Technical investigations

Browser measurements, connection observations, integrity rules and proof contracts. Each article carries its experiment and a hashed reproduction archive.

Browser integrity 5 min read

A canvas hash can change without a readback hook

An opaque control separates ordinary alpha conversion from a deliberate one-byte canvas readback alteration.

Question

When does canvas byte inequality establish readback alteration, and what control excludes ordinary alpha conversion?

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Whose round trip did you measure?

A packet experiment separates a terminating proxy’s TCP handshake from the browser’s application response, with a direct-client counterexample.

0.009875 ms Median origin SYN→ACK, relay waits 150 ms each way
306.497 ms Median application echo, relay waits 150 ms each way

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About this publication
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Mechanism

The decisive code, observations or reasoning are in the article body.

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Counterexample

Claims name their premises and the cases that break them.

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Conditions

Test conditions and results carry enough detail to inspect.

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Review

A separate technical review checks the evidence before publication.

The probe runs on your own browser.

The public demo returns the verdict and its named findings.