The real-name + affiliation combination de-pseudonymizes the owner's
other public surfaces; reverted on their notice. History purge of the
prior commit awaits explicit authorization.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review feedback applied:
- Author: Olaf Horvath.
- New "What the certificates state" block in the introduction - the
actual mathematics the Lean proving is about, kept compact: the
radix-51 denotation, a representative two-clause specification
(value + invariant preservation for mul), the complete twisted
Edwards addition law with the d-non-square completeness fact, and
both apex tiers as single-line equivalences
(accept <=> compress([s]B-[k]A) = R; accept <=> decompress(R) =
[k](-A)+[s]B) with the hash oracle's role stated inline.
- The figure was genuinely broken (leaf boxes overlapped - box width
exceeded spacing - and the annotation collided with a node); this
time it was inspected VISUALLY, not just for build warnings.
Redrawn as a full-width figure*: generous spacing, grey failed-run
leaves labeled "retained forever", bold leaf 4, the dashed
self-certification loop routed through clear space, and the float
relocated in source so it lands on page 3 beside the deployment
section instead of drifting to the references page.
- Held the 4-page line through prose trims (intro paragraphs, related
work, deployment opening) and a compact accept() notation; zero
build errors, one 0.66pt overfull in a bibliography line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
paper/ltl.tex + built PDF: "LTL: the Lean Transparency Log -
Distributing Machine-Checked Proof Evidence via an Authenticated Data
Structure Signed by Its Own Certified Artifact". Exactly four pages,
two-column, self-contained (embedded bibliography, TikZ figure of the
real 8-leaf log with the self-certifying signature loop).
Structure: intro (the consumption-economics argument), the LTL
(roles, replay-attestation leaves, boundary-exact auditing,
observation-not-verdict, pinning + git witness), the self-certifying
signature (with the honest verify-path/signing-path distinction),
deployment & evidence (the failure leaves as a feature; the full
assumption enumeration; the proof-portability observation with real
divergence numbers), related work (Rekor/CT/PCC/CONIKS/in-toto
engaged head-on; Cheval-Moreira-Ryan as the complementary direction -
"they verify the log; we log the verification"), limitations, and the
next-step agenda (Lean-verified RFC 9162 verifiers with SHA-256
collision resistance as a documented boundary axiom, certificates
entering the log they defend; EverCrypt/verified-Merkle prior art
credited).
Claim discipline verified on the rendered text: zero hype vocabulary,
explicit does-not-establish list, full trusted-base enumeration,
single-operator/TOFU/prototype-scale limitations stated, AI drafting
assistance acknowledged. References verified against the literature
(Sigstore CCS'22, Aeneas ICFP'22, HACL* CCS'17, Fiat-Crypto S&P'19,
EverCrypt S&P'20, in-toto USENIX'19, CONIKS USENIX'15, RFC
6962/9162/8032, Necula POPL'97, Lean 4 CADE-28, Bernstein et al.).
Footnote acknowledges the linear-temporal-logic acronym collision.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
