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Summary

HKDF-SHA256 expand on x86_64 is back to its speed at f95b91d: 134.9 ns median, against 145.4 ns before this fix and 135.9 ns at f95b91d.

moq-dev/rind#394 made HMAC's internal streaming state a newtype, Streaming(Tagged), so HKDF and PBKDF2 could hold it without the wipe on drop that Context keeps. Each hash's Tagging::start then built that newtype itself, inside the function-pointer call that HKDF-Expand makes once per block. LLVM put the enum in a stack temporary and copied it to the return slot with loads misaligned against the stores just before them (16-byte loads at rsp-0x7f and rsp-0x6f over stores at rsp-0x78 and rsp-0x68). That defeats store-to-load forwarding, so every load stalls. Before #394, start returned the bare enum and the caller wrapped it, so the hash state went straight into the return slot.

The fix keeps the newtype and the no-wipe rule. start returns Tagged through the function pointer again, and Keyed::start wraps it in Streaming. This brings back the pre-#394 code exactly:

• Tagging<H>::start disassembles identically to 8a37d94's for SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Before the fix, the SHA-256 one was 0x124 bytes against 0xb4 at 8a37d94.
• Prk::expand_into is unchanged by the fix. It differs from 8a37d94's only by the per-block wipe that perf: stop wiping anything but keys, keyed state, and private-key heap scratch #394 dropped.

The disassembly comparison used local cargo bench --no-run builds of the hkdf bench (rustc 1.98.1, Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus), one target directory per revision.

Evidence

Recovery run on an AMD EPYC 7763 with rustc 1.99.1. Eight rounds alternate the order of f95b91d (historical), 76e8a03 (this branch before the fix, same code as main), and 2243b8f (the fix). Each revision has its own target directory, and Criterion took 100 samples per measurement (3 s warmup, 10 s measurement). Medians of the 8 runs:

revision	rind	aws-lc-rs
f95b91d (historical)	135.87 ns	337.0 ns
76e8a03 (before the fix)	145.35 ns	334.4 ns
2243b8f (the fix)	134.88 ns	335.1 ns

Seven of eight fix runs measured 134.65 to 135.39 ns. The before-fix runs measured 145.09 to 145.70 ns, plus one 161.67 ns outlier. aws-lc-rs did not move, so the runner was steady across revisions. The run's hkdf-confirm artifact holds the raw logs.

The earlier confirmation and bisect runs placed the 7-10% slowdown at 4a010b6 (moq-dev/rind#394). An inline hint on Streaming::update (validation run) recovered nothing and is not in this PR.

Caused by

• moq-dev/rind#394 - built the Streaming newtype inside each hash's Tagging::start, behind the per-block function pointer, which made LLVM copy the state with store-forwarding stalls.

Checks

• just check passed.
• admin/ctgrind unit -- hmac hkdf pbkdf2, debug and --release, in the .#ctgrind shell: 12 passed, 0 memcheck errors.
• The prove workflow passed on 2243b8f. HmacDispatch.lean's quoted Rust follows the change. Its model is unchanged, since Streaming there is already Tagged.
• quest check passed.

Impact

• No public API or wire changes. Tagged, Streaming, and Tagging are all private to rind::high.
• The quest is finished: this PR deletes quest/m2/speed/hkdf-expand-regression.md, its link in quest/m2/speed/README.md, and the stale note in quest/m2/api/hkdf-chain.md to merge with it.
• It was the speed epic's last child, so quest/m2/speed/README.md now carries a size, [M], as its own remaining work.

Decisions

• Keep the Streaming newtype and wrap it outside the function pointer ✅ (rejected: a bare pub(super) enum Streaming, which exposes the private Tagging and fails private_interfaces, and widening Tagging's visibility, which would cascade to HmacHash). Agent's choice; it is the smallest change that restores the pre-perf: stop wiping anything but keys, keyed state, and private-key heap scratch #394 code.
• Size the speed epic's README [M] now that it has no children ✅ (rejected: deleting the epic as finished). Agent's choice. Every gap in benchmarks/gaps.toml has a recorded reason and no speed quest remains, so the Goal may already hold. Confirming that across every tier and the rind-rustls handshakes, and closing the epic, is the maintainer's call, which quest unblocked will now surface.

Follow-ups

None. The scratch branch scratch/hkdf-interleaved-505 held only the benchmark workflow and can be deleted.

Models

Size: S
Implementer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, low effort
Implementer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort (iterate, S)
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort (iterate, S)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1bee2-b3a9-7093-b11a-2d96151f4954, round 2
• Head: 6fa8590
• Base: origin/main at 7af3a61
• Score: 9/10, The incremental branch change only updates quest metadata and introduces no actionable defects; the previously reviewed HMAC refactor is unchanged, with runtime and performance validation still unverified.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The HMAC start path now returns Tagged from hash-specific and key-operation dispatch, then wraps the result in Streaming at Keyed.start. The README no longer lists the HKDF-SHA256 expand speed item, and its quest document was removed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 89d60

No actionable merge-blocking issue is identified. The internal construction change preserves the public interface and appears ready to merge subject to normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: HKDF-SHA256 expand on x86_64 returns to its earlier speed. The change restores the pre-#394 HMAC start path that returns Tagged through the function pointer and wraps …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Description check		The description is specific and on-topic. It explains that the HKDF-SHA256 expand slowdown on x86_64 came from the Streaming newtype introduced in #394, and that the fix returns Tagged through the sta…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: HKDF-SHA256 expand on x86_64 returns to its earlier speed. The change restores the pre-#394 HMAC start path that returns Tagged through the function pointer and wraps it in Streaming in Keyed::start, which removes the store-forwarding stall. The title states the outcome and does not describe the mechanism, but it stays fully related to the changeset.

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The description is specific and on-topic. It explains that the HKDF-SHA256 expand slowdown on x86_64 came from the Streaming newtype introduced in #394, and that the fix returns Tagged through the start function pointer and wraps it in Streaming in Keyed::start. It gives benchmark medians, disassembly comparisons, test and CI results, and the quest file deletions. These match the raw summary of changes to rind/src/high/hmac.rs, HmacDispatch.lean, and the quest speed files.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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• proofs/Rind/X86_64/HmacDispatch.lean
• quest/m2/speed/README.md
• quest/m2/speed/hkdf-expand-regression.md
• rind/src/high/hmac.rs

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• quest/m2/speed/hkdf-expand-regression.md

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — the complete 5-commit diff moving HMAC's Streaming wrap out of the per-block function pointer, plus the quest-closing deletions.

• start returns Tagged again: HmacHash::streaming → tagged, and KeyOps::start / Keying::start / Tagging::start now return the bare Tagged enum through the per-block function pointer, so the hash state goes straight into the return slot. Keyed::start wraps it in the no-wipe Streaming newtype outside the pointer call, restoring the pre-#394 shape while keeping #394's wipe rules intact (Context still wipes, Streaming still doesn't, Keyed's Drop untouched).
• Lean quote in step: HmacDispatch.lean's quoted Rust mirrors the source edits line-for-line, the model is untouched, and every admin/prove expect-string for HmacDispatch still matches the new source.
• Quest closed: quest/m2/speed/hkdf-expand-regression.md and its README bullet are both gone, with no dangling references anywhere in the tree.

Independently verified beyond the body's claims: the hkdf-confirm artifact reproduces the evidence table exactly (log point estimates 135.87 / 145.35 / 134.88 ns, the 134.65–135.39 seven-of-eight range, and the 161.67 ns outlier), and the conclusion also holds under estimates.json sample medians (134.89 / 145.10 / 134.34) with the aws-lc-rs control steady at ~334 ns; cargo test -p rind --lib -- hmac hkdf pbkdf2 passes locally (11 passed, the sole failure being the documented unfetched-CAVP-submodule panic); the prove workflow is green on the code-changing commit 2243b8fa with only quest-docs commits after it; .cargo/mutants.toml has no stale entries for the rename; and the superseded inline-hint commit is fully reverted — Streaming::update carries no hint in the final state.

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Declining CodeRabbit's docstring-coverage check: the functions this PR touches (Keyed::start, Keying::start, Tagging::start, HmacHash::tagged) are private to rind::high::hmac, and none had a docstring before it. rind documents every export in one line and comments private code only where the why is not obvious, so adding docstrings here would only satisfy the threshold.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with high effort)