab9e332fdb5ea0b0d35f164 selftest-statements.sh