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Stack 2/3. Base: feat/conf-token-auditor-escrow (#853). Followed by clawback.

Review #853 first — this PR's safety argument depends on it. Merge #853 before this one, or GitHub will show its commits here too.

What

revoke_spender is a homomorphic fold: C_spend += C_a, then delete the delegation entry. No proof, no data.

  • circuits/revoke_spender/ and its VK removed (−1144 lines); constraints.baseline regenerated
  • revoke_spender(e, owner, spender) — signature loses data
  • RevokeSpenderPayload / RevokeSpenderData dropped; CircuitType::RevokeSpender removed
  • RevokeSpender event reshapes to (a_tilde, allowance_salt)
  • on_revoke_spender loses its payload argument

Why no proof is needed

The fold is pure homomorphic addition, exactly like merge (DESIGN §7.4): nothing is re-randomized and no private value is asserted. The escrowed amount was range-proven at set_spender and re-bounded on every spender transfer, and the next spend re-bounds the result.

The auditor stays in sync because #853 escrows the allowance blinding r_a itself — S14 at set_spender, the lane-2 slot O_a9 at a spender transfer. Paired with the value ciphertext the same event publishes, that is the full opening of the C_a being folded, so the auditor advances its own opening by the same public addition the contract performs. Folding an allowance the auditor cannot open would desync its accumulator permanently; that is the dependency on #853.

The event carries a_tilde because no other event holds it: SetSpender publishes the balance ciphertext b_tilde and never the owner-readable allowance ciphertext. allowance_salt is reachable from event history and is co-emitted so that this event alone opens the fold, with no scan.

Spec and docs

The second commit brings the specification in line:

  • The auditor rotation rule is consolidated into DESIGN_cont §8.3 as its single normative site, with §8.1, §8.2 and §8.5 reduced to pointers. It gains the fact none of those sites stated: re-anchoring a rotated-in key is not a one-time cost, since every later fold whose addend predates the rotation returns the holder to unopened.
  • Both fold carry-forward claims (merge and revoke) are conditioned on the auditor having decrypted the event that produced the addend.
  • COMPLIANCE §5.3 constraint 2 gains the precondition it needs: C_spend is a public input read from live storage, so the seize-enabling auditor must hold the opening of every fold since the checkpoint it anchors on.
  • Circuit counts, lane tables, event tables and the revoke_spender signature updated across DESIGN, DESIGN_cont, OVERVIEW, SDK, INDEXER and SELECTIVE_DISCLOSURE; citations of the deleted circuit's constraints removed from Rust, Noir and the testdata fixtures.

Also adds a test asserting the fold's effect on spendable_commitment (the prior test covered only entry deletion), and collapses a duplicate account read in revoke_spender.

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nargo test 145 passed · cargo test -p stellar-tokens 715 passed · cargo +nightly fmt --check clean · cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean · cargo doc -p stellar-tokens 0 warnings · cargo llvm-cov --workspace 98.42% lines · extract_vks.sh leaves vks/ unchanged

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revoke_spender is now proofless. It folds the allowance commitment into spendable state, deletes the delegation, and emits allowance recovery data. The PR removes its circuit artifacts and updates hooks, events, tests, verifier metadata, auditor guidance, and recovery documentation.

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Proofless revocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revocation API and state update
packages/tokens/src/confidential/mod.rs, storage.rs, compliance/*, test.rs
The API and hook no longer accept payloads. Storage folds the allowance commitment, deletes the delegation, and emits a_tilde and allowance_salt. Tests use the new signatures and event shape.
Circuit and verification-key removal
packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/*, verifier/*
The RevokeSpender circuit, package, baseline entries, extraction entry, verification key, and circuit enum variant are removed.
Recovery and auditor contracts
packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/*
Documentation defines revocation as a spendable-side fold. Owner and auditor recovery use event data and existing openings. Circuit counts, lane widths, replay rules, and compliance revocation behavior are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 27a9e

The PR changes revocation to a proofless state fold, but the current head still emits the revocation event from the storage layer and leaves the auditor/client event contract inconsistent, which can cause incorrect state recovery or client expectations. These bounded issues should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant ConfidentialToken
  participant ComplianceHooks
  participant Storage
  participant WalletRecovery
  Caller->>ConfidentialToken: revoke_spender(account, spender)
  ConfidentialToken->>ComplianceHooks: on_revoke_spender(account, spender)
  ConfidentialToken->>Storage: revoke_spender(owner, spender)
  Storage->>Storage: fold allowance into spendable commitment
  Storage-->>WalletRecovery: RevokeSpender event with a_tilde and allowance_salt
  WalletRecovery->>WalletRecovery: replay the revocation fold
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A rabbit folds the allowance bright

No proof is carried through the night
The spender path now sheds its key
Events preserve recovery
Five circuits hop in tidy rows

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431-445: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the authorization-table signature.

The interface on Line 431 has no data argument. Line 472 still documents revoke_spender(account, spender, data). Update the table so generated client calls and authorization guidance use the same three-argument API.

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In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md` around lines 431 - 445,
Update the authorization table entry for revoke_spender to remove the obsolete
data argument and document the three-argument revoke_spender(account, spender)
API consistently with the interface and proofless behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md`:
- Around line 239-240: Update the circuit count statement in DESIGN_cont.md from
six to five to match the five variants defined by the enum, without changing the
discriminants or surrounding documentation.

In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/SDK.md`:
- Around line 474-476: Update the sender/owner channel table and the MUST
invalidate rule to define RevokeSpender as emitting no auditor channel or
escrowed blinding, while requiring clients to advance the stored spendable
opening using the recovered C_a opening per the existing selective-disclosure
guidance rather than discarding it.

In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/storage.rs`:
- Around line 971-974: Update the documentation comment describing the auditor’s
post-revoke opening recovery: remove the claim that it uses the escrowed
delegation viewing key, and state that it uses the auditor ciphertexts from the
event that wrote the current delegation state followed by the public fold. Leave
the owner recovery description and referenced constraints unchanged.
- Around line 1016-1021: Remove the RevokeSpender emission from the
storage-layer revoke implementation around delete_delegation; have the relevant
_no_auth function return a_tilde and allowance_salt after the state transition,
and update each authenticated owner or compliance entry point to receive those
values and emit the event there. Preserve the existing revoke state changes and
event payload.
- Around line 996-1001: Update the RevokeSpender documentation comment in
packages/tokens/src/confidential/storage.rs:996-1001, the corresponding §7.9
text in packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN.md:791-795, and
packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md:494-503 to accurately state
that SetSpender and SpenderTransfer may carry salts but do not provide the
current deleted (a_tilde, allowance_salt) pair; RevokeSpender uniquely
republishes that pair.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md`:
- Around line 431-445: Update the authorization table entry for revoke_spender
to remove the obsolete data argument and document the three-argument
revoke_spender(account, spender) API consistently with the interface and
proofless behavior.
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@brozorec brozorec changed the title feat(confidential)!: make revoke_spender proofless feat(confidential): make revoke_spender proofless Aug 28, 2026
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Revocation folds the escrowed allowance commitment back into the owner's
spendable commitment by homomorphic addition, exactly like merge (DESIGN
§7.4). The escrowed amount was range-proven when the delegation was created
and re-bounded on every spender transfer, and the next spend re-bounds the
result, so the RevokeSpender circuit proved nothing the protocol did not
already know.

The auditor stays in sync because the escrowed r_a it holds from the
delegation's last state change (S14 / O_a9) opens the folded commitment
directly.

BREAKING CHANGE: revoke_spender drops its `data` argument, the RevokeSpender
event carries `(a_tilde, allowance_salt)` instead of the checkpoint fields,
`on_revoke_spender` loses its payload, and CircuitType::RevokeSpender is
removed.
…tale revoke references

Move the rotation decryption rule into DESIGN_cont §8.3 as its single
normative site and reduce §8.1, §8.2 and §8.5 to pointers, adding the
fact none of them stated: re-anchoring a rotated-in key is not one-time,
since every later fold whose addend predates the rotation returns the
holder to unopened.

Correct the escrowed value named in revoke_spender's docs (r_a via
S14/O_a9, not dvk_i), remove the phantom force_revoke_spender across
five docs and storage.rs, drop the deleted V* constraint citations, and
state the clawback precondition COMPLIANCE §5.3 constraint 2 needs.
Assert the homomorphic fold in tests and collapse revoke_spender's
duplicate account read.
Drops the Clawback references the core recovery text acquired (COMPLIANCE §5 is outline only), lets §9.5 account for RevokeSpender folds inside the anchor window, and trims the restated §7.9/§8.5 rationale to citations.
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…§2.5

The prefix property was derived twice and the width assignment restated a
third time; the pad-freshness paragraph re-glossed $s$ and compressed the
revert argument that §6.2 owns. State each once and cite the rest.
§5.2 stated the checkpoint set three times and the per-event update rules
twice; step 6 now cites the update table and carries only the replay-specific
skip rules. Corrects the spendable-side recovery claims in DESIGN, INDEXER,
SDK, and OVERVIEW, which omitted the post-checkpoint RevokeSpender fold.
The Note duplicated DESIGN_cont §8.1's auditor channels and pre-stated
the S14 caveat the next paragraph spelled out in full. Cite §8.1, §8.5
and §2.5 instead of restating them.
…er nonce

Corrects the claim that the consumed allowance salt never reaches events:
`SpenderTransfer` emits its replacement as `sigma_a_new`, so the salt a later
revoke folds against sits in the preceding transfer's event. Restructures the
transfer-nonce subsection motivation-first and trims restated constraint
rationale across §7.5-§7.9.
Cut restated prose across §8.1-§8.5 in favour of citations: the lane[2]
slot description folds into DESIGN §2.5, and the rotation, pad-freshness,
mode-exclusivity, and cost claims now cite §8.3, §5.3, §2.5, and §10.3
instead of restating them. Also retargets a stale §5.5 cross-reference for
the auditor's encrypted scalar to §8.1.
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