# Changelog All notable changes to this module are documented here. The project follows semantic versioning; `v0.x` versions make no API stability promise. ## Unreleased — specification v0.16 Implements the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.16, which its author approved on 7 October 2026 with the recommendation of each of its decisions, tagged `spec-v0.16`: the review of v0.15 by Astra. It changes no format; it changes the verdict of a seal without accuracy and the reading of drand's JSON. - **Approval.** `SpecVersion` is 0.16, and so is the `spec` field of every file of `testdata`, also of the frozen `security_cms.json` and `locator.json`. The text approved is the draft with its date; `spec/README.md` records its SHA-256, and the annex says it. - **A seal without accuracy** (§29.7, §29.11). `cms.Token` gains `HasAccuracy`, `Policy` and `BTSP`. A valid seal is S4 only with accuracy and t plus the accuracy before the round time; otherwise S5, whose text gives its reason, `capsule.SealReason`: sealed after or too close, no accuracy under the BTSP policy of ETSI EN 319 421, or no accuracy. `Detail.SealReason` and `SignerLine.Reason` carry it, and the line of a signer of F6 whose seal does not prove it says «sin acreditar que fuera antes de la fecha de apertura» and the reason. `EncryptFiles` returns the verdicts of the area it wrote in `Result.Security`, so that a writer warns of a seal without accuracy (§62.1 rule 19). `security_cms.json` is made again: 143 cases with `seal_reason`. - **drand's JSON, strict** (§47.1). `provider.ParseDrandJSON`, the one reader of it, for a release in hand and for the answers of the relays: no object repeats a name, names compared exactly once their escapes are decoded, no lone surrogate, and round a number without sign, fraction or exponent from 1 to 2^53 - 1. `encoding/json` kept the last of two repeated names and matched `ROUND` to `round`. `release.json` gains 26 cases. - **The key of words in the annex** (§79, 79.7). `scripts/recovery` opens with `-words FILE`, with the normalization without tables of the annex or, with `-unicodedata FILE`, the full one from `UnicodeData.txt` of Unicode 18.0.0, checked by its SHA-256. The fixture `format3_time_and_key_words` opens with the text of the vector of the annex, kept in `words_text`. - **A full last chunk** (79.5). The fixture `format3_full_chunk`, whose `PAYLOAD_AGE` is one full STREAM chunk; `scripts/recovery_check.sh` opens it, and the one with words. - **The annex.** `annex/recovery.md` is §79 of the draft v0.16, with the key of words in 79.7. ## Unreleased — specification v0.15 Implements the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.15, which its author approved on 7 October 2026 with the recommendation of each of its decisions, tagged `spec-v0.15`: the long-term recovery of capsules. It changes no format of `.dkc` or `.dkk`, and one verdict: a valid release in the caller's hand opens a capsule even when the clock is before the round time. - **Random words.** `wordkey.Generate` draws a key of words uniformly from a built-in list, and `encrypt -new-words FILE [-dic LIST] [-word-count N]` writes them to a new file: 7 words by default, of the Spanish list `wordkey/lists/es.txt`, 7776 words, a draft not yet reviewed (spec §38.1, the SHOULD to offer random words). `wordkey.List` and `CheckList(lang, words)` refuse a list of fewer than 2048 words, with two words that are one once normalized, or with a character that is not a letter of the alphabet of its language, which only the code gives (for `es`, `a` to `z`, `á`, `é`, `í`, `ó`, `ú`, `ü` and `ñ`): a Cyrillic letter that looks like a Latin one would be typed again with the Latin one, and the capsule would not open. `wordkey.Bits` is the strength of the words drawn, which `encrypt` prints. The list is CC BY-SA 4.0, an adaptation of FrequencyWords; `wordkey/lists/README.md` records its source, method and SHA-256. It changes no format and no derivation. - **The English list.** `wordkey/lists/en.txt` is the large wordlist of the EFF, 7776 words, CC BY 4.0, without its dice numbers and in its order, so that the position of a word still gives them; `-dic` takes it by default. The alphabet of `en` is `a` to `z` and the ASCII hyphen of its four compound words, such as `t-shirt`. - **What the official SDK says when it seals** (spec §7.6, §62.1 rules 26 and 27, §71). `encrypt` writes next to the `.dkc` the recovery annex, `FILE.dkc.recuperacion.txt` (`datekeys.RecoveryAnnex`, §79 of the specification under a title with its version and SHA-256, the same for every capsule; `-no-recovery` leaves it out), and says what opening the capsule years later will take: the `.dkc`, a credential of a `time_and_key` capsule, and the release of its round, which an archive of releases or a cache service must keep if drand no longer serves it. Beyond one year, `time_only` gets the recommendation of `time_and_key`. `profile.Status` and `StatusOf` give the state of a pinned profile in the registry of §71, which DateKeys does not publish yet (Quicknet is active); `encrypt` writes no capsule with a profile that is not active, and `decrypt` and `inspect` warn when the profile of a capsule is compromised. - **The license of the specification** is CC-BY-ND-4.0, as its author decided: it may be copied and shared unchanged, with credit, and a modified version or a translation needs the written permission of its author. The title of the recovery annex says so, since the annex travels alone next to every capsule. The code stays Apache-2.0, and the word lists keep their own licenses. - **Dice.** For whoever does not trust the random numbers of a computer, as the author decided: five dice for each word give a number from 11111 to 66666, its position in a list of 7776 words. `wordkey.DiceNumber`, `DiceWord`, `DiceWords` (at least 6 numbers, never the same word twice) and `DiceList`, the list numbered for dice as the EFF publishes its own: for `en` it is the file of the EFF, byte for byte. `encrypt -dice TEXT` and `-dice-file FILE` take the words from dice and show them, and `datekeys wordlist [-dic LIST]` writes the numbered list, to print it, and its SHA-256, which `wordkey/lists/README.md` records. - **Approval.** `SpecVersion` is 0.15, and so is the `spec` field of every file of `testdata`: the records and the vectors, regenerated, and the frozen `security_cms.json` and `locator.json`, whose `spec` field alone changes. The text approved is the draft with its date; `spec/README.md` records its SHA-256. - **Specification.** `spec/DateKeys_Protocol_Specification_v0.15.md`, whose §76 lists six changes with their cases: the release object (§47.1, with §45, §47 and §57), its chain hash at step 10 (§63, §69.1), step 9.c only before a network request (§49, §63, §70), the long-term recovery (§50, on archives and cache services that keep the releases of all rounds; §53; §62.1 rules 26 and 27; and the informative annex §79), the Release API (§45) and §74. `datekeys.cddl` adds the rule `release`. - **No `.dkr` file.** The first draft kept the release of a capsule in a `.dkr` file next to it; the author removed it on 7 October 2026: the release does not exist when the capsule is made, and once the date comes the capsule can be opened, so a saved release only opens it again and does not help whoever opens it decades later. Gone with it: the extension, rule 28 of §62.1, `decrypt -save-release` and the command `datekeys release`. - **Release object.** `provider.EncodeRelease`, `DecodeRelease` and `ParseRelease`, which also reads drand's JSON; `provider.Verify` checks the chain hash a release names, `ERR_PROFILE_MISMATCH`, before its round and its signature. `provider.Archive` reads a local release archive, the informative format of §50. - **A release in hand.** `capsule.OpenOptions.Release`, a `provider.Supplier` exclusive with `Source`, is not compared with the clock (step 9.c, option B); `Opened.ClockBehind` says when the clock was before the round time, and `Opened.Release` carries the chain hash, ready for `provider.EncodeRelease`. A network source is still never asked before the round time. - **CLI.** `datekeys decrypt -release FILE` takes a release object, drand's JSON or a local archive, with no network request. - **Test data.** `vectors/release.json`, new, from `internal/testkit.ReleaseVectors`; `releases/.cbor` for rounds 1000, 1001, 1004 and 2000, and `releases/archive_1000_1004.bin`. In `mutations.json` every case has the field `source`, `supplied` or `network`; "round not reached yet", a release in hand with a clock 1 ns before the round time, was `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` at step 9 and now opens; four cases are new: the same with a network source, a release of another round from a network source, and two release objects of another chain. No other case changes its result. - **Recovery check.** `scripts/recovery`, a program that opens a capsule by following the annex, with no code of this module, tlock or drand, and `scripts/recovery_check.sh`, which `scripts/check.sh` runs on a `time_only` and a `time_and_key` fixture of format 3. ## Unreleased — specification v0.14 Implements the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.14, which its author approved on 6 October 2026 with the recommendation of each of its ten decisions, tagged `spec-v0.14`. It changes no format and no verdict of a Quicknet capsule. - **Approval.** `SpecVersion` is 0.14, and so is the `spec` field of every file of `testdata`: the records and the vectors, regenerated, and the frozen `security_cms.json` and `locator.json`, whose `spec` field alone changes. The text approved is the draft with decision 8 applied, and its date; `spec/README.md` records its SHA-256. - **Specification.** `spec/DateKeys_Protocol_Specification_v0.14.md`, whose §76 lists seven changes with their cases: what the protocol does not guarantee (§5), the provider and the states of a profile (§7.6, §36.1, §71), signatures and seals against a quantum adversary (§7.7, §53), the web client (§7.10, §59), the entropy of a key of words (§38.1), the root of trust byte for byte (§12, §35, §51, §63 steps 10 and 11), and errata. - **One scheme of drand** (§12.1, §76 change 7, decision 8 of the author, 6 October 2026). `profile.Validate` admits only `bls-unchained-g1-rfc9380`: a profile of `pedersen-bls-unchained` or `bls-unchained-on-g1` is `ERR_UNKNOWN_PROFILE`. No pinned profile changes, and no vector of `testdata`. - **Test data.** `vectors/tlock_steps.json`, new, from `internal/testkit.TlockStepVectors`: for the published rounds 1000, 1001, 1004 and 2000, the message a round signs, its hash to G1 and the pairing equation of step 10; and the decryption of five tlock stanzas in step 11, with e(signature, U), H2, sigma, H4, the file key, every try of H3 and r. The generator computes each value with its own H2, H3 and H4 and checks it against drand, kyber and tlock. ## Unreleased — specification v0.13 Implements the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.13, which its author approved on 6 October 2026, tagged `spec-v0.13`. It changes no format and no verdict. - **Approval.** `SpecVersion` is 0.13, and so is the `spec` field of every file of `testdata`: the records and the vectors, regenerated, and the frozen `security_cms.json` and `locator.json`, whose `spec` field alone changes. The text approved is the draft as it stood, with only its date changed; `spec/README.md` records its SHA-256. - **NAT64** (spec v0.13, §44.1, §76 change 1). `locator.CheckResolvedIP` checks the IP address that the name of an https address of a locator resolves to, which a reader checks on every connection: a public address, or, on an IPv6-only network with DNS64, an address of NAT64 (RFC 6052) of the well-known prefix `64:ff9b::/96` or of the NAT64 prefix of the network, whose IPv4 address inside is public. The prefix of the network has one of the lengths of RFC 6052 and lies in `64:ff9b::/16` or is public; an address in it counts only by its IPv4 address, even when the prefix is public. An address of NAT64 written in a locator is still rejected. This module downloads nothing: the function is for the readers that do, as the application. - **`ParseInfo` checks the sealed locator as far as it can before the date** (§44.1, which already asked for it, at the author's request of 6 October 2026): the tlock stanza carries the round of the DateKey and a chain hash in lower-case hexadecimal, the chain of the profile of the DateKey when this module pins it, and the body after the age header holds a plaintext of 4096 bytes or a multiple, so that a header without a body is refused. Each is `ERR_EXTENSION_DATA_INVALID` with its own text, and `Info.Extension`, which reads what it writes, refuses them too, and a DateKey of a profile that this module does not pin. `locator.Open` still reads at most 1 MiB, by the author's decision. `TestInfoSealedForm`. - **Two addresses that the text of v0.12 already refused**, and the reference accepted (§44.1): a CID with a character more, of zero bits, which decodes to the same bytes and is not its canonical form; and `https://[[2000::]/`, whose brackets `checkHost` trimmed all at once. `isCIDv1` refuses 5 or more bits left over, and `checkHost` takes one pair of brackets. No normative change: `TestAddressCanonicalForms`. - **Fuzzing.** `FuzzCheckResolvedIP`, the 26th target of `scripts/fuzz.sh`: an address that `CheckResolvedIP` accepts is public, or holds a public IPv4 address at the positions of RFC 6052 in the NAT64 prefix that contains it, whatever the prefix given. - **Test data.** `vectors/resolved_ip.json`, new: 42 addresses, with the prefix of the network or none, and the result of `CheckResolvedIP`, with its text. The other files do not change. ## Unreleased — specification v0.12 Implements the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.12, which its author approved on 6 October 2026, tagged `spec-v0.12`. It fixes what the review of the implementation of v0.11 found on 2 October 2026, and changes no format: a reader of v0.11 opens these capsules, and this one opens those of v0.11. - **Approval.** `SpecVersion` is 0.12, and so is the `spec` field of every file of `testdata`: the records of the fixtures and the vectors, regenerated, and the frozen `security_cms.json` and `locator.json`, whose `spec` field alone changes. The text approved is the draft as it stood, with only its date changed; `spec/README.md` records its SHA-256. - **Review of 2 October.** Six adversarial reviews of the implementation of v0.11 found nothing blocking: what is signed, the strict Ed25519, the CMS and RFC 3161 checks and the envelope hold, and the failures were at the edges. What the text of v0.11 already asked for is fixed in the code, as this entry says; what it left open or got wrong goes to the draft. - A typed nil in `EncryptOptions.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 after step 17 and 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. - `authorkey.Key.String` and `GoString` hide the secret key, which only `Key.Secret` returns. `ParsePublic` refuses a key that is not a point of the curve (`ed25519strict.OnCurve`). - `Header.UnusableNote` tells a public note that breaks the rules of text from no note. - **Specification.** `spec/DateKeys_Protocol_Specification_v0.12.md`, a draft whose §76 lists each change with its case: the names of certificates in the verdicts, between « and », shown only with at most 64 code points and no two spaces in a row; the authority of each seal in the lines of F6, with the warning that nobody checks who issued it; the holder by `givenName` and `surname` before the `commonName`, which in the certificates of the FNMT carries the NIF, when both have text that is not empty, and the issuer by its `commonName` or, without one that has text, its `organizationName`; the profile of the certificate field by field; object identifiers by their bytes, repeated elements of a SET OF and 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. The CDDL fixes the sizes of the locator. `Verdicts.Lines` follows it, and writes the result of a foreign signer in Spanish. - **CMS reader with a profile of its own.** `internal/cms` reads certificates field by field, as the profile of §29.10 says, instead of with `encoding/asn1` and `crypto/x509`, so that a second implementation reads them the same; a certificate that breaks it decides nothing unless a `SignerInfo` names it. The text of a name comes only from UTF8String, PrintableString, IA5String, TeletexString in ASCII and BMPString without surrogates, with nothing removed. The key is RSA with NULL parameters and an odd modulus, or EC uncompressed on P-256, P-384 and P-521. Object identifiers are compared by the bytes of their DER, so an arc of 2^31 or more no longer makes an attribute that decides nothing fail the signature; a SET OF may repeat an element, and two copies of a certificate are one; a key of another scheme than its algorithm is F2; a `messageImprint` of another length is S3; the `crls` of a token decide nothing. `internal/der` checks UTCTime and GeneralizedTime in their forms of X.690, a date that exists, and millis and micros as minimal INTEGERs. - **Addresses of the locator.** A reader rejects an address that breaks §44.1 and uses the others (`Locator.Usable`); a writer never writes one. 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. A port with a leading zero is refused too, as the draft asks, which also writes the rules that the reference applied without a text: segments of 1 to 63 characters that neither start nor end with a hyphen, the scheme in lower case, `0x` and local names in either case, an IPv4 without leading zeros and a CID in canonical form. `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, and `Info.OpenLocator` refuses a nil registry. The errors of `Open` and `Unmarshal` carry no normative code. - **CLI.** `encrypt -sign` shows the author key and the code of `AUTHOR_MESSAGE` before it signs (spec §62.1 rule 20). `decrypt -expect-author` compares the key of an F4, and writes nothing unless it matches. `decrypt` and `inspect` say when a public note is not shown because it breaks the rules of text; `inspect -json` gives `public_note_unusable`. The lines of the verdicts break at the last space that fits, each row after the first behind ` ↳ `, so that the terminal never breaks them. `encrypt` reports L as the length of the payload, not of the content. - **Tables for Dart.** `internal/pathrule/gen -dart` writes the Unicode and best-fit tables as a Dart library for `datekeys-dart`, the third implementation, as `-ts` does for `datekeys-ts`: the same lists and the same `TablesDigest`. The tables and the TypeScript module do not change. - **Test data.** - `genfixtures -force` writes the fixtures of v0.10 again with their area of 512 bytes, through `EncryptOptions.TestAreaLen`, which needs `TestVectors`; it used to rewrite them with 32 KiB and fail halfway. - `format3_seal_unsupported` uses `seal_type` 4294967295, reserved for tests, instead of `seal_type` 1, which a later version may define; `capsule.AlgTest` and `SealTypeTest` name the two values. - `security.json` carries the context of a capsule, its commitments and the time of its round, and each case the verdicts and the lines of a reader of this version: a signature of `alg` 1 that does not verify is F2, a token of `seal_type` 2 that is not DER is S2, and new cases give a valid signature of `alg` 1 (F4), and `alg` and `seal_type` 4294967295 (F1, S1). 24 cases. - `note.json`, new: 16 public notes, those that pass and those that a writer refuses and a reader does not show, each with the text of the rule it breaks. - New fixtures `format3_unsigned`, the capsule of `format3_signed` without its signature, with the same P, and `format3_note`, with a public note: 26 capsules, 14 of format 3. The records of `format3_signed_cms` and `format3_sealed` give the lines of v0.12. - `mutations.json` gains 8 mutations of the list of v0.11 of §64: the signature of `alg` 1 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`); and the public note changed (`ERR_HEADER_BINDING`, step 15). The signature of `alg` 1 that does not verify (F2) is now a case of §64. 218 cases, 178 of the spec. - `security_cms.json`, made again with the profile of v0.12: 135 cases, each with the lines of `Verdicts.Lines`, for each row of §29.7 and each item of the lists of §64 of v0.11 and v0.12: the names of the holder and of the issuer, the profile of the certificate, identifiers, repetitions, every hash and curve of the table, and the edges of the token. The two cases without a context, which gave the verdicts of a reader of v0.10, are gone. - `locator.json`, made again with the cases of §64 of v0.11 and v0.12: the first and the last address of each IPv4 block with their public neighbours, the IPv6 blocks, local names, characters outside RFC 3986, dot segments and base32 that is not a CID v1, and what the draft fixes about segments, case, leading zeros and the form of a CID; a locator whose `http` and NAT64 addresses are rejected and whose third is used; resources of the rest, with bytes after it, changed, cut or at another offset; data of the extension that a reader cannot use, a locator for another round among them; and plaintexts with one defect each, the bases 4094, 4070 and 3837 completed to 4096 by a key 6 that is empty or not in its shortest form (change 7) among them. The bases 3837, 4070, 4094 and 4095 and those of the next multiple join `padding_cases`. - `wordkey.json`, new: the key of words of §38.1, which §64 of v0.11 asks for and was only in the tests of `wordkey`. 45 texts and their words, among them each space of the list and three that are not; 20 texts and what a writer does with them, the zero width space that it refuses among them; and 6 identities with their recipients, the vector of §38.1 and those of the next round, another `capsule_id`, another chain hash, round 2^53 − 1 and words that are not ASCII. For `datekeys-ts` and `datekeys-dart`. - `testdata/README.md` describes the files of v0.11 and of the draft. ## Unreleased — specification v0.11 Moves the module to the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.11, approved by its author on 1 October 2026 and tagged `spec-v0.11`, which adds to format 3 what the v0.10 reserved, without changing any format: a reader of v0.10 opens these capsules. `SpecVersion` is 0.11. - **Area of 32 KiB.** `capsule.AreaLen` is 32768, and `LargeAreaLen`, 65536, which `EncryptOptions.LargeArea` lets the writer use, after the signatures are made, only when what they produced does not fit in 32 KiB. The fixtures of v0.10 keep their 512 bytes (`AreaUnit`), which a reader accepts. - **Key of words.** Package `wordkey` derives a credential of `time_and_key` from six or more words that the person chooses, with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 of 600 000 iterations salted with the chain, the round and `capsule_id` (§38.1); the words are normalised with the tables of Unicode 18.0.0. `EncryptOptions.Words` adds it as one more credential, and the CLI takes `-words` and `-words-file` in `encrypt` and `decrypt`. - **Author signature, `alg` 1.** `internal/ed25519strict` verifies with the strict profile of §29.9 and `authorkey` keeps the keys `dkauthor1…`. `EncryptOptions.AuthorKey` signs, inside the writer and after its checks; `OpenOptions.AuthorKeys` are the keys the person saved; `Verdicts` gives F2, F3 and F4. `capsule.PayloadCommit`, `ControlCommit`, `HeadDigest`, `AuthorMessage` and `SealSubject` compute what is signed. - **Signature with certificates, `alg` 2.** `internal/cms` and `internal/der` read the CMS signature and the RFC 3161 token of §29.10 and §29.11 with the standard library only, a closed table of algorithms, and DER checked byte by byte. `EncryptOptions.CMSSigner` gets `AUTHOR_MESSAGE` and returns what the person signed outside; the writer checks it and writes nothing unless it is F6. The reader gives F1, F2, F5 and F6 and names the signers. - **Time seal, `seal_type` 2.** `EncryptOptions.Sealer` asks for the token over `SEAL_SUBJECT`; the reader gives S1 to S5 and the authority of a valid seal. - **Public note.** `EncryptOptions.PublicNote` writes `datekeys.note`; `Header.PublicNote` reads it; `extension.Standard` registers it. - **Locator and envelope.** Package `locator`: the data of `datekeys.capsule`, the locator sealed with tlock, and the envelope split into a header and a rest that can hide inside another file. - **Test data.** `format3_signed` and the vectors of its signature, and the fixtures `format3_signature_unsupported` and `format3_seal_unsupported` remade with `alg` 4294967295. - **Review.** Three independent reviews, of the CMS reader, of the signing logic and writer, and of the locator and the CLI, fixed the form of the signature and of the TSTInfo field by field, the area decided after the signatures, the text of an issuer on screen and the rules of the addresses; spec §76 item 8 records them. Under a valid seal, `decrypt` shows an mtime later than the seal as an inconsistency (§29.7). - **CLI.** `author keygen` and `author public`, `encrypt -sign`, `-note` and `-large-area`, and `decrypt -expect-author`. Passphrases come from a file or from the standard input. ## Unreleased — specification v0.10 Moves the module to the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.10, which adds capsule format 3, delivery 1 of its design: a capsule holds files, with their paths, sizes, SHA-256 and modification times, a comment and a declared author, and a security area that later versions fill with an author signature and a time seal. `EncryptFiles` writes format 3; `Open` and `Inspect` read the three formats, and capsules of formats 1 and 2 keep their verdicts. ### Format 3 - `VERSION` 3 in the PRELUDE and CONTROL_CBOR of schema version 3, with the keys of version 2: L is the length of BODY (spec §22, §31). - BODY (spec §29.2): a frame of three uint32, `AREA_LEN`, `SECURITY_LEN` and `HEAD_LEN`, the security area, 512 bytes when written and from 512 to 65536 when read, the head and the files. A violation of the frame, L under 12 included, or a byte of the area after SECURITY_CBOR that is not zero, is `ERR_INTEGRITY` at step 17. `capsule.BodyFrame`, `ParseBodyFrame`, `CheckArea`. - Security (spec §29.3, §29.7): a map of version 1 whose keys 2 and 3 are byte strings holding the author signature and the seal, encoded apart. It never fails and never decides the opening: `capsule.EvaluateSecurity` gives the verdicts X, F0, F1, S0, S1 and S2, and `Verdicts.Lines` the texts of the table, in Spanish. This version implements no `alg` and no `seal_type`. - The head (spec §29.4): its type tag and version 1, then the CDDL with R1 and R8, then, 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, and the critical extensions. A violation of a rule of layer 4 is the new `ERR_HEAD_INVALID`. `capsule.Head`, `File`, `EncodeHead`, `DecodeHead`, and `extension.Head` for its extensions. - Paths and texts (spec §29.5, §29.6, §29.5.1): `internal/pathrule` applies the rules with tables generated from 19 pinned data files, Unicode 18.0.0 and the 15 WindowsBestFit tables, never with the Unicode functions of the platform; `TablesDigest` pins them. Its errors name the rule and the character, never echo the text, and read the same in every implementation. R4b and the invisibles rule of §29.6 keep ZWJ, ZWNJ, VS15 and VS16 to their emoji and script uses. ### Reader (spec §63 step 17, §56, §57) - `capsule.Sink` receives the files: `Begin` with the validated head, `Create` for each file, `Commit` at step 18 only, and `Abort` once after any failure that follows `Begin`. A format 3 capsule without `OpenOptions.Sink` fails right after step 2 with `capsule.ErrSinkRequired`, a caller error without a code, before any request; a capsule of format 1 or 2 without `dst` fails there too. - Step 17 in its substeps: the frame and the area, security, 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. - Reads of BODY grow with the bytes received, never with `AREA_LEN`, `HEAD_LEN` or a declared size (spec §57). - `Opened` gains `Head`, `Verdicts`, `AreaLen` and `UnusableHeadExtensions`. ### Writer (spec §61, §62, §62.1) - `capsule.EncryptFiles` writes format 3 from a list of `capsule.Source`, each read twice: first to check the paths and the texts with the rules of the reader, measure L with a head whose salt and SHA-256 are zero, and hash each file; then to write it, failing if its size or SHA-256 changed (rules 14 to 18). Files go in the byte order of their paths; the comment has its CR LF turned into LF; the mtime is kept from 1970 to 9999 and omitted otherwise. The head, the control and security are decoded with the rules of the reader before anything is written (rule 17), and the area is always 512 bytes with the empty security (rule 13). - `EncryptOptions` gains `Comment`, `Author`, `HeadCritical`, `HeadNoncritical` and `TestVectors`. `Encrypt` writes format 2 only with `TestVectors`, for generators of test vectors (rule 1). `Result.Head` is the head written. ### CLI - `datekeys encrypt` takes `-in` several times, files and folders; a folder gives its name as the first segment and is walked with `Lstat`, following no link, taking regular files only and leaving out `.DS_Store`, `Thumbs.db`, `desktop.ini`, `._*` and `__MACOSX`, which it reports. New `-comment`, `-author` and `-no-mtime`. A pipe is no longer accepted. - `datekeys decrypt` writes the files of a format 3 capsule to the new folder `-out`: `os.Mkdir` claims it, only when there are files; the tree is staged in `-out/.datekeys-*` through an `os.Root`, with `O_EXCL` and mode 0600; the mtimes are set and each entry of the first level is moved into place at step 18, and any failure removes the folder. Formats 1 and 2 still write a file. - The presentation of spec §29.7 goes to stdout: the verdicts, the declared author and the comment box with their labels, the paths, and the verdicts again. Each line of the creator goes in pieces of at most W − 3 columns behind `│ `, counting 2 for anything but printable ASCII, with its TABs expanded; W is the width of the terminal, asked through `syscall` on Unix and Windows, or 80. Shortcuts, `desktop.ini`, `.git`, programs and a leading dash get a warning. ### Errors - `ERR_HEAD_INVALID` joins the catalogue, last (spec §69): 18 codes. ### Test data - `datekeys.SpecVersion` is `0.10`, and every test data file says so. - Nine fixtures of format 3 (spec §67): `format3_single`, `format3_tree`, `format3_comment_only`, `format3_bloque256` and `format3_time_and_key_portable`, written with `EncryptFiles`, and `format3_area_1024`, `format3_security_v2`, `format3_signature_unsupported` and `format3_seal_unsupported`, which only a generator of test vectors writes. Their records add the area, security, the head, the salt, the comment, the declared author, each file and the verdicts, and their plaintext file is BODY. The .dkk of formats 2 and 3 join the .dkk tests (spec §68). - New vectors: `paths.json`, `path_fold.json`, `head_schema.json` and `security.json`; `cbor.json` gains the control of version 3. - The mutation corpus gains the 33 mutations of the first two lists of spec §64 on format 3 and the 47 of the list of format 3, three of which open with their verdicts; format 2 gains "format 2 time_only relabeled format 3", and "version changed" sets `VERSION` 4. 209 cases, 169 of the spec. `testkit.Splice` gives an edit for each run of changed bytes. - The differential corpus gains two bases of format 3, one per policy: 5110 cases, the earlier ones unchanged. - The tests of the paths and of format 3 hold their invisible and combining characters as Go escapes. ## Unreleased — specification v0.9 Moves the module to the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.9, which adds capsule format 2 (spec §76, "Cambios normativos de la v0.9"): until the unlock date it hides the exact length of the content and the number of credentials. `Encrypt` writes format 2 only; `Open` and `Inspect` read both formats, and a format 1 capsule, as v0.8.2 wrote it, keeps its verdict. ### Format 2 - `VERSION` in the PRELUDE is the capsule format, 1 or 2 (spec §22, §23): `capsule.Format`, `Format1`, `Format2` and `Prelude.Format`. Any other value is `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION` at step 2, before any request, so a v0.8.2 reader rejects a format 2 capsule without a network request. - CONTROL_CBOR has the schema version of its format (spec §31). Version 2 adds key 6, `payload_length`, L in exactly 8 bytes, big-endian, at most L_MAX = 2^53 − 2^46, and key 7, `padding`, 1 (bloque256) or 2 (reforzado). A control of the other version is `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION` at step 14; a violation of keys 6 and 7 is `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`. Without extensions a version 2 control is 103 bytes, whatever L and the code. `EncodeControl` and `DecodeControl` take the format. - The payload is padded (spec §29.1): its plaintext is the content followed by zeros up to P = rule(L). `capsule.PaddedLength` computes both rules on 64-bit integers, and `capsule.PayloadAgeLength` the length of PAYLOAD_AGE. Step 17 checks that the plaintext is exactly P bytes and its padding zero, or `ERR_INTEGRITY`. `Open` writes only the first L bytes to `dst`, never the padding (spec §56), records step 17, and reports the format, L, the rule and P in `Opened`. - In format 2 INNER_ACCESS_AGE holds exactly 16 X25519 stanzas (spec §39), `agewrap.AccessSlots`: `agewrap.CheckAccessStanzas` and `agewrap.NewAccessIdentity` take the number of slots, 0 for format 1. Another number is `ERR_POLICY_STRUCTURE_MISMATCH` at step 12, and again at step 13. ### Writer rules (spec §62.1) - `EncryptOptions.Length`, L, is required: the control is sealed before the content is read, and a source that delivers another number of bytes is an error. `EncryptOptions.Padding` chooses the rule; zero means reforzado. - `time_and_key` takes from 1 to 16 credentials, the recipients and the portable key together. Each free slot gets a dummy, a fresh X25519 public key whose private key is dropped at once, and the 16 recipients are shuffled with an unbiased Fisher–Yates over `crypto/rand`. - A recipient that is not canonical (bit 255 set, or u ≥ p) or of low order is rejected: `agewrap.CheckX25519Recipient`. - Self-checks: INNER_ACCESS_AGE has 16 X25519 stanzas with distinct shares and the portable key opens exactly one; PAYLOAD_AGE has the length P gives and I_PAYLOAD opens its header. - `Result` reports the format, L, the rule and P. ### CLI - `datekeys encrypt` measures its input, copying a file that is not regular to a temporary file first, and takes `-padding reforzado|bloque256`. Its report and that of `decrypt` give the format and the lengths, and `decrypt` warns that format 1 hides neither the number of credentials nor the exact length. `datekeys inspect` reports the format, `"format"` in `-json`. ### Test data - Seven format 2 fixtures (spec §67), whose records give L, the rule, P and the INNER_ACCESS_AGE stanza each credential opens. The five format 1 fixtures of v0.8.2 keep their bytes as compatibility fixtures, and `genfixtures` never regenerates them; their records name spec 0.9, the format and stage 17. - `vectors/padding.json`, new: both rules for the rows of spec §29.1, checked against a Padmé computed with `math/big`. - `vectors/cbor.json`: the control vectors carry `format`, absent meaning 1, and gain the cases of version 2; "unknown key 6" is now "key 6, defined only in schema version 2". - `vectors/mutations.json`: "version changed" writes `VERSION` 3; the 33 mutations of the first two lists of spec §64 also run on format 2 fixtures ("format 2: …"), followed by the 22 of its third list and their companions with a `.dkk`. The new cases derive from fixtures without randomness: `testkit` seals them again with their known file keys and nonces (`reseal.go`), and reproduces each fixture byte for byte when nothing is edited. - `vectors/inspect_differential.json` keeps its 1 825 cases and adds a block for each format 2 fixture: 4 380 cases. ## Unreleased — specification v0.8.2 Moves the module to the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.8.2, whose normative change closes the extension format (spec §76), refined, amended and corrected before release (see "Specification refinements", "Specification amendment: point canonicality" and "Specification corrections: formal review"). Framing and schema versions do not change. The CBOR library is replaced by a codec of the module's own, without reflection or dependencies. Every valid object encodes to the same bytes as before: the official vectors and fixtures are unchanged, and every error code and inspection step of the test suite and the mutation corpus is the same. ### Specification refinements v0.8.2 is unreleased, so these refinements amend it without a version change; spec §76 records each with its reproducible cases. No valid object changes, nor the verdict of any existing official vector or fixture; `dk1.json` gains four vectors for the reading rules of §19. - Layered error precedence (spec §69.1, with §57 and §63): within one object the code of the first failing layer is reported: frame, then type tag and schema version (keys 0 and 1), then the CBOR profile and the CDDL, then the fields with codes of their own in ascending key order; the rules with codes of their own belong to the last layer, not to the CDDL layer. Across objects and steps, the step order of §63 decides; step 9 now spells out its order (the `.dkk` as an object, then its binding to the capsule, then credentials, then the round time, then the request), and the errors of a `.dkk` come at step 9.a even when it is decoded earlier, and never under `time_only`. The optional inspection of steps 5, 6 and 8 and the `capsule_digest` check can change the code, and so could, until the corrections of the formal review, whether a network source verified the release. Steps 10, 11, 13 and 17 give the codes of the release verification (round, then signature) and of each identity. - Trust model (spec §55.1): who can write PUBLIC_HEADER, CONTROL_CBOR, PAYLOAD_AGE and the `.dkk` body, from which step each is bound and by what, and what none of them proves. Spec §72: an extension with security-relevant claims lives in CONTROL_CBOR or is signed by a signature extension; the data of `.dkk` extensions is advisory for its holder only. - One ordering rule for extension arrays (spec §31, §54, CDDL): strictly ascending unsigned bytewise order of the UTF-8 bytes of `extension_id`, a proper prefix first, never UTF-16 code units or a locale collation. - Rules that only `testdata/README.md` stated are now normative text: the age header grammar of C2SP and its codes (§28.1, §36), the round-time bound of 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z and pre-genesis instants (§15), the reading rules of `dk1_` (§19: either Base64 alphabet but no CR or LF, one JSON object in valid UTF-8 without a byte order mark, numbers by their exact decimal value), lengths of at least 1 (§22, §23, §40, §57), the comparison of the tlock stanza arguments (§35, §63 step 8), the Provider Profile rules and the chain-hash formula (§12.1, with `period` at most 2^32 − 1 and the name alphabets normative; the name lengths stay implementation limits), `extension_id` of at least one byte (§31), a repeated X25519 ephemeral share in INNER_ACCESS_AGE (§36), and the implementation limits of the reference (§74). These error codes of the reference change, for inputs that no existing official vector holds: - `capsule.Open` checks an offered `.dkk` as an object before binding it to the capsule: `access_type` and `access_material`, then its critical extensions, then `capsule_id`, then `capsule_digest`. A `.dkk` for another capsule with an unknown critical extension is now `ERR_EXTENSION_CRITICAL_UNKNOWN` (was `ERR_ACCESS_INVALID`), and one with an unsupported `access_type` and an unknown critical extension is `ERR_ACCESS_INVALID` (was `ERR_EXTENSION_CRITICAL_UNKNOWN`). - `accesskey.Decode` rejects a `BODY_LEN` of 0 with `ERR_INTEGRITY`, like a `PUBLIC_HEADER_LEN` of 0; it was `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`, the empty body failing to decode. - `datekey.Parse` rejects CR and LF in a `dk1_` string with `ERR_DATEKEY_INVALID`; the Go Base64 decoders skipped them, and the result was `ERR_DATEKEY_NON_CANONICAL`. It also rejects invalid UTF-8 in the JSON at step 2 (see "Fixed"). - `datekeys decrypt -dkk` hands the `.dkk` to `capsule.Open` still encoded, through the new `OpenOptions.AccessKeyFile`, so its decoding errors come at step 9 of a `time_and_key` capsule, after any failure of steps 1 to 8, and a `time_only` capsule ignores it; the CLI used to fail on it before reading the capsule. - `capsule.Open` ignores nil entries of `OpenOptions.Identities`: with no other credential, the result is `ERR_ACCESS_REQUIRED` at step 9, before the clock is consulted, instead of `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` or a release request. - `agewrap.AccessIdentity` tries every identity on every stanza: an identity that unwraps two INNER_ACCESS_AGE stanzas is `ERR_POLICY_STRUCTURE_MISMATCH` even when another identity unwraps exactly one, whatever their order; the file used to open when the other came first. - `profile.NewRegistry` encodes and decodes each profile before comparing its `profile_hash`, so a profile gets the code `profile.Decode` reports: a `period` of 86401 s is `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`, as in `Decode`, not `ERR_UNKNOWN_PROFILE`. `Profile.Validate` checks the schema rules a value can break (a period that is not a whole number of seconds in 1..86400, a genesis time outside 0..2^53−1, a name that is not valid UTF-8) first, with `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`. Tests: `capsule.TestPrecedenceWithinPublicHeader`, `TestPrecedenceAcrossSteps`, `TestFrameLengthLowerBounds`, `TestMalformedAgeHeaders`, `TestTlockStanzaArgumentComparison`, `TestAccessKeyCheckOrder`, `TestAccessKeyFileAtStep9`, `TestControlCriticalBeforeHeaderBinding` and `TestTrustModel`; `accesskey.TestDecodePrecedence`; `agewrap.TestAccessIdentityStrictness`; `datekey.TestReadingRules`; `profile.TestDecodePrecedence` (a G1 point outside the prime-order subgroup), `TestPinPathMatchesDecode` and `TestChainHashFormula`; `provider.TestVerifyRejects`; `extension.TestOrderIsUnsignedBytewise`; `cmd/datekeys.TestDecryptAccessKeyOrder`. ### Specification amendment: point canonicality An amendment of the unreleased v0.8.2, recorded with its case in spec §76. The new §12.2 defines the canonical encoding of a BLS12-381 point, the compressed form of drand: the compression flag set, the infinity flag only for the point at infinity with every other bit zero, the sort flag for the lexicographically largest y, big-endian coordinates below p (c1 then c0 in G2) and a point of the prime-order subgroup. A decoder rejects every other string, among them x + p and an identity with a payload. The Provider Profile public key (§12.1), the release signature (§63 step 10) and the U of the tlock stanza (§63 step 11) are canonical and never the point at infinity, and step 11 defines the stanza body, `U || V || W` with |V| = |W| = 16 (128 bytes for Quicknet), and the IBE check r·G == U. The case, from the second implementation: `tlock-js` on `@noble/curves` 1.9.7 accepted U re-encoded as c0 + p and a signature re-encoded as x + p and returned the same file key, where the reference rejects both. No error code or step of the reference changes: its decoder, `kilic/bls12-381` through drand, already rejected those encodings. A U at infinity, which only the IBE check used to reject, is refused before decryption, with the same `ERR_INTEGRITY`. Spec §64 gains ten mutations, exported in `mutations.json`: U with c0 + p, U at infinity, U with the infinity flag and a payload, and tlock stanza bodies of 127 and 129 bytes, each with a valid header MAC (`ERR_INTEGRITY`, step 11); a release signature with x + p, at infinity, with the infinity flag and a payload, negated, and negated together with U with c0 + p (`ERR_RELEASE_INVALID`, step 10). The x + p case is a capsule for round 1004, whose published signature `testkit` now knows (`testkit.XPlusPRound`): no fixture round has an x below 2^381 − p. No fixture and no other vector changes. Tests: `profile.TestDrandPointDecodersAreCanonical`, which fails if a dependency update makes the decoders of drand lenient, and `TestPublicKeyEncodingIsCanonical`; new cases in `provider.TestVerifyRejects`, `agewrap.TestTimeIdentityStrictness` and `TestTimeIdentityRelease`; `capsule.TestPointMutationsChangeOnlyTheEncoding`, which checks that each point mutation differs from a capsule that opens only in one encoding; `internal/testkit.TestPointReencodings`. ### Specification corrections: formal review Corrections of the unreleased v0.8.2 from the formal review of the specification, recorded with their cases in spec §76 ("Correcciones de la revisión formal"). Three change normative rules: - A source that fetches releases over a network (a relay, the Release API or a cache) must verify every response with the rules of step 10 and discard the one that fails; when none passes, the code is `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` at step 9 (spec §63). The codes of step 10 are those of a release supplied directly, as in the official vectors. `provider/drand.Client` already did this; the contract of `provider.ReleaseSource` and the documentation of `capsule.OpenOptions.Source` now say so. - Each registered extension declares the objects (PUBLIC_HEADER, CONTROL_CBOR, `.dkk`) and the arrays where it may appear, and a known extension elsewhere is treated as unknown there (spec §31, §54, §72): a critical one is `ERR_EXTENSION_CRITICAL_UNKNOWN`, a noncritical one is ignored. The new optional interface `extension.Placement` of a `Registry` tells where each extension is registered; `capsule.Inspect` and `capsule.Open` check the arrays of PUBLIC_HEADER (step 4), of the `.dkk` (step 9.a) and of CONTROL_CBOR (step 14) with the new `extension.CheckCriticalIn` and `extension.CheckNoncriticalIn`. A `Registry` that does not implement it behaves as before. - H2, H3 and H4 of step 11 are those of drand/kyber `encrypt/ibe`, and H2 hashes the element of GT in the order of `kilic/bls12-381`: c1 before c0 at every level of the tower, each coordinate of Fp in 48 bytes big-endian. The new vector file `testdata/vectors/tlock_ibe.json` freezes H2(e(G1, G2)) = `cb87319f24560b5231579a09ad79f12e`; the order of `Fp12.toBytes` of noble, c0 first, gives `0118eea9d5971745f71e3c94926f1717` and another file key. The other findings are editorial: §27 defers the authenticity of PUBLIC_HEADER to the trust model (§55.1) and says that the age header MAC protects only against whoever does not know the file key; step 5 separates the mandatory read of SEALED_CONTROL from the optional inspection of its age header; step 15 names `ERR_HEADER_BINDING`; §21 makes the 16 CSPRNG bytes of `capsule_id` a MUST; §77 gains drand/kyber, RFC 8259, RFC 8610 and RFC 4648; §76 retitles its section "Cambios normativos de la v0.8.2" and corrects its record: `dk1.json` gained four vectors, not three, and two cases of the refinements quoted texts that no earlier version contained. No error code of the reference changes, nor any fixture or existing vector. `github.com/drand/kyber-bls12381`, already an indirect dependency through drand and tlock, becomes a direct requirement: `internal/testkit` and a test compute the pairing with it. Tests: `capsule.TestReleaseFromANetworkSource` (a relay whose only answer is a release of another round, or a negated signature, gives `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` at step 9 through `provider/drand.Client`, and the same release supplied directly the code of step 10); `capsule.TestExtensionPlacement` (an extension registered for CONTROL_CBOR only is unknown in PUBLIC_HEADER and in a `.dkk`, one registered as noncritical only is unknown in a critical array, and a noncritical copy outside its registration is ignored); `extension.TestPlacement`; `agewrap.TestTlockH2Vector` (the frozen vector, and step 11 recomputed with H2 and H4 against the file key that tlock unwraps). A second round of the same review confirmed these corrections and asked for three more, recorded in spec §76 as corrections 4 to 6: - An encoder must not write a registered extension in an object or array it is not registered for, and a reader that ignores a noncritical one for that reason must not interpret its data (spec §54, §72). A writer could seal in the critical extensions of CONTROL_CBOR one registered there as noncritical only, which a reader that knows the registration rejects at step 14, after the unlock. `capsule.Encrypt` and `accesskey.Encode` take no `Registry`: they write the extensions they are given, and the application, which knows the registration, applies the rule. - §17 and §51 give the codes of step 10 only for a release supplied directly, as step 10 does; one that a network source fetches and that breaks those rules is discarded at step 9. - Whatever the failure of the release source, step 9 reports `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` and no other code (spec §63). The other findings are editorial: §28.1 says that steps 5 and 6 parse only the age header, since step 5 reads all of SEALED_CONTROL; step 9 has a single arrow to `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE`; §76 rewords two introductions. `testdata/README.md` says where the extensions of the mutation corpus are registered: in both arrays of every object. These error results of the reference change, for inputs that no official vector holds: - `capsule.Open` reports any error of `OpenOptions.Source` at step 9 with `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` as its only code. An error that carries another normative code, or none, keeps only its text: a caller's source that failed with `ERR_RELEASE_INVALID` gave `ERR_RELEASE_INVALID` at step 9. An error that wraps `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` alone is returned as it is, with its other causes, such as a context error. - The error of `provider/drand.Client.Fetch` wraps `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` and no other normative error, as `errors.go` promises for every error of the module. The failure of each relay is kept in its text only, where `errors.Join` wrapped it: a relay that answered with a release of another round also made the error match `ERR_ROUND_MISMATCH`. A context that ended is still wrapped, whether `Fetch` sees it end before or after the relays fail because of it. Tests: `capsule.TestReleaseSourceErrorsAtStep9` (a source error with another code, two codes or none gives `ERR_RELEASE_UNAVAILABLE` alone at step 9 and keeps its text); `capsule.TestExtensionPlacement`, which now also covers the noncritical array of a `.dkk`, so that checking it with the object-blind `extension.CheckNoncritical` fails; `provider/drand.TestFetchErrorHasOneCode` and `TestUnavailabilityAndCancellation` (a canceled context and a deadline during the request); `datekeys.TestCode`. ### Breaking changes - `extension.New(id, version, data []byte)` takes the opaque data bytes instead of a value that it encoded as CBOR, and rejects nil or empty data. An extension without data is the literal `extension.Extension{ID, Version}`, which omits key 2. - Extension data (key 2) must be a byte string of at least one byte. Any other CBOR type, `null` or `h''` at key 2 is now `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`, so a v0.8.1 object with such data no longer decodes. The base protocol never decodes the content (§54). - `codec.Valid` and its fuzz target `codec.FuzzValid` are removed: nothing decodes extension data any more. - Package `codec` is rewritten without reflection, struct tags or dependencies (§58). Removed: `Marshal`, the reflection-based `Unmarshal(data, v)` and `Peek(data, v)`, and `MaxNestedLevels`, `MaxArrayElements` and `MaxMapPairs`. Each schema now writes its encoding with a `codec.Encoder` (`Map`, `Array`, `Uint`, `Bstr`, `Text`, `Out`, with a sticky first error, and `Fail`, which records an error of the schema so that `Out` never returns bytes its decoder rejects) and reads it with a strict `codec.Decoder` (`NewDecoder`, `Map`, `Key`, `EndMap`, `Array`, `Uint`, `Bstr`, `Text`, `Done`). `codec.Unmarshal(in, decode, encode)` runs the decoder of a schema and requires that its re-encoding reproduces the input; `codec.Peek(in)` returns the type tag, of at most `codec.MaxTypeTagLen` (64) bytes, and the schema version; `codec.Walk(in, maxDepth, maxLen)` checks that bytes are one item of the §58 profile, for vectors, fuzzing and diagnostics. `CheckSchema` and `MaxSafeUint` keep their names. - `extension.Wire` and its `UnmarshalCBOR` are removed. `extension.Encode` becomes `extension.Canonical`, which returns the validated array in canonical order as `[]Extension`; `extension.Decode([]Wire)` becomes `extension.DecodeArray(*codec.Decoder)`, which reads and validates one array and rejects more than 64 entries from the array head, before reading any; `extension.EncodeArray(*codec.Encoder, []Extension)` writes one, and records in the Encoder, instead of writing it, an array that `DecodeArray` would reject. - `codec.CheckSchema` reads keys 0 and 1 only, and nothing after them (§70): the map head, key 0, a type tag of at most 64 bytes, key 1 and the version must be in the profile, each head in its shortest form, and the version at most 2^53−1. A schema version other than the expected one read that way is `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION` whatever follows it; it was `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR` when the rest of the object was malformed. Every other form of the version is now `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`, where it was `ERR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION` whenever the value read was not the expected one: a missing version, `null` or `undefined`, a version not in its shortest form, a version above 2^53−1 (up to 2^64−1), a version that is not the second key (placed before key 0 or after another key), and a version behind a map head or a type tag head not in its shortest form. `true` and `false` were already `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`. - `capsule.DecodeHeader` checks every CDDL rule of PUBLIC_HEADER, including `access_policy`, the extension arrays and the cross-array rule, before it parses the DateKey (§57, §63 step 4). A header that breaks both reports `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR` where it reported `ERR_DATEKEY_INVALID` or `ERR_DATEKEY_NON_CANONICAL`; a header with one fault keeps its code. - `profile.Profile.CanonicalCBOR` and `Hash` refuse a `profile_id`, `provider`, `network` or `scheme` that is not valid UTF-8, with `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`: they wrote it as an invalid text string. Every encoder refuses such text. - At most 64 extensions per array and `extension_version` at most 2^32−1, on encode and decode (`ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`). An `extension_id` appears at most once per object, and arrays are ordered by `extension_id` only. - Provider Profile: `genesis_time` is an unsigned integer, and `period` and `genesis_time` are at most 2^53−1; a negative or larger value is `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`. - `null` in a byte-string field is `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR` (for example a `null` `access_material` was `ERR_ACCESS_INVALID`): nil byte strings, arrays and maps now encode as empty ones, never as `null`. - `capsule.EncodeHeader` and `capsule.DecodeHeader` enforce the 1 MiB PUBLIC_HEADER limit and `accesskey.DecodeBody` the 16 MiB BODY limit. Every frame-limit refusal, including those of `accesskey.MarshalBody` and of `capsule.Encrypt` for SEALED_CONTROL, now wraps `ERR_INTEGRITY` (§57). - `profile.Profile.CanonicalCBOR` refuses a `period` or `genesis_time` outside the schema with `ERR_NON_CANONICAL_CBOR`, as `profile.Decode` does. - The official fixture `time_only_extensions` is regenerated: its header data is the raw UTF-8 bytes of "public label" and its control data is `{0: 7, 1: "sealed"}` (`a2000701667365616c6564`). Every other `.dkc` and `.dkk` keeps its bytes; the fixture and vector metadata name spec 0.8.2. ### Added - `datekeys.SpecVersion` (`0.8.2`), the specification the module implements, and `datekeys.Version()`, the version of the module as the go command recorded it: a tag, the pseudo-version of the commit of a checkout build, or `(devel)`. `datekeys version` prints both and the Go toolchain. - `capsule.OpenOptions.AccessKeyFile`, a `.dkk` still encoded, which `Open` decodes at step 9.a and only for a `time_and_key` capsule (§63, §69.1). - `ErrExtensionDataInvalid` (`ERR_EXTENSION_DATA_INVALID`, §69). - `extension.Placement`, an optional interface of a `Registry` that tells in which objects and arrays each extension is registered, with `extension.Object` (`PublicHeader`, `Control`, `AccessKey`), `extension.Array` (`Critical`, `Noncritical`), `extension.KnownIn`, `extension.CheckCriticalIn` and `extension.CheckNoncriticalIn` (§54, §72). `CheckCritical` and `CheckNoncritical`, which do not know the object, keep their behaviour and consult no `Placement`. - `testdata/vectors/tlock_ibe.json`, the H2 vector of §63 step 11, generated by `internal/testkit.IBEVectors` and documented in `testdata/README.md`. - `extension.DataValidator`, an optional interface of a `Registry` that validates the data of the extensions it knows: a known critical extension with invalid data fails with `ErrExtensionDataInvalid` (§63 steps 4 and 14, and the `.dkk` check); a known noncritical one is reported in `capsule.Inspection.UnusableExtensions`, `capsule.Opened.UnusableControlExtensions` or `capsule.Opened.UnusableAccessKeyExtensions` (`extension.CheckNoncritical`, `extension.Unusable`) and does not fail. - Encoder self-checks: `capsule.Encrypt` decodes its PUBLIC_HEADER and CONTROL_CBOR, and `accesskey.MarshalBody` its body, with the readers' decoders before sealing or writing (§72). - `extension.MaxExtensions`, `MaxVersion`, `MaxDataLen`, `codec.MaxSafeUint` and `codec.MaxTypeTagLen`. - The `.dkk` fixture `time_and_key_portable_extension`, which carries a noncritical extension with data (§68). - `genfixtures -only NAME[,NAME...]` regenerates the named fixtures only. - Tests: the three new §64 mutations (data that is not a byte string, `h''` data, 65 extensions), regression tests for the cases of §76, conformance checks on the exact data bytes, and the fuzz target `capsule.FuzzEncodeImpliesDecode` (header, control and `.dkk`). - The mutation corpus moves from `capsule/mutation_test.go` to `internal/testkit.Mutations`, shared by the test and by `genfixtures`. Its third-party X25519 identity is now fixed (`testkit.Stranger`), and every release source answers with one recorded release, as the exported corpus describes it. The CLI's inspect view moves to `internal/inspectview`, which `genfixtures` uses to freeze the outputs. - `internal/cbortest`, an encoder and decoder of generic CBOR values written independently of `codec`: tests build with it inputs outside the profile and check `codec` against it. - Tests of the map structure of every schema (key order, required and unknown keys, entry counts) and of the codec, whose statement coverage is 100 %. - `access_policy` values whose low byte is 0 or 1 (256, 257, 65536, 2^32, 2^53−256…) are tested as undefined, as `FuzzDecodeHeader` seeds and as two mutations with a consistent `header_binding` (`testkit.Build.RawPolicy`). - Tests `extension.TestEncodeArrayRejects`, `accesskey.TestEncodeAndDecodeLeaveNoStaleMaterial`, `accesskey.TestDecodeShortBodyAllocatesLittle` and `capsule.TestDecryptAll`. - Shared test data for a second implementation, generated by `genfixtures`, regenerated by the gate and documented in `testdata/README.md`: - `testdata/vectors/cbor.json`: 36 accepted and 67 rejected items of the §58 profile, walked with `codec.Walk` (integers above 2^53−1 as decimal strings), and 135 schema vectors: minimal valid object, unknown key, missing key, wrong type, size and range for the Provider Profile, PUBLIC_HEADER, CONTROL_CBOR, the `.dkk` body, `verification_metadata` and extensions (data `40` and `5801xx`, data of every other type, 64 and 65 extensions, a leading BOM, the U+FF61/U+10000 order, `extension_version` 2^32−1 and 2^32); schema versions 2^53 and 2^64−1 and the order of type tag and version; and the Provider Profile validation (names, public key, `genesis_time`, drand scheme, the chain-hash self-check with its formula, the `period` limit), each vector keeping the chain hash consistent unless it tests the self-check. - `testdata/vectors/mutations.json`: the mutation corpus as frozen data, 65 cases (the 33 of §64 first), each a `.dkc` given as edits of a fixture and what the reader is given (`.dkk`, identities, the recorded release, clock, registry, known extensions), with the expected error and step. The 17 capsules built with age randomness are kept from the committed file; `genfixtures -only mutations` rebuilds them. - `testdata/vectors/inspect_differential.json`: 1825 deterministic mutations of the five `.dkc` fixtures (bit flips, byte changes, truncations, insertions, deletions, length fields, CBOR-aware header edits, DateKey edits, age header edits) with the verdict of steps 1 to 8. - `testdata/fixtures/.inspect.json`: the exact output of `datekeys inspect -json -in .dkc` for each official capsule. - `testdata/README.md` points to the sections of the specification that decide each verdict (§12.1, §15, §19, §22, §23, §28.1, §63, §69.1, §74), which the refinements above moved into normative text. - `spec/datekeys.cddl` marks the one-day `period` limit of the Provider Profile, which `profile.Decode` already applied, as an implementation limit of the reference (§57, §74); spec §11 allows up to 2^53−1. - Tests that replay them: `codec.TestSharedVectors`, `internal/testkit.TestSchemaVectors`, `capsule.TestExportedMutationCorpus`, `capsule.TestInspectDifferentialCorpus` and `cmd/datekeys.TestInspectJSONGoldens`. - Fuzz targets `codec.FuzzDecoder` (the Decoder primitives), `codec.FuzzWalk` (against the independent decoder), `codec.FuzzPeek`, `codec.FuzzEncodeImpliesWalk` and `extension.FuzzDecodeArray`, run by `scripts/fuzz.sh`; `codec.FuzzUnmarshal` now fuzzes a hand-written schema. ### Removed - The dependencies `github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2` and `github.com/x448/float16`. `go.mod` requires nothing new. ### Fixed - Error messages no longer copy the text of an error of age, tlock, kyber, drand or kyber-bls12381. When the IBE check of a tlock stanza failed, kyber's error carried the candidate plaintext and r, and `agewrap.TimeIdentity` copied it into its error, and so into the error of `capsule.Open` and the details of `Inspection.Checks`: a third party who edited W learned FK_TIME from the message. Each such failure now has a fixed message with its normative error and a reason of its own: the length of the tlock stanza body, the encoding of U, U at infinity or the IBE check; the header or the STREAM of an age file; a malformed X25519 stanza. A failure of the writer of the plaintext at step 17 keeps its own text. `capsule.TestTlockFailureDiagnosticsCarryNoSecrets`, `TestPlaintextWriterFailureKeepsItsText`. - `datekey.Parse` rejects invalid UTF-8 in the `dk1_` JSON at step 2, as §19 requires. `encoding/json` replaced it with U+FFFD, so a member that a repeated name overwrites passed steps 2 and 3 and ended as `ERR_DATEKEY_NON_CANONICAL` instead of `ERR_DATEKEY_INVALID`. Found by the second implementation's differential; new `dk1.json` vector. - `extension.CheckDisjoint` is a linear merge of the two sorted arrays; a PUBLIC_HEADER with 40 000 + 40 000 extensions took 8.3 s in the pairwise check (§76, case 6). - Control data made of 14 or 15 nested arrays was sealed by `Encrypt` and rejected by `Open` at step 14, after the unlock (§76, case 5). - Header data `{NaN: 0, NaN: 1}` gave a nondeterministic verdict (§76, case 3). - `extension.New(id, v, nil)` wrote `null` as data (§76, case 2). - `codec.Unmarshal` wipes its re-encoding, which after the new self-checks held a copy of I_PAYLOAD or `access_material`, and `accesskey.DecodeBody` wipes the material on its error paths. The `codec.Encoder` also wipes every buffer it outgrows, and `codec.Unmarshal` sizes its re-encoding for the input; the former library's internal buffers could keep a copy. - `accesskey.Encode` wipes the body it wrote, and `accesskey.Decode` reads the body into a buffer that grows with the data read, wiping every buffer it outgrows, and wipes the body once decoded or on error: both left copies of `access_material` behind. The in-memory age decryption of SEALED_CONTROL and INNER_ACCESS_AGE in `capsule.Open` reads the plaintext into one buffer of the ciphertext's size instead of a growing one, so that no outgrown buffer keeps a copy of I_PAYLOAD. Buffers internal to `filippo.io/age` and copies made by the Go runtime stay out of reach (SECURITY.md). ## Unreleased — v0.1.0 First implementation of the DateKeys Protocol Specification v0.8.1. ### Added - `datekey`: local date → round resolution at full precision (§15), canonical `dk1_` encoding and strict parsing (§18, §19). - `profile`: Provider Profile Deterministic CBOR and `profile_hash` (§11), the pinned Quicknet profile with its chain-hash self-check (§12), and pinned registries (§13). - `provider`: release sources and local BLS verification (§51); `provider/drand`: racing public relays, verifying every answer (§48, §49, §52). - `codec`: Deterministic CBOR with a re-encoding canonicality check (§58, §58.1). - `extension`: the generic extension mechanism (§54). - `agewrap`: strict tlock and X25519 age identities that enforce the stanza rules (§27, §29, §32, §33, §35), and a secret-free header probe. - `capsule`: `.dkc` framing, `Encrypt` for `time_only` and `time_and_key` (§61, §62), `Inspect` (§63 steps 1–8) and `Open` (§63 steps 9–18). - `accesskey`: `.dkk` encoding and decoding (§40–§44). - `cmd/datekeys`: `encrypt`, `decrypt`, `inspect`, `datekey resolve`, `profile hash`, with atomic, non-overwriting outputs. - Official vectors (§65, §66), `.dkc`/`.dkk` fixtures (§67, §68), the mutation corpus (§64), fuzz targets for every parser, interoperability tests with the official `age` and `tle` CLIs, and live Quicknet integration tests. - `spec/datekeys.cddl` and `docs/traceability.md`.