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The crate is usable as a relying party for a one-time event rather than a live handshake: evidence is verified once against a measurement policy and archived as permanent provenance. Nothing reported which collateral bundle a verification used, so there was nothing to archive alongside the evidence it verified.

Fetching a second copy next to the verification is the obvious workaround, and it is subtly wrong. A PCCS cache refresh between the two fetches makes the archived bundle a bundle rather than the bundle the verification consumed, and for provenance that distinction is the whole point.

Verification now returns VerifiedAttestation: the measurements, the collateral it consumed, and the instant every freshness check was evaluated at. The public entry points return Option

  • None when the evidence carried no attestation and none was expected, the one case with no bundle and no instant to report. Nesting the absence in one Option keeps the three fields from ever disagreeing.

One type serves every platform. A GCP TDX quote is a DCAP quote, and Azure wraps one in an HCL report and a vTPM attestation, so a verification always consumes exactly one collateral bundle, whichever platform produced the evidence. Azure holds its vTPM leg to the instant its DCAP leg reported, so verified_at is the single instant behind every freshness check rather than one per leg.

That instant is the other half of what archiving buys: with the bundle, the same evidence and the same instant give the same answer forever. QuoteCollateralV3 is re-exported so callers can keep the bundle without taking a direct dependency on dcap-qvl.

The return type of verify_attestation and verify_attestation_sync changes from Option to Option. Both in-tree callers discard the value, so neither needed a change.

Addresses the reporting half of flashbots#84. Verifying archived evidence against a pinned bundle at an explicit instant, the other half, follows separately.

The crate is usable as a relying party for a one-time event rather than
a live handshake: evidence is verified once against a measurement
policy and archived as permanent provenance. Nothing reported which
collateral bundle a verification used, so there was nothing to archive
alongside the evidence it verified.

Fetching a second copy next to the verification is the obvious
workaround, and it is subtly wrong. A PCCS cache refresh between the
two fetches makes the archived bundle *a* bundle rather than *the*
bundle the verification consumed, and for provenance that distinction
is the whole point.

Verification now returns VerifiedAttestation: the measurements, the
collateral it consumed, and the instant every freshness check was
evaluated at. The public entry points return Option<VerifiedAttestation>
- None when the evidence carried no attestation and none was expected,
the one case with no bundle and no instant to report. Nesting the
absence in one Option keeps the three fields from ever disagreeing.

One type serves every platform. A GCP TDX quote is a DCAP quote, and
Azure wraps one in an HCL report and a vTPM attestation, so a
verification always consumes exactly one collateral bundle, whichever
platform produced the evidence. Azure holds its vTPM leg to the instant
its DCAP leg reported, so verified_at is the single instant behind every
freshness check rather than one per leg.

That instant is the other half of what archiving buys: with the bundle,
the same evidence and the same instant give the same answer forever.
QuoteCollateralV3 is re-exported so callers can keep the bundle without
taking a direct dependency on dcap-qvl.

The return type of verify_attestation and verify_attestation_sync
changes from Option<MultiMeasurements> to Option<VerifiedAttestation>.
Both in-tree callers discard the value, so neither needed a change.

Addresses the reporting half of flashbots#84. Verifying archived evidence
against a pinned bundle at an explicit instant, the other half,
follows separately.
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The bundle and the instant were two independent public fields, so the
pair a later replay needs arrived pre-split. Taking one without the
other is not a mistake a caller has to work at: it is the shape of
least resistance, and nothing objects. The input side already refuses
that - VerifyMode::Archived carries both or neither - so the output
was the one place the pair could come apart.

CollateralSnapshot binds them. It is one value coming out and, in the
change that follows, the same value going back in, so archiving is
"keep the snapshot" and re-verifying is "hand it back".

VerifiedAttestation becomes AttestationResult. RFC 9334 calls what an
attester produces Evidence and what a verifier produces from it an
Attestation Result. The crate already takes AttestationEvidence in, so
this names the far end of one appraisal; "attestation" on its own named
no field of the struct.

The measurements docs now say where the values come from, which the
Azure path made worth stating. They are read out of the quote on DCAP
and GCP. On Azure they are the vTPM PCRs, measuring the guest boot
rather than the launched TD - chained to the quote, whose report data
commits to the HCL var data carrying the AK public key that signs the
vTPM quote, but no field of it. The fixture test now asserts the whole
snapshot, so the pairing itself is covered.
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