paper v0.3: absorb the five queued author items GPT's compression dropped

The reinvention outline and the standing paper queue carried five items
that the round-11 draft lost: (1) retrievability decay (leaves whose
pinned commits cease to be distributed decay to historical record —
author Q&A 2026-07-10, outline explicitly kept it); (2) the
extractor-vs-bare-existential sentence (over a fixed-width hash 'a
collision exists' is vacuous by counting; the corpus's named extractors
+ pinned non-vacuity guards are the content — the S3.5 lesson);
(3) the one-implementation crate parenthetical (first-page misread
signal); (4) issued-at spacing corroboration of the ~30-minute replay
figure; (5) the SHA-1-vs-SHA-256 binding honesty clause. 16 pages,
0 overfull.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This section states the consumer-facing arguments in the form used by the Lean
mechanization. The proofs are elementary but explicit: successful false
openings yield concrete SHA-256 collisions rather than appealing to an informal
``Merkle trees are secure'' statement.
``Merkle trees are secure'' statement. The explicitness is load-bearing: over a
fixed-width hash a bare ``some collision exists'' is vacuously true by
counting, so each soundness statement is about a named extractor function, and
the corpus pins a machine-checked non-vacuity guard for every extractor.
\subsection{Inclusion}
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\subsection{Proof corpus}
The initial subjects are upstream \code{curve25519-dalek}/\code{ed25519-dalek}
and three deployed forks: Solana/Anza, RISC~Zero, and Betrusted --- all
(one implementation: the curve crate and the signature crate atop it) and
three deployed forks: Solana/Anza, RISC~Zero, and Betrusted --- all
implementations of Ed25519~\cite{eddsa,rfc8032}. Aeneas
provides a functional translation route from Rust to theorem-prover models;
its design uses Rust ownership information to avoid explicit memory reasoning
@ -648,7 +652,9 @@ repository's standalone verifier.
The first twelve leaves are three four-fork replay generations. Leaves 0--3
record a failed audit run and remain permanently visible. Leaves 4--7 record a
clean replay. Leaves 8--11 re-attest rewritten repository histories rather
than replacing the old leaves.
than replacing the old leaves. A leaf whose pinned commit ceases to be
distributed decays from a replayable claim to a historical record; consumers
act only on attestations whose subjects they can retrieve.
Leaf 12 (the thirteenth entry) attests the accumulator corpus at commit
\begin{center}\small\ttfamily
@ -721,7 +727,8 @@ Deployment refinement & finite differential harness & no theorem for iterative v
\subsection{Cost and reproducibility}
A replay of one Ed25519 fork requires approximately 30 minutes of Lean kernel
time under the pinned environment. Receipt verification requires one Ed25519
time under the pinned environment, a figure corroborated by the inter-leaf
issuance spacing visible in the published log. Receipt verification requires one Ed25519
signature and a logarithmic number of SHA-256 node computations. The
accumulator corpus is independently reviewable with a pinned public Lean
release; an environment-derived inventory fails closed on added, removed, or
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Targeted independent replay is the corrective mechanism.
\paragraph{Theorem identity.}
Names and repository commits are not canonical semantic identifiers. A future
Names and repository commits are not canonical semantic identifiers, and
commit identifiers are SHA-1-based --- a weaker binding than the log's own
SHA-256 tree. A future
schema should commit to elaborated theorem-type digests, axiom declaration-type
digests, and an environment or replay-manifest digest.