AER-1 corpus vectors / Test vectors: invalid

bytes-not-base64

Family: Test vectors: invalid. Source: base/test-vectors/invalid/bytes-not-base64.json in the AER-1 corpus published at zambo.dev/aer1/corpus.json (kit 1.5.7, draft-zambo-aer1-26), file SHA-256 d6ec1b14646d8d9ec517c15601e3b2ff304d2d5e9ff071e2813c2d0ee8d06921. Receipt id recorded in the vector: b6c63ac5-f324-4fa7-ad58-c4bf83faa86a.

Input

The vector input, exactly as published in the corpus:

{
  "id": "b6c63ac5-f324-4fa7-ad58-c4bf83faa86a",
  "receipt_schema_version": "0.3",
  "created_at": "2026-09-27T09:00:00.000Z",
  "tool": {
    "name": "live_price",
    "version": "4.0.0",
    "scope": "public"
  },
  "provenance_class": "EXECUTED BY ZAMBO",
  "canonical_bytes": "!!!not-base64!!!",
  "output_hash": "sha256:c2258bdf9c34813a70166bc0e2d79b167f22f51a0adb67e218b5c868b911dca7",
  "verification_status": "verified",
  "rejected_by": "canonical_bytes is not valid base64"
}

Expected result

• expected verdict (corpus path): invalid: the receipt must fail
• rejected_by: canonical_bytes is not valid base64

Checks it exercises

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See the full set in the AER-1 corpus vectors index and the AER-1 corpus checks index, or read the standard itself: draft-zambo-aer1-26.