# Trusted base

What you must believe for the theorems in this repository to transfer to the
running Rust code. Everything else is machine-checked.

1. **Lean 4 kernel** (v4.30.0-rc2) and its three foundational axioms
   `[propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]`. Every certificate is
   `#print axioms`-audited against exactly this list.
2. **mathlib** (prebuilt oleans fetched by `lake exe cache get`).
3. **Charon + Aeneas** (pinned `9dd7f23c` / `bf13c42e`): the translation
   from Rust MIR to the Lean model is assumed faithful. The generated
   `gen/` files are never edited (comments only); proofs are stated ABOUT them.
4. **External-function models** (`gen/*/FunsExternal.lean`): Rust items that
   Aeneas cannot translate (constant-time `subtle` primitives, iterator
   plumbing, formatting) are axiomatized as opaque symbols. The axiom audit
   proves none of these axioms enters the dependency cone of any certificate,
   except where a model is explicitly listed below.
5. **u64 primitive helpers** (`adc`/`sbb`/`mac`, if not translatable): where a
   helper must be modeled externally, its model is a *definition* with proven
   arithmetic content (not an opaque axiom), or an axiom provably outside every
   certificate cone. The axiom audit enforces this.
6. **Compilation of Rust to machine code** (rustc backend) is out of scope,
   as is side-channel behaviour (timing, speculation). The proofs are about
   functional correctness at the MIR/LLBC level.