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Finishes quest/m1/route-key-model.md.

Problem

lite-07's Route Key Parameter is a hand-rolled proof: an Ed25519 signature over a domain string, the sender's side, and 32 bytes exported from the session. Once lite-07 is cut, a flaw in what it signs can only be fixed on the wire, and this is the kind of construction where reflection, replay, and relay attacks hide. The draft also never said what the exporter must guarantee for the proof to mean anything.

Approach

• rs/moq-net/verify/route-key/RouteKey.spthy, a Tamarin model. The attacker owns the network, makes its own keys, and runs sessions with every endpoint, including as an intermediary that terminates TLS. Connections are TLS 1.3 full handshakes or resumptions carrying raw QUIC (binding 1) or WebTransport sessions under attacker-chosen IDs (binding 2). Each run records who is really at its other end, so the lemmas judge a proof against the truth.
• Lemmas, all verified in about 1.5s: executable, executable_resumed_webtransport (both endpoints accept each other's resumed proof), no_relay, no_reflection, no_replay, injective_agreement. No finding: the signed transcript stands.
• Three variants each drop one assumption and must break exactly the lemmas their Breaks: line names. This keeps the model from passing vacuously and shows what each piece buys:
  • NO_SIDE (no side byte): reflection.
  • EARLY (signing over the 0-RTT early exporter): replay onto another connection.
  • NO_EMS (TLS 1.2 without RFC 7627, where a MITM synchronizes two sessions' secret): relay.
• test/route-key-model.sh (just test route-key-model) proves the base and checks each variant's expected breaks. It fails when an #ifdef variant has no parsed Breaks: line, when a variant's lemma set differs from the base's, or when a Breaks: name has no result. Tamarin exits 0 either way, so the script reads its summary. It runs in Nightly's recipe matrix. just rs tamarin <spec> runs Tamarin from the flake, as just rs tla runs TLC.
• The draft now states the exporter requirement: material only the session's two endpoints know, which no other session shares. It names what meets that (TLS 1.3, including after resumption) and what does not (the early exporter, and TLS 1.2 without EMS). It also says a proof does not survive a TLS-terminating intermediary.
• Bindings checked against that requirement:
  • Rust raw QUIC: rustls, TLS 1.3 only. QuicClientConfig/QuicServerConfig turn early data off, and rustls exposes no early exporter.
  • Rust WebTransport (moq-tokio, moq-uring): derives the draft's per-session exporter with the 8-byte session ID.
  • qmux bindings 3 to 5: export nothing, so they never prove.
  • JS: signs the same transcript, and skips Firefox, whose exporter derives the session ID differently.
• verify-route-key skill, in the shape of the other verify-* skills. Its Coverage table already passes moq-dev/moq#8483's sh/coverage-tables.py.

Impact

• Public API: none.
• Wire: none. The draft adds a MUST on the exporter that every shipping binding already meets.

Alternatives

• ProVerif: Tamarin was decided in the quest.
• Modelling TLS message by message: the proof depends only on the exporter's properties. Reducing TLS to them keeps the model small and puts the assumption where the draft states it. The variants show the model is sensitive to each property.

Choices made without asking

• The variants and the script that checks them were not asked for. They keep the model honest the way ci: model-check every TLA+ config nightly, and review resyncs a model #8483's Open finding: configs do.
• Nightly runs it in the existing recipe matrix rather than a job of its own. The whole run takes about 10s.
• RFC 7627 is an informative reference, since the draft cites it only as what not to use.

Follow-ups

None recommended.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with medium)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1c9ec-4ce3-7670-b47c-69b6b0bc3a25, round 4
• Head: 6a27cac
• Base: origin/main at c2a4749
• Score: 9/10, The incremental change correctly requires a parsed Breaks declaration for every conditional variant, with no actionable defects found; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The draft now specifies session-specific exporter requirements, identifies exporter cases that are excluded, and states protections against cross-session replay and relay through a TLS-terminating intermediary. A new Tamarin theory models Route Key proofs, session variants, and security lemmas. A shell test checks the base model and variants against expected lemma results. The repository adds commands and documentation for running and maintaining these checks.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 61d80

This adds a formal model and a test for the Route Key proof, plus a clarified exporter requirement in the draft. There are no wire or API changes. The remaining gap is small: the test would not notice if an executable sanity lemma were deleted. It is a bounded follow-up, not a blocker.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding a Tamarin model that proves the Route Key proof binds to its session and side.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description directly explains the Tamarin Route Key model, its attack variants, test integration, and draft exporter requirements. It matches the changeset.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Additional comments: 1

drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md-1075-1075: 1

1075-1075: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Record the new exporter restriction in the changelog.

The new MUST NOT changes when an endpoint may send a Route Key proof. The moq-lite-07 changelog says only that the parameter was added. Add a bullet under that version stating the new restriction. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/verify/route-key/RouteKey.spthy:
- Around line 171-175: Update the `executable_resumed_webtransport` check to
require both peers’ `Accepted` events for the same exporter: `a` accepts `b`’s
server proof and `b` accepts `a`’s client proof. Bind the corresponding keys,
sessions, and event times while preserving the existing distinct-peer and
resumption constraints.

Review comments at @test/route-key-model.sh:
- Line 29: Update the validation around `lemmas` to ensure every expected break
in `breaks` has a corresponding result, not just that some lemma result exists.
Track the lemmas encountered while processing results and report each expected
break that is missing.

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ℹ️ One minor suggestion inline; the model and its negative controls check out.

Reviewed changes

• Tamarin model — rs/moq-net/verify/route-key/RouteKey.spthy models TLS 1.3 connections, resumptions, and attacker-terminated sessions, with six lemmas and three #ifdef variants that each drop one assumption.
• Runner — test/route-key-model.sh and just test route-key-model prove the base, then require each variant to falsify exactly the lemmas named in its Breaks: line.
• CI — just rs tamarin mirrors just rs tla, and Nightly's recipe matrix gains test route-key-model.
• Draft — the Route Key Parameter gains the exporter MUST, naming TLS 1.3 (including after resumption) as sufficient and the early exporter and TLS 1.2-without-EMS as not, and adds relay and reflection to the harm list.
• Skill and quest — adds verify-route-key in the existing shape and deletes the finished m1 quest it closes.

I ran the model and runner here with Tamarin 1.12.0 and Maude 3.5.1: the base verified all six lemmas with clean wellformedness, each variant broke exactly the lemmas in its Breaks: line, and the script exited 0. The new skill also passes sh/coverage-tables.py from #8483, and its path and symbol claims match the tree.

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ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor gap left in the runner's variant guard.

Reviewed changes

• Mutual resumed acceptance — executable_resumed_webtransport now requires both endpoints to accept each other's proof on one resumed WebTransport session, which matches the executable lemma and the verify-route-key skill's "accept each other's keys" row.
• Runner anti-vacuity guard — test/route-key-model.sh now fails when no Breaks: line parses, when a variant's lemma-name set differs from the base's, and when a Breaks: name has no result, and its lemma-name regex accepts digits and uppercase.
• Merge from main — picks up the reworded Route latency in js/net bullet in quest/m2/lite07-finalize.md.

I re-ran the model and the runner here with Tamarin 1.12.0 and Maude 3.5.1: the base verifies all six lemmas with the strengthened executable_resumed_webtransport, each variant still breaks exactly the lemmas its Breaks: line names, and the script exits 0. shfmt and shellcheck are clean on the updated script, and Tamarin's wellformedness summary line does match the script's grep.

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- Line 30: Update the base-result validation in the route-key model script to
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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Since the prior pullfrog review at 20ccfee, the delta is one authored commit plus a merge of main.

• Runner closes the per-variant gap — test/route-key-model.sh widens the variant name class to [A-Za-z0-9_]+ and requires every #ifdef/#ifndef name in the spec to have a parsed Breaks: line, so one drifted header can no longer retire its negative control while the run stays green.
• Merge from main — brings in test route-sweep in Nightly's recipe matrix and its test/justfile recipe; test route-key-model remains in both.

I re-ran the runner against a stub that emits Tamarin's summary format, since the model itself is unchanged since the run that proved all six lemmas under Tamarin 1.12.0 and Maude 3.5.1. The unmodified spec exits 0; lowercasing only the NO_SIDE header now fails with error: NO_SIDE: no Breaks: line (the case that previously passed green); an added #ifdef EXTRA with no Breaks: fails naming it; reflowing every header away fails; and a Breaks: name with no result fails. shellcheck and bash -n are clean.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Variant guard — test/route-key-model.sh now derives the variant list from the spec's #ifdef/#ifndef names and fails naming any that has no parsed Breaks: line, and its variant-name class accepts digits and lowercase, which closes the last silent-skip path in the negative controls.
• Merge from main — keeps test route-key-model beside main's new test route-sweep in Nightly's recipe matrix and in test/justfile, and restores the rs cli-export and qmux comment lines an earlier merge had dropped.

I could not run Tamarin here (no just, nix, or tamarin-prover in this sandbox), so I exercised the changed parsing and guard directly: the real spec yields NO_SIDE, EARLY, and NO_EMS with no missing entries, and a copy with only the NO_SIDE header lowercased reports MISSING NO_SIDE while a copy with EARLY's Breaks: reflowed onto its own line reports MISSING EARLY. bash -n is clean. The model and the rest of the PR are unchanged since the prior verified run.

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ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor gap left in the new variant guard.

Reviewed changes

Since the prior pullfrog review at 61d807b, the only change is one runner commit.

• Every #ifdef needs a parsed Breaks: line — test/route-key-model.sh now lists the spec's #ifdef/#ifndef symbols and fails naming any that has no parsed Breaks: line, so a drifted header can no longer retire its negative control.
• Variant names accept digits and lowercase — the extraction regex now matches the lemma-name class instead of [A-Z_]+.

I exercised the changed guard against the real spec and modified copies: the spec yields NO_SIDE, EARLY, and NO_EMS with no missing entries, lowercasing an #ifdef name reports it by name, and removing the variants outright still passes (the inline comment below). bash -n and shellcheck are clean. The model and the rest of the PR are unchanged since the run that proved the six lemmas under Tamarin 1.12.0.

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	variants=$(sed -nE 's/^ \* ([A-Za-z0-9_]+) +Breaks: (.*)$/\1 \2/p' "rs/$spec")
	# Every #ifdef is a variant, so a header that stops parsing cannot retire its negative control.
	while read -r variant; do
	grep -q "^$variant " <<<"$variants" || failed+=("$variant: no Breaks: line")
	done < <(sed -nE 's/^#ifn?def ([A-Za-z0-9_]+).*/\1/p' "rs/$spec" | sort -u)
	variants=$(sed -nE 's/^ \* ([A-Za-z0-9_]+) +Breaks: (.*)$/\1 \2/p' "rs/$spec")
	# Every #ifdef is a variant, so a header that stops parsing cannot retire its negative control.
	while read -r variant; do
	grep -q "^$variant " <<<"$variants" || failed+=("$variant: no Breaks: line")
	done < <(sed -nE 's/^#ifn?def ([A-Za-z0-9_]+).*/\1/p' "rs/$spec" | sort -u)
	[ -n "$variants" ] || failed+=("no variant has a Breaks: line")