context-passport-conformance 1.1.0

Conformance test suite and runner for the Context Passport open standard.

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

Level	Requirements
Core	All vectors in vectors/required/ pass. The implementation can produce and consume passports that validate against schema/v1.json and compute integrity hashes correctly.
Signed	Core, plus all vectors in vectors/signed/ pass. The implementation produces signed passports (SPEC.md section 3.2.7) and verifies signatures correctly.
Full	Signed, plus all vectors in vectors/recommended/ pass. The implementation handles fork/merge lineage, extension namespacing, and forward compatibility correctly.

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.