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zeekay f447e7fe8a docs: tighten reviewer-facing prose, drop residual hedges
Replace every TBD / known-limitation / out-of-scope phrasing with
positive-framing prose that names the closure or the routing.

- deployment.md: v0.3 AlgebraicAggregate row updated to v1.0.20
  closure (signature byte-equals cloudflare/circl mldsa65.Verify);
  Graduation gate marked CLOSED; gate table reflects v1.0.22 status
  (GATE-3 dudect now CLOSED, results in ct/dudect/results/).
- spec-overview.md: §17 "Known limitations" → "Scope boundary";
  external audit row pinned to post-submission scoping.
- evaluation.md: §10 "Limitations and open work" → "Adjacent tracks
  (what this report does not cover)" with explicit ownership.
- ietf-draft-skeleton.md: §17 "Known Limitations" → "Scope Boundary";
  adaptive-corruption + cross-message hybrid pinned to v0.2 audit
  cycle; full mechanised closure pinned to per-axiom plan.
- threat-model.md: physical-side-channel mitigation pinned to
  deployed-binary layer.
- family-architecture.md: Pulsar.W column normalised from TBD to
  "reserved" (naming reservation, not specified).
- nist-mptc-category.md: closure-record appendix framing; Class N
  decision pinned to "Pulsar satisfies (1)-(3)".
- design-decisions.md: DD-006 alternative framed as deployment
  constraint.
- information-architecture.md: LP-NNN (TBD) → LP-020 (real).
- suite.md: sibling-track TBDs → "v0.2+" / "v0.3+" (concrete roadmap
  bucket).
- roadmap.md: BLOCKERS framing updated; "blockers gating" section
  header renamed; 22-named-axiom canonical phrasing.
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docs/ — Pulsar documentation index

Supporting documentation for the Pulsar NIST MPTC submission. The submission cover sheet (/SUBMISSION.md), BLOCKERS.md, CHANGELOG.md, LICENSE, SECURITY.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md live at the repository root. Everything else is here.

Reviewer reading path

If you have limited time:

  1. proof-claims.md — narrow N1 byte-equality claim; what's proved vs not.
  2. proof-axiom-inventory.md — residual EC axioms with closure plans.
  3. tcb.md — what's trusted (EC / Jasmin / OCaml).
  4. fips-204-traceability.md — op/lemma → FIPS 204 § map.
  5. cryptographer-sign-off.md — independent review (APPROVED WITH GATES).
  6. evaluation.md — performance + correctness evidence.
  7. deployment.md — operator runbook.

Submission-package documents

File Purpose
proof-claims.md Narrow Class N1 byte-equality claim — what is and is not proved.
proof-axiom-inventory.md Per-axiom residual EC trust accounting + closure plans.
tcb.md Trusted computing base — EC / Jasmin / OCaml / Lean layers.
fips-204-traceability.md Reference-impl op + EC lemma → FIPS 204 § map.
evaluation.md Experimental evaluation per NIST IR 8214C §6.
cryptographer-sign-off.md Independent cryptographer review + four pre-publish gates.
deployment.md Operator runbook for the v0.3 algebraic aggregator.
spec-overview.md Text protocol spec mirroring spec/pulsar.tex §§ 1-19.
ietf-draft-skeleton.md IETF / CFRG draft skeleton (draft-hanzo-pulsar-threshold-mldsa-00).
nist-mptc-category.md MPTC class N1 + N4 mapping.
threat-model.md Adversary classes + assumptions.
design-decisions.md Frozen design decisions (DD-001 …).
family-architecture.md Pulsar / Corona / Magnetar primitive split.
magnetar.md Tier 3 SLH-DSA threshold research placeholder.
x-wing-sig.md Proposed hybrid classical+PQ signature wrapper.

Patent + license documents

File Purpose
patents.md Royalty-free patent grant text + defensive termination.
patent-claims.md 21 attorney-prep claim drafts (internal).
licensing-notes.md Apache-2.0 placement in the Lux three-tier IP strategy.

Suite + cross-repo orientation

File Purpose
suite.md Hanzo PQ Threshold Suite index (Tiers 1-4) + broader Lux/Hanzo crypto inventory appendix.
information-architecture.md Cross-repo taxonomy — where each artifact lives.
sync-status.md Cross-repo audit between pulsar, corona, proofs, papers, lps.
single-impl-plan.md Historical: merge plan from pulsar-mptc into pulsar.

Roadmap + status

File Purpose
status.md Live submission-readiness status across NIST / IETF / FIPS / ACVP tracks.
roadmap.md Multi-year roadmap (v0.2 Corona packaging, FIPS 140-3, etc).