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Reference

Reference pages say exactly what a file, a message or a command is. The reasons are in the decision records.

Page What it fixes
Hand-off contract What a system that holds intermediates sends and gets back, with test vectors.
Commands The commands, their arguments and files, the shared flags, the exit codes and the JSON output.
Keyring package The name, version, files, contents, build and verify steps of the keyring package, and what older rpm support means.
Signed root list and CA bundle The root list’s members and signature, how a host reads it, the CA bundle, with test vectors.
Ceremony files The plan and its digest, the attempt, the hash-chained record and the transcript.
The directory The directory’s layout, ritueel.yaml, the root certificate and primary profiles, and the software root’s key files.
SSH CA key list How an SSH CA key enters the list, its members and signature, how a host reads it, and the file for sshd, with test vectors.
Root-signed CRLs The CRL each root signs to revoke an intermediate: profile, cadence, how a relying party reads it, with test vectors.