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Summary

The constant-time compares behind hmac::verify and pbkdf2::Secret::verify (and AEAD tag checks) are now proven, so the Lean API theorems no longer take CtEqual as a hypothesis.

• HOL Light (proofs/hol-light/{x86_64,aarch64}/ct_compare_{16,bytes}.ml): for each target, CT_COMPARE_*_CORRECT (the block returns zero exactly when the inputs are equal; for the byte loop the result is also below 256) and CT_COMPARE_*_SAFE in s2n-bignum's style (the trace of loads and branches is a function of the addresses, length, and PC only, and every load is in bounds). admin/prove hol-light checks them against the bytes rind's release build emits, the same way it checks bignum_eq. These are rind's first x86_64 HOL Light proofs.
• Rust: the four compare blocks pin their registers and are #[inline(never)], so the build emits one copy for the proof to cover. ct_compare_bytes now takes two slices and compares the first min of their lengths, which makes it safe (no unsafe left in ct_equal) and lets Aeneas translate ct_equal. ct_equal copies the 16-byte case into arrays because Aeneas crashes on the borrowed try_into tuple match. Behavior is unchanged.
• Lean (Rind/X86_64/CtEqual.lean, which admin/prove copies for aarch64): axioms ct_compare_16_spec and ct_compare_bytes_spec restate the HOL Light theorems about the opaque wrappers, and ct_equal_spec proves ct_equal returns decide (x = y) from them. ct_equal is now translated on both targets. CtEqual is gone: hmac and kdf verify_spec use ct_equal_spec, with the entry guard taken from RunsHmac. Axioms.lean pins the two new axioms on both targets.

benchmarks/verified.toml has no rind HMAC or PBKDF2 verify row, so no ✓ changes yet. One appears once those rows' block functions are proven.

Checks

• admin/prove hol-light passes on both targets (128 s on aarch64, 142 s on x86_64), and lake build of every Lean proof passes on the merged head.
• Two failures come from main, not this branch, and quest/m0/prove-main.md tracks both. admin/prove bytes fails on main's stale ALGORITHMS.md inventory (bignum_negmodinv, bignum_sqr_p521_alt), and admin/prove lean stops at main's missing intrinsic-model vectors before running lake build. I ran lake build on its own after the translation.
• just check passes.
• Benchmark of chacha20poly1305-open/rind against main: 32 B went from 100.9 ns to 103.6 ns, within the run's spread. 1200 B, 1350 B, and 16 KB are unchanged.

Choices made without asking

• ct_compare_bytes(a: &[u8], b: &[u8]) compares the first min(len) bytes, rather than asserting equal lengths, so the function is total and never panics. ct_equal checks the lengths first anyway.
• Took #[inline(never)] and pinned registers over proving every inlined copy. The cost is one call per compare, within noise above.
• The m2 verified epic had no children left once this quest finished, and its own work (byte-identical assembly, the first HOL Light proofs, the calibration in moq-dev/rind#552) has landed. So this PR deletes quest/m2/verified/README.md as complete and drops the link to it from m3's README.
• The _SAFE theorems are proven in HOL Light but not restated in Lean, matching how the s2n-bignum _SAFE theorems are treated.

Public API

None. Every change is pub(in crate::low) or in the proofs.

Caused by

None. This replaces a hypothesis rather than fixing a bug.

Suggested follow-ups

None.

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Review

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• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1c869-b845-7122-ae73-df96a35c2594, round 2
• Head: 2a9449c
• Base: origin/main at 6c73b15
• Score: 9/10, The incremental changes correctly update the ABI tests for slice arguments and introduce no actionable defects; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The comparison routines now use slice-based byte comparisons and updated architecture-specific assembly. HOL Light proofs cover functional correctness and safety for the AArch64 and x86_64 routines. Lean specifications connect those proofs to ct_equal, and HMAC and PBKDF2 verification proofs use the resulting comparison theorem rather than a separate CtEqual premise.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 138d1

This change proves the constant-time comparisons used by HMAC and PBKDF2 verification and removes the separate CtEqual hypothesis from the Lean theorems. The Rust changes are small, and no public API changes are reported. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found, and the proofs rely on the author's reported admin/prove run.

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Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: proving the constant-time comparisons used by the hash and KDF glue.
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Description check		The pull request description directly matches the changeset. It explains the new HOL Light proofs, Rust comparison changes, Lean proof updates, removal of the CtEqual hypothesis, validation results, a…

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Files selected for processing: 24

• .gitignore
• admin/prove
• proofs/README.md
• proofs/Rind/Aarch64/Axioms.lean
• proofs/Rind/Aarch64/FunsExternal.lean
• proofs/Rind/X86_64/Axioms.lean
• proofs/Rind/X86_64/CtEqual.lean
• proofs/Rind/X86_64/FunsExternal.lean
• proofs/Rind/X86_64/HmacApi.lean
• proofs/Rind/X86_64/Pbkdf2.lean
• proofs/hol-light/aarch64/ct_compare_16.ml
• proofs/hol-light/aarch64/ct_compare_bytes.ml
• proofs/hol-light/x86_64/ct_compare_16.ml
• proofs/hol-light/x86_64/ct_compare_bytes.ml
• quest/m2/verified/README.md
• quest/m2/verified/hash-glue.md
• quest/m2/verified/hkdf-okm.md
• quest/m4/verified/aeneas-fn-pointers.md
• quest/m4/verified/portable.md
• rind/src/low/aarch64/cpu.rs
• rind/src/low/arm/cpu.rs
• rind/src/low/generic/ct_equal.rs
• rind/src/low/portable/cpu.rs
• rind/src/low/x86_64/cpu.rs

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• quest/m2/verified/hash-glue.md
• quest/m2/verified/README.md

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