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# Which file is current?
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2026-08-17 10:54:08 +00:00
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**`ltl.pdf` / `ltl.tex` — the current paper (v0.14, revised August 2026).**
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paper v0.11: the paper catches up to the system it built
The freeze rationale is gone (review concluded); v0.11 describes the
LIVE deployment instead of the July snapshot:
- abstract + contributions: nineteen leaves, four Ed25519 corpora at 44
certs, the accumulator's two attestations, leaf 18 = the SLH-DSA
verify path; heads dual-signed since size 14 with the parameter set
the log itself attests
- signed-tree-heads section: the additive deterministic SLH-DSA
co-signature, ABSENT-not-failed history honesty, determinism as an
audit primitive, the closed loop to leaf 18
- new instantiation subsection 'The SLH-DSA verify path: the method on
second terrain': 11 certificates, acceptance characterization, the
no-second-semantics honesty (visible-not-correct), exact cone
enforcement, scope (mono facade + 137-case bridge, base_2b, no
signing)
- deployment/public state: 15 August 2026, root 7ee23940, twelve heads
8-19, per-leaf narrative through 18
- NEW Appendix E: the eleven SLH-DSA certificates with their exact
oracle cones — the mirror of Appendix D's Ed25519 tiers
- title: v0.11; site card + snapshot note + paper/README updated
25pp, zero unresolved refs, Appendix E render-inspected by eye; full
test suite green
2026-08-16 11:14:57 +00:00
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The review process concluded in August 2026. v0.10 folded in the
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corrections queued during the freeze (the closed consistency-verifier
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divergence with its `sn = 0` root cause, replay-harness-integrity
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paper v0.12 + estate: one numbering, everywhere — 0-based leaf indices
Operator order: the leaf-index convention adopted this morning must be
global. Paper1 now says leaf 12 in every place that said entry 13
(intro, contributions, section 7.2, related work, conclusion, artifact
availability, Appendix B retitled 'Deployed leaf-12 scope'); the
ordinal 'thirteenth entry' survives only as a gloss. v0.12, 25pp, gate
green, Appendix B page eye-checked. Site card follows (v0.12; revision
prose de-versioned so it cannot churn), paper/README history extended,
top README says leaf 12/17/18. reinvention-outline moved to the private
control repo earlier this commit-series (moat doctrine).
2026-08-16 18:04:44 +00:00
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limitation, claim-matrix row); v0.11 brought the paper up to the live
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paper v0.11: the paper catches up to the system it built
The freeze rationale is gone (review concluded); v0.11 describes the
LIVE deployment instead of the July snapshot:
- abstract + contributions: nineteen leaves, four Ed25519 corpora at 44
certs, the accumulator's two attestations, leaf 18 = the SLH-DSA
verify path; heads dual-signed since size 14 with the parameter set
the log itself attests
- signed-tree-heads section: the additive deterministic SLH-DSA
co-signature, ABSENT-not-failed history honesty, determinism as an
audit primitive, the closed loop to leaf 18
- new instantiation subsection 'The SLH-DSA verify path: the method on
second terrain': 11 certificates, acceptance characterization, the
no-second-semantics honesty (visible-not-correct), exact cone
enforcement, scope (mono facade + 137-case bridge, base_2b, no
signing)
- deployment/public state: 15 August 2026, root 7ee23940, twelve heads
8-19, per-leaf narrative through 18
- NEW Appendix E: the eleven SLH-DSA certificates with their exact
oracle cones — the mirror of Appendix D's Ed25519 tiers
- title: v0.11; site card + snapshot note + paper/README updated
25pp, zero unresolved refs, Appendix E render-inspected by eye; full
test suite green
2026-08-16 11:14:57 +00:00
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system: the nineteen-leaf dual-signed deployment, the SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)
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paper v0.13: the Green-persona approachability revision
A referee persona (deep crypto, shallow Lean, no prior drafts) read the
whole paper; all findings applied, ~40 edits, none touching technical
content:
- house terms defined at first use: certificate (in contributions),
accumulator (= the log's Merkle tree + verifiers), signed view (4.2),
pin rule/pin-store (named at their definition, 4.3), axiom cone as the
one canonical synonym, loop-fidelity glossed, facade tied to its entry
point, scope block named in 3.1, oracles marked 'uninterpreted
function symbols, not random oracles'
- operator 'verdict' renamed label everywhere (Verdict stays the
consumer algorithm); fork disambiguated (codebases vs fork evidence)
- notation: declarations T_i -> Theta_i (tier collision), HIST chain
k kept but challenge scalar -> c and signature bytes -> R-bar
(k/r_1 overloads resolved); tiers T1-T4 introduced in 6.1 body
- theorem-statement sensitivity: Thm 8 scoped to the recursive
verifiers in the STATEMENT; Prop 1's 'exhibited' made conditional
with pointer; Thm 3 carries its honest-pin note; Def 2(iii) gets the
forgery caveat; Lemma 5 declared a restatement of Prop 2
- ghost references resolved (whole-tree root binding stated in place,
twice); revision residue purged (Post-submission -> Subsequently
closed; tense unified; hardened state, guarded replay, KNOWN-GAPS
explained); 6.2 retitled 'A second instantiation'
- six triple-read sentences rewritten per referee (them-sentence,
vacuous->trivially-by-counting with real non-vacuity guard wording,
pin supplier, physical-execution antecedent, bridges-land, App E
factorization)
- appendices A-D now each cited from the body; App D states its shared
opaque boundary; FIPS 205 added to the bibliography [23] and cited
- abstract divergence sentence rewritten (divergence not 'boundary',
past tense, closure named, 'the corresponding log entry')
Gate green: v0.13, 25pp; pages 1/16/25 eye-checked; suite 156.
2026-08-17 09:53:40 +00:00
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verify-path instantiation, and its certificate appendix; v0.12 unified
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entry numbering on 0-based leaf indices; v0.13 is the approachability
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revision from an external-persona referee pass (house terms defined at
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first use, theorem statements carry their own scoping, notation
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collisions resolved, FIPS 205 reference added); v0.14 completes that pass after a
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full-document eye inspection of the published PDF (notation-table rows
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for C and b, HIST chain length renamed to avoid the split-point k). The
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2026-08-15 12:17:03 +00:00
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version submitted for review (July 17, 2026, sha256 `7f140356…`) is
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preserved unchanged in this repository's git history. The live copy at
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<https://ltl.zkdefi.org/paper> serves the current revision.
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2026-08-08 16:44:13 +00:00
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2026-08-15 19:43:08 +00:00
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Superseded early drafts (v0.1, v0.2) were removed from the working tree
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on 2026-08-15; like every prior state of this folder, they remain
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retrievable from this repository's git history.
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Revisions v0.3–v0.9 were successive overwrites of `ltl.tex`; they live in
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2026-08-16 11:19:13 +00:00
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this repository's git history. v0.9 is the version that was submitted
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for review; v0.10 and v0.11 supersede it.
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