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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The release of a round becomes a file, .dkr: a release object in
deterministic CBOR, {0: "datekeys-release", 1: 1, 2: chain_hash, 3: round,
4: signature}, which provider.EncodeRelease writes and DecodeRelease reads
with its layers (size, type and version, schema). provider.ParseRelease
also reads drand's JSON as the input of the caller. Verify checks the chain
hash a release names before its round and its signature, with
ERR_PROFILE_MISMATCH. provider.Archive reads a local release archive, the
informative format of the draft.
capsule.OpenOptions.Release takes a release in hand, a provider.Supplier,
exclusive with Source: Open does not compare it with the clock (step 9.c,
option B) and reports a clock behind it in Opened.ClockBehind; a network
source is still never asked before the round time. The CLI gains
decrypt -release FILE (.dkr, drand's JSON or a local archive),
decrypt -save-release FILE.dkr and the command release, which fetches,
verifies and saves the .dkr without opening the capsule.
Test data: vectors/release.json, releases/<round>.dkr for rounds 1000,
1001, 1004 and 2000, and a local archive of rounds 1000 to 1004. In
mutations.json every case says its source, "supplied" or "network"; the
case "round not reached yet", a release in hand, now opens, and four cases
are added: the same with a network source, a release of another round from
a network source, and two release objects of another chain. SpecVersion
stays 0.14 until the author approves the draft.
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security_cms.json says 0.11, as every file of testdata, until SpecVersion
moves with the approval of the draft v0.12 whose verdicts it gives; its test
checks SpecVersion. scripts/fuzz.sh runs FuzzDERCheck, FuzzParseSignature,
FuzzParseToken and FuzzParseCert.
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The frozen vector of alg 2 and seal_type 2, made again with the profile of
v0.12:
- each case carries the lines of Verdicts.Lines, so that a second
implementation compares the texts byte for byte, and its times keep the
fraction of the token;
- the two cases without a context, which gave the verdicts of a reader of
v0.10, are gone, and the case named a seal from before the certificate
was valid, which gave an invalid seal, is named so;
- new cases for each row of §29.7 and each item of the lists of §64 for
v0.11 and v0.12: out of validity with a valid authority, SIGNERS that
break its rule beside a valid CMS (out of order, empty, 17 entries, 31
bytes, a hash twice) and 16 signers, the version against the sid, two
content-type attributes, the ESSCertIDv2, PSS with and without
trailerField, an arc of 2^31, a certificate twice or of version 1, keys
outside the table, every hash and curve of the table, BER, two
SignerInfo of one certificate, two time-stamps, the names of the holder
and of the issuer in each string type and against each rule, and the
edges of the token: accuracy, genTime, ordering, fields after the last,
the imprint, crls and the authority.
The generator checks each case against what the spec gives, written apart
from the code: the verdicts, the result of each signer and the lines,
built from the texts of §29.7. It fails when the reader gives anything
else. capsule reads every field of the file, the lines included.
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The builder of the tests, cmstest:
- NewCert writes a certificate from the DER of its tbsCertificate, field by
field: names of any string type with any bytes (UTF8String,
PrintableString with an underscore or an at sign, IA5String,
TeletexString, BMPString of odd length or with a surrogate,
VisibleString, NumericString), an attribute twice or none, no version,
times with a fraction, an extension twice, a compressed EC key, an even
modulus, and any signature. A Signer made so serves Signature and Token.
- Options for the version of a SignerInfo, the hashAlgorithm and the
certHash of an ESSCertIDv2, a signatureAlgorithm other than the one of
the key, a certificate twice, two content-type attributes, an attribute
with an arc of 2^31, a SignerInfo twice, BER, signerInfos out of order,
two signature-time-stamp attributes, and edits of the SignedData and of
each SignerInfo.
- Token options for any accuracy, a genTime of free text, ordering FALSE,
a field after the last, an imprint of any length, no message-digest, a
CRL in crls and the certificate of the authority twice.
- Edits of the DER after signing: Edit, Retag, Withdraw (a SignerInfo
removed), WithoutTimeStamp (a CAdES-T removed), Merge (a co-signature)
and Indefinite.
The tests of internal/cms and internal/der fail for each check of cms.go,
cert.go, verify.go and der.go. A mutation run, which replaces each leaf of
each condition by false and by true, one at a time, kills every mutant
that is not equivalent to the code it mutates.
FuzzParseSignature, FuzzParseToken, FuzzParseCert and FuzzDERCheck, seeded
with security_cms.json and with what cmstest builds: no panic, what Check
accepts Split reads, and the parsers fail only with ErrForm or
ErrAlgorithm.
capsule: the case of a seal outside the validity of the certificate gave
an invalid seal; it now tests a certificate that expired before a valid
seal (out of validity) apart from an authority that was not valid at its
time (invalid seal). SIGNERS out of order, empty, too long, with 31 bytes
or with a hash twice are F1 beside a CMS signature that is valid for the
AUTHOR_MESSAGE of those SIGNERS, and the names of certificates show as
spec v0.12 §29.7 says.
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What the update of the documentation found without a test: Header.UnusableNote
and the notice of decrypt, the helper that keeps a panic of a parser of
security in its own part, and that EncryptFiles writes nothing of the
capsule while it waits for a signature (spec 62.1 rules 19 and 25). The
usage text of decrypt -expect-author says that it writes no file.
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The session that closed v0.11 left the documentation at v0.10 (review of
2 October, G14).
- README.md and README.es.md say the same again: the reference implements
v0.11, tagged, and the branch v0.12 the draft; SpecVersion 0.11; the area
of 32 KiB in the picture of BODY; the table of modules with authorkey,
internal/cms, internal/der, locator, wordkey and the public note; and what
the CLI does now: encrypt -sign shows the key and the code of
AUTHOR_MESSAGE before it signs, decrypt -expect-author writes nothing
unless the key of an F4 matches, the lines of the verdicts break behind a
mark, and decrypt and inspect say when a public note is not shown. The
security properties no longer say that no signature is checked.
- SECURITY.md: the scope is v0.11 and the draft v0.12; the limits of a
signature, a seal and a key of words; the standard library among the
cryptographic dependencies.
- docs/traceability.md at the draft v0.12: rows for 24.1, 29.8 to 29.12,
38.1 and 44.1, and rows 29.2, 29.3, 29.7, 62.1, 64, 67, 70, 72 and 76 up
to date, with the code and the tests of each. The cases of spec 64 that
security_cms.json and locator.json still lack are marked pending.
- CHANGELOG.md: an entry for the draft v0.12: the review and its fixes, the
draft, the CMS reader with its own profile, the addresses of the locator,
the CLI, the new test data, and what is pending.
- capsule/format3.go: the comments of EncodeSecurityWith,
EncodeAuthorSignature and EncodeSeal no longer say that this version
defines no alg and no seal_type.
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The review found that the cases that spec 64 lists for the signature of
alg 1, the area and the public note were tested in Go and not exported to
testdata, where a second implementation reads them (D3). mutations.json
adds eight, from format3_signed, format3_unsigned and a new format3_note:
- the signature altered (F2), removed (F0), made again with another key
(F4 of that key) and transplanted to another capsule (F2);
- a key of 31 bytes and a signature of 65 (F1);
- the area widened to 64 KiB after signing (F4, the same AUTHOR_MESSAGE);
- the public note changed in PUBLIC_HEADER (ERR_HEADER_BINDING, step 15).
The frozen cases of the corpus do not change. The records of the fixtures
give the extensions of the header as it is written, the note included.
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The last commit added the fixture and left the lists of the tests and the
count of frozen inspect outputs behind: TestInspectJSONGoldens failed.
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The review found that genfixtures -force rewrote the five fixtures of
format 3 of v0.10 with the area of 32 KiB and then failed, leaving testdata
half done. EncryptFiles takes TestAreaLen, only with TestVectors, as Encrypt
takes TestVectors for format 2 (spec 62.1 rules 1 and 13), and the
generator gives those fixtures their area of 512 bytes: -force now
regenerates them with the same L and P.
- format3_seal_unsupported uses seal_type 4294967295, reserved for tests,
as spec 67 says, instead of seal_type 1, which a later version may
define; capsule.AlgTest and SealTypeTest name the two values.
- format3_unsigned: the capsule of format3_signed without its signature,
with the area of 32 KiB: the same P (spec 64).
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The draft v0.12 fixes what the review of the implementation of v0.11
found, without changing any format: the names of certificates in the
verdicts, the seal of each signer in the lines of F6 with the warning that
nobody checks who issued it, the holder by givenName and surname before
the commonName that carries the NIF, a profile of the certificate field by
field, identifiers by their bytes, repeated elements of a SET OF, the
edge cases of the token, the addresses and the padding of the locator, and
the errata of 44.1, 55.2, 64, 67 and 76. Section 76 lists each change with
its case. The CDDL fixes the sizes of the locator.
The reader shows the names of certificates between quotes, refuses one of
more than 64 code points or with two spaces in a row, names the authority
of each seal of F6 and adds the warning when a line says before the date,
and writes the result of a foreign signer in Spanish. The records of
format3_signed_cms and format3_sealed follow.
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Fixes of the review of the session of 1 and 2 October that the text of
spec v0.11 already asks for:
- authorkey: String and GoString hide the secret key, which only Secret
returns; ParsePublic refuses a key that is not a point of the curve
(ed25519strict.OnCurve, checked against the square root of testkit).
- capsule: a typed nil in AuthorKey, CMSSigner or Sealer is an error, never
a capsule without the signature or the seal that was asked for. A panic
while evaluating the signature or the seal fails only that part, F1 or
S2, not both. OpenOptions.Accept sees the verdicts before step 18 and can
refuse to publish the files.
- extension.CheckWrite, the rule of encoders of spec 72: the writers of
capsules and .dkk files refuse datekeys.note and datekeys.capsule outside
the arrays where they are registered, or with invalid data.
- CLI: encrypt -sign shows the author key and the code of AUTHOR_MESSAGE
before it signs (rule 20); decrypt -expect-author compares the key of an
F4 and writes nothing unless it matches; decrypt notifies a public note
that it does not show; the lines of the verdicts break at the last space
that fits, each row after the first behind a mark, so that the terminal
never breaks them; L is the payload, not the content.
- locator: a reader rejects an address that breaks 44.1 and keeps the
others; addresses refuse the special-purpose blocks of IANA, IPv6 outside
2000::/3, localhost and local names, characters outside RFC 3986, dot
segments, and a CID that does not decode to version 1 and a multihash;
ParseInfo checks that the locator is an age file with one tlock stanza
for the round of its DateKey; Info.Extension reads what it writes; its
errors carry no normative code.
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The author approved the text and the six open decisions on 1 October 2026.
The spec says now what the review left open: the form of the CMS signature
and of the TSTInfo field by field, the ESSCertIDv2 with SHA-256 written, the
padding of the locator at its boundaries, base32 CIDs, the addresses read
without decoding, the issuer shown by the rules of the holder, and the area
decided after the signatures. SpecVersion is 0.11, the records of fixtures
and vectors say so, and decrypt shows an mtime later than a valid seal as an
inconsistency, which 29.7 asks as a SHOULD.
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Fixtures format3_signed_cms (alg 2, two certificates, each sealed, F6) and
format3_sealed (alg 1 and a seal of seal_type 2, F4 and S4), with the
certificates, SIGNERS, the commitments, SEAL_SUBJECT, the token and the
result of each signer in their records. vectors/security_cms.json has 22
frozen areas with their context and verdicts (F1, F2, F5, F6, S1 to S5), and
vectors/locator.json the extension datekeys.capsule with its envelope hidden
in a host, its locator sealed with tlock, the padding at the boundaries and
the rules of the addresses. The README of testdata describes all of it.
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The TSTInfo is read field by field in DER, with accuracy from zero and
millis and micros from 1 to 999, genTime in UTC with Z, no default written
and nothing after the last field. The ContentInfo and the SignerInfo must be
SEQUENCEs, a SignerInfo version must match its sid, an attribute needs a
value and is counted by attribute and not by value, a signing-certificate
beside the v2 decides nothing, PSS parameters come in order without the
trailer, and der.Check refuses the end of contents and the universal tags
the profile does not use.
The writer signs before L is fixed: write asks prepare for the final L, so
the area grows to 64 KiB only when what was signed does not fit and LargeArea
allows it, and nobody signs twice for it. Typed nils are nil, the exclusions
are checked before a file is read, Encrypt refuses the signing options, and
EvaluateSecurityIn gives X if a parser panics. The issuer of a certificate is
filtered like its holder.
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extension.CheckNote, NewNote and Note apply the rules of spec v0.11 24.1,
and extension.Standard registers the note for the noncritical array of
PUBLIC_HEADER only. Header.PublicNote reads it, and header_binding ties it to
the control: a note changed after writing fails step 15. The CLI writes it
with -note and shows it as text of the creator, with the warning that nobody
can check it before the date.
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The reader evaluates a signature of alg 2 (F1, F2, F5, F6, with the signers
named) and a seal of seal_type 2 (S1 to S5) in the context of the capsule,
with SIGNERS in strictly ascending order of certificate hashes. The writer
takes a CMSSigner, which gets AUTHOR_MESSAGE and returns what the person
signed outside, and a Sealer, which asks an authority for the token over
SEAL_SUBJECT; it checks the result with the rules of the reader and writes
nothing unless every required signer is valid and sealed.
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format3_signed is written by EncryptFiles with a test key. Its record gives
the seed of the key, control_commit, head_digest, signers_digest,
AUTHOR_MESSAGE with its code, the signature and the content of key 2, and
verdicts carries the dkauthor1 key. The conformance test recomputes all of
it from the control, the head and the security area, and signs again from
the seed. A second test changes the context, a bit of the signature or of
the key, and the key itself, and removes the signature.
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AreaLen is 32 KiB, and LargeArea asks for 64 KiB. EncryptOptions.AuthorKey
signs inside sealer.write, through a prepare hook that gets the final
control: SECURITY_CBOR and the frame are built and evaluated with the rules
of the reader before anything is written. OpenOptions.AuthorKeys feeds
EvaluateSecurityIn from openBody with control_commit, head_digest and the
round time: F4, F3 with a saved key, F2 when it does not verify.
The fixtures of v0.10 keep the area of 512 (AreaUnit). The two
"unsupported" fixtures use alg 4294967295, since a random alg 1 is now F2.
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capsule/signature.go has what an author signs and a seal seals, as the
spec v0.11 draft defines it (29.8, 29.11): payload_commit, control_commit
over CONTROL_SIG, without I_PAYLOAD and with L at zero, head_digest,
signers_digest, AUTHOR_MESSAGE as ASCII text of 99 bytes with its code,
SIG_PART over the exact content of key 2, and SEAL_SUBJECT.
EvaluateSecurityIn checks a signature of alg 1 with the strict profile in
the context of a capsule: F4, or F3 with a key the person saved; F2 when
it does not verify; F1 without context, as in v0.10, and for alg 2, not
yet implemented. Verdicts carries the key and the label for the texts.
Not wired yet: the writer does not sign and still writes the area of 512
bytes, and the reader still calls EvaluateSecurity without context. The
handoff of docs lists what is left.
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As the spec v0.11 draft decides after the review (38.1):
- the salt is "DateKeys llave de palabras v2|chain|round|capsule_id", so
the same words give another key in each capsule and a dictionary
cannot attack together the many capsules of a popular round;
- the words are lowered with the table of Unicode 18.0.0 of pathrule;
- wordkey.Check refuses controls, Default_Ignorable code points and
unassigned ones, and counts toward the six words only the different
ones of three letters or more.
EncryptOptions.Words takes the words: the writer derives their identity
once it has drawn capsule_id, and adds its recipient to the credentials.
The CLI passes them to the writer, and decrypt salts them with the
capsule_id of the capsule. New vector of 38.1.
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- Three fuzz targets, in scripts/fuzz.sh too: FuzzDecodeHead (a head
that is accepted re-encodes to its input, and a rejection carries one
normative code), FuzzEvaluateSecurity (verdicts of this version, X for
both or for neither) and FuzzCheckPath (the rules of one entry and the
decoder of the head agree on every path). About a million runs each,
clean; scripts/check.sh 60s is clean.
- Spec v0.10, section 67: the fixtures of format 3 exist, so "Serán ...
(por implementar)" reads "Son ...", as for those of format 2. No rule
changes.
- spec/README.md: v0.10 approved by its author on 30 September 2026 and
implemented on this branch, with the SHA-256 of its text; the tag
spec-v0.10 waits for the author.
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The mutation corpus of spec 64 gains format 3: 209 cases, 169 of the
spec.
- The 33 mutations of the first two lists on format3_single and
format3_time_and_key_portable, named "format 3: ...", with a sibling
written by EncryptFiles and built capsules that hold a BODY.
- The list of format 3, 47 cases: one for each value of a line with
several (AREA_LEN 0, 511, 513 and 66048; SECURITY_LEN 0 and 513;
HEAD_LEN 0 and 2^24 + 1), and the three that open without a code,
with the verdicts X, F1 and S1. VERSION 4 is "format 3: version
changed", as in format 2. Each seals BODY again with FK_PAYLOAD and
the nonce of its fixture, and the control with the new L when L
changes; the two that need a head followed by another STREAM chunk
derive from format3_tree, whose comment takes the bytes the path
loses so that only the head and its chunk change.
- Further cases: format 3 relabeled 1, and time_and_key relabeled 2
with the identity and with the .dkk.
- A mutation may expect the capsule to open with its verdicts; the
exported case records them, with the result ok at step 0.
- Splice gives an edit for each run of changed bytes, runs closer than
16 bytes merged, and one more for what one side has beyond the
other: a head sealed again changes its bytes and the tag of its
chunk, 64 KiB apart. Earlier cases are written with more edits and
give the same capsules. The corpus is 706 KB, 476 KB of them the
capsule of 65536 implicit folders, whose head is 235 KB.
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The fixtures of spec 67 for format 3, each with its record, its BODY,
its inspect output and, for time_and_key, its .dkk:
- format3_single, format3_tree (five files in three folders, one over
two STREAM chunks, one without mtime, a comment and a declared
author), format3_comment_only (no files; a TAB in the comment),
format3_bloque256 and format3_time_and_key_portable, written with
EncryptFiles;
- format3_area_1024, format3_security_v2 (verdict X),
format3_signature_unsupported (an author-signature of alg 1 with a
random key of 32 bytes and a random signature of 64: F1) and
format3_seal_unsupported (that and a seal of seal_type 1: F1 and S1),
which only a generator of test vectors writes (62.1 rule 13), built
with testkit.Build.
The record of a format 3 fixture adds the area, SECURITY_CBOR,
HEAD_CBOR, the salt, the comment, the declared author, the head
extensions, the offset of CONTENT in BODY, each file with its layout,
SHA-256 and mtime, and the verdicts with their lines; its plaintext
file is BODY. The generator writes, then recovers every value by
opening layer by layer for the three formats alike, and refreshes the
records of format 3 through a Sink.
Tests: the conformance test checks BODY, the head, security and every
file, and opens through a MemorySink; the .dkk tests take the .dkk of
formats 2 and 3 too (spec 68); the CLI decrypts five of the fixtures
into folders; the control fuzz target decodes with the three schema
versions. The differential corpus gains two bases, format3_single and
format3_time_and_key_portable, one per policy: 5110 cases, the earlier
ones unchanged.
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- SpecVersion is 0.10: the version command, the catalogue test and the
spec field of every test data file name spec v0.10. The regenerated
test data change in that field only.
- All lists ERR_HEAD_INVALID, last, as section 69 of the spec does.
- The tests of the path rules and of format 3 held literal invisible
and combining characters (ZWJ, VS16, U+202E, soft hyphen, the Kelvin
sign and others), which an editor could normalize or hide; they are
Go escapes now, with the same values.
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EncryptFiles writes format 3 (spec 29.2 to 29.6, 61, 62, 62.1): the
files of a list of Sources, each read twice, with the comment and the
declared author.
- Before anything is written: the paths and the texts are checked with
the rules of the reader, in the words of a writer, naming the rule
and the character, and the two paths of an R7 collision (rule 15);
the comment has its CR LF and lone CR turned into LF (29.6); L is
measured with a head whose salt and SHA-256 are zero, as long as the
final one, and the first reading hashes each file, which must have
exactly its Size.
- The files go in the byte order of their paths (R8), whatever the
order of the Sources; the mtime is kept only from 1970 to 9999,
never clipped (rule 16); at least one file or a comment (rule 14).
- The head, with a fresh salt, the control and the security area are
decoded with the rules of the reader before sealing (rule 17), and
the frame is checked against L. The area is 512 bytes with the
empty security, whatever the options (rule 13).
- The second reading writes each file into PAYLOAD_AGE and fails if its
size or SHA-256 changed (rule 18).
- Encrypt and EncryptFiles share the sealing; Encrypt writes format 2
only with the new TestVectors option (rule 1), and takes no head.
The test data generators set it, and so does the CLI until step 5
moves it to EncryptFiles.
- Result.Head is the head written. DecodeHead keeps the check of the
critical extensions apart, so that the self-check decodes the head
as the one of the control does.
- The examples and the live test write with EncryptFiles.
- The reader tests had a literal U+202E, now escaped.
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Open reads format 3 (spec 29.2 to 29.7, 63 steps 17 and 18): the
PRELUDE accepts VERSION 3, and the files go to a Sink.
- Sink: Begin with the validated head, Create for each file in the
order of the head, and Commit only after every check of step 17;
after any failure that follows a successful Begin, Abort, once. A
format 3 capsule without a Sink fails right after step 2 with
ErrSinkRequired, a caller error with no code, no failed step and no
request; a capsule of format 1 or 2 without dst fails there too.
- Step 17 in its substeps: the frame and the area, security and its
verdicts, which never fail, the head, the files filling CONTENT, the
SHA-256 of each file and the padding. A failure of age or a
plaintext whose length is not P prevails; otherwise the first
substep that fails decides, and a code other than ERR_INTEGRITY is
reported only after reading PAYLOAD_AGE to its end.
- The reads of BODY grow with the bytes received, never with AREA_LEN,
HEAD_LEN or a declared size (spec 57); a test measures it.
- A failure of the Sink is the caller's own error with ERR_INTEGRITY,
as one of dst is in formats 1 and 2.
- Opened gains Head, Verdicts, AreaLen and UnusableHeadExtensions.
- Test data: "version changed" sets VERSION 4, and the format 2 list
gains "format 2 time_only relabeled format 3", which fails at step
14, as section 64 of spec v0.10 lists: 126 cases, 89 of the spec.
The randomly built capsules keep their recorded bytes.
- testkit: Build writes format 3 and can edit the padded plaintext;
Head3, Body3, DiscardSink and MemorySink build and open BODY.
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- Format3 and the control of schema version 3, with the keys of
version 2 (spec 31). The PRELUDE still rejects VERSION 3 until the
reader opens format 3, in step 3, with the test data that expect it.
- The frame of BODY (spec 29.2): AREA_LEN, SECURITY_LEN and HEAD_LEN,
their limits against L and the zeros of the area, all ERR_INTEGRITY.
- security (spec 29.3, 29.7): the outer map, with the signature and
the seal as separately encoded byte strings, and its verdicts X, F0,
F1, S0, S1 and S2, which never fail. The first row that holds
decides, so a seal that breaks its schema is S2 before its type is
read. Writers of this version write it empty, 22 bytes.
- The head (spec 29.4): layer 2 with its type tag and version 1;
layer 3 with the CDDL, R1 and R8; layer 4 in key order, the comment
and the declared author, each file with R2 to R6c, R10 and its
layout, R7 and R9 over the tree, all ERR_HEAD_INVALID, and then the
critical extensions of the new extension.Head object.
- ERR_HEAD_INVALID is declared; All lists it once SpecVersion moves to
0.10 with the test data, in step 6.
- The control tests take format 4 as the caller error that format 3
was, as section 76 of the spec anticipated.
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The reference moves to the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.9, approved
by its author on 29 September 2026. Encrypt writes capsule format 2 only;
Open and Inspect read formats 1 and 2, and a format 1 capsule keeps the
verdict v0.8.2 gave it.
Format 2 (spec §22, §29.1, §31, §39):
- VERSION in the PRELUDE is the capsule format, capsule.Format; any other
value is ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION at step 2.
- CONTROL_CBOR has the schema version of its format. Version 2 adds key 6,
payload_length (8 bytes, big-endian, at most L_MAX = 2^53 - 2^46), and
key 7, padding (1 bloque256, 2 reforzado); it is 103 bytes without
extensions, whatever L.
- The payload is the content padded with zeros to P = rule(L). Step 17
checks the length and the zeros, and Open writes only the first L bytes.
- INNER_ACCESS_AGE holds exactly 16 X25519 stanzas: 1 to 16 credentials,
and a dummy in each slot left, in a uniformly random order.
Writer rules (spec §62.1): EncryptOptions.Length is required and the
source must deliver exactly that many bytes; recipients that are not
canonical or of low order are rejected (agewrap.CheckX25519Recipient);
self-checks of the header, the control, INNER_ACCESS_AGE and PAYLOAD_AGE.
The CLI measures its input, takes -padding and reports the format.
Test data: seven format 2 fixtures, padding vectors checked against
math/big, format 2 CBOR vectors, and the mutation corpus in both formats
with the 22 cases of the third list of spec §64, built without randomness
by sealing the fixtures again with their known keys and nonces. The
format 1 fixtures are kept byte for byte and never regenerated; the
differential corpus keeps its 1825 cases and adds a block per format 2
fixture. The spec copy loses its "to be implemented" markers, and the
READMEs, CHANGELOG, traceability and testdata/README.md follow v0.9.
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The second round of the formal review confirmed the nine corrections of
c57ed48 and asked for these, recorded in §76 as corrections 4 to 6 and
an editorial note:
- §72: an encoder MUST NOT write a registered extension in an object or
array it is not registered for; §54: a reader MUST NOT interpret the
data of a noncritical one it ignores for that reason. capsule.Encrypt
and accesskey.Encode take no Registry, so the application applies the
rule; their documentation and extension.Placement say so.
- §17 and §51 give the step-10 codes only for a directly supplied
release, as step 10 does; a network source discards a failing one at
step 9.
- Step 9 reports ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE and no other code, whatever the
failure of the source. provider/drand.Client keeps each relay's failure
as text only (errors.Join made a relay's ERR_ROUND_MISMATCH match with
errors.Is), and capsule.Open keeps only the text of a source error that
carries another code (a caller's source failing with
ERR_RELEASE_INVALID gave that code at step 9). A context that ended
stays detectable: Fetch now has a single failure path, so the canceled
and deadline cases are deterministic.
- TestExtensionPlacement covers the noncritical array of a .dkk: with
the object-blind extension.CheckNoncritical at step 9.a it fails.
- Editorial: §28.1 "analizan solo la cabecera age", one arrow at step 9,
two §76 introductions; §73 lines for release sources and placement.
- testdata/README.md says the corpus registers its extensions in both
arrays of every object; traceability, CHANGELOG and both READMEs
(integrity holds against whoever lacks the file keys, §27, §55.1)
follow. Spec dated 28 September 2026; new SHA-256 in spec/README.md.
No fixture or vector changes.
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A formal review of the whole v0.8.2 text found it approvable after
these corrections, recorded in §76 ("Correcciones de la revisión
formal"):
- §27 no longer calls header_binding the authenticity of PUBLIC_HEADER:
it binds the header to the opened control, never authorship or date
(§55.1); the age MAC only protects against whoever lacks the file key.
- §63 steps 9 and 10: a network source (relay, Release API, cache) MUST
verify every response and gives ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE at step 9 when
none verifies; the step-10 codes are for a directly supplied release.
The reference already behaved so; TestReleaseFromANetworkSource pins
both paths.
- §54 and §72: registrations declare the objects and arrays where an
extension may appear, and a known extension out of place counts as
unknown there. The reference gains the optional extension.Placement
interface, used at steps 4, 9.a and 14.
- §63 step 11 fixes the GT serialization hashed by H2 (kilic/kyber order)
with the frozen vector H2(e(G1, G2))[:16] = cb87319f..., shared as
testdata/vectors/tlock_ibe.json; H2-H4 are cited to drand/kyber.
- Step 5 makes the SEALED_CONTROL read mandatory, step 15 names
ERR_HEADER_BINDING, §21 makes capsule_id 16 CSPRNG bytes a MUST, §76
is made accurate (four dk1.json vectors, the §36 time_only rule, two
cases rewritten against the texts that really existed), and editorial
fixes in §5, §36, §55.1, §69.1 and §77. §73 lists the three new
decisions.
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Amendment of the unreleased v0.8.2, recorded in §76 with its case: the
second implementation's phase-2 research found that tlock-js over
@noble/curves 1.9.7 accepts U re-encoded as c0 + p and a signature
x + p and returns the same file key, while the reference rejects both
(noble 1.9.7 differed from kilic on 5,615 of 41,686 encodings), and the
spec did not say which encodings are valid.
- §12.2 defines the canonical encoding of a BLS12-381 point (drand's
compressed ZCash form) and requires decoders to reject every other
byte string; §12.1 applies it to public_key.
- §63 step 10 applies it to the release signature (ERR_RELEASE_INVALID)
and step 11 defines the tlock stanza body U || V || W (96 + 16 + 16
bytes for Quicknet) with a canonical, non-infinity U (ERR_INTEGRITY).
- §64 gains ten mutations, exported to mutations.json (65 cases). The
signature x + p case uses published Quicknet round 1004, the first
after 1000 whose x allows x + p < 2^381. The reference already gave
every stated code and step.
Errors no longer copy text from tlock, kyber, age, drand or
kyber-bls12381. kyber's IBE error carried the candidate plaintext and r,
and with one bit of W flipped the message disclosed the real tlock file
key with that bit flipped. Every such place now uses a fixed reason with
its normative sentinel; TestTlockFailureDiagnosticsCarryNoSecrets fails
with the old wrapping.
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Approved refinements, each recorded with its reproducible case in the
§76 v0.8.2 subsection:
- §69.1: layered error model with normative precedence (frame, type tag
and version, CBOR profile and CDDL, then fields with their own code in
ascending key order; across steps the §63 order decides), with a scope
paragraph for the optional steps 5, 6 and 8.
- §55.1: normative trust table per section (who can write it, from which
step it is bound, what it never proves); §72: security-relevant claims
go in CONTROL_CBOR or under a signature, .dkk data is advisory.
- §31/§54: extension arrays in strictly ascending unsigned byte order of
extension_id (one rule for order and uniqueness).
- Gaps a second implementation needed: §28.1 malformed age headers,
§15/§19 latest unlock time and dk1_ reading rules, §22/§23/§57 length
lower bounds, §63 step 8 tlock argument comparison and step 9 order,
§12.1 profile validation with the drand chain-hash formula, §74 table
of implementation limits.
Reference alignment: .dkk errors only at step 9.a (new
OpenOptions.AccessKeyFile, used by the CLI), CR/LF in dk1_ is
ERR_DATEKEY_INVALID, BODY_LEN 0 is ERR_INTEGRITY, nil identities are not
credentials, and AccessIdentity tries every identity on every stanza so
its verdict does not depend on their order. dk1.json gains three
vectors; every other testdata file is byte-identical.
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Step 2b: package codec is rewritten without reflection or struct tags. A
strict Decoder accepts only the spec §58 profile, Unmarshal decodes,
re-encodes and compares, Peek reads the type tag and version, and Walk is a
bounded iterative helper for vectors and fuzzing. Every schema has its own
hand-written encoder and decoder that checks all CDDL rules before the
fields with their own error codes. github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 and
github.com/x448/float16 are gone; nothing replaces them. Valid objects
encode and decode exactly as before (1.34 million differential verdicts);
the invalid-input differences are documented in CHANGELOG and
traceability decision 12. A review found and fixed an access_policy check
that truncated to uint8.
Step 3: testdata gains vectors/cbor.json (generic and per-schema CBOR
vectors), vectors/mutations.json (the 55-case mutation corpus, replayable
offline), vectors/inspect_differential.json (1,825 fixed-seed mutations
with the Go verdict) and one inspect -json golden per fixture, all
regenerated byte-identically by genfixtures and documented in
testdata/README.md for second implementations.
Gate green with 90 s of fuzzing per target on all 15 targets; codec at
100 % coverage; pre-existing testdata byte-identical.
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- extension: data is an opaque []byte; New takes []byte and rejects empty
data; key 2 must be a non-empty shortest-form bstr; at most 64 extensions
per array; extension_version <= 2^32-1; CheckDisjoint is a linear merge;
optional DataValidator with ERR_EXTENSION_DATA_INVALID for known critical
extensions and Unusable reports for known noncritical ones.
- capsule, accesskey: frame limits on encode and decode with ERR_INTEGRITY;
Encrypt and MarshalBody decode their own output before sealing or
returning it; unusable extensions are reported.
- profile: period and genesis_time bounded to 2^53-1, genesis decoded as
unsigned.
- codec: Valid removed; empty values never encode as null.
- Regression tests for the nested-data seal/open asymmetry, the
nondeterministic verdict on NaN-keyed data and the quadratic disjointness
check; three new §64 mutations and five more.
- Fixtures: time_only_extensions regenerated with opaque data, new
time_and_key_portable_extension.dkk; genfixtures gains -only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The module is imported as g.activething.com/go/DateKeys, the path the
project's Gitea advertises. The .github directory is gone: workflows
now live in .gitea/workflows, use the gitea.com action mirrors and
install every tool from its Go module; releases go to this Gitea with
goreleaser and a key-based cosign signature; Dependabot is replaced by
a nightly report of available updates. scripts/check.sh runs the same
checks on any machine and is the gate while the server has no runner.
SECURITY.md, README and CONTRIBUTING no longer refer to GitHub.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reference implementation in Go, built from the implementation plan
(milestones M0 to M5): datekey, profile, provider, codec, agewrap,
extension, capsule, accesskey, the datekeys CLI, official vectors and
fixtures, the mutation corpus, fuzz targets, interop and live tests,
CI workflows, traceability and policy documents.
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