shoney.arickathil 62d29d6a77 docs(24): T10 closeout — stories done, board, graph, ledger, CODE-LOGIC

Iteration 24 closes, absorbing 31 and 34. No code in this commit.

- stories 24, 31, 34 -> `status: done`, each with a landing banner. 24's
  records the gate numbers and BOTH disclosed deviations: monitor takes
  three arguments (the caller may be `main`, which has no mailbox) and a
  v1 `call` reply is a typed scalar (which is what let the agreement be
  checked at compile time, WO-E226). 31's notes it landed INSIDE 24 and
  that a fifth mechanism it never anticipated came out of proving the
  gate — the drain guarantee (40). 34's names the gap it did NOT close:
  still no RNG, so CSRF/sessions stay blocked
- board: in-progress row cleared, marker doc deleted (convention), the
  standup entry in the six-question shape, chain note — next link is
  databasev2 4 (io_uring group-commit, chain 5)
- graph: PUBSUB2 (pub/sub + WebSockets, "rejected until here") -> done
- porch ledger: a WebSocket/pub-sub row added; the cancellation row now
  says what it actually waits on rather than repeating "the arc"; the
  README's "no WebSockets/SSE" limitation was stale — WebSockets are
  supported, SSE and chunked encoding are not
- CODE-LOGIC: runtime/src gains the actor-lifecycle section (call, death,
  the cap counter's sender/home-thread split, the monitor walk, the timer
  list), the drain guarantee, and the digest section; docs/examples/chat
  gains its own — actor topology, WHY two actors per connection, fd
  ownership, and the shutdown choreography

Battery after the doc edits: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, woc-test exit 0,
oop-e2e 119/0, chat 11/0, web-app 46/0, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-28 00:06:31 +02:00

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Iteration 34 — crypto builtins: digests and HMAC in the runtime

Format: product/story-iteration-template. Part of Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary.

Inserted 2026-08-22 — the framework ledger's oldest unowned gap gets an owner. PREMISE UPDATE (same day, post-merge): iteration 36 landed bitwise & | ^ << >> + hex literals, so digests ARE now expressible in pure .wo — the original "no bitwise" impossibility is gone. The fork is now a real choice for this story's brainstorm: hand-rolled C builtins (bounded, fast, libc-only doctrine permits) vs pure-.wo (no runtime surface growth; interpreter-speed hashing). Off the concurrency chain but gates chain position 4: iteration 24's WebSocket handshake needs SHA-1 before chat can land.

✅ LANDED 2026-08-27 — inside 24 as its task 1. The fork resolved to C builtins: sha1 (85), sha256 (86), hmac_sha256 (87), each over one buffer returning a fresh Bytes. Pinned to the published vectors — RFC 3174, the SHA-256 vectors, RFC 4231 — in runtime/test/test_crypto.c, 18 checks, plus a corpus fixture hashing "abc" from .wo. This unblocked chain position 4: the WebSocket handshake needs SHA-1, and just chat verifies the accept-key independently.

The gap it did NOT close: there is still no RNG in the runtime. HMAC authenticates a token and cannot mint one, so CSRF and sessions stay blocked — which is why 39 leads with a random-bytes builtin rather than treating them as unblocked.

Why this iteration exists

Four consumers already wait on it, none able to proceed: iteration 24's upgrade handshake (Sec-WebSocket-Accept = base64(SHA-1(key + GUID)) — SHA-1 specifically, not a choice); the framework's ETag/conditional-request row (wants a content hash); HMAC-signed tokens the auth core can grow; and held databasev2 10, whose challenge–response needs primitives that "do not exist" (its demotion note). Bytes and base64 landed with iteration 19 — the carriers exist, only the digests are missing.

Goals

Digest builtins over Bytes: SHA-1 (the WS handshake's hard requirement), SHA-256 (the modern default for ETag/HMAC), each Bytes -> Bytes, streaming not required (whole-value, like every existing builtin).
HMAC-SHA256 (key: Bytes, msg: Bytes -> Bytes) — the one composition real services need (signed tokens, webhook signatures); expressible in .wo since iteration 36's bitwise set — C-builtin vs pure-.wo is this story's brainstorm call.
Test vectors are the acceptance: FIPS 180 / RFC 2202 / RFC 4231 vectors in a corpus fixture — a digest that "looks right" is worth nothing.
The contract doc row: names, arities, Bytes-in/Bytes-out, and the explicit note that SHA-1 exists for protocol compatibility (WS), not for new designs.

Acceptance Criteria (draft — the spec refines)

Given the published test vectors for SHA-1, SHA-256, and HMAC-SHA256, when the corpus fixture runs them through the builtins, then every output matches byte-for-byte (via the existing base64/Bytes surface).
Given the WS handshake's worked example from RFC 6455 (dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ== → s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=), when composed in pure .wo from sha1 + base64_encode, then the exact accept token comes out — iteration 24's handshake is provably one expression away.
Given the full battery, when it runs, then nothing regresses — new builtin ids only, no opcode, no .wob version bump (the iteration-19/time.ticks precedent).

Out Of Scope

Asymmetric crypto (ed25519 signatures/keypairs) — held iteration 21's spec decides what it needs when it unholds; this iteration lays the digest floor it will stand on.
TLS — permanently the proxy's job (framework doctrine).
CRC32 — the ledger lists it, but no consumer is blocked on it; it joins only if 24's spec finds a real need (rejecting speculative surface).
A password-hashing story (bcrypt/argon2) — no workload asks yet.
Bitwise operators in the language — a separate, bigger surface decision this iteration deliberately routes around.

Info

Forks the spec must settle:

The namespace. The reserved stdlib namespaces are exactly fs/proc/net/time/json/env (compiler-enforced list) — a new crypto namespace touches that list plus the typechecker table, or the functions ride an existing namespace. Leaning: a real crypto namespace (the list exists to be grown deliberately; this is deliberate).
Surface shape: crypto.sha1(b: Bytes) -> Bytes, crypto.sha256(b: Bytes) -> Bytes, crypto.hmac_sha256(key: Bytes, msg: Bytes) -> Bytes — Text convenience overloads rejected (the caller has bytes_of_text).
Implementation source: hand-rolled C from the FIPS pseudocode (~200 lines for both digests; well-trodden, vector-verified) — the doctrine's shape. No linking against OpenSSL, ever.
Where the code lives: runtime/src/crypto.c beside sysio, or inside builtin.c — file layout, the executor decides.

Proposed Solution

Brainstorm → (small) spec settling the four forks → implement with the time.ticks slice's shape (ids, one table row per compiler surface, contract-doc rows, vector fixtures). Lands any time before iteration 24's spec; independent of 31/22/23.

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