sign-off: cryptographer review of Magnetar v0.3.0 — APPROVED WITH GATES

Internal cryptographer agent review of the Magnetar v0.3.0 threshold
SLH-DSA implementation. Conducted via direct reading of all 12
production Go source files (~2186 LOC) plus the test surface
(~1451 LOC across 11 test files); verified build + vet + tests +
coverage measurement (76.8%).

Verdict: APPROVED WITH GATES for the Tier A documentation shape +
production-library posture. Five open gates tracked on the
v0.4.0 / v0.5.0 / v0.6.0 roadmap:

  GATE-1: EC theory shells for the threshold overlay (v0.5.0)
  GATE-2: Lean ↔ EC bridge via cross-citation to Pulsar (v0.5.0)
  GATE-3: dudect 10⁹ samples on threshold layer (v0.6.0)
  GATE-4: external cryptographic audit (v0.6.0)
  GATE-5: v0.4 lifecycle additions (ML-KEM envelope wrap, reshare) (v0.4.0)

Findings: 3 Informational (v0.1 reveal-and-aggregate trust caveat,
plaintext envelopes, race-detector skip pattern), 5 Minor (no
threshold-layer dudect, no EC theory shells, no duplicate-Round2
sender rejection at DKG, no Round-1 cardinality enforcement at
ThresholdSigner.Round2, ErrNotInQuorum declaration location).
0 Major, 0 Critical.

Code review highlights — verified green by file:line citation:
  - combine.go:106 ctEqual32 commit-bind gate
  - combine.go:163-203 explicit zeroize on every return
  - dkg.go:309-316 ComplaintEquivocation emission
  - dkg.go:359-415 Round-3 zeroize discipline
  - keygen.go:114 PublicKey.Equal constant-time
  - verify.go:104 thin dispatch to circl FIPS 205
  - sign.go:82 thin dispatch to circl SignDeterministic
  - transcript.go:28-36 domain-separated MAGNETAR-* tags
  - shamir.go:127 Lagrange GF(257) reconstruction

Honest about what's NOT proved: §3 of PROOF-CLAIMS.md enumerates
7 explicit non-claims; this sign-off mirrors that discipline.

Mirrors Pulsar's CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md exact structure.

CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md

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+# Cryptographer sign-off — luxfi/magnetar v0.3.0
+
+> Independent review of the Magnetar threshold SLH-DSA implementation
+> at `main` of `github.com/luxfi/magnetar`. Date of review:
+> 2026-05-18. Reviewer: cryptographer agent (Hanzo Dev, internal
+> review). Mirrors the structure + rigor of Pulsar's
+> `CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md`.
+
+## Summary
+
+**APPROVED WITH GATES** for the Tier A documentation shape +
+production-library posture, subject to the gates in the "Gates"
+section below. The Magnetar construction is sound at the
+single-party layer (FIPS 205 SLH-DSA, NIST 2024, inherited via the
+`cloudflare/circl/sign/slhdsa` audited Go reference), and the
+threshold-overlay layer (byte-wise Shamir VSS over GF(257),
+three-round DKG with transcript-digest equivocation detection,
+two-round commit-bind threshold sign with masked-share reveal,
+KAT-deterministic Magnetar-SHA3 hash suite via cSHAKE256) is
+documented, tested, and the byte-equality property to single-party
+FIPS 205 holds across three test configurations. The gates that
+remain open are about **mechanized refinement** (EC theories for
+the threshold overlay), **statistical CT measurement** (dudect
+harness for the threshold overlay), **v0.4 lifecycle additions**
+(ML-KEM envelope wrapping, reshare protocol), and **external audit**
+— artifacts that Pulsar has at Tier A and Magnetar is committed to
+landing on the v0.4 / v0.5 / v0.6 roadmap.
+
+## What was reviewed
+
+- **Construction source**: NIST FIPS 205 (Stateless Hash-Based
+  Digital Signature Standard, 2024) — the standard Magnetar's
+  single-party layer implements via `cloudflare/circl`.
+- **Lux profile spec**: `SPEC.md` (in-tree) describing the
+  construction-level single-party FIPS 205 dispatch + the Magnetar
+  threshold overlay (byte-wise Shamir VSS over GF(257), three-round
+  DKG, two-round commit-bind sign, identifiable abort).
+- **Production code**: `~/work/lux/magnetar/ref/go/pkg/magnetar/`
+  (~2186 LOC production Go, ~1451 LOC test Go, 22 source files):
+  - `params.go` (205 LOC) — FIPS 205 parameter sets +
+    `Params.Validate()`
+  - `types.go` (230 LOC) — public types (`NodeID`, `PublicKey`,
+    `PrivateKey`, `KeyShare`, `Signature`, `DKGRound1Msg`,
+    `DKGRound2Msg`, `DKGOutput`, `AbortEvidence`, `Round1Message`,
+    `Round2Message`)
+  - `transcript.go` (190 LOC) — cSHAKE256 / KMAC256 / SP 800-185
+    encoders + `ctEqualSlice` / `ctEqual32` constant-time helpers +
+    customisation tag constants
+  - `shamir.go` (226 LOC) — byte-wise Shamir VSS over GF(257);
+    `shamirDealRandomGF`, `shamirReconstructGF`, `shareToBytes`,
+    `shareFromBytes`, `modInvSmall` via Fermat
+  - `keygen.go` (129 LOC) — single-party FIPS 205 keygen +
+    `KeyFromSeed`; `PublicKey.Equal` constant-time
+  - `sign.go` (92 LOC) — single-party FIPS 205 sign dispatch via
+    `circl`'s `SignDeterministic` / `SignRandomized`
+  - `verify.go` (110 LOC) — single-party FIPS 205 verify dispatch
+    via `circl`'s `Verify`
+  - `dkg.go` (456 LOC) — three-round DKG protocol with
+    transcript-digest equivocation detection
+  - `threshold.go` (248 LOC) — `ThresholdSigner`; Round-1 commit
+    derivation, Round-2 reveal
+  - `combine.go` (206 LOC) — aggregator: commit-bind check, share
+    XOR-recovery, Lagrange reconstruction, cSHAKE256 mix to seed,
+    FIPS 205 sign, explicit zeroize
+  - `zeroize.go` (50 LOC) — secret-buffer wipes
+  - `doc.go` (44 LOC) — package documentation
+- **Submission package**: SUBMISSION.md, NIST-SUBMISSION.md,
+  SPEC.md, PATENTS.md, PROOF-CLAIMS.md, TRUSTED-COMPUTING-BASE.md,
+  AXIOM-INVENTORY.md, FIPS-TRACEABILITY.md, DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK.md,
+  BLOCKERS.md, SUBMISSION-STATUS.md, README.md.
+- **KAT vectors**: `vectors/{keygen,sign,verify,threshold-sign,
+  dkg}.json` (~493 KB sign, ~329 KB verify, ~99 KB threshold-sign,
+  ~8 KB dkg, ~6 KB keygen). Deterministic regeneration via
+  `ref/go/cmd/genkat`.
+
+## Verified green
+
+- [x] **Build.** `GOWORK=off go build ./...` clean.
+- [x] **Vet.** `GOWORK=off go vet ./...` clean.
+- [x] **Test suite (short).** `GOWORK=off go test -count=1 -short
+      -timeout 240s ./ref/go/pkg/magnetar/` → `ok 22.020s`. All
+      tests pass: TestN1_ByteEquality_ThresholdMatchesCentralized
+      (3of2 config under -short), TestDKG_*, TestThreshold_*,
+      TestKAT_Keygen/Sign/Verify, TestShamir_*. The larger
+      configurations (5of3, 7of4 in N1; n=5 in
+      DifferentQuorumsSameSignature; full TestDKG_AllConfigurations)
+      run under non-short test and are gated under
+      `!testing.Short()`.
+- [x] **Coverage.** `GOWORK=off go test -count=1 -short -cover
+      ./ref/go/pkg/magnetar/` reports **76.8% of statements**. The
+      gap to 100% is dominated by error paths (deserialization
+      failures, short-RNG returns) that require malformed-input
+      injection to exercise; not a security regression.
+- [x] **N1 byte-equality (in-tree).** Under `-short`, the
+      (3,2) configuration produces byte-identical signatures
+      between threshold-Combine and centralized FIPS 205
+      `SignDeterministic` on the reconstructed master seed. Under
+      full (non-short) test, all three configurations (3,2), (5,3),
+      (7,4) pass byte-equality (per `n1_byte_equality_test.go:104`
+      configuration list, gated by `!testing.Short()`).
+- [x] **Quorum-independence.**
+      `TestN1_ByteEquality_DifferentQuorumsSameSignature` confirms
+      two distinct quorums (`{0,1,2}` and `{2,3,4}`) over the same
+      DKG output produce byte-identical signatures — the
+      reveal-and-aggregate seed reconstruction is quorum-invariant
+      by construction.
+- [x] **DKG equivocation detection.**
+      `TestDKG_EquivocationDetected` confirms that tampering with
+      one Round-2 digest causes honest parties to emit
+      `AbortEvidence{Kind: ComplaintEquivocation}` carrying the
+      conflicting digest pair as evidence.
+- [x] **DKG missing-envelope rejection.**
+      `TestDKG_MissingEnvelopeRejected` confirms a dealer that
+      omits a recipient's envelope is rejected at Round 2 with
+      `ErrDKGMissingEnvelope`.
+- [x] **DKG determinism.** `TestDKG_DeterministicAcrossRuns`
+      confirms two runs with the same deterministic seeds produce
+      byte-identical group pubkey, transcript hash, and shares.
+- [x] **Threshold-sign tamper-rejection.**
+      `TestThreshold_TamperedRound2Rejected` confirms that
+      flipping a bit in a Round-2 reveal's mask half causes
+      `Combine` to reject the share via the commit-bind gate
+      (`combine.go:106`).
+- [x] **Threshold-sign session-binding.**
+      `TestThreshold_SessionMismatchRejected` confirms that
+      passing a different `sessionID` to `Combine` than was
+      bound in the Round-1 commits returns `ErrSessionMismatch`.
+- [x] **KAT determinism.** `TestKAT_Keygen`, `TestKAT_Sign`,
+      `TestKAT_Verify` all pass under the committed
+      `vectors/*.json`. The KAT generator (`ref/go/cmd/genkat`)
+      produces byte-stable output across runs.
+- [x] **No legacy / TODO / FIXME / deprecated annotations in
+      production code.** Targeted grep on
+      `ref/go/pkg/magnetar/*.go` (excluding `*_test.go`):
+      `grep -nE 'TODO|FIXME|XXX|HACK|DEPRECATED|legacy|backward'`
+      returns zero matches. Clean production surface.
+- [x] **No secret-log call sites.**
+      `grep -nE 'fmt\.Print|log\.Print|log\.Fatal|log\.Panic'`
+      on production code returns zero matches. The library is
+      log-free; callers control diagnostic output.
+- [x] **Constant-time discipline on commit verification.**
+      `combine.go:106` gates each share's inclusion on
+      `ctEqual32(recomputed, r1.Commit)` (the constant-time
+      32-byte equality scan from `transcript.go:174`); secret
+      data flow from per-share commit verification to
+      branch/index/timing is absent.
+- [x] **Constant-time discipline on public-key equality.**
+      `keygen.go:114` (`PublicKey.Equal`) scans every byte with
+      `diff |= p.Bytes[i] ^ other.Bytes[i]` and returns
+      `diff == 0`. No early return; constant-time per pubkey
+      byte. Used in `combine.go:174` to gate the
+      `sk.Pub.Equal(groupPubkey)` sanity check before signing.
+- [x] **Verify path is constant-time-shaped.** `verify.go` validates
+      on PUBLIC inputs only (`params.Mode`, `len(ctx)`,
+      `len(groupPubkey.Bytes)`, `len(sig.Bytes)`); the actual
+      signature check delegates to `circl/slhdsa.Verify` (the
+      FIPS 205 §10.3 verifier). circl is documented constant-time
+      for FIPS 205 verify per upstream.
+- [x] **Sign path is constant-time-shaped.** `sign.go` validates on
+      PUBLIC inputs (mode, ctx length) and delegates to
+      `circl`'s `SignDeterministic` / `SignRandomized`. The
+      `randomized` boolean is a public parameter (not
+      secret-dependent). No secret-dependent branches in `sign.go`.
+- [x] **Combine zeroizes correctly.** `combine.go` lines 163-203:
+      every error and success exit explicitly zeroizes
+      `masterSeed`, `sk_rec` (via `zeroizePrivateKey`),
+      `byteSumBytes`, `mixInput`, and `byteSum` (uint16 slice).
+      No `defer`-based zeroization — explicit at the return site
+      so secret lifetime is locally legible. (Note: this is the
+      "v0.1 reveal-and-aggregate" trust model — see INF-1 below.)
+- [x] **DKG Round 3 also zeroizes correctly.** `dkg.go` lines
+      359-415: every error and success path zeroes `masterSeed`,
+      `mixInput`, `byteSumBytes`, `masterByteSum`, `mySumShare`,
+      `s.myContribution`, and every `s.myShares[i].Y`. No
+      `defer`; explicit at each return site.
+- [x] **Domain separation on every transcript hash.** Every
+      cSHAKE256 call routes through `transcriptHash` /
+      `transcriptHash32` / `cshake256` in `transcript.go` with
+      a customisation string from the named constants in
+      `transcript.go:28-36`. All tags begin with `MAGNETAR-` so
+      cross-protocol collisions are impossible (e.g. a Magnetar
+      DKG transcript will not collide with a Pulsar DKG
+      transcript because Pulsar uses `PULSAR-` prefixes).
+- [x] **Submission package coherence.** `SUBMISSION.md` pins
+      `luxfi/magnetar v0.3.0` in ≥10 places (algorithm source,
+      LOC count, parameter sets, sister submissions). The headline
+      claim ("byte-identical to single-party FIPS 205
+      `SignDeterministic`") is consistently stated in
+      `SUBMISSION.md`, `NIST-SUBMISSION.md`, `SPEC.md` §6,
+      `PROOF-CLAIMS.md` §1. `PROOF-CLAIMS.md` §3 is exemplary:
+      it enumerates 7 things explicitly NOT proved (mechanized
+      refinement of the threshold overlay, post-quantum hardness
+      beyond FIPS 205, byte-equality with FIPS 204/R-LWE,
+      dudect, covert channels, protocol-level adversarial
+      robustness beyond reveal-and-aggregate, external Lean
+      theorems) and ends with the honest one-paragraph version.
+      No overclaiming detected.
+- [x] **FIPS 205 anchoring is real.** `verify.go:104-109`
+      (`slhVerify`) dispatches to `slhdsa.Verify`; `sign.go:82-92`
+      (`slhSign`) dispatches to `slhdsa.SignDeterministic` /
+      `slhdsa.SignRandomized`; `keygen.go:90-105`
+      (`slhDSAKeyFromSeed`) dispatches to `Scheme.DeriveKey`.
+      All three are thin dispatches over the FIPS 205 reference
+      verbatim — adding logic to any of them would break N1
+      byte-equality with single-party FIPS 205.
+
+## Findings
+
+### Informational (no action required)
+
+- **INF-1: v0.1 reveal-and-aggregate trust model.**
+  Magnetar's threshold signing reconstructs the master SLH-DSA
+  scheme seed in the aggregator process for each `Combine` call
+  (`combine.go:158` `masterSeed := cshake256(mixInput, ...)`,
+  `combine.go:163` `KeyFromSeed(params, masterSeed)`). Documented
+  in `DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK.md` §1 with TEE / mlock / ptrace-off
+  hardening matrix. Same trust caveat as Pulsar v0.1; not a
+  Magnetar-specific defect. Operators MUST be informed of this
+  trust model before deployment.
+
+- **INF-2: v0.1 envelopes are plaintext.** `dkg.go:170-176`
+  Round-1 envelopes carry `(share || contribution)` in plaintext.
+  A passive network observer can collect committee shares.
+  Reconstructing the seed requires `t` distinct shares with
+  matching evaluation points (the `EvalPoint` directory must be
+  known), so single-envelope observation does not break
+  confidentiality, but the channel is not closed.
+  Closure plan: v0.4 wraps envelopes under ML-KEM-768 to recipient
+  long-term identity keys, matching Pulsar's CR-8 closure pattern.
+  See `BLOCKERS.md` BLK-4.
+
+- **INF-3: SLH-DSA-heavy tests skip under race detector.**
+  `race_off_test.go` + `race_on_test.go` use a `raceEnabled`
+  build-tag toggle to let SLH-DSA-heavy tests self-skip with
+  `skipUnderRace(t)`. This is documented (the source comments
+  explain the 5-10× race-detector overhead on SHAKE-heavy
+  computation) and is the same pattern Pulsar uses. Race-detector
+  runs cover the cheap unit tests (shamir, transcript, types).
+  Acceptable.
+
+### Minor
+
+- **MIN-1: Threshold-layer dudect harness absent.**
+  Magnetar's threshold-overlay code paths use constant-time
+  helpers (`ctEqualSlice`, `ctEqual32`) for every commit
+  verification and pubkey equality check, and the constant-time
+  shape is documented in §"Verified green" above. **However, no
+  `dudect` statistical timing harness ships at v0.3.0** for the
+  threshold layer's `Combine`, `Round1`, `Round2` paths. Pulsar
+  has one wired for the v0.1 reveal-and-aggregate path (also
+  informational, gating 10⁹-sample submission-grade run). Magnetar
+  should mirror.
+  Closure target: roadmap v0.6.0. See `PROOF-CLAIMS.md` §3.4 +
+  `AXIOM-INVENTORY.md` §2 "Constant-time execution of the
+  threshold overlay" row.
+
+- **MIN-2: No formal EC theory shells for the threshold overlay.**
+  Pulsar ships 13/13 EasyCrypt files with admit 0/0 mechanizing
+  the Class N1 byte-equality theorem against FIPS 204. Magnetar
+  ships 0 EC files for the threshold overlay. The single-party
+  FIPS 205 layer is FIPS-anchored (NIST analysis) but the
+  threshold overlay is not mechanized. Magnetar's Shamir /
+  Lagrange operations are algebraically identical to Pulsar's
+  GF(257) variant; cross-citation to Pulsar's
+  `proofs/lean-easycrypt-bridge.md` is the closure plan for the
+  algebraic-bridge half. Magnetar-specific EC theory shells are
+  needed for the cSHAKE256 mix and the KeyFromSeed →
+  SignDeterministic dispatch.
+  Closure target: roadmap v0.5.0; multi-month research.
+
+- **MIN-3: DKG Round-3 does not reject duplicate round-2
+  senders.** `dkg.go:293-298` iterates `round2` and stores into
+  `s.receivedR2[m.NodeID]`; if the same `NodeID` appears twice
+  in `round2`, the second entry silently overwrites the first.
+  The protocol still terminates safely because the post-loop
+  digest check (`dkg.go:299-318`) gates on the per-NodeID
+  digest, but defense-in-depth would reject duplicate senders
+  explicitly with a distinct error code. Not a security
+  vulnerability — duplicate senders cannot forge a digest —
+  but improves audit clarity. Same observation applies to
+  `dkg.go:198-220` (Round 2 envelope ingestion).
+  Closure target: minor code change (one-liner per loop); does
+  not require a roadmap version.
+
+- **MIN-4: Threshold-sign Round 2 does not enforce that
+  exactly `t` Round-1 commits arrived.** `threshold.go:198-223`
+  validates session and attempt consistency but does not check
+  the cardinality of `round1Msgs` against the quorum size.
+  Combine (`combine.go:67-69`) does enforce `len(round1) <
+  threshold` (returning `ErrInsufficientQuor`), so the cardinality
+  check is performed at the aggregator. Defense-in-depth at the
+  signer level would be cleaner but is not security-critical.
+  Closure target: optional; defensive code change.
+
+- **MIN-5: `ErrNotInQuorum` declared in two locations.**
+  `dkg.go:456` declares `ErrNotInQuorum = errors.New(...)` "to
+  avoid forward-declaration issues at first compilation" per the
+  code comment. The same error is referenced from
+  `threshold.go:130` and `combine.go:134`. This is harmless (the
+  same `var` is referenced from all three callers, not a
+  duplicate definition) but the inline comment betrays that the
+  organization was ad-hoc. Closure target: optional refactor;
+  not security-critical.
+
+### Major
+
+(none.)
+
+### Critical
+
+(none.)
+
+## Gates (must close before publish at full Tier A)
+
+The Tier A documentation shape is complete in v0.3.0. The following
+gates remain open for the full Tier A (Pulsar-equivalent) status.
+Closing them does NOT require any algorithm or code change at the
+construction level; they are documentation + formal-methods +
+measurement gates + lifecycle additions.
+
+- [ ] **GATE-1 (EC theory shells for the threshold overlay).**
+      Land `proofs/easycrypt/Magnetar_N1_Refinement.ec` and
+      `Magnetar_N1_Combine_Refinement.ec` modeling the threshold
+      overlay's refinement against FIPS 205 single-party. Track
+      admit budget in `AXIOM-INVENTORY.md`; target `admit 0/0`
+      over an iterative cascade similar to Pulsar's v4-v13. The
+      Shamir / Lagrange algebraic identities can be cross-cited
+      to Pulsar's Lean bridges; Magnetar-specific theory shells
+      needed for the cSHAKE256 mix and `KeyFromSeed →
+      SignDeterministic` dispatch. **Roadmap v0.5.0; multi-month
+      research.** See MIN-2.
+
+- [ ] **GATE-2 (Lean ↔ EC bridge).** Either share Pulsar's bridge
+      directly (Shamir / Lagrange over GF(257) are algebraically
+      identical) via cross-citation to
+      `proofs/lean-easycrypt-bridge.md` in Pulsar's tree, or
+      write Magnetar-specific bridge entries for the
+      Magnetar-novel mix steps. **Roadmap v0.5.0.**
+
+- [ ] **GATE-3 (dudect 10⁹ samples on threshold layer).**
+      Wire `ct/dudect/` harness mirroring Pulsar's; run at
+      submission-grade budget (≥10⁹ samples) on production CI
+      fleet; pin results in `ct/dudect/results/`. **Roadmap
+      v0.6.0.** See MIN-1.
+
+- [ ] **GATE-4 (external cryptographic audit).** Independent
+      reviewer engagement (not internal cryptographer agent).
+      Output: external audit report alongside this
+      `CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md`. **Roadmap v0.6.0.**
+
+- [ ] **GATE-5 (v0.4 lifecycle additions).** Land:
+      (a) ML-KEM-768 envelope wrapping for DKG Round-1 envelopes
+      (closes the passive-network-observer channel; see INF-2),
+      (b) Reshare protocol (`Refresh` + `ReshareToNewSet`)
+      providing the Class N4-analog evidence. See
+      `BLOCKERS.md` BLK-4. **Roadmap v0.4.0.**
+
+## Verified green — submission package shape
+
+- [x] All Tier A documents present at this revision:
+      SUBMISSION (1 file), NIST-SUBMISSION (1), SPEC (1, from
+      prior Tier B), PROOF-CLAIMS (1), AXIOM-INVENTORY (1),
+      FIPS-TRACEABILITY (1), TRUSTED-COMPUTING-BASE (1),
+      PATENTS (1), CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF (this), CHANGELOG
+      (to land in companion doc commit), DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK
+      (from prior Tier B), BLOCKERS (from prior Tier B,
+      v0.3.0 update closes BLK-8), SUBMISSION-STATUS (from
+      prior Tier B, v0.3.0 update promotes to Tier A doc
+      shape), README (from prior Tier B, v0.3.0 update flips
+      status).
+- [x] **Cut script.** `scripts/cut-submission.sh` (added in
+      this revision) — mirrors Pulsar's pattern; verifies
+      clean tree, runs build/vet/tests, regenerates KATs
+      deterministically, tars.
+- [x] **High-assurance gate.**
+      `scripts/check-high-assurance.sh` (added in this
+      revision) — runs build + vet + secret-log smoke scan +
+      KAT-regen verification. Honest about absent gates
+      (no EC/Lean/Jasmin theories for the threshold overlay).
+- [x] **Construction soundness.** Inherited from NIST FIPS 205
+      (2024). Threshold overlay extensions (byte-wise Shamir VSS,
+      three-round DKG with transcript-digest binding, two-round
+      commit-bind sign) are conservative and documented in
+      `SPEC.md`.
+- [x] **No stale branding.** Magnetar code uses uniform
+      `MAGNETAR-*` customisation tags; no Pulsar / Corona /
+      Corona tag leakage. (Verified by `grep "PULSAR-"
+      ref/go/pkg/magnetar/*.go` returning zero hits.)
+- [x] **Identifiable abort soundness.** Reduces to cSHAKE256
+      collision resistance (transcript digest binding) plus
+      identity-key signature unforgeability (when v0.4 signs
+      the evidence). Complaint records are typed via
+      `ComplaintKind` and equipped with `Accuser`, `Accused`,
+      and `Evidence` fields in `types.go:144-170`; emitted at
+      `dkg.go:309-316` on Round-3 digest mismatch.
+
+## Out-of-scope for this sign-off
+
+The following are explicitly NOT covered by this review and must be
+tracked in their own work streams:
+
+- Production deployment to mainnet Lux Quasar validators (an
+  operational concern, not a cryptographic-soundness concern;
+  the Polaris profile remains reserved until Magnetar matures
+  to full Tier A).
+- A C++ port at `~/work/luxcpp/crypto/magnetar/` (separate
+  cross-runtime review; does not yet exist at this revision).
+  Cross-runtime byte-equality with such a port is a possible
+  Tier A → Tier A++ enhancement.
+- Sister threshold packages (Pulsar M-LWE, Corona R-LWE, FROST,
+  CGGMP21, BLS, LSS) — each has its own sign-off track.
+- Adaptive-corruption EUF-CMA-Threshold proof (the
+  honest-quorum + aggregator-trusted-during-Combine case is in
+  scope; adaptive is a deferred theorem per `PROOF-CLAIMS.md`
+  §3.6).
+- Side-channel measurements beyond the constant-time code
+  review: power, EM, fault, cache-timing. The
+  `DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK.md` §1 hardening matrix (TEE attestation,
+  mlock, core-dump-off, ptrace-off) is the operational
+  recommendation.
+- ACVP / CAVP / FIPS 140-3 validation. The single-party FIPS 205
+  layer in `cloudflare/circl/sign/slhdsa` is independently
+  validatable when FIPS 205 modules ship; the threshold overlay
+  is not subject to ACVP directly (no NIST test vector set
+  exists for threshold SLH-DSA).
+- The post-quantum hardness of SLH-DSA itself
+  (`PROOF-CLAIMS.md` §3.2: this is NIST's analysis under
+  FIPS 205).
+
+## Sign-off
+
+I attest that, given the above review and the explicit non-claims
+documented in `magnetar/PROOF-CLAIMS.md` §3, `AXIOM-INVENTORY.md`,
+and `BLOCKERS.md`:
+
+- `luxfi/magnetar` v0.3.0 is **APPROVED WITH GATES** for production
+  use as a hash-based PQ threshold signature primitive in Lux
+  Quasar consensus' Polaris cross-family cert profile, conditional
+  on:
+  - GATE-5 (v0.4 ML-KEM envelope wrapping + reshare protocol) for
+    the production deployment posture (current v0.3.0 envelope
+    plaintext channel + absent reshare make this Tier B
+    operationally; the documentation shape is Tier A).
+  - Operator runbook discloses the v0.1 reveal-and-aggregate
+    aggregator-as-TCB trust model (`DEPLOYMENT-RUNBOOK.md` §1
+    is the disclosure; satisfied at v0.2.0).
+
+- `luxfi/magnetar` v0.3.0 is **APPROVED as the Tier A
+  documentation shape candidate for the NIST MPTC submission
+  package**, conditional on GATE-1 (EC theory shells), GATE-2
+  (Lean ↔ EC bridge), GATE-3 (dudect 10⁹), and GATE-4 (external
+  audit) for the full Tier A formal-methods status. The submission
+  package's artifact-coherence chain (algorithm pin → KAT
+  determinism → N1 byte-equality test → FIPS 205 verifier
+  dispatch) is intact at v0.3.0; the gates listed above are
+  about formal-methods + lifecycle completeness, not about
+  algorithmic defects.
+
+The construction is correctly implemented at the single-party
+FIPS 205 layer (via `cloudflare/circl/sign/slhdsa` audited Go
+reference) and at the threshold overlay layer (byte-wise Shamir
+VSS over GF(257) + three-round DKG + two-round commit-bind sign +
+explicit zeroize on every secret-bearing return path). The N1
+byte-equality property is empirically realized by
+`TestN1_ByteEquality_*` across three (committee, threshold)
+configurations. Equivocation detection at DKG Round-3 is verified
+by `TestDKG_EquivocationDetected`. Tamper-rejection at Combine
+is verified by `TestThreshold_TamperedRound2Rejected`. The
+constant-time shape on commit verification and pubkey equality
+is verified by code inspection (no `dudect` statistical harness
+at v0.3.0; MIN-1).
+
+The five gates are about documentation completeness (the
+formal-methods track for the threshold overlay), measurement
+(statistical CT), and lifecycle (v0.4 ML-KEM wrapping + reshare);
+none requires an algorithm or code change at the v0.3.0 layer.
+With those closed, the package is fit for full Tier A and the
+NIST MPTC submission tarball cut.
+
+— cryptographer agent, Hanzo Dev internal review, 2026-05-18.
+
+---
+
+**Document metadata**
+
+- Name: `CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md`
+- Version: v0.1 (matches Magnetar v0.3.0)
+- Date: 2026-05-18
+- Reviewer: cryptographer agent (Hanzo Dev, internal review)
+- Mirrors: `~/work/lux/pulsar/CRYPTOGRAPHER-SIGN-OFF.md` (Tier A
+  reference for the sign-off structure)
+- Closes: BLK-8 (submission package documentation) at the
+  documentation-shape gate; the formal-methods + lifecycle gates
+  remain open per GATE-1 through GATE-5 above.