CRYPTOGRAPHY / Synthetic-instance and protocol-assumption audit

Conditional custody certificates for PeerDAS

Specified incidence instances, assumptions and finite witnesses; no production-network security estimate.

Read historical manuscripts, supporting audits and notes according to their roles; consult the handoff for evidence and stage boundaries.

Why we tried it

Express custody coverage and combinatorial constraints as checkable deterministic witnesses.

What the evidence shows

Synthetic witnesses validate the supplied instance, not the deployed protocol distribution or threat model.

Where the work stands

Protocol mappings, correlations and adversary capabilities need actual modeling; synthetic coverage is not a live security probability.

Possible next steps

Pin the protocol version and threat model, audit the incidence-model mapping, replay the witnesses independently and test mismatch cases.

Suggested next steps are untested research questions, not new experimental results. The archive records manuscript provenance, licensing and status.