pkg/party models each endpoint of the system as a separate object holding only
its own private state, wired together through the transport bus.
- ceremony.go: NewCeremony bootstraps the Ed25519 root CA, enrolls all parties
(setup, 4 CCs, electoral board, voting server, verifier, N voters) with
CA-signed identity certs, registers each in the directory, and wires its
handler into the bus.
- parties.go: the six party types and a shared hello/ack handshake; Handshake()
proves the full sign -> route -> verify -> reply -> verify path for every
party before any election logic runs.
- state.go: per-party private state structs (nothing shared across parties).
- transcript.go: PublicTranscript, the append-only bulletin board a remote
verifier will consume (no secrets).
- phases.go: phase handlers reject unknown message types cleanly (the transport
boundary never panics on unexpected input) — filled in over the next commits.
Transport CA API simplified to own its serial counter (NewCA/Issue).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Foundation for the multi-party re-architecture: an authenticated, confidential
message transport between the separate parties of the system.
- identity.go: per-party Ed25519 + X25519 identities and an Ed25519 root CA.
Certificates are real X.509, but signed through a crypto.Signer shim whose
Sign() calls the Rust Ed25519 — so x509.CreateCertificate's signature bytes
are produced in Rust. Verification extracts TBS bytes and calls the Rust
verifier, never Go's x509 internals. No RSA anywhere.
- envelope.go: signed inter-party messages over an injective length-prefixed
encoding of all fields; sign/verify via Rust.
- channel.go: X25519 ECDH (Rust) → session key → AES-256-GCM confidential
payloads.
- bus.go: CA-anchored directory + message router that verifies every request
and reply signature before delivery (authenticity enforced at the boundary).
Tests cover cert-chain verification (incl. foreign-CA rejection), envelope
tamper rejection, forged-sender rejection at the bus, and secure-channel
round-trip with associated-data binding.
ARCHITECTURE.md documents the parties, the transport, and the message inventory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Correctness/security review of the whole PoC, with fixes and regression tests.
Cryptographic soundness:
- mixnet: enforce the multi-exponentiation c_{B_m}=commit(0;0) check that was
stubbed out with an empty if — without it a malicious mixer can prove a
non-permutation shuffle.
- zkp: derive all four Fiat-Shamir challenges via RecursiveHashToZq instead of
a biased `hash mod q` (which also capped the challenge space at 256 bits for
production-sized groups).
Verification honesty:
- protocol: VerifyTally now actually calls zkp.VerifySchnorrProof and returns
the true aggregate result instead of an unconditional true.
- protocol: persist the padded mix input (event.MixInput) so the verifier checks
shuffle 0 against the same padding the tally used (fixes false INVALID for N<2).
Other correctness:
- kdf: length-prefix BuildKDFInfo parts so the info encoding is injective.
- math: GqElementFromSquareRoot accepts the valid root q (off-by-one that could
panic in HashAndSquare); RandomGqElement samples the full canonical range.
- cmd: validate demo --voters/--options instead of panicking on degenerate values.
- protocol: use crypto/rand in the demo driver (drop the last math/rand import).
Transport security (new): pkg/transportsec exposes Ed25519 signatures and X25519
ECDH — implemented in Rust (rust/transportsec: ed25519-dalek, x25519-dalek),
linked into Go via cgo. No RSA. Cross-language conformance test proves the Rust
Ed25519 signatures interoperate with Go's crypto/ed25519. Makefile builds the
Rust static lib before the Go binary.
Tests: added unit/round-trip/tamper coverage for math, hash, elgamal, zkp,
mixnet, kdf, returncodes, protocol (end-to-end), and the Rust FFI bridge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Proof-of-concept reimplementation of the Swiss Post e-voting
cryptographic protocol in Go. Single binary, 52 source files,
2 dependencies. Covers ElGamal encryption, Bayer-Groth verifiable
shuffles, zero-knowledge proofs, return codes, and a full
election ceremony demo.
