ltl-accumulator-verified/README.md
mrwulf 2da0a79981 Review round 4: F1* absorbed (lied-size boundary), acceptCons_sound, kit reproducibility
Round-3 verdicts: GPT-5.6 conditionally approves (blockers closed, one
portability finding); the Claude reviewer's Socratic addendum produced
F1*, the strongest finding of the series — deployed verify_consistency
and mechanized ConsRec are NOT extensionally equal. Reproduced exactly
(witness verify_consistency(1,3,R2,R3,P(2→3))=True vs ConsRec reject;
3,405 divergences n<60; strictly one-sided; power-of-two seeding
mechanism confirmed in source).

- KNOWN-GAPS gap 14: witness, mechanism, one-sidedness, and the
  pinned-pair side condition under which Theorem 3 transfers to the
  deployed verifier (pacta's pin-store flow supplies it by
  construction). No pacta code change; deployed behavior matches
  upstream RFC 9162 implementations.
- fidelity: lied-size family — 73,573 boundary cases, 3,867 expected
  divergences PINNED, one-sided direction asserted per case. Banner
  rescoped: agreement over pinned families, not extensional equality.
- Theorem3.lean: acceptCons_sound (F2) — soundness over the named
  acceptCons predicate, n₀=0 discharged from the non-prefix premise,
  size bound derived from acceptance via new consRec_some_le. Cones
  read from #print axioms; CONES/AxiomCheck/allowlist updated
  (218 → 222 constants, diff = the two theorems + two generated
  auxiliaries).
- F3/GPT§7: verification/lean-toolchain pin + run_bare.sh (reviewer's
  standalone runner, plain public lean — verified green: 61 cones, 222
  constants, gate green) + AENEAS_ENV override in check.sh and
  selftest_audit.sh.
- F4: awk field-equality replaces regex-with-dots in Phase 3b.
- F5: git-tracked .pyc removed (worse than reported — it was in the
  repo, not just the kit); __pycache__ gitignored; round-4 kit ships a
  corpus MANIFEST.sha256 + pinned commit (also GPT's governance
  condition).

check.sh exit 0, ATTESTATION GREEN; selftest exit 0, 9/9 + control.
Live LTL untouched (12 leaves, bcd15f9d…); attestation still gated on
ePrint decision + author review + explicit operator order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 15:07:57 +02:00

3.5 KiB
Raw Blame History

ltl-accumulator-verified

Lean 4 mechanization of the security analysis (§6) of the paper "The Lean Transparency Log" (https://ltl.zkdefi.org/paper): the Merkle accumulator's own correctness and soundness theorems, kernel-checked, in the same discipline as the four *-ed25519-verified subject corpora.

Status: FROZEN for external review (corpus complete)

All paper-§10 mechanization targets are kernel-checked; the audit surface is defined and green (verification/check.sh, exit 0). See STATEMENT-MAP.md for the paper↔Lean review surface and KNOWN-GAPS.md for the honest scope ledger. Revised after review round 1 (GPT-5.6 + second Claude) and round 2: the audit surface is now an environment-derived inventory (Proofs/Inventory.lean + pinned allowlist, self-tested by selftest_audit.sh), the review kit's fidelity target is self-contained, acceptIncl routes Theorems 12, fidelity families extended (230,271 / 230,016). No changes until the external review completes. The finished certificates' attestation into the LTL is a separate, explicitly-authorized operator decision.

layer content status
L1 bytes, hleaf/hnode, domain separation (Lemma 1) done (domsep: axiom-free)
L2 MTH, Root, ConsRec definitions + termination done (cones: propext, LTLAcc.sha256, Quot.sound)
L3 inclusion completeness (Theorem 1) + named acceptance acceptIncl done (incl_complete: propext, Classical.choice, LTLAcc.sha256, Quot.sound)
L4 frontier binding content (Lemma 2) done as specializations — inlined in the extractor walk (extractIncl), whole-tree (extractMTH), ConsRec (consRecBinding); the standalone Root receipt-uniqueness instance was deleted with the vacuous root_binding in S3.5 and deliberately NOT restored (optional, unused — KNOWN-GAPS gap 3)
L5 inclusion soundness = EXPLICIT extractor extractIncl (Theorem 2) done, non-vacuous
L6a descent extractor extractMTH (Theorem 3 step 3 = Lemma 2, whole-tree instance) done, non-vacuous
L6b Theorem 3 (consistency soundness): consRecBinding (steps 12) + extractCons/extractCons_correct (+ _paper at the paper's exact quantifiers) done, non-vacuous
L6c pin-store state machine safety (Proposition 1): pinAccept_monotone, pin_prefix_correct, fork_distinct done, non-vacuous (per-step; multi-step chain = gap 7)

Discipline (identical to the subject corpora)

  • verification/Proofs/ contains ZERO axiom declarations; the single sanctioned axiom site is verification/gen/ — here, one opaque function: SHA-256. The theorems are constructive collision extractors, so collision resistance is never assumed, only interpreted.
  • verification/check.sh is THE button: compiles every file through lean-guard (memory cap, core pinning, timeout, single-flight lock) and axiom-audits every certificate against its documented exact cone.
  • Reviewers without the operator toolchain: verification/run_bare.sh compiles, axiom-audits, and inventory-gates the corpus with a plain public lean (version pinned in verification/lean-toolchain); the operator path is overridable via AENEAS_ENV.
  • Expected boundary: propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound plus LTLAcc.sha256 for hash-touching certificates — documented per certificate in check.sh, audited both directions.

The finished certificates are destined for the LTL itself as attestation leaves: the log carrying kernel-checked proofs of its own machinery.