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The CRISP ballot circuits check the slot update at every coefficient. The server reports whether the Secure Process selects each input, and the CRISP client shows that status. The client and the docs state the privacy limits, the tally bound, and the per-instance relay limits.

Changes

Circuits

  • verify_slot_update (crisp_lib::ciphertext_addition) asserts published = ballot + addend + q_i * r for each coefficient of each CRT limb, with each r in [-1, 1]. The earlier check at one Fiat-Shamir point accepted a second opening of the parent commitment. A mask could then publish its ballot alone and drop the vote in its slot.
  • Both ballot circuits use it. The fold key hashes and CRISPVerifier.sol / CRISPOnchainVerifier.sol are regenerated for both presets.
  • Secure-8192 gates: crisp 1,844,049 and crisp_onchain 1,824,326, under the 2^21 browser limit. With pack_checked on the three commitments, crisp measures 2,520,034. Plain pack is sound for this relation; agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md records why and what it depends on.

Contract (CRISPProgram)

  • Only the regenerated verifiers and the decodeTally documentation of the tally bound below. The constructor and the ABI equal main.

Server

  • The relay ledger records the time when it starts. A round whose input window opened before that time uses the wallet path, because the ledger cannot count earlier relays.
  • POST /voting/selection answers selected, excluded with a reason, selection_pending, or not_indexed for one input. It and the slot head use the Secure Process's chain_head_per_slot.
  • The access log records the method and the route template, not the caller address or a path that holds a job ID.

SDK and client

  • The SDK adds getInputSelection, getSubmissionStage, and decodeInputIdentity.
  • The client follows each vote and each mask with the same requests until the input counts, is excluded, or fails. It marks a round as voted only when the vote counts, and offers a new proof before the commitment deadline. The status records work with the saved ballots of fix(crisp): keep and resend saved ballots in the voting client #2077.
  • The client shows a privacy notice before the vote and mask actions. The client and the docs state the committee threshold, the public result, and that the CRISP server receives every ballot.

Accepted limits

  • Tally bound. The committee decrypts each tally coefficient modulo the plaintext modulus t: 100 for insecure-512 and 1,000,000 for secure-8192. A coefficient counts the ballots that set that bit, so a round with t or more such ballots decodes a total that is too low, with every proof valid. The contract does not enforce the bound. agent/ and running-e3.mdx record it, and the docs restrict insecure-512 to rounds with fewer than 100 eligible addresses.
  • Relay limits per instance. Every server instance relays with the one availability-signer key and counts only its own relays, so several relaying instances can each send up to the limits. The contract does not count relays. setup.mdx and .env.example tell an operator who needs one limit for the key to let one instance relay, to send all client requests to it, and to move the relay only when no round is open.

Rollout

Governance class. Redeploy CRISPProgram with the new verifiers: a deployed program keeps its old verifiers, and proofs from the new circuits do not verify against them. Deploy the client after the servers, because an older server answers 404 on /voting/selection. The first start of an upgraded server sends the rounds that are already open to the wallet path until they close. protocol_version and node_generation do not change.

Checklist

  • Verified at the smallest covering scope: nargo test (crisp_lib, 33); cargo test -p crisp -p evm-helpers (crisp 203); crisp-contracts test:unit (64), test:ballots:program (8), test:input-tree (2), test:ballots:census (9) with real insecure-512 proofs; crisp-sdk build:testing and vitest (57); client tsc and eslint; browser checks of the status notes against a mock server. Not run: Playwright e2e, secure-preset proofs.
  • Harness docs: agent/flow-trace/00_INDEX.md, 04_DKG_AND_COMPUTATION.md, 08_DATA_AVAILABILITY.md, agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md.
  • Invariants: checked against agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md and the CRISP flow traces. No meta-invariant changes.
  • Known bugs table: rows added under CRISP Ballot Remediations; the tally bound and the per-instance relay limits are Accepted.
  • Breaking?: yes, !. The ballot circuits and their verifiers changed, so CRISPProgram must be redeployed.
  • Rollout class: governance; protocol_version and node_generation unchanged.
  • Review: one invariant review pass and delta passes (agent/prompts/invariant-reviewer.md), the last one on the removal of the on-chain caps. All findings are fixed.

Squash-merge message: fix(crisp)!: check slot updates and report selection, with the footer BREAKING CHANGE: the ballot circuits and their verifiers changed; redeploy CRISPProgram.

The ballot circuits checked `published = ballot + addend` at one
Fiat-Shamir point over three `pack` commitments. A prover could pick a
second opening of the parent commitment that met the one equation, so a
mask could publish its own ballot alone and drop the vote in its slot.
`verify_slot_update` checks the relation at every coefficient of every
CRT limb, with each quotient in [-1, 1]. The fold key hashes and the
generated verifiers are regenerated for both presets.

CRISPProgram limits a round to t - 1 distinct slots, so no decrypted
tally coefficient wraps at the plaintext modulus. It counts the inputs
that the availability signer relays, per slot and per round, against
caps set at deployment (RelayLimits, setRelayLimits).

The server moves a relayed job to the wallet path on RelayLimitReached,
and fails it on SlotLimitReached only when finalized state refuses it.
Rounds that opened before the relay ledger started use the wallet path.
POST /voting/selection reports the selection status of an input through
the Secure Process's chain_head_per_slot. The access log keeps only the
method and the route template.

The SDK adds getInputSelection and getSubmissionStage. The CRISP client
follows each vote and mask until it counts or is excluded, marks a round
as voted only when the vote counts, and offers a retry before the
commitment deadline. The client and the docs state the privacy limits.

BREAKING CHANGE: CRISPProgram takes a RelayLimits constructor argument
and must be redeployed with the new verifiers. Upgrade every CRISP
server before the contract caps apply.
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Walkthrough

CRISP changes update ballot-circuit verification, add server and SDK input-selection reporting, and track ballot and mask submission status in the client. The changes also adjust relay-ledger routing and access logging, and document privacy and tally limits.

Changes

CRISP ballot flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Coefficient-wise slot-update proof
examples/CRISP/circuits/lib/src/ciphertext_addition.nr, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/crisp*/src/main.nr, examples/CRISP/circuits/bin/fold*/src/main.nr, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-contracts/contracts/verifiers/*, agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md
Both ballot circuits now call verify_slot_update, which checks the ciphertext addition relation at each coefficient and bounds quotient values. The circuits return the slot and ballot commitments from this check. Fold and verifier key-hash values are updated.
Server input selection and SDK
examples/CRISP/server/src/server/{models.rs,repo.rs,routes/voting.rs}, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-sdk/src/*, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-sdk/tests/*, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-sdk/README.md
The server evaluates indexed input selection and serves POST /voting/selection. The SDK encodes and decodes input identities, requests selection results, and derives submission stages.
Client submission tracking and display
examples/CRISP/client/src/context/voteManagement/*, examples/CRISP/client/src/hooks/voting/useVoteCasting.ts, examples/CRISP/client/src/pages/*, examples/CRISP/client/src/model/vote.model.ts, examples/CRISP/test/crisp.spec.ts
The client stores input identities and polls availability and selection status for ballots and masks. The voting and confirmation views display submission stages, retry options, and transaction route details.
Relay ledger and wallet fallback
examples/CRISP/server/src/server/data_availability.rs, examples/CRISP/server/.env.example, docs/pages/CRISP/setup.mdx, agent/flow-trace/08_DATA_AVAILABILITY.md
The relay service persists a ledger start time and uses indexed round start times to decide whether a round can use the relay path. Documentation describes per-instance relay limits and wallet fallback for uncovered rounds.
Access-log middleware
examples/CRISP/server/src/server/access_log.rs, examples/CRISP/server/src/server/mod.rs, examples/CRISP/server/src/server/routes/voting.rs
The server logs request method, matched route template, status, response size, and duration. Tests check that logged lines omit caller addresses and path identifiers.
Privacy and tally limits
docs/pages/CRISP/*, docs/pages/governance.mdx, examples/CRISP/Readme.md, examples/CRISP/program/README.md, examples/CRISP/packages/crisp-contracts/contracts/CRISPProgram.sol, agent/flow-trace/*, agent/invariants/02_CRYPTO_CIRCUITS.md
Documentation qualifies receipt resistance and ballot privacy, describes when public results can reveal choices, and states the plaintext-modulus limits for exact tally counts.

Contributor listing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contributor table order
README.md
The contributors table places Hamza Khalid’s entry before ryardley’s.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant useVoteCasting
  participant CrispSDK
  participant VotingSelectionRoute
  participant CrispE3Repository
  useVoteCasting->>CrispSDK: Request selection for round and input identity
  CrispSDK->>VotingSelectionRoute: POST /voting/selection
  VotingSelectionRoute->>CrispE3Repository: Query indexed input selection
  CrispE3Repository-->>VotingSelectionRoute: Return selection status and indexes
  VotingSelectionRoute-->>CrispSDK: Return selection response
  CrispSDK-->>useVoteCasting: Return selection response
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ddbc

Clock skew during relay-ledger replacement could let one server exceed its configured relay limit for an open round. The condition is narrow, but using a chain-time cutoff would remove the risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4ddbc

Security-critical ballot verification and submission behavior change together. The reviewed revision does not contain the advertised on-chain slot and relay caps, and compatibility of deployed proving and verification versions remains unverified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The proof change affects rounds accepting either changed ballot variant, including third-party masks. Relay-accounting failures affect the configured service signer's transaction budget and the slots or rounds served by its local ledger; the selection endpoint itself adds reporting reachability rather than signing authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If local initialization time trails chain time and earlier relay records are absent, an already-open round can pass the new epoch comparison and receive a fresh local quota. However, the base permitted reservations without any epoch check, so this residual path is not established as introduced or worsened by the PR. Persistence and locking protect an intact ledger but do not prove historical completeness under clock skew.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Contract publication requires a valid ballot proof, an unexpired availability attestation from the configured signer, and an uncommitted input identity. The ballot circuits retain slot-owner signature checks for real votes and zero-plaintext checks for masks. These controls distinguish permissionless submission and masking from authority to replace a voter's ballot.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The inspected recovery path checks exact on-chain commitment identity before resubmission and distinguishes head observations from finalized observations before terminal cleanup. This limits duplicate publication and premature completion after interrupted sends or reorganizations; the new ledger guard does not replace those existing controls.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Anchor relay-ledger completeness to an authoritative chain observation or verified historical backfill, and use wallet submission when completeness cannot be established. This would address the residual clock-domain assumption rather than a demonstrated exposure increase.
  • proposed — If exact tally counts and signer-wide relay quotas are required guarantees, enforce their bounds at contract admission and coordinate the corresponding server error transitions. Treat these as additional controls, not as protections already present in the reviewed revision.
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The tally decodes each coefficient modulo the plaintext modulus t, and a
coefficient counts the ballots that set that bit. A wrong total needs t
or more such ballots in one round: 100 at insecure-512 and a million at
secure-8192. CRISPProgram no longer limits a round to t - 1 distinct
slots, and the server and the client no longer handle SlotLimitReached.
decodeTally, the agent docs and running-e3.mdx state the bound instead,
and the docs restrict insecure-512 to rounds with fewer than 100
eligible addresses.
CRISPProgram no longer counts the inputs that the relay key sends. Its
constructor, the deploy script, the contract tests and evm_helpers are
main's again, and the server no longer handles RelayLimitReached. Each
server instance counts only its own relays, so several relaying
instances can each send up to the limits. The agent docs, setup.mdx and
.env.example state this, and tell an operator who needs one limit for
the key to let one instance relay.
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🟡 Minor · Initialize new relay-ledger epochs from chain time. · data_availability.rs:757

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Initialize new relay-ledger epochs from chain time.

AvailabilityService::new uses host wall time for relay_ledger_epoch, but reserve_relay compares that value with the indexed on-chain input_window[0]. If the host clock lags chain time when a new ledger lacks earlier relay records, an already-open round can pass the comparison. reserve_relay can then spend the per-slot or per-round allowance without counting earlier relays. Initialize the epoch with chain time, such as the latest block timestamp, or use a same-domain guard that sends rounds with uncertain clock ordering through the wallet path.

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POST /voting/selection and state/previous-ciphertext replay only the
requested slot's entries with chain_head_per_slot, which compares a
parent only with the head of the entry's own slot. Both read the round's
inputs through a cache in the server process. A per-round input
generation in its own sled tree counts the changes to the input fields
that started and that finished. A read is cached only while the counts
are equal, and the server settles them at startup before the indexer
runs. /voting/selection costs 1 in the caller's read window and logs a
refusal without the caller.

The server indexes from the chain head, so the CRISP client stops asking
for the selection only after a selected answer comes at least 30 minutes
after the first one, past Ethereum finality.
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