lib: Harden symmetric-key rotation

2026-06-29T06:32:58+00:00

Flow crypto signalled rotation with a single phase-parity bit, so a loss burst that hid an even number of rotations went unnoticed and wedged the flow for good. Each packet now carries a small cleartext selector naming its key directly, so a receiver that falls behind recovers on the next packet instead of getting stuck. The selector also serves as the AEAD nonce and is authenticated as associated data (AAD). Key rotation moves into a new backend-agnostic keyrot module that rotates sub-keys to bound AEAD usage while preserving forward secrecy. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Staessens Signed-off-by: Sander Vrijders

ouroboros/src/lib/crypt/keyrot.h, branch be

lib: Harden symmetric-key rotation