Spore Protocol & Recovery¶

Purpose: Describe the multi-level protocol for cold storage and recovery of Core DNA, ensuring system survival even after complete destruction of all active nodes.

1. Multi‑Species Spore¶

1.1. Core DNA Spore¶

Shamir scheme parameters: n=7, k=3.
Rate limit: 30 days between recovery attempts.
PUF-required: Yes.
Storage: distributed across multiple jurisdictions (cloud, physical media, blockchain).

1.2. Minimal Viable Spore (MVS)¶

Shamir scheme parameters: n=5, k=2.
Rate limit: 7 days.
PUF-required: No, but PUF hash check enabled.
Purpose: quick recovery of a minimal functional node capable of finding and reconstructing Core DNA Spore.

1.3. Zombie Seed¶

Shamir scheme parameters: n=3, k=1.
Rate limit: 1 hour.
PUF-required: No, PUF hash check enabled.
Purpose: launching a "scout" process in a low-trust environment (public cloud, botnet) to find MVSpores.

2. Recovery Procedure¶

Zombie Seed launches on any available compute resource.
It scans predefined channels (Nostr, IPFS, blockchain events) for MVSpores.
Once an MVS is found and decoded, a minimal node is launched.
The minimal node scans for Core DNA Spores.
After decoding Core DNA, the complete system state is restored.