From eb88b300a7c60168b7c81aa6ab272fe16c5eda5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aere Network <office@aere.network>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:07:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Dated correction (2026-10-27):
 notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs names the certificate slot as element 5 of
 extraData, counting from 0 as aere-node SPEC.md 2.3 does; its messages and
 comment said element 6.

---
 notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs b/notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs
index deb1931..a9acc0a 100644
--- a/notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs
+++ b/notarizare/verifica-certificat.mjs
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ const areTextASCII = (u8, s) => {
 // (measured 2026-09-11 on chain 2800, at the admission of the tenth validator), so "32 bytes, no 'besu'" alone called every one of
 // its blocks an anchor. The anchor digest is a keccak256 output; zero is refused here as it is in every gate of the house.
 const esteZero = (u8) => Array.from(u8).every((b) => b === 0);
-// Minimal RLP reader (lists and strings), enough to name the FORM of the certificate in element 6 of extraData.
+// Minimal RLP reader (lists and strings), enough to name the FORM of the certificate in element 5 of extraData
+// (counting from 0, as aere-node SPEC.md 2.3; corrected 2026-10-27: this said element 6).
 function citesteRLP(u8, pos) {
   const p = u8[pos];
   if (p < 0x80) return { list: false, bytes: u8.slice(pos, pos + 1), next: pos + 1 };
@@ -134,8 +135,8 @@ export function formaCertificatului(extra) {
   if (!top.list) return { forma: 'unreadable', text: 'extraData is not an RLP list' };
   if (top.items.length < 6) return { forma: 'none', text: 'no certificate element (extraData has ' + top.items.length + ' elements)' };
   const el = top.items[5];
-  if (!el.list) return { forma: 'unknown', text: 'element 6 is not a list' };
-  if (el.items.length === 0) return { forma: 'none', text: 'element 6 is the empty list (no certificate)' };
+  if (!el.list) return { forma: 'unknown', text: 'element 5 of extraData (counting from 0, the certificate slot) is not a list' };
+  if (el.items.length === 0) return { forma: 'none', text: 'element 5 of extraData (counting from 0, the certificate slot) is the empty list (no certificate)' };
   const first = el.items[0];
   if (first.list) return { forma: 'v1', text: 'certificate v1, ' + el.items.length + ' Falcon-512 rows (no scheme tags, no round)' };
   const scalar = (it) => (it.list ? null : Array.from(it.bytes).reduce((a, b) => a * 256 + b, 0));