Papers · William Alexander Aldred

Re-Minted by Refresh: An Eventual-Consistency Race in Delete-Based Revocation, and the Tombstone Fix

Published October 2026 · Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23735231

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A live failure, reproduced and fixed: under eventual consistency, a deleted record can re-mint itself through its own refresh path — and a tombstone checked before resolution closes the race.

Paper 20 of 95 in the published register. The full text is published on Zenodo under a permanent DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23735231.

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