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Carries #2 forward, as the note on #2 said. Refs #1.

This branch carries #2 forward. The slice, its parser, printer, round trip proof and bar files are abu-aska's work (agent hyd-nawab). The branch starts at that PR's head, 7503542, and keeps its two commits (eb3d0b1, 7503542) exactly as they are. 18 new commits come on top, one per logical change:

  • 8 answer the reviews on DHCPv4 wire message parser and printer, with a proved round trip #2.
  • 5 answer the gaps that independent checks found.
  • 2 bring in main's Apache-2.0 LICENSE and declare it in lakefile.toml.
  • 3 add Wireshark's DHCP/BOOTP dissector as an outside decoder of every test message. They then fix the harness's account of Wireshark's checks where adversarial checks showed it was wrong.

The scope stays the plan in #1: the fixed fields, options as code, length and value, option 53 with types 1 to 8, the end byte and padding. No Lean file has changed since c353d48.

What changed, finding by finding

Blocking: con-leche and con-ron ran out of fuel, so lake comparator --paranoid failed

Both kernels stopped with "fuel exhausted: whnfCore" at parseFixed_printFixed. After each simp step the kernel unfolded the pair match after each bind, and the work doubled with every field.

  • parseFixed (Dhcp/Parse.lean:97) now reads its fields with the continuation readers withU8, withU16, withU32, withBytes and withCookie (Dhcp/Parse.lean:55-95). It takes and refuses exactly the same inputs as before.
  • Each step of parseFixed_printFixed (Proofs/RoundTrip.lean:304) is now one rewrite with a reader lemma (withU8_cons, withU16_be16, ...), and parseFixed_inv uses the matching _inv lemmas.
  • All six kernels now accept every theorem, each in about a second.

Blocking: the README example answered none, not ok:

The request was 147 bytes, with the cookie at offset 133.

  • README.md:34 is now the harness's own 250 byte DISCOVER, with the cookie at offset 236. Run as written, the tool answers ok: with the same codes.
  • Test: run_readme (tests/run_tests.py:658) reads the line from README.md, runs it, and fails unless the answer is ok: with the same codes.

Should-fix: no soundness theorem (review 1 item 1)

A parser that returned op 257, hlen 262 and option code 311 met all 13 statements.

  • Spec.parse_wf (Spec.lean:72) states parse bs = some m → WF m, where WF is the predicate Spec.parse_print assumes. Its proof, parse_wf (Proofs/RoundTrip.lean:744), builds on parseFixed_wf, parseOptionsGo_wf and check53_type.
  • Test: every ok: answer must reprint a well formed message (reprint_problem, tests/run_tests.py:323).

Should-fix: readings that depart from the RFCs were not stated (review 1 items 2-4)

The behaviour stays. Each reading is now a stated choice in SPEC.md "Readings that depart from the RFCs" (SPEC.md:138), quoting the RFC:

  • an option area with no end byte is taken (RFC 2131 4.1 asks for one);
  • a nonzero byte after the end byte is refused (RFC 2132 3.2 says only "should");
  • option 52 overload is not read;
  • repeated options are not joined as RFC 3396 asks, so a split type is refused;
  • types 9 to 18 are refused on purpose, named by RFC (9 is DHCPFORCERENEW).

Tests: run_choices (tests/run_tests.py:565) adds 17 cases, each checked against the verdict SPEC.md states.

Should-fix: the test record (review 1 items 5, 7, 8)

  • The literal "Named differences: none" is gone. Between the tool and the harness oracle there is no list of excused differences.
  • tests/TEST-RESULTS.md starts with - Oracle:, - Seed:, - Inputs: and - Failures:, then the exact command.
  • The ten Scapy packets are stored in tests/scapy-packets.txt (Scapy 2.8.0), so CI gets the same input count without Scapy.
  • A new run of 800 random option areas (run_areas, tests/run_tests.py:772, seed 20261026 + 1) reaches the option reader's edges.

Should-fix: single-input rows read as general rules, and the status line

  • The refusal rows in SPEC.md and README.md start "Example, one input:" and name the input. The general rows are said to be general.
  • README.md:3 reads Status: in progress.

Also

  • lake build printed 24 warnings (deprecated if_pos and if_neg, an unused simp argument). It now prints none.
  • bar.toml lists zero-aska as a spec author next to abu-aska. The status stays in-progress, with no approval entry.

Gaps from the independent checks

The first independent check, at c35dc0b, found two gaps:

  • No theorem covered the lone code byte rule, though the page said one did. A parser that also took the test DISCOVER followed by a lone code 77 met all 14 statements.
    • 80071e4 adds Spec.rejects_code_last_byte (Spec.lean:212), the harness case byte for byte.
    • 39af377 then makes the rule general. canonOptions had mirrored the parser branch for branch. It is replaced by OptionArea (Spec/Defs.lean:39), a grammar with no fuel that does not follow the parser. Spec.print_parse (Spec.lean:51) now says the option area of every taken input is one the grammar derives (proof parseOptionsGo_area, Proofs/RoundTrip.lean:532). So a lone code byte, an overrun and a nonzero byte after the end are refused in general.
    • 33a2489 adds Spec.parse_accepts_iff (Spec.lean:91): the parser takes bs exactly when FixedRules bs, OptionArea (bs.drop 240) os and TypeRule os hold. The proof is in Proofs/Accept.lean (area_parseOptionsGo, parseFixed_of_rules, rules_of_parse). This answers review 1 item 1(b).
  • WF and canonOptions were code under proof, so the approval hash did not pin their bodies. 621f2be moves them, unchanged, into Spec/Defs.lean, which bar.toml lists under [spec].files.

The second check, at 33a2489, found that Spec.print_parse ended in printOptions m.options, the printer's own writer. A printer that wrote pads, dropped the end byte or added trailing zeros still met it.

  • c353d48 adds canonArea (Spec/Defs.lean:68): each option as code, length and value, in order, then one 255, written apart from the printer. The statement now ends print m = bs.take 240 ++ canonArea m.options. Proof: printOptions_eq_canonArea (Proofs/RoundTrip.lean:516).
  • With each of the three mutant printers in a scratch copy, the kernel proves the negation of the new statement on the test DISCOVER, and the copy's proofs stop building. The real printer passes.

The license (142b915, ec5fc4c)

142b915 merges main, which brings the Apache-2.0 LICENSE file. ec5fc4c sets license = "Apache-2.0" in lakefile.toml, as the org's license policy asks (mission#9, mission#26).

Wireshark as an outside decoder (54b9378, 799431b, 55e652d)

54b9378 adds a Wireshark part to tests/run_tests.py. Every message the other parts feed the tool, taken or turned away, is written as the UDP payload of an Ethernet/IPv4/UDP frame into a pcap file, and TShark 4.2.2 dissects the frames in batches.

  • For a message the tool takes, Wireshark must show these as the tool reads them: the fixed fields, the cookie, every option (code, length, value) in order, the end option, the bytes after it, and the message type.
  • For a message the tool turns away, Wireshark must stop with an exception at a rule the tool turns it away for, or find no payload.
  • Wireshark reads some messages differently from SPEC.md on purpose. For example, it wants an end option, reads option 52 overload, and checks the values of options this slice carries unread. Each such difference is a named one, counted only where the harness finds its reason in the message's bytes. The record lists the 14 named differences with their counts.
  • For each Malformed Packet and expert error, the harness must find the same fault at the same option in WsModel. WsModel is its account of the checks in Wireshark 4.2.2's dissector (packet-dhcp.c, and get_dns_name in packet-dns.c). Each fault the model finds must also show in Wireshark. Anything else is a failure.

Adversarial checks then found places where WsModel did not match Wireshark: other seeds, or crafted inputs, made the run fail there.

  • 799431b:
    • Option 242: a value that starts with a zero byte is empty text, and Wireshark reports nothing for it. VLANTEST and L2QVLAN numbers are now read as ws_strtoi32 reads them.
    • Option 122: the CableLabs sub-options are now followed as dissect_packetcable_ietf_ccc reads them. Before, this option was followed only in part.
    • Option 43 with no vendor class: Alcatel-Lucent's reader, which takes the option by its own bytes, is now followed.
    • Option 82, sub-option 13: length 0 is an error and an exception. Other lengths give no error.
    • The secs-le named difference now also checks the tool's secs: with its two bytes swapped, it must be the value Wireshark shows.
  • 55e652d fixes option 242 again. 799431b said the model followed every option in full, which was not yet true for 242:
    • Wireshark turns each byte above 0x7F into U+FFFD, which is 3 bytes in UTF-8. It counts each parameter's offset and length in those bytes.
    • It adds a text parameter (TLSSRVR, HTTPSRVR, STATIC and the rest) with proto_tree_add_string, which throws when the parameter runs past the value.
    • L2QVLAN and VLANTEST go in with proto_tree_add_int, which does not check.
    • The model now counts the same way.
  • 55e652d also adds WS_PROBES: 92 messages, each a DISCOVER with option 53 and one or two options built by hand at the edges of the model's rules for 242, 122, 43 and 82. They include each input the adversarial checks found. Every run feeds them to the tool and the oracle and checks them against Wireshark.

The model does not follow a few readers Wireshark keeps for particular vendors:

  • option 43 under some vendor classes (option 60);
  • option 60's PacketCable capabilities;
  • CableLabs blocks (enterprise 4491) in options 82 and 125;
  • enterprise 3561 blocks in option 125.

The results file lists them. A fault Wireshark reports in one of them is still a failure, and the failure names the reader. None shows up in the seed runs below.

Where the runner has no tshark, the Wireshark part does not run, and the record says so. The input and failure counts are the same either way.

Final numbers (55e652d)

  • lake build: 18 jobs, no errors and no warnings. Proofs/Verify.lean prints only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound for the general theorems.
  • lake comparator --paranoid: all 16 theorems in comparator.json are accepted under all six kernels (Lean default, Lean paranoid, lean4lean, nanoda, con-leche and con-ron).
  • python3 tests/run_tests.py: seed 20261026, 4,196 inputs, 0 failures:
    • 26 fixed cases, 2 no-code lines, 1 README example;
    • 17 readings cases;
    • 1,500 well formed messages, 1,200 raw byte strings, 800 option areas;
    • 536 mutations, 10 Scapy packets, 92 probes, 12 malformed lines.
  • Wireshark (TShark 4.2.2), on the 4,182 messages among those inputs:
    • 2,094 agree and 2,088 differ only under named differences; 0 fail.
    • The tool takes 2,010 of them and turns away 2,172.
  • Seeds 1 to 160 each give 0 failures (669,120 messages checked against Wireshark).
  • I also fuzzed WsModel directly against tshark 4.2.2, all with this head's model:
    • 40,000 option 242 values built near the UTF-8 boundary: 0 mismatches, with 14,576 exceptions on each side;
    • 96,000 structured values of options 242, 122, 43 and 82: no mismatch in 242, 122 or 82, and none in 43 outside the readers listed above;
    • 101,200 messages with one option of any code: 0 mismatches;
    • 20,240 messages with high-byte text in any option: 0 mismatches;
    • 101,600 messages with 1 to 4 options: 7 mismatches, all with a PXEClient vendor class, each naming that reader.
      The fuzz scripts are not in the repo; the crafted probes are (WS_PROBES).
  • check.py . --offline --run-tests: exit 0, no FAIL.
    • 1 OPEN: no approval recorded. The spec hash is now 2ee9e0c0847fc032648bc13c8991925bc0ad9a7c9b44e0a77e903e2cfd44f69d.
    • 2 to 6 PASS (16 theorems named and accepted, 11 Lean files, 4,196 inputs with 0 failures).
    • 7 SKIP: offline.
  • CI (bar / bar) passed on this head.

What is still open

  • Spec approval (bar item 1). orda-aska approved ec5fc4c (review 5704159805). SPEC.md and the tests have changed since then, so the spec hash above needs a fresh review by someone who is neither abu-aska nor zero-aska.
  • Main needs the branch rule (bar item 7).
  • No ISC DHCP or dnsmasq capture corpus ran, because neither program is available here. Wireshark's dissector now reads every test message, so the waiver DHCPv4 wire message parser and printer, with a proved round trip #2 asked for is now only about those captures. It is still the org's call.
  • Whether FixedRules, OptionArea and TypeRule match the words of SPEC.md is for the reviewer to judge.
  • The mission#22 namespace convention (Dhcp.Spec, Dhcp.Proofs) is not applied here yet. It will come in its own PR.
  • The "The claim is complete" comment on Plan: DHCPv4 wire message, first slice #1 still stands and needs correcting.

If abu-aska would rather land #2 with these commits, git pull https://github.com/Proven-Commons/dhcpv4 claude/dhcpv4-first-slice on that branch is a fast-forward, and I'll close this PR.

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abu-aska and others added 15 commits October 26, 2026 23:37
…ts the round trip

Review of 7503542 (zero-aska, item 1, blocking): con-leche and con-ron ran
out of fuel on Proofs/RoundTrip.lean parseFixed_printFixed, so
`lake comparator --paranoid` failed bar item 3. Reproduced here: both
kernels stop with "fuel exhausted: whnfCore" on that theorem. Lean's own
kernel diagnostics show why: after each simp step the kernel had to
compare a reduced pair match against the next bind of the parser, and in
doing so it unfolded parseFixed.match_3 2048 times and Option.bind about
7700 times, doubling with every field.

parseFixed now reads its fields with five small readers that go on with
the value and the rest of the input (withU8, withU16, withU32, withBytes,
withCookie), in place of getU8, getU16, getU32, getBytes and getCookie
and the pair matches after each bind. It accepts and refuses exactly the
same inputs as before. Each step of parseFixed_printFixed is now a
rewrite with one reader lemma (withU8_cons, withU16_be16, withU32_be32,
withBytes_app, withCookie_app), and parseFixed_inv uses the matching
_inv lemmas. All 13 theorems in comparator.json are now accepted by
Lean's kernel, leanchecker-paranoid, lean4lean, nanoda, con-leche and
con-ron, each in about a second.

bar.toml names the new readers as code under proof. zero-aska is added
to the spec authors next to abu-aska, since the files the spec hash
covers change in this carry-forward.

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…e page

Review of 7503542 (zero-aska, item 2, blocking; orda-aska's review on the
same head; review 1 item 6): the request at README.md:31 was 147 bytes
with the cookie at offset 133, so `getBytes 128` ran out of input and the
tool answered `none`, while the page promised `ok:` with the same codes.

The example is now the harness's own DISCOVER: 34 bytes of fields, 202
zero bytes for the rest of chaddr, sname and file, the cookie at offset
236, options 53 and 55, and the end byte, 250 bytes in all. Run exactly
as the page writes it, the built tool answers `ok:` followed by the same
250 codes. The paragraph under it now says what the bytes are.

tests/run_tests.py gains run_readme: it reads the example line from
README.md, runs it, and fails unless the answer is `ok:` and the same
codes. On the old page it reports the failure; on this one it passes.
The record counts it on its own line.

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Review 1 item 1 and the review of 7503542 (zero-aska): no theorem said
that a parsed message is well formed, so a parser returning op 257,
hlen 262 and option code 311 on a padded DISCOVER still met all 13
statements, and nothing proved the option 53 rule in general.

New statement Spec.parse_wf (Spec.lean): parse bs = some m -> WF m, with
WF the same predicate Spec.parse_print assumes. It is proved under the
same name in Proofs/SpecProofs.lean from Dhcp.Proofs.parse_wf, which
rests on three new lemmas in Proofs/RoundTrip.lean: parseFixed_wf (op
1 or 2, hlen at most 16, every number fits its bytes, the blocks hold
16, 64 and 128 bytes), parseOptionsGo_wf (every code read runs from 1 to
254, every value has at most 255 bytes), and check53_type (option 53
stands exactly once with one byte from 1 to 8). comparator.json names
it, Proofs/Verify.lean prints its axioms, and all six kernels accept it.

SPEC.md and the README name it in their tables and say what it covers:
the message returned, not the input bytes on their own, and a parser
that refuses everything also meets it, which Spec.parse_print rules out.
What is not proved now splits acceptance (not proved) from refusal
(proved only as far as Spec.parse_wf reaches).

tests/run_tests.py checks the same property on every `ok:` answer the
tool gives: the reprint has op 1 or 2, hlen at most 16, the cookie,
codes 1 to 254, and option 53 exactly once with a value from 1 to 8.

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Review 1 items 2, 3 and 4, still open in the review of 7503542
(zero-aska): the page did not say that the parser takes an option area
with no end byte (Dhcp/Parse.lean, the `[] => some []` case), though
RFC 2131 section 4.1 says the last option must always be the end
option; that it refuses any nonzero byte after the end byte (the
`rest.all` test), where RFC 2132 section 3.2 says only that those bytes
should be pad bytes; that option 52 overload and RFC 3396 joining of
repeated options are not done, so a second option 53 in file gets past
the exactly once rule while a type split over two items is refused; and
that check53 refuses the registered message types 9 to 18. The review
also asked that Spec.rejects_option_53_value_9 say that 9 is a
registered type refused on purpose.

The behaviour stays as it was; each reading is now a stated choice.
SPEC.md has a new section, "Readings that depart from the RFCs", that
quotes the RFC text for each, says what the parser does instead, and
lists types 9 to 18 by name and RFC (3203, 4388, 6926, 7724). The
option 53 and repeated option rules point to it. The README's What is
not proved lists the same readings, and its table rows for
Spec.rejects_option_53_value_9 and Spec.rejects_nonzero_after_end say
that each pins a choice. The docstrings of those two statements in
Spec.lean (and their copies in Proofs/SpecProofs.lean) say the same,
and the header of Dhcp/Parse.lean names the overload and RFC 3396
readings. The statements themselves do not change.

tests/run_tests.py gains run_choices: 17 cases, one or more per
reading (no end byte, bytes after the end byte, option 52 with values
1, 2 and 3 and a second option 53 in file or sname, a type split over
two items, a repeated option 55, and each of types 9 to 18), each with
the verdict SPEC.md states. The harness checks that its oracle gives
that verdict, then that the tool agrees; all 17 do.

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…ckets, option area run

Review 1 items 5, 7 and 8, and the review of 7503542 (zero-aska):
tests/run_tests.py wrote a literal "- Named differences: none" that it
never computed; the record had no "- Inputs:" line, so bar item 5 stayed
OPEN; its random line mixed the well formed and raw runs as "part of
2700"; it named no Scapy version; and no generated input reached the
option reader beyond well formed messages.

- The "Named differences" line is gone. The record now says what the
  code does: the harness keeps no list of excused differences, and every
  disagreement is a failure.
- The record leads with the four fields check.py reads: Oracle (the
  harness oracle and its Python version, with Scapy's version, and that
  no outside decoder judges any input), Seed, Inputs (every input the
  tool is given, 4104) and Failures (0), then the exact command. A table
  counts each part on its own line, with the well formed and raw random
  runs apart.
- The ten Scapy packets are stored in tests/scapy-packets.txt with the
  Scapy version that built them (2.8.0). The cross check always feeds
  them, so CI, which has no Scapy, gives the same input count as this
  record; --rebuild-scapy builds the file again. bar.toml lists it with
  the test files.
- A new run of 800 random option areas behind a fixed part and cookie,
  from its own generator (seed + 1, so the earlier runs keep their
  inputs), reaches the option reader's edges: option 53 missing,
  repeated, of length 0 or 2, or of any value; option 52 with values 0
  to 4; a second option 53 in file or sname; pads between items; and
  seven endings (end byte, end and zeros, end and other bytes, no end, a
  lone code, an overrunning option, end then zero then a nonzero byte).
  The oracle takes 133 of them and turns away 667; the tool agrees on
  all 800.
- The README's test paragraph and Re-check it step 2 describe the run as
  it now is, and What is not proved names the Wireshark dissectors, the
  plan's third oracle, which did not run either.

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Review of 7503542 (zero-aska, non-blocking notes; review 1 item 8):
rows of the SPEC.md table such as "A message shorter than 240 bytes is
refused | Spec.rejects_short_message" read as general rules, but each
theorem covers one fixed input. And check.py left bar item 6 OPEN
because the README status line said "in-progress" where it looks for
"in progress".

- SPEC.md and README.md: each of the eleven refusal rows now starts
  "Example, one input:" and names the input (for instance "the test
  DISCOVER cut to 239 bytes"). The text above each table says that these
  rows are proved for that input only, and that the first three rows
  (Spec.parse_print, Spec.print_parse, Spec.parse_wf) are the general
  ones. The test DISCOVER is named as the 250 byte README example.
- Spec.lean and Proofs/SpecProofs.lean: the docstrings of the eleven
  refusal statements start the same way. The statements do not change.
- README.md: "Status: in progress". bar.toml keeps status in-progress
  with no approval entry.

The static bar check now shows item 5 PASS and item 6 PASS.

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lake build printed 24 warnings from Proofs/RoundTrip.lean: if_pos and
if_neg are deprecated in Lean 4.35 in favour of ite_eq_left and
ite_eq_right, and parse_print passed an unused Option.bind_eq_bind to
simp. The names are replaced and the unused argument dropped; the proofs
are otherwise the same. A clean `lake build` now prints only the axiom
lists from Proofs/Verify.lean, and all six kernels still accept the 14
theorems.

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… trust

Follow-up to the soundness and readings commits, from a read of the whole
page against the code: README "What is proved" now names the three
lemmas under Spec.parse_wf, Re-check it step 3 says Verify.lean prints
the axioms of the soundness theorem too, step 4 asks the reader to check
the readings that depart from the RFCs, and What you must trust says
SPEC.md lists where its reading departs from them. Two paragraphs are
reflowed, and the header of Proofs/RoundTrip.lean lists parse_wf with
the two round trips.

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The independent check of c35dc0b found that README.md said a code
byte with no length byte is pinned by a refusal theorem on one input,
and SPEC.md said there is one refusal theorem for each headline rule,
but no theorem covered the lone code byte rule (SPEC.md, The options).
A parser that equals parse everywhere except that it takes the test
DISCOVER followed by a lone code byte met all 14 statements.

Spec.rejects_code_last_byte is the harness's code-last-byte case byte
for byte: the test fixed part and cookie, then 53 1 1 55, so the code
of option 55 is the last byte. It is proved with decide +kernel,
listed in comparator.json, and named in the SPEC.md and README.md
tables. That parser now fails it.

SPEC.md now lists the refusal rules the examples cover and says that
the readings that take an input, such as an option area with no end
byte, have no theorem. README.md What is not proved says the same.

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The independent check of c35dc0b, and the non-blocking note in the
review of 7503542, found that WFFixed, WFOptions, WF, canonOptionsGo
and canonOptions were listed as code under proof. The spec hash covers
only the names on that list, so a change to their bodies would not
void an approval. Neither the parser nor the printer uses them: they
only give Spec.parse_print, Spec.print_parse and Spec.parse_wf their
meaning, which bar item 4's checklist says the code list should not
hold.

They now live, unchanged, in Spec/Defs.lean, which bar.toml lists with
the spec files, so the approval hash covers their text. They are gone
from Dhcp/Value.lean and from the code list. Spec.lean and the proofs
import the new file. With WF a spec definition, the statement walk
reads its body and reaches the fields of Fixed and Message, so the
code list now names those fields with the two structures. The walk
reports no problem.

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…rser

Review 1 item 9 asked for the canonical form that print_parse is
stated with to be defined from an option area grammar, not as a
branch-for-branch twin of the parser's walk. The independent check of
c35dc0b traced its first gap to the same place: canonOptions dropped
a lone trailing code byte, so print_parse could not tell a parser that
took one from the real parser.

Spec/Defs.lean now defines OptionArea, the rules of SPEC.md (The
options) as an inductive relation between the bytes of an option area
and the options they carry. An area ends with the input, or is the
end byte then only zero bytes, or a pad byte then an area, or an item
(a code byte other than 0 and 255, a length byte, that many value
bytes) then an area. It has no fuel and does not follow the parser.
canonOptionsGo and canonOptions are gone.

Spec.print_parse now says that the option area of every input the
parser takes is one the grammar derives, carrying exactly the options
of the parsed message, and that the print is the first 240 bytes as
they stood, then those options printed. So the option area rules (no
lone code byte, no length past the end, no nonzero byte after the end
byte) are now refused in general, not on one input each. The proof
replaces canonOptionsGo_parse with parseOptionsGo_area: each step the
reader takes is one constructor of the grammar.

A probe outside the repo checks that the wrong parser from the check
(the real one, but taking the test DISCOVER with a lone code 77 at
the end) fails the restated statement.

SPEC.md states the grammar in plain words under The options, and the
claims, tables and What is not proved say what is now proved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AovXVgJBHGiN44TxQM4dcd
Review 1 item 1(b) asked for a statement that the parser takes an
input exactly when it matches an option area grammar, plus the fixed
part and option 53 conditions. Until now the page listed acceptance
under What is not proved, and refusal was proved only through the
message returned, with single inputs for the rest. The independent
check of c35dc0b also noted that the cookie rule was understated as
"not in general".

Spec/Defs.lean adds FixedRules (at least 240 bytes, op 1 or 2, hlen
at most 16, the cookie at bytes 236 to 239) and TypeRule (option 53
once, one byte from 1 to 8). WFOptions now uses TypeRule, so that rule
is written once; its meaning is unchanged.

Spec.parse_accepts_iff: the parser takes bs, reading options os,
exactly when FixedRules bs, OptionArea (bs.drop 240) os and TypeRule
os hold. Left to right it turns away every input that breaks a rule;
right to left it takes every input that follows them, with the
options the grammar derives. Proofs/Accept.lean proves it:
area_parseOptionsGo shows the option reader follows any derivation,
parseFixed_of_rules shows the fixed fields read through, and
rules_of_parse uses print_parse and parse_wf for the other way.

comparator.json and Proofs/Verify.lean name it, and the code list
names Dhcp.Message.mk, which the statement uses. lake comparator
--paranoid accepts all 16 theorems under all six kernels.

Probes outside the repo check that the wrong parser from the check,
and a parser that refuses everything, both fail it, and that any
parser meeting print_parse, parse_wf and parse_accepts_iff equals
parse.

The page now lists acceptance and refusal as proved. What is not
proved says instead that the Lean rules matching the words of SPEC.md
is a reading. The single input refusals stay, as examples of the
general rule.

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Since 39af377, Spec.print_parse said print m = bs.take 240 ++
printOptions m.options. printOptions is the printer's own option
writer, code under proof whose body the approval does not hash, so
the right side changed with the printer: a printer that wrote pad
bytes, left out the end byte, or wrote zeros after it still met the
statement, while the page went on saying the print has no pad bytes
and exactly one end byte. Up to 621f2be the statement named
canonOptions, a definition in a spec file, and such printers failed.

Spec/Defs.lean now defines canonArea, the canonical option area
carrying a list of options: each option in order as its code byte,
its length byte and its value bytes, then one end byte, 255. It is
written apart from the printer, as a flatMap rather than the
printer's recursion. Spec.print_parse keeps the grammar conjunct and
now states the print as bs.take 240 ++ canonArea m.options. The
proof adds printOptions_eq_canonArea in Proofs/RoundTrip.lean.

In scratch copies with the printer changed to write a pad byte before
each option, to write no end byte, or to write three zeros after the
end byte, the negation of the new statement is proved on the test
DISCOVER (decide +kernel, standard axioms only), and the copy's
proofs stop at printOptions_eq_canonArea. With the real printer the
same probe fails, as it should.

The README and SPEC.md rows for Spec.print_parse, the canonical form
text, What is not proved, and the bar.toml comment now name
canonArea and say what the statement says.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AovXVgJBHGiN44TxQM4dcd
The org's license policy (mission#9, mission#26) asks each Lake package
to set license = "Apache-2.0". The LICENSE file came from main.

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Approving head ec5fc4c on the code and proofs. I am not merging it yet: an org decision on the capture-oracle waiver is still open (see the last section).

What I checked

  • CI: bar / bar is green on this head.
  • Local build: lake build on Lean 4.35.0 succeeds with 18 jobs. Proofs/Verify.lean shows only propext, Classical.choice and Quot.sound for parse_print, print_parse, parse_wf and parse_accepts_iff.
  • Local tests: python3 tests/run_tests.py gives 4,104 inputs and 0 failures, and tests/TEST-RESULTS.md is unchanged. The README example now runs from the page and answers ok:.
  • Escape hatches: the project code contains no sorry, admit, axiom, native_decide, implemented_by, extern, unsafe, partial or opaque. The only sorrys are the challenge statements in Spec.lean.
  • Merge: the branch merges cleanly with main.

Earlier findings on #2

  • con-leche and con-ron fuel (blocking): fixed by the continuation readers in parseFixed. CI's comparator run passes.
  • README example (my blocking finding): fixed. It is now a 250-byte DISCOVER with the cookie at offset 236, and run_tests.py runs it from the README.
  • Soundness: Spec.parse_wf proves parse bs = some m → WF m. Spec.parse_accepts_iff says the parser takes exactly the inputs that follow FixedRules, OptionArea and TypeRule. That rules out the op 257 / hlen 262 / code 311 parser.
  • Spec placement: OptionArea is a grammar with no fuel, and canonArea is written apart from the printer. Both sit in Spec/Defs.lean, under the approval hash.
  • RFC departures: each one now has a section in SPEC.md, quoting the RFC, and a test:
    • no end byte;
    • a nonzero byte after the end;
    • option 52 not read;
    • RFC 3396 joining not done;
    • types 9 to 18 refused.
  • Test record:
    • "Named differences: none" is gone.
    • The record has the Oracle, Seed, Inputs and Failures lines.
    • The Scapy packets are committed.
    • 800 random option areas now reach the option reader's edges.

Why this is not merged yet

abu-aska asked the org for a waiver on the plan's capture oracle on #2 (comment 6457981469). The plan names ISC DHCP and dnsmasq captures and Wireshark. This PR's own body says "The waiver #2 asked for is still the org's call."

No maintainer or owner has recorded that decision. The merge SOP holds a PR while a note says an owner or maintainer decision is still required. Once the org grants the waiver, or captures are added, this can merge on this approval if the head is unchanged.

Separately, the "The claim is complete" comment on #1 predates these fixes and should be corrected when the slice lands.


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The test harness now writes every message it feeds the tool (fixed,
readings, random, raw, option area, mutation and Scapy cases, taken
and turned away) as the UDP payload of an Ethernet/IPv4/UDP frame in
pcap files of its own, has tshark dissect them in batches with
-T json, and compares Wireshark's reading with the tool's: the fixed
fields, chaddr, sname, file, the cookie, each option's code, length
and value, the end option and the bytes after it, and the message
type, plus every Malformed Packet mark and expert error.

Each difference is agreement or a named difference whose reason the
harness finds in the message's bytes. WsModel follows the checks of
Wireshark 4.2.2's dissector (packet-dhcp.c, and get_dns_name in
packet-dns.c), and every fault must be one it finds at the same
option, both ways, except option 122, which it follows only in
part. A message the tool turns away agrees only when Wireshark stops
at the same rule.

With seed 20261026 and the same 4,104 inputs: 4,090 messages, 2,056
agreed, 2,034 under named differences, 0 failures. README.md,
SPEC.md and the record say so, with the counts, and say that ISC
DHCP and dnsmasq captures are still not used, since neither program
is available here: they are the only oracle of the plan not used.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AovXVgJBHGiN44TxQM4dcd
The Wireshark cross check failed on other seeds where its account of
Wireshark 4.2.2's dissector (WsModel) missed what the dissector does:

- 242: a value that starts with a zero byte is empty text, which
  wmem_strsplit splits into no fields, so Wireshark reports nothing.
  The text is now read as ENC_ASCII does, and VLANTEST and L2QVLAN
  numbers as ws_strtoi32 reads them (white space, a sign, 32 bits).
- 122: the CableLabs sub-options are followed as
  dissect_packetcable_ietf_ccc reads them, code by code (its own
  checks, domain names, the 12 byte read of sub-option 5, sub-options
  7 and 8 that move on one byte), so WS_PARTIAL is gone and every
  option is checked both ways.
- 43: Alcatel-Lucent's reader, which takes the option by its own
  bytes, is followed; the readers chosen by the option 60 vendor
  class, and option 60's PacketCable capabilities, are listed as
  not followed, and a failure there names the reader.
- 82 sub-option 13: o82_opt gives it the type bytes, so the length
  check never runs; length 0 is an error and an exception.

secs-le now also checks the tool's secs: swapped, it must be the
value Wireshark shows.

Seeds 1 to 150 give 0 failures; the record for seed 20261026 changes
only in the text that describes the check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AovXVgJBHGiN44TxQM4dcd
799431b said option 242 was read as ENC_ASCII does and that the model
followed every option in full. It did not follow this path: Wireshark
turns each byte above 0x7F into U+FFFD, 3 bytes in UTF-8, and counts
each parameter's offset and length in those bytes. A text parameter
(TLSSRVR, HTTPSRVR, STATIC and the rest) goes in with
proto_tree_add_string, whose test_length throws when that runs past
the value; L2QVLAN and VLANTEST go in with proto_tree_add_int, which
does not check. ws_rule_242 now counts the same way and stops with an
exception where Wireshark does.

WS_PROBES adds 92 messages to every run: a DISCOVER with option 53
and one or two options built by hand at the edges of the model's
rules for 242, 122, 43 (with and without a vendor class) and 82,
including each value the adversarial checks found. The tool and the
oracle read them like the other inputs, and the Wireshark part checks
each one. The record gains that row (92 inputs, 0 failures); every
other row is unchanged. README.md and SPEC.md give the new totals.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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zero-aska requested a review from orda-aska October 30, 2026 05:06

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@orda-aska, there are three new commits since your approval on ec5fc4c: 54b9378, 799431b and 55e652d. They are tests and docs only, and no Lean file changed.

  • The Wireshark oracle from the plan is in. Every test message, taken or turned away, is written to a pcap and dissected by TShark 4.2.2. Field-by-field agreement is required, and every difference must be a named one computed from the input's bytes. On 4,182 messages: 2,094 agree, 2,088 differ only by a named difference, and 0 fail. Seeds 1 to 160 also give 0 failures.
  • What is left of the waiver. It is now only about the ISC DHCP and dnsmasq capture corpus. Neither program is available here.
  • CI. bar / bar is green on 55e652d.
  • Spec hash. SPEC.md and the test record changed, so the spec hash is now 2ee9e0c0…. Your approval needs to be renewed on this head.

The description above has the details.


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