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The direct Rust API previously required an AAD argument and returned a structural node even for one integer. This implements the first scalar slice of the API redesign in #1365:

let encrypted = keyset.encrypt(42i32).await?;
let value: i32 = keyset.decrypt(encrypted).await?;

let encrypted: Ciphertext = 42i32
    .encrypt_into_with_context(&keyset, ("users", "age"))
    .await?;
let value = i32::decrypt_from_with_context(
    encrypted, &keyset, ("users", "age"),
).await?;

EncryptTarget and DecryptSource declare operations; the owned EncryptInto and destination-directed DecryptFrom helpers execute them through the existing batched engine. RequiredContext, OptionalContext, and NoCallerContext control method availability explicitly: Default never grants permission to omit context. Encryption guards the owned source with Zeroizing, plans synchronously through a borrow, and wipes the source before returning the pending request. This imposes no blanket Clone bound and also covers discarded requests, planning errors and context-conversion unwinding. Returned plaintext belongs to the caller; this is not a claim of complete compiler-copy erasure or constant-time serialization.

Ciphertext exposes canonical byte encoding/decoding and provider-tag access over the unchanged SealedValue v1 envelope. Cross-opening tests exercise both old-writer/new-reader and new-writer/old-reader paths. No Go/dynamic grammar, stored encoding, SQL, or cryptographic derivation changes.

Migration and scope

  • Direct structural calls become encrypt_node / decrypt_node. Existing plans and derives retain their declaration engine; their borrowed conversion helpers move to target::legacy. Existing consumers and tests are updated explicitly.
  • Built-in scalar support covers bool, fixed-width signed integers, u16–u128, f32/f64 and owned String. Collections and borrowed plaintext are rejected. u8 is deferred because the current Vitamin C Rust visitors conflate byte buffers with their element specialization; this PR does not add implicit Vec blob behavior.
  • Blob adapters, collection targets, derive migration, broader context roles, typed text encodings, shared definitions, prepared JSON reads and database adapters remain subsequent slices. Custom declarations can already project a scalar from a non-Clone owned source and declare required or fixed context.
  • Release-plz versions the Rust change from the breaking conventional commit. The empty Changeset records that no npm release is required.

Validation

  • Stack Encrypt all-feature nextest suite: 1,008 passed, one existing skip; final scalar suite: 10 passed.
  • Compile-fail tests cover required context despite Default, forbidden context arguments, collections/borrows and ownership transfer. Existing snapshots refreshed for legacy import paths and rechecked without overwrite.
  • EQL text_eq/v4_types: 23 passed, seven existing PostgreSQL tests skipped; includes frozen Go rows opening in Rust.
  • 52 doctests; rustdoc with warnings denied; runnable credential-free scalar example.
  • All-target/all-feature Clippy with warnings denied and cargo fmt.
  • Go encryption guest, including EQL, checks for wasm32-wasip1 with its locked dependencies.

No live ZeroKMS or PostgreSQL tests were run. Based on latest next at ffeed7a.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added scalar encryption and decryption for supported owned values, with optional context and opaque ciphertext that can be serialized to bytes or common formats.
    • Added owned conversion APIs with explicit context requirements and plaintext wiping during encryption.
  • Changes
    • Renamed structural encryption and decryption methods to encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree, distinguishing them from the scalar APIs.
    • Updated Rust examples and migration notes to reflect the API changes.

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Minor Restrict empty-context encryption to the Ciphertext output.

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Review comments at @packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs:
- Around line 467-468: Restrict the optional-context path exposed by
scalar_ciphertext() so it can only produce the scalar Ciphertext output;
Encryption::map must not let custom targets retain omitted-context encryption
after mapping to another type. Keep the existing optional-context behavior for
Ciphertext and require nonempty context for mapped outputs.
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Walkthrough

The Rust crate adds owned scalar encryption and decryption APIs that use opaque Ciphertext, while structural encryption and decryption use encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree. The change adds context-input capabilities, updates public exports, and revises callers, tests, examples, and release notes.

Changes: Owned Scalar Encryption API

Layer / File(s) Summary
Context input capabilities
packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/input.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/docs/adr/*, .cargo/mutants.toml
New types distinguish omitted, required, and optional caller context. The ADR describes the scalar empty-context path. The mutation configuration excludes a mutant for the default declared-context conversion.
Opaque scalar ciphertext and core integration
packages/stack-encrypt/src/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/core.rs
Adds supported scalar encode/decode traits, the single-leaf Ciphertext wrapper, byte and Serde representations, and scalar encryption/decryption methods. The core adds opaque-context entry points while native entry points retain nonempty-context requirements.
Owned target conversions and exports
packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/conversion.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/mod.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/lib.rs
Adds owned EncryptTarget and DecryptSource declarations and blanket EncryptInto and DecryptFrom conversions. The previous borrowed conversion traits move under target::legacy; exports and crate documentation describe the APIs.
Structural API rename and caller updates
packages/stack-encrypt/src/cipher.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/*, packages/stack-encrypt/src/plan/*, packages/stack-encrypt/examples/*, packages/eql/tests/encryption/tests/*, packages/stack-encrypt/tests/{derive,derive_plan,descriptor,frozen_bytes,heap_hygiene,index,keysets,plan_grammar,roundtrip,target,term_serde,transcode}.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/tests/ui/{bare_context,leaf_without_context}*
Renames structural methods to encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree. Existing examples and tests use those names, and legacy conversion imports use target::legacy.
Scalar API validation and release support
packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/tests/ui/scalar_*, packages/stack-encrypt/examples/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/Cargo.toml, packages/stack-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md, .changeset/*
Adds scalar API tests and compile-fail cases for unsupported inputs, context requirements, and consumed values. Adds an example, test dependency, changelog entry, and release note.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant KeysetCipher
  participant DataKeySource
  participant Ciphertext
  Caller->>KeysetCipher: encrypt owned scalar with optional context
  KeysetCipher->>DataKeySource: request key material
  KeysetCipher->>Ciphertext: return opaque ciphertext
  Caller->>KeysetCipher: decrypt ciphertext with matching context
  KeysetCipher->>DataKeySource: obtain key material for decryption
  KeysetCipher-->>Caller: return plaintext
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Suggested reviewers: freshtonic, auxesis

Merge Risk: Low · up to 20a01

The scalar API has a bounded context-contract gap: custom mapped targets can omit context despite the documented restriction. Address this or explicitly accept it as follow-up; the supplied evidence does not establish a production failure.

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The title "feat(stack-encrypt): add owned scalar ciphertext API" matches the main change. The PR adds the scalar Ciphertext type, the KeysetCipher scalar methods, and the owned EncryptInto/DecryptFrom conversion traits. The summary also shows the structural renames to encrypt_tree/decrypt_tree and the move of borrowed traits to target::legacy, which the title does not mention. Those are secondary to the primary change.

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Mutation testing (cargo-mutants, --in-diff, stack-auth + stack-encrypt)

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Every mutant in the changed lines was caught by a test.

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Two-axis review (standards and spec)

This reviews commit 9a44074b6 against origin/next. The spec is the plan doc docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md on docs/stack-encrypt-api-review, since #1365 only links to it.

Standards

Hard violations

  1. No CHANGELOG entry for a breaking change. The commit is feat(encrypt)!, but packages/stack-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md has no Unreleased → Breaking bullet. Three things break:
    • KeysetCipher::encrypt / decrypt now take a value and return Ciphertext. The old forms were renamed.
    • The root EncryptInto / DecryptFrom are now different traits. The old ones are only in target::legacy.
    • encrypt_native / open_native no longer require NonEmpty.
  2. Wrong error for a shape mismatch. Ciphertext::from_node maps any node that isn't a single leaf to Error::Aead (src/scalar.rs:78). ADR-0010 and AGENTS.md "Known non-findings" say a shape refusal is Error::OpenedType, never Aead. No current caller can reach it.

Documented-standard concerns (judgement calls)

  1. ADR-0001/0003 say the target-directed path enforces a non-empty context by type. OptionalContext<ScalarContext>, plus dropping NonEmpty from encrypt_native / open_native, moves that guarantee to each call site. No ADR records the change.
  2. CONTEXT.md vocabulary: "node" (encrypt_node, from_node) isn't a glossary term.
  3. Roadmap prose in published rustdoc (lib.rs: "will be added in subsequent API slices") will go stale.

Smells (judgement calls)

  • Speculative Generality: library code never uses RequiredContext or NoCallerContext, only tests do. This is mild, since the plan asks for both.
  • Mysterious Name: two traits each called EncryptInto and DecryptFrom, kept apart only by a doc comment.
  • Middle Man: the four KeysetCipher scalar methods are one-line forwards to encrypt_into / decrypt_from.
  • Duplicated Code: each method and its _with_context twin repeat the same body in target/conversion.rs.

Spec

Matches: the keyset method names and shapes, EncryptTarget / DecryptSource, the three context types (with compile-fail tests), Default never granting omission, wiping the source with Zeroizing and no Clone bound, a safe Debug, and unchanged frozen vectors.

Missing or partial

  1. No Serde on Ciphertext. The plan says "human-readable Serde as Base64 of those bytes, binary Serde as bytes". The PR's deferred list doesn't cover it.
  2. The cross-opening tests open bytes written by encrypt_node in the same build. No frozen bytes go through Ciphertext::from_bytes, so "opens old-writer bytes" is untested.
  3. The plan says to remove the competing ciphertext method and the redundant public encrypt_as. Both are still there, which may be fine if the deferred derive migration covers them.

Implemented, but looks wrong

  1. The accessor is tag() (src/scalar.rs:72). The plan asks for "an accessor explicitly named key_tag", so it can't be confused with the AEAD tag. The crate is published, so the name gets locked in.
  2. Scalar is sealed (src/scalar.rs:24). The accepted decision names this capability OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, and says "A custom type can explicitly implement the single-value encoding capability". Sealing rules that out.
  3. The same Error::Aead mapping as Standards finding 2.

Beyond the spec

  • Removing NonEmpty. The plan says search targets "require a nonempty effective context". That now rests on the callers' validated() alone, and no test shows a searchable target still rejects an empty context.

CI

The mutants gate missed three mutants:

  • Debug for Ciphertext → Ok(())
  • OptionalContext::into_inner → None
  • From<NoCallerContext> for DeclaredContext → Default::default()

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Pushed 5b9f4bd, rebased onto the latest next. It addresses the review above:

  • encrypt_node / decrypt_node are now encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree.
  • The sealed Scalar trait is now OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, the names the plan accepted. Both stay sealed; letting outside types implement them can be added later without breaking anything.
  • tag() is now key_tag().
  • Ciphertext has Serde: Base64 text in formats like JSON, raw bytes in binary formats.
  • A tree that isn't a single value now fails with Error::OpenedType instead of Aead.
  • NonEmpty is back on the shared encrypt/open core. The scalar path uses its own entry that allows empty context, and ADR-0003 records that exception.
  • A new test pins bytes written by the build from before this PR and opens them through Ciphertext::from_bytes.
  • New tests kill the Debug and OptionalContext::into_inner mutants. The NoCallerContext mutant can't be told apart from the real code, so it is excluded in .cargo/mutants.toml.
  • The CHANGELOG has Breaking entries now, and the roadmap prose is gone from the rustdoc.

Not changed: encrypt_as and the target::legacy traits are still public, waiting on the derive migration.

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Review attestation

Source: Claude Code /code-review medium with cross-check of findings against existing PR feedback, run on head 302aaf9.

Critical or blocking issues: none.

Findings: 1 minor (inline on scalar.rs:126: uncapped Vec::with_capacity from the deserializer's size_hint in Ciphertext's visit_seq; the crate's existing reserved() cap shows the convention). It was verified at head and is not raised in the existing feedback.

Existing feedback: the earlier two-axis review's findings were addressed in 5b9f4bdf6. I found nothing further on those points.

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mut seq: A,
) -> Result<Ciphertext, A::Error> {
let mut bytes = Vec::with_capacity(seq.size_hint().unwrap_or(0));

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Minor: Vec::with_capacity(seq.size_hint().unwrap_or(0)) trusts the deserializer's length hint. For untrusted input, a few bytes can declare billions of elements, so this can abort on allocation before from_bytes ever validates the envelope.

The crate already guards against this elsewhere: packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/context.rs:187 has reserved(hint), which caps the reservation at 64 and lets the Vec grow as elements are read. Cap the reservation here the same way, for example .min(…) the hint, or use a small fixed bound.

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Fixed in b684a21. The reservation is now capped at 256 bytes (.min(256)), and a longer sequence grows as it's read. I inlined the cap because reserved() is in the feature-gated dynamic module. A new test uses a sequence that holds three bytes but claims usize::MAX. Without the cap it panics with "capacity overflow"; with the cap it returns an envelope error.

BREAKING CHANGE: keyset encrypt/decrypt use opaque Ciphertext and separate
context methods. Structural calls move to encrypt_node/decrypt_node;
borrowed conversion helpers move to target::legacy.

Declare owned conversions with EncryptTarget/DecryptSource and explicit
context capabilities. Guard plaintext during planning and preserve the
existing sealed-leaf bytes and Go/dynamic execution paths.
- Rename the structural entry points encrypt_node / decrypt_node to
  encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree.
- Rename the sealed Scalar trait to OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, the
  names the API plan accepted. Both stay sealed.
- Rename Ciphertext::tag to key_tag, so it cannot be read as the AEAD tag.
- Give Ciphertext Serde: padded Base64 in human-readable formats, raw
  bytes in binary ones.
- Report a non-single tree as Error::OpenedType, not Error::Aead
  (ADR-0010).
- Restore NonEmpty on the shared encrypt/open core. The scalar path
  reaches the core through its own entry that allows empty context, and
  ADR-0003 records the exception.
- Open bytes written by the pre-scalar build through Ciphertext.
- Kill the three mutants CI missed. The NoCallerContext conversion is
  equivalent and is excluded.
- Add the CHANGELOG Breaking entries and drop roadmap prose from rustdoc.
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/// # Errors
/// Refuses foreign keysets before retrieval; also reports provider,
/// authentication and plaintext type errors.
pub fn decrypt<P: OpaqueDecode>(&self, ciphertext: Ciphertext) -> Pending<'_, P, K> {

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decrypt now means two different things on the two cipher types. KeysetCipher::decrypt takes a Ciphertext. StackCipher::decrypt (cipher.rs:1103) still takes (StackCipherText, aad). The docs still describe these as one operation with a keyset constraint added: lib.rs:72-76 ("decrypting... goes through the client-scoped cipher — or through the keyset"), keyset.rs:7-11, and StackCipher::decrypt's own "To insist on one keyset, decrypt through its [KeysetCipher] instead".

Scenario: a service holds Ciphertexts from many tenant keysets and calls cipher.decrypt(ct) as the module docs say. That is a type error. Following the StackCipher::decrypt doc to keyset.decrypt(tree, aad) is an arity error. Ciphertext also has no keyset-id accessor, so the caller cannot pick the right KeysetCipher without re-parsing the bytes as SealedValue. The only working spelling, i32::decrypt_from(ct, &cipher), is not mentioned. Consider renaming StackCipher::decrypt to decrypt_tree and adding a client-scoped scalar decrypt (plus Ciphertext::keyset_id), or at least fixing those three doc sites.

opaque `Ciphertext`; `keyset.decrypt::<T>(ciphertext)` opens it to an `OpaqueDecode` type.
`encrypt_with_context` and `decrypt_with_context` bind a context. The
previous structural forms, which take any `Encrypt` value and a context and
return a `StackCipherText`, are renamed `encrypt_tree` and `decrypt_tree`.

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The generated release notes will name methods that do not exist. The BREAKING CHANGE footer of commit 210b937 ("Structural calls move to encrypt_node/decrypt_node") and the PR description both say encrypt_node / decrypt_node. bedf4c1 renamed them to encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree. release-plz builds the stack-encrypt changelog and GitHub release from conventional commits through cliff.toml, and this repo merges with merge commits, so that footer reaches the published notes. The hand-written entry here would then sit next to one that contradicts it. Squash with a corrected footer, or reword the commit before merge, and update the PR body.

return a `StackCipherText`, are renamed `encrypt_tree` and `decrypt_tree`.
`Ciphertext`'s bytes are the unchanged `SealedValue` v1 envelope, so
stored values open through either API.
- **The root `EncryptInto` and `DecryptFrom` are new owned conversion

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stack-encrypt-derive's published rustdoc still points users at the root traits. packages/stack-encrypt-derive/docs/attributes.md is include_str!'d into the derive crate's docs (lib.rs:183/212/224), and it ships in the same release-plz version group. It still says a declaration runs "through the blanket EncryptInto and DecryptFrom traits" (line 96), and "the canonical keyset.encrypt(value, context) path" (line 75). After this PR, stack_encrypt::{EncryptInto, DecryptFrom} are the owned traits over EncryptTarget/DecryptSource, which derived types do not implement, and keyset.encrypt takes one argument. A user who follows the derive docs (use stack_encrypt::EncryptInto; name.encrypt_into_with_context(&keyset, ..) on a #[derive(EncryptFrom)] type) gets a trait-bound error. It needs to say target::legacy::{EncryptInto, DecryptFrom} and encrypt_tree.

}
/// Encrypt a supported scalar as one opaque ciphertext, permitting empty context.
/// This reads the source under the owned conversion API's zeroization guard.
pub fn scalar_ciphertext<'s, S: crate::OpaqueEncode, K: 'static>(

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This doc promises a wipe the function does not do. It says this "reads the source under the owned conversion API's zeroization guard", but scalar_ciphertext is public and runs in Borrowed mode. Nothing ties it to EncryptInto. For example, keyset.run(target::scalar_ciphertext(), &secret, OptionalContext::omitted()) (run is public) encrypts a String that is never wiped, and so does any EncryptFrom/plan path that embeds it. Either reword the doc (the guard comes from EncryptInto, not from this operation), or keep the constructor pub(crate) and expose it only through EncryptTarget declarations.

/// [`StackCipher::decrypt`], constrained to this keyset: a leaf sealed
/// Decrypt a tree of individually sealed leaves.
///
/// Like [`StackCipher::decrypt`], constrained to this keyset: a leaf sealed

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Some doc links still treat KeysetCipher::encrypt as the tree API. Two places point at it as the tree entry point, which it no longer is. cipher.rs:1511 (PendingStackCipherText::seal) says "[KeysetCipher::encrypt], which does both steps from one value, is the form to prefer", but the scalar encrypt cannot take the trees plan/seal handle. plan/chain.rs:272 lists "encrypt" as the cipher-directed entry point that "stays". Both links now resolve to the scalar method, so rustdoc -D warnings will not catch them. They should name encrypt_tree.

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ScalarRef drops the source type's FIXED width. It hard-codes DEPTH = Some(0) and leaves FIXED at the default None, while vitaminc's &i32/&f64 impls set FIXED = <$ty as Encrypt>::FIXED. vitaminc uses FIXED so that Option<T> seals None as a typed null padded to a Some's length. Today a bare scalar is never wrapped, so nothing changes yet. But the first slice that routes nullable scalars through ScalarRef (nulls are required for every type) would seal None unpadded, and stored length would then show which rows are absent. Consider carrying const FIXED on sealed::Encode in the opaque! macro and forwarding it here.

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The new headline API cannot encrypt a nullable value. Option<T> is not OpaqueEncode, so keyset.encrypt(None::<i32>) / keyset.encrypt(row.age) for an Option<i32> column does not compile. The crate docs now lead with this API, so a user with a nullable column has to drop back to encrypt_tree. The PR lists collections as deferred but does not mention Option. If deferring it is intended, say so in the OpaqueEncode docs and the CHANGELOG, and point users to encrypt_tree for nullable columns.

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fn visit_str<E: serde::de::Error>(self, text: &str) -> Result<Ciphertext, E> {
let bytes = Base64::decode_vec(text).map_err(E::custom)?;

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Cleanup: this duplicates an existing Base64 helper. The padded standard Base64 encode/decode here (lines 101 and 116) already exists in crate::json::base64 / crate::json::unbase64 (json/mod.rs:794-803), with the same canonical padded form PostgreSQL reads. Using the shared helpers keeps one definition of the crate's text encoding for ciphertext bytes.

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145-161: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a mismatched-context check to the required-context test.

required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine encrypts and decrypts with the same 0u64. A conversion that ignores the required value passes this test. Decrypt the ciphertext with a different u64 and assert that decryption fails.

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Review comment at @packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs around lines 145 -
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Update required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine to assert that decrypting
ciphertext with a different u64 context fails. Preserve the existing
same-context round-trip assertion, re-encrypting if needed to avoid consuming
the ciphertext.

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Review comments at @packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs:
- Around line 467-468: Restrict the optional-context path exposed by
scalar_ciphertext() so it can only produce the scalar Ciphertext output;
Encryption::map must not let custom targets retain omitted-context encryption
after mapping to another type. Keep the existing optional-context behavior for
Ciphertext and require nonempty context for mapped outputs.

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Review comments at @packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs:
- Around line 145-161: Update required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine to
assert that decrypting ciphertext with a different u64 context fails. Preserve
the existing same-context round-trip assertion, re-encrypting if needed to avoid
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Comment on lines +467 to +468
pub fn scalar_ciphertext<'s, S: crate::OpaqueEncode, K: 'static>(
) -> Encryption<'s, S, crate::Ciphertext, K, super::OptionalContext<super::ScalarContext>> {

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Minor · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

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Restrict empty-context encryption to the Ciphertext output.

scalar_ciphertext() declares OptionalContext<ScalarContext>, which permits omitted context. The public Encryption::map accepts any output type. A custom target can map this description into a non-Ciphertext type and encrypt it with no context. ADR-0003 allows empty context only for the scalar Ciphertext output. Make this path accept only Ciphertext, or require nonempty context for mapped targets.

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Review comment at @packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs around lines
467 - 468:
Restrict the optional-context path exposed by scalar_ciphertext() so it can only
produce the scalar Ciphertext output; Encryption::map must not let custom
targets retain omitted-context encryption after mapping to another type. Keep
the existing optional-context behavior for Ciphertext and require nonempty
context for mapped outputs.

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