Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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The kernel's ed25519_verify() is deliberately verify-only -- no signing, no keygen, no entropy source. That conflicts with the on-device MINT word vision (Zuse signing new user certs live at runtime), so this reopens that constraint on request rather than reshaping MINT around verify-only. vm_uuid.h already found the real gap: amd64 has RDRAND, riscv64 has Zkr, but QEMU's aarch64 CPU models have neither -- confirmed against QEMU 10.2.1. A deterministic PRNG (fine for VM UUIDs) is not safe for key generation, so this adds a virtio-rng device instead of a per-arch split: real host entropy, identical guest-side protocol on all three arches. New src/starkernel/virtio/virtio_rng.c + include/starkernel/virtio_rng.h, transport plumbing mirroring the existing virtio_blk.c driver exactly. Wired into kernel_main.c boot, -device virtio-rng-pci added to all three QEMU targets. Verified live (temp probe, written/run/captured/reverted): 16 real bytes pulled through the full request/notify/poll round trip on all three arches, three different values confirming real entropy. Final boot against the reverted, permanent code: clean compile, clean boot to ok> on amd64/aarch64/riscv64, Stadium conservation intact, no panics or guest errors. Ed25519 keygen/signing itself (Phase B) and the MINT word design (Phase C) remain open, documented in FABRIC-3.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U14ET9CWAtbQMbYqomKgXd
capsules/
FORTH personality files loaded by the VM at boot. A capsule is an immutable, content-addressed payload; its XXHash64 hash is its identity. Any mutation changes the hash and the birth protocol rejects the image.
Key files
| File | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
init.4th |
(m) MAMA_INIT |
Default Mama VM personality — loaded at LBN 2048 |
ACL.4th |
user | Word-level ACL system; self-activating at boot |
zuse.4th |
user | Bootstrap superuser; loaded by ACL.4th |
doe.4th |
user | DoE workload words (EXEC-DOE) — opt-in |
init-0.4th … init-9.4th |
(p) |
Numbered personality variants |
init-l8-*.4th |
(p) |
L8 Jacquard mode variants (stable/volatile/diverse/temporal/transition/omni) |
hermes/init.4th |
(p) |
Hermes baby VM personality |
artemis/init.4th |
(p) |
Artemis baby VM personality |
Block namespace
Block ranges are shared across all loaded capsules — collisions cause silent word-definition overwrites.
| Range | Owner |
|---|---|
| 2048–2099 | init.4th |
| 2100–2199 | doe.4th |
| 3000–3999 | workload capsules |
| 4000+ | user-defined (ACL.4th, zuse.4th, …) |
Each block is limited to 1024 bytes. Verify with wc -c before committing.
See also
experiments/bare_metal/README.md— DoE protocols and block namespace rulesdocs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md— ACL system designtools/mkcapsule.c— assembles capsules intocapsule_generated.c- Project root