Phase E: MINT -- real keypair, Zuse-signed DER cert, working default identity

capsule_mint_identity() (new capsule_mint.h/.c): mints a fresh identity
onto a blank/unminted thumbdrive -- real Ed25519 keypair from virtio_rng,
a fresh drive_uuid (independent random draw, not derived from the
identity seed, per FABRIC-3.md §F.8 decision 3), a Zuse-signed DER cert
in the CERTVERIFY format, and a small working default personality (a
real WELCOME word, not a stub -- FABRIC-3.md §F.6/§F.8's own "default
personality content" question stays open, but whatever mints today must
actually do something when RUNCAP births it). Refuses to overwrite a
drive that already reads as a recognized home-blocks drive, mirroring
WRITE(10)'s own refuse-on-non-blank posture (decided now, not just
"reasonable by analogy" as §F.8 left it).

x509_build_user_cert() (x509_ed25519.h/.c): the encode-side counterpart
to the existing decode functions (x509_extract_ed25519_pubkey(),
x509_verify_signature(), x509_extract_serial()) -- a minimal DER TLV
writer producing exactly the fields those functions read. Host-tested
round-trip against the real decoder before trusting it in the kernel,
including a high-bit-serial case that exercises the DER integer-padding
rule; all assertions pass (pubkey/serial round-trip, signature verifies
against the real issuer, correctly rejects the wrong key and a
corrupted signature).

New user_identity_seed_t (user_identity_seed.h): the on-disk record for
a minted identity's own keypair, same magic+version+fields+pad-to-4096+
real-CRC convention as zuse_cert_devblock_t and homeblocks_sig_t. Fixed
devblock layout: sig(1), cert(2), seed record(3), default personality(4).

New MINT word (mama_forth_words.c) and a small accessor
(sk_repl_get_attached_blk_dev(), repl.h/.c) exposing the currently
attached USB device regardless of home-blocks recognition -- MINT's own
target is a blank drive, which by definition never sets Phase D's
sk_repl_get_homeblocks_dev().

Verified end-to-end live in QEMU: MINT on a genuinely blank test drive,
then (after a detach/reattach so the sig cache picks up the fresh
header -- a known workflow gap, not fixed here, flagged for whoever
builds the real Console onboarding flow) RUNCAP birthed a VM from that
drive's own newly-minted content, and VM-EXECing its WELCOME word
printed the default personality banner. The full mint-to-birth Tripod
identity flow works end to end for the first time. Clean 3-architecture
regression boot confirms no side effects on normal boot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
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Robert Allan James
2026-08-28 14:44:59 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 21c143dd28
commit f6e2737f1e
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/*
StarForth — Steady-State Virtual Machine Runtime
Copyright (c) 2023–2025 Robert A. James
All rights reserved.
Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0
*/
#ifndef __STARKERNEL__
#error "capsule_mint.c is kernel-only"
#endif
#include "starkernel/capsule_mint.h"
#include "starkernel/homeblocks_sig.h"
#include "starkernel/user_identity_seed.h"
#include "starkernel/x509_ed25519.h"
#include "starkernel/ed25519.h"
#include "starkernel/virtio_rng.h"
#include "block_subsystem.h" /* compute_crc64() */
#include "blkio.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <stddef.h>
/* Fixed layout, devblock offsets from the drive's own start -- see
* capsule_mint.h's own doc comment. */
#define MINT_CERT_DEVBLOCK 2u
#define MINT_CERT_DEVBLOCKS 1u
#define MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_OFFSET 3u
#define MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_DEVBLOCKS 2u /* 1 seed record + 1 personality source */
#define MINT_METADATA_DEVBLOCKS 5u /* devblocks 0..4 reserved */
/* Real, working, minimal default personality -- FABRIC-3.md §F.6/§F.8's
* "default personality content" question stays open (mint-time-fixed vs.
* user-editable), but the identity this mints must actually do something
* when RUNCAP births it, not just exist. Needs the "Block NNNN" header
* capsule_exec_payload() requires (§F.18) -- discovered live, not
* optional. 4999 is an unused block number (see capsules/ block-map). */
static const char MINT_DEFAULT_PERSONALITY[] =
"Block 4999\n"
": WELCOME ( -- ) .\" Minted identity -- default personality\" CR ;\n"
"WELCOME\n";
/* Write exactly one devblock (4096 bytes) at devblock offset `devblock`,
* as 4 consecutive 1KiB forth-block writes -- same convention
* homeblocks_sig_check()'s own read loop already uses. */
static int write_devblock(struct blkio_dev *dev, uint32_t devblock,
const uint8_t *buf4096) {
uint32_t base = devblock * 4u;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < 4u; i++) {
if (blkio_write((blkio_dev_t *)dev, base + i,
buf4096 + (size_t)i * BLKIO_FORTH_BLOCK_SIZE) != BLKIO_OK) {
return -1;
}
}
return 0;
}
MintResult capsule_mint_identity(struct blkio_dev *dev, VM *issuer_vm) {
if (!dev || !issuer_vm) return MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL;
/* Refuse to overwrite an already-recognized home-blocks drive --
* mirrors WRITE(10)'s own refuse-on-non-blank-media posture (§F.8,
* decided 2026-08-28: "reasonable by analogy" there, now decided). */
{
homeblocks_sig_t existing;
if (homeblocks_sig_check(dev, HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_START_FBLOCK, &existing)
== HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_OK) {
return MINT_ERR_ALREADY_MINTED;
}
}
if (!issuer_vm->zuse_cert_installed) return MINT_ERR_NO_ZUSE_CERT;
if (!virtio_rng_ready()) return MINT_ERR_NO_ENTROPY;
/* Fresh identity keypair. */
uint8_t seed[32], pubkey[32];
if (virtio_rng_get_bytes(seed, sizeof(seed)) != 0) return MINT_ERR_NO_ENTROPY;
ed25519_keygen(seed, pubkey);
/* Fresh drive_uuid -- an independent random draw, not derived from
* the identity seed (§F.8 decision 3: "which physical drive," not
* "whose identity"). */
uint8_t drive_uuid[16];
if (virtio_rng_get_bytes(drive_uuid, sizeof(drive_uuid)) != 0)
return MINT_ERR_NO_ENTROPY;
/* Cert: SubjectPublicKeyInfo = new pubkey, serialNumber = drive_uuid,
* signed by Zuse's own on-device seed (§F.8 decision 4). */
uint8_t cert[512];
size_t cert_len = x509_build_user_cert(cert, sizeof(cert), pubkey,
drive_uuid, issuer_vm->zuse_cert_seed);
if (cert_len == 0 || cert_len > 4096) return MINT_ERR_CERT_BUILD;
uint8_t cert_block[4096];
memset(cert_block, 0, sizeof(cert_block));
memcpy(cert_block, cert, cert_len);
if (write_devblock(dev, MINT_CERT_DEVBLOCK, cert_block) != 0)
return MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL;
/* user_identity_seed_t record. */
user_identity_seed_t idrec;
memset(&idrec, 0, sizeof(idrec));
idrec.magic = USER_IDENTITY_SEED_MAGIC;
idrec.version = USER_IDENTITY_SEED_VERSION;
memcpy(idrec.seed, seed, 32);
memcpy(idrec.pubkey, pubkey, 32);
idrec.crc = compute_crc64((const uint8_t *)&idrec, offsetof(user_identity_seed_t, crc));
if (write_devblock(dev, MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_OFFSET, (const uint8_t *)&idrec) != 0)
return MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL;
/* Default personality source, in the devblock right after the seed
* record -- RUNCAP reads exactly this layout. */
uint8_t personality_block[4096];
memset(personality_block, 0, sizeof(personality_block));
memcpy(personality_block, MINT_DEFAULT_PERSONALITY, sizeof(MINT_DEFAULT_PERSONALITY) - 1);
if (write_devblock(dev, MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_OFFSET + 1u, personality_block) != 0)
return MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL;
/* homeblocks_sig_t -- written last, so a crash/power-loss partway
* through minting never leaves a drive that reads as a valid,
* complete home-blocks drive with missing content behind it. */
homeblocks_sig_t sig;
memset(&sig, 0, sizeof(sig));
sig.magic = HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_PACK(HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_VERSION_0);
memcpy(sig.drive_uuid, drive_uuid, 16);
sig.minted_time_ns = 0; /* no monotonic-ns source exists
* anywhere in this codebase yet,
* §F.8's own open item */
sig.metadata_devblocks = MINT_METADATA_DEVBLOCKS;
sig.cert_offset = MINT_CERT_DEVBLOCK;
sig.cert_devblocks = MINT_CERT_DEVBLOCKS;
sig.identity_src_offset = MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_OFFSET;
sig.identity_src_devblocks = MINT_IDENTITY_SRC_DEVBLOCKS;
sig.hdr_crc = homeblocks_sig_compute_crc(&sig);
uint8_t sig_block[4096];
memcpy(sig_block, &sig, sizeof(sig));
if (write_devblock(dev, HOMEBLOCKS_SIG_START_FBLOCK / 4u, sig_block) != 0)
return MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL;
(void)blkio_flush((blkio_dev_t *)dev);
return MINT_OK;
}
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#include "starkernel/capsule.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_birth.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_runcap.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_mint.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_loader.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_run.h"
#include "starkernel/capsule_loader.h"
@@ -770,6 +771,53 @@ static void mama_word_vm_call(VM *vm)
}
}
/**
* @brief MINT ( -- ok? )
* Mint a fresh identity onto the currently attached USB drive
* (FABRIC-3.md §F.8/§F.19). Deliberately no name/string argument despite
* F.8's original "S\" name\" MINT" sketch: this design never binds a VM
* name at mint time -- the drive holds an anonymous, self-contained
* identity, and a name is only assigned later, at RUNCAP birth (a
* WIREBIND decision, not MINT's). Refuses cleanly (prints why) if
* there's no attached drive, the drive already reads as a recognized
* home-blocks drive, Zuse has no installed cert to sign with, or there's
* no entropy source. Real, working code -- not the eventual Console
* onboarding flow (§D.6), which will call this same C function.
*/
static void mama_word_mint(VM *vm)
{
struct blkio_dev *dev = sk_repl_get_attached_blk_dev();
if (!dev) {
console_println("MINT: no drive attached");
vm_push(vm, 0);
return;
}
MintResult r = capsule_mint_identity(dev, vm);
switch (r) {
case MINT_OK:
console_println("MINT: identity minted");
vm_push(vm, 1);
return;
case MINT_ERR_ALREADY_MINTED:
console_println("MINT: refused -- drive already a recognized home-blocks drive");
break;
case MINT_ERR_NO_ZUSE_CERT:
console_println("MINT: refused -- Zuse has no installed cert to sign with");
break;
case MINT_ERR_NO_ENTROPY:
console_println("MINT: refused -- no entropy source");
break;
case MINT_ERR_CERT_BUILD:
console_println("MINT: FAILED -- cert construction error");
break;
case MINT_ERR_WRITE_FAIL:
console_println("MINT: FAILED -- devblock write error (drive may be partially minted)");
break;
}
vm_push(vm, 0);
}
/**
* @brief RUNCAP-TEST ( caddr u -- ok? rc )
* Diagnostic-only word (FABRIC-3.md §F.6/§F.18): calls
@@ -1168,6 +1216,7 @@ void register_mama_forth_words(VM *vm)
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-LEN@", mama_word_capsule_len_fetch);
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-BIRTH", mama_word_capsule_birth);
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-RUN", mama_word_capsule_run);
register_word(vm, "MINT", mama_word_mint);
register_word(vm, "RUNCAP-TEST", mama_word_runcap_test);
register_word(vm, "MAMA-VM-ID", mama_word_mama_vm_id);
register_word(vm, "VM-COUNT", mama_word_vm_count);
@@ -1198,6 +1247,7 @@ void register_mama_forth_words(VM *vm)
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-LEN@", mama_word_capsule_len_fetch);
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-BIRTH", mama_word_capsule_birth);
register_word(vm, "CAPSULE-RUN", mama_word_capsule_run);
register_word(vm, "MINT", mama_word_mint);
register_word(vm, "RUNCAP-TEST", mama_word_runcap_test);
register_word(vm, "MAMA-VM-ID", mama_word_mama_vm_id);
register_word(vm, "VM-COUNT", mama_word_vm_count);