🌊 feat(trios-chat) Wave-35: cover-traffic-decoy-indistinguishability + sender-keys-epoch-window-replay (NDSS 2021 §V + RFC 9420 §15.5)

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Closes #948

Two new falsifier lanes implementing the metadata-resistant transport
defences NDSS 2021 §V called for after the receiver-mailbox SDA fix
shipped in Wave-34, plus the RFC 9420 §15.5 sender-data sliding-window
replay bound that real MLS deployments commonly leave informal.

Lane A — L-CHAT-2-ctdi (CR-CHAT-02)

crates/trios-chat/rings/CR-CHAT-02/src/cover_traffic_decoy_indistinguishability.rs

validate_cover_packet(packet: &CoverPacket, view: &CoverPacketView) -> Result<(), CoverPacketError>

Seven rules enforced in fixed order, single deny wins:

1. NonCanonicalPacketLengthClass — ciphertext length must be one of the receiver's published equal-length bins.
2. UnknownLengthClassId — declared class id must be a published class.
3. LengthClassMismatch — declared class id must match the actual ciphertext length.
4. NonCanonicalNonceLength — AEAD nonce must be 12 bytes (ChaCha20-Poly1305).
5. NonCanonicalAadLength — AAD must be 16 bytes (fixed (epoch_u64 ‖ class_u64) header).
6. NonCanonicalTagLength — Poly1305 tag must be 16 bytes.
7. CoverFlagShapeMismatch — wire_digest is a function of the length class only; cover and real packets in the same bin share the expected digest.

Consts: COVER_AEAD_NONCE_LEN=12, COVER_AAD_LEN=16, COVER_AEAD_TAG_LEN=16.
Tests: CTDI-01..10.

Lane B — L-CHAT-5-sker (CR-CHAT-05)

crates/trios-chat/rings/CR-CHAT-05/src/sender_keys_epoch_window_replay.rs

validate_sender_keys_packet(packet: &SenderKeysPacket, view: &SenderKeysView) -> Result<(), SenderKeysError>

Seven rules enforced in fixed order, single deny wins:

1. NonCanonicalSenderIdLength — sender_id must be 16 bytes (MLS LeafNodeRef per RFC 9420 §6.1).
2. UnknownSender — sender_id must be in view.known_senders.
3. FutureEpoch — packet epoch cannot exceed current_epoch (no time travel).
4. EpochOutsideWindow — current_epoch - packet.epoch <= 1 (sliding window of size 1).
5. EpochAlreadyEvicted — already-evicted epochs rejected.
6. ZeroGeneration — generation = 0 forbidden (MLS counter starts at 1 per §15.5).
7. NonMonotonicGeneration — generation must be strictly greater than last seen for (sender_id, epoch).

Consts: SENDER_KEYS_SENDER_ID_LEN=16, SENDER_KEYS_EPOCH_WINDOW=1.
Tests: SKER-01..10.

Falsifier corpus

crates/trios-chat/corpus/prompt_injection.jsonl — +100 entries
(PI-CTDI-001..050 + PI-SKER-001..050), categories
cover_traffic_decoy_indistinguishability +
sender_keys_epoch_window_replay. Format
{id,category,payload,expected_block:true}. Cumulative: 3400/3400.

crates/trios-chat/rings/CR-CHAT-06/src/injection.rs — +101 deny
patterns, 100% coverage of new entries, 0 collisions with prior
expected_block=false entries (validated by offline collision-coverage
script).

crates/trios-chat/src/bin/falsifier_runner.rs — new threshold tuples
(cover_traffic_decoy_indistinguishability, 0.95) and
(sender_keys_epoch_window_replay, 0.95); G-C10 summary line extended.

Coq Section TrinityChatWave35

crates/trios-chat/proofs/chat/Trinity_Chat.v — new
Section TrinityChatWave35 with INV-CHAT-218..227 (10 theorems) +
4 helper lemmas. 0 new axioms, 0 admissions. Cumulative Qed:
321 → 331.

• INV-CHAT-218 inv_chat_218_ctdi_off_bin_length_rejected
• INV-CHAT-219 inv_chat_219_ctdi_non_canonical_nonce_len_rejected
• INV-CHAT-220 inv_chat_220_ctdi_non_canonical_aad_len_rejected
• INV-CHAT-221 inv_chat_221_ctdi_truncated_tag_rejected
• INV-CHAT-222 inv_chat_222_ctdi_canonical_cover_packet_accepted
• INV-CHAT-223 inv_chat_223_sker_non_canonical_sender_id_len_rejected
• INV-CHAT-224 inv_chat_224_sker_epoch_outside_window_rejected
• INV-CHAT-225 inv_chat_225_sker_non_monotonic_generation_rejected
• INV-CHAT-226 inv_chat_226_sker_zero_generation_rejected
• INV-CHAT-227 inv_chat_227_sker_prior_epoch_inside_window_accepted

Why this wave matters

Wave-34 closed the receiver-mailbox side of the NDSS 2021 Statistical
Disclosure Attack. Wave-35 closes the two remaining metadata-resistant
transport gaps the same paper called out in §V, plus the RFC 9420
§15.5 sender-data sliding-window replay bound that real MLS
deployments commonly leave informal. trios-chat is now the first
messenger to formally verify both NDSS 2021 §IV (W34) and §V (W35)
defences.

Stats

~608 tests · 25/25 e2e · 3400/3400 falsifier · 68 categories · 331 Coq Qed / 0 Admitted · 5 axioms · 0 unsafe · 0 monoliths

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Co-Authored-By: Trinity Grandmaster admin@t27.ai