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zeekay b4bb89df97 quasar: complete Ringtail purge — Corona (production R-LWE) + Nasua (academic upstream)
Followup to the QuasarCert field rename (commit 9b9bdda2). This sweeps
the remaining Ringtail identifiers and prose out of the consensus repo
entirely:

  - Identifiers (Go code):
    ringtailThreshold   → coronaThreshold      (import alias)
    ringtailGroupKey    → coronaGroupKey
    ringtailSigners     → coronaSigners
    ringtailShares      → coronaShares
    ringtailGobEncode   → coronaGobEncode
    ringtailGobDecode   → coronaGobDecode
    decodeRingtailSig   → decodeCoronaSig
    EncodeRingtailSig   → EncodeCoronaSig
    RingtailRound1{,Data,State} → CoronaRound1{,Data,State}
    RingtailGroupKey/Pub/Shares → Corona*

  - File rename:
    protocol/quasar/ringtail_gob.go → corona_gob.go

  - PQMode constants:
    PQModeRingtail            → PQModeNasua
    SigSchemeRingtailAcademic → SigSchemeNasua
    "ringtail" / "ringtail-academic" string forms → "nasua"

  - Prose & comments throughout the repo: "Ringtail" → "Corona" when
    naming the production Ring-LWE library, "Nasua" when naming the
    historical academic upstream (luxfi/nasua, formerly luxfi/ringtail).

Canonical Pulsar family taxonomy after this rename:

  Nasua  — academic R-LWE 2-round threshold sig (Boschini et al,
           ePrint 2024/1113); trusted-dealer DKG; kept as historical
           reference fork only. NOT for an open public chain.
  Corona — production Ring-LWE threshold ML-DSA (Pedersen DKG over R_q
           + proactive resharing); `github.com/luxfi/corona`. The
           Ring-LWE leg of QuasarCert.
  Pulsar — production Module-LWE threshold ML-DSA (FIPS 204
           byte-equal); `github.com/luxfi/pulsar`. The Module-LWE
           leg of QuasarCert. Pure-PQ pair = Corona + Pulsar.

Wire-format unchanged. Tests: 28/28 packages green (-short suite,
quasar 29s, integration 58s, no regressions).
2026-05-12 08:58:51 -07:00
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