mrwulf 63a809dd2c book overhaul move 6: the Second Summit chapter + the book ends once ...

New Chapter 13, 'The Second Summit: A Hash-Based Pyramid' — SLH-DSA
(FIPS 205) as the transfer experiment for the whole method:

- opens on leaf 18 as the anomaly; correctness-vs-security across the
  quantum divide ('a correct implementation of a broken lock is still a
  broken lock')
- Lamport -> Winternitz chains with the checksum see-saw run twice on
  real w=16 numbers, including a concrete failed forgery (480 -> 479,
  digit 14 -> 13)
- FORS worked at napkin scale (k=2, a=2, one reuse = one forgery) and
  real scale (28 of 57,344, exponent 14)
- the virtual hypertree: digest split 21/7/2 to the bit, the 54-bit
  meter peeled 9 bits per layer, verification priced exactly (254 fixed
  oracle calls; the see-saw itself caps a layer at 510, so worst case
  3,824 — the naive 525*35 bound is unreachable, and the chapter says
  why); ~2^72 to build vs ~2^12 to check
- the eleven certificates, the loop-to-fold bridges, the honest
  'visible, not correct' boundary (no second semantics — and why the
  natural move fails), the cone-growth table, the t_l/t_len naming
  inversion told as the war story it was, the apex as an audit
  invitation with the verbatim theorem named
- 'The leaf, live': leaf-vs-head precision ('plausible, and wrong
  twice'), the three-clause self-reference ledger (attested machinery /
  attested scheme / honest gap), one-command tryit
- six exercises with pathway'd solutions; checkpoint hands the
  who-checks-them question to the finale

Structural: attestation renamed ch14 and now carries the book's single
ending (where-to-go, further reading, final reframe, prospective
checkpoint — moved from ch12); its two interior checkpoints demoted to
bigidea/tryit so the terminal checkpoint stands alone; opening now
receives ch13's baton. ch12 ends as a chapter. Front matter: three-summit
arc, fourteen-week plan, honest discussion-exercise count; ch01 promise
ladder extended to Chapters 13/14; glossary +5 entries (and the
pre-existing Hasse-bound misordering fixed); README fourteen chapters +
build.sh recipe.

Every constant verified against fips205-slhdsa-verified and
lean-transparency-log by four adversarial checkers; arithmetic
independently recomputed; didactic panel scored the chapter 9/8 —
the book's high-water mark. Build: 128 pages, zero unresolved refs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-08 10:39:08 +02:00

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