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Closes two follow-ups from #247.

Problem

attest verify checks that the seal's three stored digests chain together, and that decision_hash equals report_hash. Both of those values are stored inside the sidecar. Nothing rehashed the report itself, so a report edited after sealing still verified:

$ attest verify r.attestation.json        # r.json edited after sealing
  [OK] Attestation verified

Legacy seals (no hash_scheme) also verify without binding their intent and evidence, and there was no way to require binding.

Change

  • --report <REPORT> rehashes the report file and fails with report_hash mismatch: stored=… computed=… if the hashes differ.
  • --require-bound fails on legacy seals with legacy hash scheme: intent and evidence are not bound to the seal.
  • The output now has a Report: line: rehashed, matches the seal or not checked (pass --report).
  • Library:
    • VerifyOptions { report, require_bound }, used with new verify_attestation_file_with / verify_attestation_str_with.
    • The existing verify_attestation_file / verify_attestation_str keep their behaviour; they call the new functions with default options.
    • VerifyResult::Ok gains report_checked, so a caller can't mistake an unchecked report for a verified one.

Validation

  • New tests:
    • the_sealed_report_verifies: report_checked is true with --report and false without it.
    • an_edited_report_is_detected
    • require_bound_rejects_legacy_seals_only: a genuine legacy seal fails, a JCS seal passes.
  • End to end with the built CLI (assail examples --attest):
    • The genuine report verifies (Report: rehashed, matches the seal).
    • A report edited after sealing fails with report_hash mismatch; the same file without --report still says [OK], which is the gap this closes.
    • A legacy sidecar, rebuilt with jq plus a sha256sum chain hash, passes by default and fails with --require-bound.
    • A missing report file gives a clear reading …: No such file or directory.
  • cargo fmt --check, plus cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -D warnings with and without --all-features: clean.
  • cargo test --locked --all-features: all suites green (lib: 526 passed).

This touches CHANGELOG.adoc like the other open PRs (#261, #262). Whichever merges later needs a trivial merge of main, and I'll handle it.


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`attest verify` checked only that the seal's stored digests agree with
one another, so a report edited after sealing still verified: nothing
rehashed the report itself. `--report <REPORT>` now rehashes the report
file and fails on a report_hash mismatch.

`--require-bound` fails on legacy seals (no hash_scheme), whose intent
and evidence cannot be rehashed and are therefore not bound.

Library: VerifyOptions plus verify_attestation_{file,str}_with; the
existing functions keep their behaviour. VerifyResult::Ok gains
report_checked so callers cannot mistake an unchecked report for a
verified one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PFaqv6iBXrt3W5Akd1Fq5k
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  • New Features
    • attest verify can now check a supplied report against the report hash in its seal. Verification fails if the report does not match.
    • Added an option to require a bound seal. Verification fails when using a legacy seal that cannot be checked against its intent and evidence.
    • Verification results now indicate whether the supplied report was checked and matched. Existing verification behaviour remains unchanged when these options are not used.

Attestation verification now supports checking a supplied report against the seal’s report_hash and rejecting legacy seals when bound verification is required. The CLI accepts these options and reports whether it checked the report.

Changes: Attestation verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Verification options and entry points
src/attestation/mod.rs
Adds VerifyOptions, streaming SHA-256 calculation, and options-aware file and string verification functions. Existing verification functions delegate with default options.
Verification checks and tests
src/attestation/mod.rs
Checks a supplied report digest and can reject legacy seals when require_bound is set. Results include whether the report was checked. Tests cover hashing, report matching and mismatch, and legacy-seal handling.
CLI report verification
src/main.rs, CHANGELOG.adoc
Adds --report and --require-bound to the verify command. The command hashes a supplied report, passes its digest and the binding requirement to the verifier, and reports whether the report was checked. The changelog records these changes.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant Verify as AttestAction::Verify
  participant Hash as sha256_reader
  participant Verifier as verify_attestation_file_with
  User->>Verify: Supply attestation and optional report
  Verify->>Hash: Stream report bytes
  Hash-->>Verify: Return SHA-256 digest
  Verify->>Verifier: Pass digest and require_bound
  Verifier-->>Verify: Return verification result
  Verify-->>User: Report whether report was checked
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Comment thread src/main.rs Resolved
`attest verify --report` read the whole report into memory before
hashing it, so a large or hostile file could exhaust memory. The sidecar
itself is capped at 16 MiB; the report had no bound.

VerifyOptions now carries the report's SHA-256 digest rather than its
bytes, and attestation::sha256_reader hashes any reader through a fixed
8 KiB buffer. The CLI streams the file through it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PFaqv6iBXrt3W5Akd1Fq5k
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