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 5fb5047150 THE POINT-LEVEL VERIFICATION EQUATION: verify_accepts_iff_point_eq,
button-enforced (phase-2 goal reached on dalek)

CurveFieldProofs.verify_accepts_iff_point_eq: under the half-lift's
hypotheses, for ANY valid on-curve point Q whose canonical encoding is
the signature's R bytes,

    verifier accepts   <=>   Q = [k]*(-A) + [s]*B   (as denoted points)

- the literal point-level EdDSA verification equation, no decompress
needed: the canonical encoding is INJECTIVE on curve points.

Proofs/PointEqSpec.lean:
- one_add_d_y_sq_ne_zero: 1 + d*y^2 never vanishes - d nonsquare
  (edD_not_square, the completeness ingredient doing its second job)
  vs -1 a square (p = 1 mod 4).
- x_sq_of_onCurve + enc_inj_coord: the curve equation determines x^2
  from y; +/-x have different parities mod an odd prime unless x = 0,
  so y-residue + parity bit determine the point.
- enc_point_inj (standard three axioms): equal canonical encodings of
  valid on-curve points force equal denoted points.
- verify_accepts_iff_point_eq: half-lift + injectivity. Axiom cone
  EXACTLY the apex boundary; Phase 3b now enforces all THREE tiers
  (byte apex, half-lift, point equation).

Remaining phase-2 garnish: the constructive decompress specs (sqrt
chain), giving "the accepted bytes decompress to the recomputed point".
Full button green fresh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 18:27:25 +02:00
verification THE POINT-LEVEL VERIFICATION EQUATION: verify_accepts_iff_point_eq, 2026-07-05 18:27:25 +02:00
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README.md Coherence pass 3: post-apex accuracy sweep, hygiene, guard ladder 2026-07-05 11:48:17 +02:00
TRUSTED-BASE.md Coherence pass 3: post-apex accuracy sweep, hygiene, guard ladder 2026-07-05 11:48:17 +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 ⇔ compress([s]B[k]A) = R
        ├──────────────────────────────┤
        │  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) verify_accepts_iff proven (phase 1) 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 (phase 1)

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 point compress([s]·B [k]·A) equals the signature's R, byte-for-byte — where k is 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 (three stateful wrapper calls) and the wire-format types stay opaque.

check.sh has a dedicated audit phase (Phase 3b) that fails the build unless the apex certificate's axiom cone is exactly

[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound] + {ed25519.Signature, sha2.Sha512, verifying.sha512_new, verifying.sha512_update, verifying.sha512_finalize_bytes, 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 (deferred, documented): lifting the byte-level equation to the point level ([s]B [k]A = decompress R) additionally needs compress canonicity and a verified decompress; it is deliberately out of scope for this milestone, mirroring the layer-by-layer phase split used below the apex.

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 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).