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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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