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fix(core): ignore invalid signatures in satisfies_threshold (#349) - #554
Re-homes #366 (fix(core): ignore invalid signatures in satisfies_threshold, for #349) onto an upstream branch so the upstream-only Code Quality check can run. Signature entries live outside the signed cert body, so any third party can append junk; today the first bad entry denies an otherwise valid certificate.
Motivation & context
satisfies_threshold (a maintainer pre-filter with no production caller yet) previously delegated to verify_all, which fails on the first malformed entry. A relay or peer appending garbage could deny every threshold check. This version skips malformed, oversized, non-maintainer, and forged entries and bounds the scan at 64 entries.
Breaking or protocol change (issue required first)
What changed
gitlawb-core: satisfies_threshold skips malformed/oversized/non-maintainer/forged entries instead of failing on the first one; the scan is bounded by MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES (loud Err above the cap) and an encoded-signature length gate that runs before any base64 or curve work.
Merge detail: contributor commits preserved author-identical from 7c4daa27; one merge commit brings main at c805e35f. The function body conflicted with main's strict version; the merge keeps the tolerant scan and adopts main's fail-closed threshold == 0 rejection (checked before the entry cap). Three maintainer-review findings folded into the merge: junk entries moved ahead of the real signatures in the regression test (previously the threshold early-return fired before any junk was examined, so the test could not redden), the threshold == 0 check hoisted above the entry-count check, and the MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES doc now states the above-cap denial instead of claiming it concedes nothing.
How a reviewer can verify
cargo test -p gitlawb-core
satisfies_threshold_ignores_appended_junk_signatures places three junk forms (unparseable, short, and a well-formed-length decode-to-garbage entry) ahead of the real signatures; mutating the length gate from continue to return Err turns it red.
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Scope is one logical change; no unrelated churn
cargo test --workspace passes locally
New behavior is covered by tests (required for fixes)
cargo fmt --all and cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean
Commit titles use Conventional Commits (feat(...), fix(...), docs(...))
Docs / .env.example updated if behavior or config changed (or N/A)
Checked existing PRs so this isn't a duplicate
Protocol & signing impact
Touches DID / did:key, Ed25519 / RFC 9421 signatures, UCAN, ref certs, or P2P wire formats
Discussed in an issue before implementation
Backward-compatible with existing nodes and previously signed history
RefUpdateCert verification semantics change for a function with no production callers; signed history and wire formats are untouched. The threshold == 0 contract follows main (rejected), not the original PR head (accepted).
Notes for reviewers
Original fork PR: fix(core): ignore invalid signatures in satisfies_threshold (#349) #366 (still open; will be pointed here and closed after this lands or on request). jatmn approved at 7c4daa27; my own changes-requested review at that head is addressed inside the merge commit as described above, so this branch supersedes that review on the merged shape.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Threshold checks now count only distinct authorized signers with valid signatures, while ignoring malformed, duplicate, or unauthorized entries.
Certificates with more than 64 signature entries are rejected, and oversized signatures are skipped.
RefUpdateCert::satisfies_threshold called verify_all, which fails closed
on the first malformed or invalid signature entry. Signature entries live
outside the signed body, so any third party can append a junk entry with
no key material — appending one denied an otherwise valid certificate, a
DoS on the threshold check.
Add a lenient valid_signers() helper that skips entries failing to parse,
decode, or verify, and have satisfies_threshold count distinct valid
signers from it. verify_all stays strict (fail-closed) so its API and the
tampered_signature_fails_verify_all test are unchanged. A forged entry
naming a real maintainer DID with a bad signature is skipped, so it cannot
inflate the count either.
Adds tests: appended junk entries do not deny a valid 2-of-2 cert, and a
forged maintainer signature is not counted toward the threshold.
Closes#349
satisfies_threshold verified every entry, so a peer could append
arbitrarily many syntactically valid entries with bogus signatures and
buy attacker-controlled CPU and allocation on every threshold check.
Bound each stage ahead of the loop: reject a list over
MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES loudly (a prefix scan would let junk starve real
signatures out of the window), refuse to base64-decode any encoded
signature that is not exactly the 86 chars of a 64-byte Ed25519
signature, skip non-maintainer and already-counted signers on a string
compare before any curve work, and return as soon as the threshold is
met.
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RefUpdateCert::satisfies_threshold now tolerates malformed, invalid, duplicate, and unauthorized signature entries. It counts distinct authorized signers with valid signatures, rejects certificates with more than 64 entries, and returns once the threshold is met. verify_all remains strict.
RefUpdateCert::satisfies_threshold skips entries that cannot count, checks encoded signature length, and errors when the certificate has more than 64 entries. Tests cover malformed and non-verifying entries, signatures over unrelated bytes, the entry limit, and oversized signatures. Documentation clarifies that verify_all errors on any malformed or invalid entry.
The change makes threshold checks ignore junk or forged signature entries, so they cannot cause a valid certificate to fail. No merge-blocking risk was found.
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[#349] Core objective met. In satisfies_threshold (cert.rs), each entry is skipped on a failed signer DID parse (to_verifying_key via let-else), a failed base64 decode, a wrong decoded length, or …
Remove the loud Err for lists above MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES. Do not replace it with a silent prefix scan, which the constant's doc already rejects. Instead, bound verification work per signer: track each maintainer DID for which a verific…
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[#349] Core objective met. In satisfies_threshold (cert.rs), each entry is skipped on a failed signer DID parse (to_verifying_key via let-else), a failed base64 decode, a wrong decoded length, or a failed verify. A forged entry that names a real maintainer is not counted, because counted.insert runs only after verify succeeds. verify_all keeps its strict ? behavior. Tests cover junk, forged, and oversized-encoded entries.
Unmet requirement: #349 says appended signature entries must not make a threshold-satisfying certificate fail. satisfies_threshold now returns Err when signatures.len() > MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES (64), regardless of whether the entries are valid. A certificate with one valid maintainer signature and 64 or more appended junk entries therefore fails. The test satisfies_threshold_rejects_an_oversized_signature_list asserts this denial. The denial is documented, but it is still the denial #349 asks to remove.
Resolution
Remove the loud Err for lists above MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES. Do not replace it with a silent prefix scan, which the constant's doc already rejects. Instead, bound verification work per signer: track each maintainer DID for which a verification was already attempted, and skip later entries for that DID before any decode or curve work. Curve work then costs at most one verification per maintainer, whatever the list length. Update satisfies_threshold_rejects_an_oversized_signature_list and the MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES and satisfies_threshold docs to match. Keep the junk-ahead-of-real-signatures ordering in the regression test.
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Remove the loud `Err` for lists above `MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES`. Do not replace it
with a silent prefix scan, which the constant's doc already rejects. Instead,
bound verification work per signer: track each maintainer DID for which a
verification was already attempted, and skip later entries for that DID before
any decode or curve work. Curve work then costs at most one verification per
maintainer, whatever the list length. Update
`satisfies_threshold_rejects_an_oversized_signature_list` and the
`MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES` and `satisfies_threshold` docs to match. Keep the
junk-ahead-of-real-signatures ordering in the regression test.
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I found one in-scope documentation inaccuracy on this PR. There is also a real product tension between closing #349 and the documented entry cap — that is a maintainer decision, not an accidental implementation defect.
Merge readiness
Mergeability is MERGEABLE with merge state BLOCKED (expected branch-protection / review gate, not a textual conflict). Base and live main both sit at c805e35f40873a120c81bf00d9ddb50da956fd97 — no stale-base rebase required from this review. Required PR checks (fmt+clippy, stable/beta test, build, MSRV, etc.) reported success on head cd826989932cd912548f0ff73d7a3a6fcf35d52e. CodeRabbit check is neutral/skipping (rate limit); its pre-merge “Linked Issues” warning is summarized under Needs maintainer decision below — verify against maintainer intent, not as a mandatory code change in this review.
Needs maintainer decision
Issue #349 closure vs MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES loud Err (intentional policy, not a stray bug)
📍 Where:RefUpdateCert::satisfies_threshold pre-loop (cert.rs) and satisfies_threshold_rejects_an_oversized_signature_list.
💥 What fails: Issue #349 describes append-only junk denying an otherwise threshold-satisfying certificate (measured junk-b64 threshold(2) = Err via strict verify_all). On this PR head, tolerant scanning fixes that class of denial for junk within the cap, but the branch still returns Err when signatures.len() > 64 before the loop — so a cert can be rejected for list size even when enough valid maintainer signatures are present in the vector.
🔎 Root cause: Two stated contracts collide: #349’s “don’t let appends deny threshold” versus this PR’s authored choice in 7c4daa2 and in-diff MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES rustdoc (loud rejection vs silent prefix scan / starvation). The code, tests, and docs are internally consistent with the cap; the open question is whether maintainers want that policy while closing #349 and addressing CodeRabbit’s linked-issue note.
📜 Stated contract:
Issue #349: “One appended junk signature makes verify_all reject a threshold-satisfying certificate” and fix direction to filter inside satisfies_threshold rather than strict verify_all.
📜 Stated contract (PR):
In-diff MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES rustdoc: reject lists over the cap loudly because scanning only the first N entries would let junk placed ahead of real signatures starve them.
🏷️ Attribution: Cap is PR-introduced (7c4daa2). It is not unchanged pre-existing main debt. Compared to merge-base (verify_all()? on the first bad entry), this PR improves typical append/junk scenarios; the cap is new denial semantics for oversized lists only.
PR body “Closes #349” and CodeRabbit linked-issue warning
🔒 Unchanged on main: Merge-base had no entry cap — only strict per-entry failure via verify_all.
🔧 Required correction (maintainers only): Choose whether #349 is considered satisfied with “tolerant up to 64 entries, loud Err above” or whether policy should change (e.g. per-maintainer verify-attempt bounding without whole-cert denial, as CodeRabbit suggested). Align issue closure text, operator docs, and tests with that choice.
🛠️ Author fix:After that decision only: update threshold policy, in-diff rustdoc, and tests together in one pass. Do not treat this row as “remove the cap” unless maintainers decide that. Do not change verify_all strict semantics in this PR unless explicitly requested.
🚫 Out of scope: Rebuilding verify_all, node wiring, wire-format changes, or fixing unrelated main behavior (e.g. verify_all allocation on huge sig strings — unchanged on merge-base, not activated by this diff).
📍 Where:ENCODED_SIG_LEN module comment at the top of crates/gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs.
💥 What fails: The new comment says anything longer than 86 url-safe unpadded characters “cannot decode to a valid signature.” A 64-byte Ed25519 signature can also appear as 88-character url-safe base64 with padding, which decodes to 64 bytes and is accepted by unchangedverify_all. The threshold path correctly skips sig.len() != 86 for DoS bounds on canonical unpadded wire (Keypair::sign_b64 in-tree is always 86 chars). Only the comment overstates crypto impossibility; this is not a demonstrated production failure for certs produced by this crate.
🔎 Root cause: Operator copy on a new constant conflates “threshold scan refuses non-canonical length before decode” with “longer strings cannot decode to valid signatures.”
📜 Stated contract:
In-diff satisfies_threshold rustdoc: “a 64-byte Ed25519 signature is exactly ENCODED_SIG_LEN characters in url-safe unpadded base64” — threshold API is defined for that canonical form.
🏷️ Attribution:PR-introduced misleading sentence; merge-base had no equivalent comment. Length gate behavior on the threshold path is PR-introduced by design, not a regression of main’s crypto rules.
🔒 Unchanged on main:verify_all decode rules; padded-vs-unpadded interop gap on the strict API predates this PR and is not part of this finding.
🔧 Required correction: Rewrite in-diff rustdoc so it states that the tolerant threshold scan requires canonical unpadded length before decode (DoS bound), without claiming longer encodings cannot represent valid 64-byte signatures. Keepif cert_sig.sig.len() != ENCODED_SIG_LEN { continue; } unless maintainers explicitly expand threshold acceptance to padded encodings.
// Example intent (wording only):// Threshold scan requires canonical unpadded length before decode; verify_all may still accept padded encodings.
🛠️ Author fix: Fix every in-diff surface that repeats the false “cannot decode” claim in one pass (const doc + related satisfies_threshold bullets). Do not refactor verify_all or change threshold logic solely for this item.
🚫 Out of scope: Accepting padded signatures on the threshold path, JSON schema changes, attest registry behavior, or verify_all work bounds on main.
Not filed (drift / pre-existing / by design): Unbounded verify_all on huge sig strings, missing validate_structure cap, unparseable-DID regression test gap, trailing junk after early Ok(true), and Ok(false) vs Err taxonomy shifts — investigated and left out of Findings so this PR is not conscripted into main-framework or test-coverage work outside the changed threshold contract.
The comment claimed anything longer cannot decode to a valid signature.
The same 64 bytes appear in padded or non-url-safe encodings; the gate is a
canonical-form DoS bound for the tolerant scan, not a crypto impossibility.
On the ENCODED_SIG_LEN comment: corrected. The comment now states the threshold scan requires canonical unpadded length before decode as a DoS bound, and that longer encodings can represent the same 64 bytes, without claiming they cannot decode to a valid signature. One correction to the finding's framing though: the strict path does not accept the padded 88-char form either, since verify_all decodes with URL_SAFE_NO_PAD like the scan does, so padded input errors at decode there too. The overclaim stands fixed; the padded-interop framing is not quite how it plays out.
On the cap vs #349: keeping the loud Err, and treating #349 as satisfied by the tolerant scan. The reported denial was one appended junk entry rejecting a threshold-satisfying cert through strict verify_all; the scan resolves that class entirely. A denial past 64 entries is a different attack and fails loudly, which is the documented trade. On the per-maintainer attempt bound as a replacement: signature entries live outside the signed body, so a relay can reorder them. Skipping later entries for an already-attempted DID lets junk naming a maintainer, placed ahead of the real signature, mark that maintainer attempted and skip the valid sig, the same positional starvation the cap rationale rejected, except it fails silently as Ok(false) rather than loudly. That trade is worse, so the cap stays. An additional per-DID attempt bound layered on top of the cap is possible hardening, but it does not change the denial semantics this decision was about.
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Follow-up on head dd74c544 (my prior review at cd826989). I rechecked the tolerant threshold implementation, tests, and the author reply at comment 6744593367 against my earlier findings and CodeRabbit’s linked-issue note.
Merge readiness
Mergeability is MERGEABLE with state BLOCKED (branch protection / review gate). Merge-base and live main remain at c805e35f — I do not see a stale-base rebase requirement for this diff.
PR-owned validation: fmt + clippy, MSRV, release build, and gitlawb-core tests pass on the latest workflow run for dd74c544. I also ran local cargo test -p gitlawb-core satisfies_threshold — 5/5 pass.
CI is red on this head — that is a merge-readiness issue for me even though it is not a code finding on this diff. The branch ruleset does not mechanically require green checks, but AGENTS.md says a failing PR job should block approval in practice. I would not approve merge until these are green or we explicitly accept the failure with maintainer sign-off.
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ipfs_pin::tests::discovery_record_elapsed_leaves_neither_row — panic: a spent deadline must yield the timeout arm, not a value: Ok(()) at ipfs_pin.rs:3469. This PR only touches gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs; Cargo.lock unchanged vs c805e35f. Looks like flake/timing in node ipfs tests, not cert semantics.
cargo audit
fail
No (repo-wide)
New libsqlite3-sys / RUSTSEC-2026-0459 against the existing lockfile — same dependency tree as merge-base; not introduced by this diff. Likely advisory DB moved since main last went green on audit.
What I would do: re-run failed jobs (often clears the ipfs timing test). If audit stays red, that is a repo fix or ignore-policy update on main, not something I would hold the author to fix inside this cert-only PR unless we want every PR to carry dependency bumps.
My CHANGES_REQUESTED at cd826989 cited one in-scope doc inaccuracy plus cap/#349 policy tension. The doc item is addressed on this head; the policy item remains a maintainer call (below), not an implementation defect.
Needs maintainer decision
Closing #349 while keeping loud Err above 64 signature entries
📍 Where:MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES rustdoc and pre-loop check in satisfies_threshold (crates/gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs).
💥 What fails: Issue #349’s measured failure is a single appended junk entry denying a threshold-satisfying cert via strict verify_all delegation. This head fixes that class for lists within the cap. Above 64 entries, the API still returns Err before the tolerant loop, so inflation can deny a cert that would otherwise meet threshold — a different attack than the issue’s one-junk measurement.
🔎 Root cause: Deliberate product trade documented in PR rustdoc and commit 7c4daa2: loud cap vs silent prefix scan / per-maintainer attempt starvation. I checked the author’s reordering argument against the code — failed verifies do not mark a maintainer “spent,” but a per-DID attempt bound would skip a valid signature placed after junk naming that maintainer.
📜 Stated contract:
Issue #349: “One appended junk signature makes verify_all reject a threshold-satisfying certificate.”
📜 Stated contract (PR):
In-diff MAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES rustdoc: loud rejection above the cap rather than a silent prefix window that lets junk ahead of real signatures starve them.
🏷️ Attribution: Cap and pre-loop Err are PR-introduced; merge-base had no entry ceiling.
🔧 Required correction (maintainers only): I need us to confirm whether “Closes #349” means “tolerant within 64 entries, loud Err beyond” (author position, internally consistent) or whether closure text / policy should change. I am not asking for a mandatory code change on this head if we accept the documented trade.
🛠️ Author fix: After maintainer choice only — align issue closure comment and any operator copy; do not remove the cap or rewrite verify_all unless explicitly directed.
🚫 Out of scope: CodeRabbit’s per-maintainer verify-attempt bound (author shows worse silent starvation; I agree with that read of the code), unrelated node CI failures.
Findings
My prior finding — ENCODED_SIG_LEN rustdoc (addressed)
📍 Where:ENCODED_SIG_LEN comment block at crates/gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs:44–50.
💥 What fails: At cd826989, rustdoc overstated that longer encodings “cannot decode” to a valid signature. At dd74c544 this is fixed — the comment now describes a canonical unpadded DoS bound and notes padded encodings can represent the same 64 bytes.
🔎 Root cause: Operator copy conflation (my original finding).
📜 Stated contract:
In-diff threshold rustdoc: 64-byte Ed25519 signature is exactly ENCODED_SIG_LEN url-safe unpadded characters for the tolerant scan.
🏷️ Attribution: PR-introduced text; corrected on this head.
📌 In this PR:
ENCODED_SIG_LEN const doc (fixed)
🔒 Unchanged on main:verify_all decode engine (URL_SAFE_NO_PAD — the author is correct that padded 88-char wire fails decode on the strict path too, not only on the threshold path; my earlier strict-path framing was slightly off on that point).
🔧 Required correction: None on this head.
🛠️ Author fix: None — already done in dd74c544.
🚫 Out of scope: Accepting padded wire on the threshold path without maintainer direction.
What I’m requesting on this pass
I do not see additional actionable code defects on dd74c544 beyond the resolved doc item above; the author’s cap/#349 and padding comments match the code. I am still requesting changes before merge:
Green required PR checks on this head — at minimum get test (stable), test (beta), and cargo audit passing on a fresh run (re-run is fine if the ipfs test was flake). I am not asking you to fix ipfs_pin or bump deps in this cert-only PR unless a re-run stays red and maintainers want this branch to carry that fix.
Maintainer sign-off on #349 closure wording vs the 64-entry loud Err (see Needs maintainer decision above) so I can approve without leaving the issue narrative ambiguous.
cargo audit: fixed by re-merging main (6c971e7), which carries the RUSTSEC-2026-0459 waiver from #564. The flagged libsqlite3-sys copy is lockfile-only in this workspace (sqlx builds postgres-only), so the waiver is honest here the same as on main.
test (stable)/(beta): the failure is ipfs_pin::tests::discovery_record_elapsed_leaves_neither_row, a deadline-timing assertion in node ipfs tests. This diff touches only crates/gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs and Cargo.lock is unchanged vs merge-base, so it cannot reach that path; the re-merge gives CI a fresh run at it.
On the #349 decision: maintainer sign-off is what my prior comment stated and it stands: keep the loud Err above 64 entries and treat #349 as satisfied by the tolerant scan. The reported denial class (one appended junk via strict verify_all) is fully resolved; the over-64 Err is the documented, detectable residual rather than a silent starvation the alternatives would reintroduce. Closure wording stays as-is.
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🟢 Thanks for the contribution. I do not see any actionable issues from my review.
Merge readiness
Mergeability is MERGEABLE with state BLOCKED (branch protection / review gate, not a textual conflict). This diff only touches crates/gitlawb-core/src/cert.rs and does not conflict with live main at 05afd68e (bootstrap-peers in #559).
CI: Required PR checks on head b19d6be5 are green on the latest workflow run, including test (stable), test (beta), fmt + clippy, cargo audit, MSRV, and release build. CodeQL / CodeRabbit report neutral or skip as expected. Analyze (swift) was still pending on the parallel CodeQL workflow when captured; it is non-blocking for this Rust-only change.
Branch tip vs main: Merge-base with origin/main is 6c971e7e; main has one newer commit (05afd68e). Rebase onto current main is optional for this cert-only PR but keeps the branch current before merge.
Related work: Fork PR #366 is superseded by this upstream re-home; closing it after merge is housekeeping.
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Re-homes #366 (
fix(core): ignore invalid signatures in satisfies_threshold, for #349) onto an upstream branch so the upstream-only Code Quality check can run. Signature entries live outside the signed cert body, so any third party can append junk; today the first bad entry denies an otherwise valid certificate.Motivation & context
satisfies_threshold(a maintainer pre-filter with no production caller yet) previously delegated toverify_all, which fails on the first malformed entry. A relay or peer appending garbage could deny every threshold check. This version skips malformed, oversized, non-maintainer, and forged entries and bounds the scan at 64 entries.Closes #349.
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gitlawb-core:satisfies_thresholdskips malformed/oversized/non-maintainer/forged entries instead of failing on the first one; the scan is bounded byMAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIES(loudErrabove the cap) and an encoded-signature length gate that runs before any base64 or curve work.7c4daa27; one merge commit bringsmainatc805e35f. The function body conflicted with main's strict version; the merge keeps the tolerant scan and adopts main's fail-closedthreshold == 0rejection (checked before the entry cap). Three maintainer-review findings folded into the merge: junk entries moved ahead of the real signatures in the regression test (previously the threshold early-return fired before any junk was examined, so the test could not redden), thethreshold == 0check hoisted above the entry-count check, and theMAX_SIGNATURE_ENTRIESdoc now states the above-cap denial instead of claiming it concedes nothing.How a reviewer can verify
cargo test -p gitlawb-coresatisfies_threshold_ignores_appended_junk_signaturesplaces three junk forms (unparseable, short, and a well-formed-length decode-to-garbage entry) ahead of the real signatures; mutating the length gate fromcontinuetoreturn Errturns it red.Before you request review
cargo test --workspacepasses locallycargo fmt --allandcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningsare cleanfeat(...),fix(...),docs(...)).env.exampleupdated if behavior or config changed (or N/A)Protocol & signing impact
did:key, Ed25519 / RFC 9421 signatures, UCAN, ref certs, or P2P wire formatsRefUpdateCert verification semantics change for a function with no production callers; signed history and wire formats are untouched. The
threshold == 0contract follows main (rejected), not the original PR head (accepted).Notes for reviewers
7c4daa27; my own changes-requested review at that head is addressed inside the merge commit as described above, so this branch supersedes that review on the merged shape.Summary by CodeRabbit