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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2e7e957680 Milestone 6 (ACL/PKI): Ed25519 verify + SHA-512, built from scratch
New freestanding, verify-only Ed25519 (RFC 8032) implementation:
include/starkernel/{sha512,fe25519,scalar25519,ed25519}.h +
src/starkernel/crypto/{sha512,fe25519,scalar25519,ed25519}.c, wired into
Makefile.starkernel. Kernel never signs or generates keys -- only
ed25519_verify() is needed; signing happens in the host-side mkcapsule
build tool via libsodium/OpenSSL.

Confirmed __int128 multiply/add/shift-by-constant compile with zero
undefined symbols on all three target toolchains (only division needs
libgcc's __udivti3, per timer.c's existing documented finding -- that
file's comment updated to narrow the claim, since it had been read as
"avoid __int128 entirely"). This enabled the standard 5-limb radix-2^51
field arithmetic representation.

An abandoned first attempt (10-limb radix-2^26, avoiding __int128 out of
premature caution) hit two real bugs, both invisible on inspection and
found only by property-based testing against Python's own bignum
arithmetic: a non-uniform-radix limb misalignment in multiplication, and
a double-counted carry. Verification chain: SHA-512 against known +
boundary vectors (7/7); field arithmetic property-tested 25,045 cases;
scalar-mod-L arithmetic 300 cases (L confirmed prime via Miller-Rabin
first); full verify() end-to-end against 110 real signatures from
Python's cryptography library, including tampered inputs and the RFC
8032 S>=L malleability attack -- all correctly accepted/rejected.

Compiles clean (zero warnings) and links on all three architectures,
confirmed via the mandatory three-arch QEMU boot. The code is linked but
not yet called from anywhere -- wiring into capsule_birth.c needs a
from-scratch X.509/DER parser first (Captain Bob chose real X.509 over a
raw-blob cert format this session), which is the next open item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HZ8kNoTuP63pbQtro4qvrm
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src/

Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile). Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.

Entry point / interpreter core

  • main.c — CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.
  • vm.c — interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).
  • vm_api.c — external VM API implementation.
  • vm_bootstrap.c — VM bootstrap initialization.
  • vm_debug.c — debugging utilities.
  • vm_time.c — time-related VM operations.
  • vm_internal.h — internal-only declarations shared across the vm_*.c files, not part of the public include/vm_api.h surface.
  • repl.c — REPL read-eval-print loop.
  • cli.c — CLI argument parsing.
  • io.c — I/O operations.
  • log.c — logging infrastructure.

Memory / dictionary / blocks

  • memory_management.c — dictionary allocator.
  • dictionary_management.c — dictionary allocation and search.
  • dictionary_heat_optimization.c — Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.
  • word_registry.c — word registration system.
  • block_subsystem.c — logical→physical block mapper.
  • blkio_file.c, blkio_ram.c, blkio_factory.c — block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.
  • stack_management.c — stack operations.

Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)

  • physics_runtime.c — main physics coordinator.
  • physics_hotwords_cache.c — Loop #1 hot-words caching.
  • physics_metadata.c — per-word metadata tracking.
  • physics_pipelining_metrics.c — Loop #4 word-transition prediction.
  • physics_execution_hooks.c — execution instrumentation.
  • rolling_window_of_truth.c — Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.
  • inference_engine.c — Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).
  • ssm_jacquard.c — L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumes compudynamics.c for tuning-word/config lookups.
  • compudynamics.c — generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(), cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not in ssm_jacquard.c.
  • heartbeat_export.c — heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — see docs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).

Math / measurement

  • math_portable.c — portable math functions.
  • profiler.c — performance profiling.
  • doe_metrics.c — Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).

Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak, inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a build input.