AIP-21: a record that reaches `post-quantum` shows that the commit quorum of distinct validators sealed the block
post-quantum in some round; it does not by itself prove that the block was decided (follows the AIP-22 erratum of the same
day). AIP-23: dated note on what the finality level rests on; level names unchanged. Three formal models carry a dated note
where they treated certificate uniqueness as a property of the code rather than of the model.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured in the reference client: at N = 10, seven valid Falcon-512 seals over M(p) from rounds 0 and 2 while p' is decided in
round 3, and an anchor over p carrying them passes the certificate rules. Withdrawn as written until the commit seal binds the
round: the finality definition of section 1, the Rationale's implication that a quorum of seals proves consensus, and the
Security Considerations claim for H_fin. Chain 2800 below stage 5 is not affected. The original text stays; the correction is
dated in a note at the top and in the Errata.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AIP-22 described chain 2800 "today" as the chain before stages 1 to 3. A note dated 2026-09-30 says which
stages are active from which block; the index row and the README summary carry the same heights.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The public history carried kat/__pycache__/mlkem768_reference.cpython-314.pyc,
a compiled Python artifact embedding the operator's absolute local path. Text
secret scanners do not read compiled binaries, which is exactly how it slipped
through, and removing it from the tip would have left it reachable through the
old root commits. So this repository is republished from a single clean root.
This root also carries, from the previously unpublished line of work:
- corrected LICENSE year, LICENSING.md, VERIFY-POLICY.md, and
CITATIONS-UNRESOLVED.md remeasured 2026-08-11 (101 paths, README aligned)
- O-018: run_consensus_verification.py ran 19 of 29 models and reported PASS;
it now runs all 29, and computemarket_smt.py gains resolveByTimeout /
reclaimUnsettled cases plus a negative control
- O-006: the word 'audited' removed from next to Bouncy Castle, twice, after a
concurrent edit resurrected it
- O-014: prior art named and dated - Algorand's native falcon_verify shipped
about ten months before AERE's precompiles; the primacy claim is withdrawn
where it was implied
- bench/ scripts parametrized so they actually run for an outsider (the
earlier textual sanitization left $STAGING unexpanded inside Python strings)
- AIP-2/AIP-3 errata with measured figures, spec remeasurements at 2026-08-01,
and the spec-zk-stack retractions (owner is an operational key, not the
Foundation; 'maximally sound' withdrawn; aggregator V1 deprecated)
The redacted bench-host environment files from the sanitized line are kept
exactly as published; the unredacted local variants are not carried.
