scripts/recovery opens a time_and_key capsule with the words of a key of
words (-words FILE), as the annex says in 79.7: the normalization without
tables for the text of the DateKeys lists (printable ASCII, the ASCII
spaces, á é í ó ú ü ñ and their capitals, and the marks U+0300 to U+036F),
and for any other text the full one, NFD, without the marks, simple lower
case and the spaces of 38.1, from UnicodeData.txt of Unicode 18.0.0
(-unicodedata FILE), checked by its SHA-256; then PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 of the
standard library. Its tests check both normalizations against every case
of wordkey.json and the two vectors of the annex.
Two fixtures of v0.16: format3_time_and_key_words, opened with the text of
the second vector of the annex, recorded in words_text with the identity it
gives; and format3_full_chunk, whose BODY and P are 65536 bytes, so that
PAYLOAD_AGE ends in a full STREAM chunk (79.5). recovery_check.sh opens
both. wordkey.json gains the text of the annex, also with its marks apart.
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The author's decision of 7 October 2026. A release saved next to a capsule
cannot exist when the capsule is made, and once the date comes the capsule
can be opened: such a file only opens it again and does not cover the real
case, someone opening it decades later when drand is gone and nobody saved
anything. Long-term recovery rests instead on archives and cache services
that keep the releases of all rounds; a reader asks for its round and
verifies the signature against the pinned key.
Spec: the .dkr extension (section 20, back to v0.14), sections 1, 4, 8, 45,
47.1, 49, 50 (rewritten), 53, 62.1 (rule 28 removed, rule 26 reworded),
63, 70, 73, 74 (the datekeys.release .dkk extension dropped too), 76
(the v0.15 block, with the discarded design) and the annex 79. The
release object, the chain hash at step 10, step 9.c option B and the
archive format stay.
Code: decrypt -save-release and the command datekeys release are gone,
with writeRelease and their tests; decrypt -release FILE stays. The
release objects of testdata/releases are now <round>.cbor, and
TestVectorFilesAreCurrent fails on a file the generator no longer writes.
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scripts/recovery is a program that opens a capsule with only the Go
standard library, golang.org/x/crypto, filippo.io/age and the BLS12-381
library of drand/kyber-bls12381, as the informative annex of the draft
v0.15 describes it: the pinned Quicknet parameters, the release object,
the frame, the BLS verification of the release, the tlock stanza with H2,
H3 and H4, the age file of SEALED_CONTROL opened with its file key (HKDF,
header MAC and STREAM written out), the X25519 layers with age, and the
content of formats 1, 2 and 3. A test forbids importing this module, tlock
and drand. scripts/recovery_check.sh opens a time_only and a time_and_key
fixture of format 3 with it and compares what it recovers; scripts/check.sh
runs it.
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