elsas-verify

Independently verify the daily security-intelligence reports published by elsas.it — offline, with no trust in our servers and no access to our keys.

elsas.it is signed security intelligence for AI agents, served over MCP and paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base — accountless, your wallet is your identity). Two shapes:

• Atomic primitives (high-frequency, sub-cent): is_exploited (is this CVE in CISA-KEV? $0.001), check_cve (CVSS + KEV + EPSS, $0.01), check_package (OSV verdict for one package@version, $0.002), search_cves ($0.01), scan_dependencies (whole-lockfile OSV scan, pay-per-vuln, free when clean).
• Premium digest: get_today — the daily curated, cross-validated report ($0.10).

Every response is Ed25519-signed (SSHSIG, namespace elsas-report) — so you can prove it's authentic and untampered without trusting our servers and without our keys. That's the differentiator: unsigned CVE APIs ask you to trust them; we let you verify. This repo is everything you need to do that offline.

Don't trust us — verify.

Verify in 30 seconds

Requirements: openssh-client (ssh-keygen) and python3 — present on any Linux/macOS. No install, no network needed for the verification itself.

git clone https://github.com/romans-repos/elsas-verify.git
cd elsas-verify
./verify-report.sh examples/sample-report.json allowed_signers

Expected output:

VALID: authentic & untampered
  Signer:  elsas@elsas.it
  Hash:    sha256:…
Good "elsas-report" signature for elsas@elsas.it with ED25519 key SHA256:gLVNll72kb8Iyni2vNMR6oHGqVh0Ynz+lBMhbS+cSa4

Verify a live report

# Fetch the current public sample + its detached signature
curl -s https://elsas.it/sample                          > report.json
curl -s https://elsas.it/.well-known/report.json.sig     > report.json.sig
# Verify against the pinned key in this repo
./verify-report.sh report.json allowed_signers

You can also verify by hand with stock OpenSSH:

ssh-keygen -Y verify \
  -f allowed_signers \
  -I elsas@elsas.it \
  -n elsas-report \
  -s report.json.sig < report.json

Verify an atomic-tool verdict

The atomic tools return a JSON verdict with an embedded _signature block (signed_payload = the exact signed bytes; signature = an armored SSHSIG). Verify it offline — by shell, or with the drop-in library for your language:

# shell (ssh-keygen + python3 stdlib)
./verify-verdict.sh examples/sample-verdict.json allowed_signers

// Node — zero dependencies (built-in crypto). npm i @elsas/verify
import { verifyVerdict } from '@elsas/verify';
const { ok, reason } = verifyVerdict(verdict);   // pinned elsas key, offline
if (!ok) throw new Error(`unverified elsas verdict: ${reason}`);

# Python — pip install elsas-verify  (only dep: cryptography)
from elsas_verify import verify_verdict
ok, info = verify_verdict(verdict)
assert ok, info["reason"]

Each verifier does two independent checks: (1) the verdict body matches the signed bytes (tamper-evidence), and (2) the SSHSIG verifies under the pinned elsas key (a signature by any other key is rejected). No network call is needed to verify.

Trust model

• Signatures use SSHSIG (Ed25519) via ssh-keygen -Y sign. Verification is offline and zero-trust: you hold the payload, you verify locally.
• The root of trust is allowed_signers — our public key, identity-pinned to elsas@elsas.it. A substituted signers file with a different key is rejected by the -I flag.
• Confirm the pinned key independently against the live copy:

  curl -s https://elsas.it/.well-known/allowed_signers
  

  Key fingerprint: SHA256:gLVNll72kb8Iyni2vNMR6oHGqVh0Ynz+lBMhbS+cSa4
• Each report also carries a _integrity.content_hash (sha256 over the canonical JSON) for tamper evidence — see SIGNATURE-VERIFY.md.

What's in here

What's not here

This repo is the verification surface only. The curation pipeline, scoring prompts, relevance taxonomy, infrastructure and any operational configuration are intentionally not published — they are neither needed to verify a report nor useful to a third party. Verifiability does not require disclosing how the sausage is made; it requires that the result is checkable. That's what this is.

License

Tooling in this repository is released under the MIT License. Report payloads themselves carry their own license terms inside the report (_integrity._license_coverage).

Service: https://elsas.it · Docs: https://elsas.it/docs · Sample: https://elsas.it/sample