Closes Tier 1 #6 and the entire Tier 1 sweep. Previous §1.3 said the
on-disk byte order was Ed25519_priv(32) || X25519_priv(32) ("opposite
of the public_key concatenation"). That was WRONG.
Verified empirically against RNS 1.2.0 by round-tripping the existing
test vectors through Identity.to_file and reading the bytes back:
disk = X25519_priv(32) || Ed25519_priv(32) # same as public_key
This matches Identity.get_private_key() at RNS/Identity.py:694-698:
return self.prv_bytes + self.sig_prv_bytes
where prv_bytes is X25519 (line 679) and sig_prv_bytes is Ed25519
(line 682). It also matches load_private_key at line 706-717.
Implementations following the prior spec wording would have written
identity files that fail to load on upstream RNS — a real interop
break that would have been very hard to debug because the failure is
in keypair-loading, before any signature operation runs.
§1.3 rewritten and expanded:
- Correct byte order with citation to upstream code.
- 64-byte raw-blob format with explicit "no header / no version /
no checksum / no encryption".
- File-system facts: no chmod, expected to live in OS-protected
storage, filename is caller-controlled.
- from_bytes HAZARD note: feeding raw random bytes skips the
`cryptography` library's keypair-generation invariants
(X25519 RFC 7748 §5 scalar clamping etc).
- Cross-implementation portability follows automatically because
there's nothing in the file but the bytes.
- ⚠️ Spec correction callout warning future readers about the
previous wording so the bug history is on record.
tools/verify_destination_hash.py extended with a §1.3 to_file /
from_file round-trip section. For each test vector it now:
- writes the identity via to_file
- asserts the on-disk file is exactly 64 bytes
- asserts disk[:32] hex == expected x25519_priv_hex
- asserts disk[32:64] hex == expected ed25519_priv_hex
- reloads via from_file and asserts identity_hash invariance
This is what would have caught the bug if it had been there from the
start. tools/README.md updated to reflect §1.3 coverage.
Cumulative Tier 1 status: 6 of 6 done. A from-scratch client built
from §1-§9 + §10 + §11 + flows/ can now interop with upstream
Reticulum / LXMF / RNode for identity, announce, opportunistic LXMF
DATA, Resource fragmentation, regular PROOF receipts, link
handshakes with MTU/mode signalling, path-? discovery, and
KISS/HDLC/RNode-air-frame framing. Tiers 2 and 3 remain open in the
todo for follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds tools/ verifier scripts that exercise upstream RNS / LXMF and confirm
(or correct) the SPEC.md callouts:
- §2.3 HEADER_1→HEADER_2 conversion: verified by stubbing Transport.transmit
and seeding a multi-hop path_table entry.
- §4.3 app_data 3-element variant: producer in LXMF 0.9.6 actually emits
2 elements only (supported_functionality at LXMRouter.py:999 is dead
code); parser tolerates 1/2/3-element + raw UTF-8.
- §7.1 path? always-precedes claim: actually conditional on
not has_path() AND method==OPPORTUNISTIC.
- §7.4 ratchet ring default 8: actually Destination.RATCHET_COUNT = 512
at RNS/Destination.py:85.
Also fixes a documentation bug in §1.2: the rnstransport.path.request row
of the well-known-hash table had the dest-hash prefix where the name_hash
should be (correct name_hash is 7926bbe7dd7f9aba88b0).
Seeds test-vectors/identities.json (Alice + Bob) with a regenerator
(tools/regen_identities.py) and verifier (tools/verify_destination_hash.py)
covering §1.1 and §1.2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bootstrapped from the working notes of two reverse-engineering efforts:
- reticulum-lora-webclient (web/Capacitor)
- reticulum-mobile-app (Kotlin Multiplatform / Android)
SPEC.md consolidates byte-level wire format findings that aren't in the
upstream Reticulum manual. Each section grounded in upstream Python
source citations (file + line) where possible.
agent.md establishes the verification rules:
- Every claim is verified, unverified, or speculation; markers required
- Verification means a runnable script or a source citation
- PRs that quietly remove markers get rejected
tools/ and test-vectors/ are placeholder scaffolding with READMEs
describing the work needed.
Sections in SPEC.md flagged as currently UNVERIFIED:
- §2.3 Originator HEADER_1 -> HEADER_2 conversion
- §4.3 app_data 3-element variant with capabilities
- §7.1 path? always precedes LXMF (vs only on stale paths)
- §7.4 ratchet ring count default = 8
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
