Context Passport Conformance Tests

The test suite that any Context Passport implementation can run against to verify v1.0 conformance.

Specification: https://github.com/contextpassport/spec

Licensing

• Test vectors (everything under vectors/) — CC0 1.0. See LICENSE-CC0. Free to use, modify, redistribute.
• Runner code (everything under runner/) — Apache-2.0. See LICENSE-APACHE.

What conformance means

An implementation is Context Passport v1.0 conformant if it passes every test in vectors/required/. Implementations may additionally pass tests in vectors/signed/ or vectors/recommended/ to claim stronger conformance levels.

Conformance levels

Vector format

Each test vector is a JSON file with three sections:

{
  "name": "v01_root_commit",
  "description": "A valid root passport with no parent.",
  "input": { ... passport or chain to be evaluated ... },
  "expected": { ... expected verification result ... }
}

Implementations under test load the vector, perform the relevant operation, and compare output against expected.

Required vectors (Core)

1. v01_root_commit.json — Valid root passport with no parent.
2. v02_chained_commit.json — Child passport with linked parent.
3. v03_canonical_payload.json — Two key-orderings produce identical hashes.
4. v04_broken_chain.json — Tampered payload is detected.
5. v05_schema_version.json — Missing schema_version is rejected.
6. v06_unknown_extension.json — Unknown namespaced field is accepted and ignored.

Signed vectors

7. v07_ed25519_valid.json — Valid Ed25519 signature verifies.
8. v08_ed25519_tampered.json — Modified payload fails signature verification.
9. v09_signature_canonicalization.json — Signature is over canonical bytes with signature field cleared.

Recommended vectors

10. v10_fork_lineage.json — Fork populates lineage fields.
11. v11_event_types.json — All event types accepted.
12. v12_long_chain.json — 100-commit chain verifies.

Running the suite

Install the runner

pip install context-passport-conformance context-passport

This installs the context-passport-conformance CLI plus the reference Python implementation it tests against.

Run it

From a checkout of this repository:

context-passport-conformance --level core
context-passport-conformance --level signed

If you installed via pip (vectors not next to the runner), point at a vectors directory:

git clone https://github.com/contextpassport/conformance-tests.git
context-passport-conformance --vectors-dir conformance-tests/vectors --level signed

Test a different implementation

context-passport-conformance --implementation <module_name> --level core

The implementation must expose payload_hash, integrity_hash, verify_chain, and (for signed conformance) verify_signature with the same signatures as the reference implementation.

Implementations in other languages should ship their own runners that load each vector JSON and report pass/fail against expected. The vectors are CC0 — copy them freely.

Conformance badge

Implementations that pass all required vectors may self-declare:

Context Passport v1.0 Core Conformant

This is self-attestation. Independent verification is encouraged but not required.

Contributing

Open a pull request adding a new vector under the appropriate directory. Vectors should:

1. Test one specific behavior
2. Include clear expected output
3. Be reproducible across implementations
4. Follow the naming convention vNN_short_description.json

See CONTRIBUTING.md in the spec repository for general guidelines.