Engineering

10 Heretic investigations tagged Engineering. Each carries its experiment and a hashed reproduction archive.

A correct box cannot repair an incorrect radius

An in-zone point exposed an invalid distance bound in Heretic. The derivation, five counterexamples and the correction are reproducible.

102.94  km Old minimum at a synthetic sensor inside the Paris zone
0  km Corrected box minimum at all five contained-point witnesses

Removing a signing key leaves a cached copy

A local clearance-verifier experiment separates published-key removal, cached keys, early refresh and a failed JWKS fetch.

300,000  ms Supplied-clock offset: removed key still verifies in the TTL fixture
300,001  ms Supplied-clock offset: TTL fixture fetches and rejects the removed key

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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