Formally verified ed25519 (upstream curve25519-dalek v5): field + complete Edwards addition law proven in Lean 4 via Charon/Aeneas; axiom-audited certificates
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mrwulf 4140ff3249 Merge scalar into CurveField; integrate the verify glue against the model
Gen merge: extract.sh now co-extracts the Scalar52 backend and the public
scalar::from_bytes_mod_order[_wide] conversions into the SAME CurveField
model, so the whole library — field, curve_models, edwards, scalar — shares
one type universe (Scalar is a single structure, not two). The scalar proof
chain repoints by one import line (ScalarDenote: CurveScalar.Funs ->
CurveField.Funs); check-scalar.sh's gen list follows. Both buttons — the
scalar certificates and the field/group/dsm certificates — pass fresh over
the merged gen, so the merge is proven-safe, not merely hoped-safe.

Verify glue (gen/CurveSig): the extracted ed25519-dalek verify_sha512 path,
integrated against the proven model:
- TypesExternal.lean imports CurveField.Types, so CompressedEdwardsY /
  EdwardsPoint / Scalar in the glue ARE the proven model's types. Only the
  genuinely foreign types stay opaque: sha2.Sha512, ed25519.Signature,
  signature.error.Error.
- FunsExternal.lean imports CurveField.Funs, so every curve/scalar call
  (compress, vartime_double_scalar_mul_basepoint, as_bytes, neg,
  from_bytes_mod_order[_wide]) resolves to a proven definition — no axioms.
  The `?`-operator plumbing (Try::branch, FromResidual::from_residual) and
  compressed_from_bytes get real definitions. Only the SHA-512 hasher
  (sha512_new/update/finalize_bytes) and two opaque wire accessors
  (Signature.to_bytes, Error.new) remain axiomatized — the deliberate,
  documented hash-oracle boundary.

Audited: `verify_sha512`'s entire axiom cone is
  [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound,
   sha2.Sha512, sha512_new, sha512_update, sha512_finalize_bytes,
   ed25519.Signature.to_bytes, signature.error.Error.new]
— zero curve axioms, zero scalar axioms. The verify path is definitionally
grounded in the certified model; the only trust boundary is SHA-512.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 18:13:58 +02:00
verification Merge scalar into CurveField; integrate the verify glue against the model 2026-07-04 18:13:58 +02:00
.gitignore skeleton: proof-pyramid layout, honest status table, trusted-base doc 2026-07-02 13:10:26 +02:00
README.md Scalar layer complete: Montgomery reduction + full mul proven, scalarImplementation aggregate 2026-07-03 21:06:15 +02:00
TRUSTED-BASE.md skeleton: proof-pyramid layout, honest status table, trusted-base doc 2026-07-02 13:10:26 +02:00

dalek-ed25519-verified

Formal verification of the ed25519 implementation in dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek (upstream, v5.0.0-rc.1), built as a coherent proof pyramid in Lean 4 via the Charon/Aeneas transpilation pipeline:

        ┌──────────────────────────────┐
        │  Signature (EdDSA verify)    │   accepted ⇒ [8][S]B = [8]R + [8][k]A
        ├──────────────────────────────┤
        │  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) verifyEquation (planned) planned

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

Source

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 scalar layer has its own pair of buttons:

./extract-scalar.sh   # regenerates gen/CurveScalar (Scalar52 limb arithmetic)
./check-scalar.sh     # compiles the scalar gen + all scalar proofs (add, sub,
                      # Montgomery mul) and kernel-audits 10 certificates,
                      # including 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).

Provenance

Proof engineering in this repository builds on the verification methodology and proof architecture of PlanetMacro/ed25519-verificationtest (the reference solution). All proofs here are checked against this fork's own extracted code; nothing is claimed that the check script does not compile.