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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Tessera is identity- and cryptography-adjacent infrastructure, so security reports are taken seriously. Thank you for helping keep it and its users safe.

Supported versions

Version Supported
3.3.x (latest) ✅ Security fixes
< 3.3 ❌ Please upgrade

Fixes land on the latest release line. Packages are published on nuget.org under the Sagynbaev.Tessera* prefix via Trusted Publishing (OIDC) — no long-lived API key is stored.

Reporting a vulnerability

Please do not open a public issue for a security vulnerability.

Report it privately via GitHub's Private vulnerability reporting (repo → SecurityReport a vulnerability). If that is unavailable, contact the maintainer @asagynbaev and ask for a private channel before sharing details.

When reporting, please include:

  • affected package(s) and version(s) (e.g. Sagynbaev.Tessera.Cryptography 3.3.0);
  • a description of the issue and its impact;
  • a minimal reproduction or proof of concept, if possible.

You can expect an initial acknowledgement within a few days. Coordinated disclosure is preferred: we will work with you on a fix and a release before any public write-up.

Known limitations (please read before relying on Tessera for high-assurance use)

The cryptographic core (Tessera.Cryptography: from-scratch secp256k1, Pedersen commitments, and Bulletproofs) is not constant-time and has not had an external cryptographic audit. In particular, Point.ScalarMul is a branch-on-bit double-and-add (leaks the scalar to timing/SPA), and the claim-canonicalization wire format is length-prefixed but not type-tagged. Do not use it to protect funds or high-value secrets until that audit is complete.

The full threat model, what is in/out of scope, the deterministic test vectors, and the deferred items are documented in docs/security-audit-readiness.md — the dossier an external auditor should start from. On-chain contract notes (e.g. the EVM registerDid controller-signature ABI change in v3.2.0) are tracked there and in the per-chain READMEs.

There aren't any published security advisories