Security hardening and release readiness

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diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7b496e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, master]
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+env:
+  JERBOA_VERSION: v0.2.3
+  JERBUILD: ${{ github.workspace }}/.jerboa/bin/jerbuild
+
+jobs:
+  verify:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install system tools
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential curl ca-certificates
+
+      - name: Install Jerboa toolchain
+        run: sh support/ensure-jerboa.sh "$JERBOA_VERSION" .jerboa/bin
+
+      - name: Verify
+        run: make verify
+
+      - name: Release evidence
+        run: make release-evidence
diff --git a/.github/workflows/security-baseline.yml b/.github/workflows/security-baseline.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28a713e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/security-baseline.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+name: Security Baseline
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, master]
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  baseline:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Required release files
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          test -f LICENSE
+          test -f SECURITY.md
+          test -f .gitignore
+          find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "README*" -type f | grep -q .
+
+      - name: High-confidence secret scan
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          pattern="(BEGIN (RSA|OPENSSH|EC|DSA|PRIVATE) KEY|ghp_[A-Za-z0-9_]{20,}|github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{20,}|sk-(ant-api03|proj|svcacct)-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{30,}|AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16})"
+          matches="$(git grep -n -I -E "$pattern" -- . ":!*.png" ":!*.jpg" ":!*.jpeg" ":!*.gif" ":!*.so" ":!*.dylib" ":!*.o" ":!*.a" ":!*.boot" ":!*.tar.gz" || true)"
+          if [ -n "$matches" ]; then
+            echo "$matches"
+            echo "High-confidence secret pattern found."
+            exit 1
+          fi
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e8a09cf..941379b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@
 *.wpo
 *.boot
 *.log
+.jerboa/bin/
+dist/
 tmp/
diff --git a/.jerboa/security.json b/.jerboa/security.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b537e0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jerboa/security.json
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{
+  "project": "jerboa-mail",
+  "status": "private-experimental",
+  "profile": "hostile-input-parser",
+  "runtime_capabilities": {
+    "filesystem": "none in parser library",
+    "network": "none",
+    "shell": "none",
+    "ffi": "none",
+    "credentials": "none"
+  },
+  "caller_output_policy": {
+    "html": "hostile-text-only unless caller applies a reviewed sanitizer",
+    "urls": "caller-validated-before-linking",
+    "attachment_filenames": "caller-validated-before-use",
+    "logging": "body-redaction-required"
+  },
+  "required_release_gates": [
+    "make security",
+    "make test",
+    "make verify",
+    "make release-evidence"
+  ],
+  "default_parser_limits": {
+    "mail-max-message-chars": 26214400,
+    "mail-max-header-chars": 262144,
+    "mail-max-header-lines": 4096,
+    "mail-max-line-chars": 65536,
+    "mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars": 26214400,
+    "mail-max-encoded-word-chars": 65536,
+    "mail-max-mime-depth": 16,
+    "mail-max-mime-parts": 1024,
+    "mail-max-boundary-chars": 200
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 53c4974..2f13280 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,24 +1,118 @@
+JERBOA_VERSION ?= v0.2.3
+JERBOA_TOOL_DIR ?= $(CURDIR)/.jerboa/bin
+JERBUILD ?= $(if $(wildcard $(JERBOA_TOOL_DIR)/jerbuild),$(JERBOA_TOOL_DIR)/jerbuild,jerbuild)
+JH := $(shell $(JERBUILD) --jerboa-home 2>/dev/null)
+ifeq ($(JH),)
 JERBOA_HOME ?= $(realpath $(CURDIR)/../jerboa)
+else
+JERBOA_HOME ?= $(JH)
+endif
 SCHEME      ?= $(JERBOA_HOME)/.chez/bin/scheme
 LIBDIRS     := $(CURDIR):$(JERBOA_HOME)/lib
+DIST_DIR ?= dist/release-evidence
+SBOM_DIR ?= dist/sbom
+REPRO_DIR ?= dist/reproducibility
 
-.PHONY: help test clean
+.PHONY: help ensure-jerboa-tools test corpus-smoke fuzz-evidence security audit verify sbom reproducibility-report release-evidence clean
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := help
 
 help:
 	@echo "jerboa-mail"
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "Development:"
-	@echo "  make test   Run smoke tests"
-	@echo "  make clean  Remove local generated files"
+	@echo "  make ensure-jerboa-tools  Install project-local Jerboa tools"
+	@echo "  make test                 Run parser and resource-limit tests"
+	@echo "  make corpus-smoke         Run safe malformed-message corpus smoke"
+	@echo "  make fuzz-evidence        Run deterministic parser fuzz/property evidence"
+	@echo "  make security             Run local release security checks"
+	@echo "  make verify               Run security, tests, and dependency audit"
+	@echo "  make sbom                 Write SBOM/provenance evidence"
+	@echo "  make reproducibility-report"
+	@echo "                            Compare repeated local parser evidence"
+	@echo "  make release-evidence     Write release evidence under dist/"
+	@echo "  make clean                Remove local generated files"
 	@echo ""
 	@echo "Environment:"
+	@echo "  JERBOA_VERSION = $(JERBOA_VERSION)"
+	@echo "  JERBUILD       = $(JERBUILD)"
 	@echo "  JERBOA_HOME = $(JERBOA_HOME)"
 	@echo "  SCHEME      = $(SCHEME)"
 
-test:
-	JERBOA_HOME=$(JERBOA_HOME) \
-		$(SCHEME) -q --libdirs $(LIBDIRS) --script test/test-all.ss
+ensure-jerboa-tools:
+	@if [ -x "$(JERBUILD)" ] && "$(JERBUILD)" --jerboa-home >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+		echo "Jerboa toolchain available: $(JERBUILD)"; \
+	elif [ -x "$(SCHEME)" ]; then \
+		echo "Using adjacent Jerboa checkout: $(JERBOA_HOME)"; \
+	else \
+		echo "=== Fetching Jerboa $(JERBOA_VERSION) release tools into $(JERBOA_TOOL_DIR) ==="; \
+		sh support/ensure-jerboa.sh "$(JERBOA_VERSION)" "$(JERBOA_TOOL_DIR)"; \
+	fi
+
+test: ensure-jerboa-tools
+	@jh="$$("$(JERBUILD)" --jerboa-home 2>/dev/null || true)"; \
+	if [ -n "$$jh" ]; then \
+		libdirs="$(CURDIR):$$jh/lib"; \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$$jh" "$(JERBUILD)" exec --libdirs "$$libdirs" test/test-all.ss; \
+	else \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$(JERBOA_HOME)" "$(SCHEME)" -q --libdirs "$(LIBDIRS)" --script test/test-all.ss; \
+	fi
+
+corpus-smoke: ensure-jerboa-tools
+	@jh="$$("$(JERBUILD)" --jerboa-home 2>/dev/null || true)"; \
+	if [ -n "$$jh" ]; then \
+		libdirs="$(CURDIR):$$jh/lib"; \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$$jh" "$(JERBUILD)" exec --libdirs "$$libdirs" support/corpus-smoke.ss; \
+	else \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$(JERBOA_HOME)" "$(SCHEME)" -q --libdirs "$(LIBDIRS)" --script support/corpus-smoke.ss; \
+	fi
+
+fuzz-evidence: ensure-jerboa-tools
+	@jh="$$("$(JERBUILD)" --jerboa-home 2>/dev/null || true)"; \
+	if [ -n "$$jh" ]; then \
+		libdirs="$(CURDIR):$$jh/lib"; \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$$jh" "$(JERBUILD)" exec --libdirs "$$libdirs" support/fuzz-evidence.ss; \
+	else \
+		JERBOA_HOME="$(JERBOA_HOME)" "$(SCHEME)" -q --libdirs "$(LIBDIRS)" --script support/fuzz-evidence.ss; \
+	fi
+
+security:
+	scripts/security-check.sh
+
+audit:
+	@echo "No native, Rust, or external package dependencies to audit."
+
+verify: security test corpus-smoke fuzz-evidence audit
+
+sbom:
+	JERBUILD="$(JERBUILD)" JERBOA_HOME="$(JERBOA_HOME)" JERBOA_MAIL_SBOM_DIR="$(SBOM_DIR)" scripts/sbom.sh
+
+reproducibility-report:
+	JERBUILD="$(JERBUILD)" JERBOA_HOME="$(JERBOA_HOME)" JERBOA_MAIL_REPRO_DIR="$(REPRO_DIR)" scripts/reproducibility-report.sh
+
+release-evidence: verify reproducibility-report sbom
+	rm -rf "$(DIST_DIR)"
+	mkdir -p "$(DIST_DIR)"
+	git rev-parse HEAD > "$(DIST_DIR)/git-commit.txt"
+	git status --short > "$(DIST_DIR)/git-status.txt"
+	uname -a > "$(DIST_DIR)/build-environment.txt"
+	@if [ -x "$(JERBUILD)" ]; then \
+		"$(JERBUILD)" --version >> "$(DIST_DIR)/build-environment.txt" 2>/dev/null || true; \
+		"$(JERBUILD)" --jerboa-home >> "$(DIST_DIR)/build-environment.txt" 2>/dev/null || true; \
+	fi
+	@printf '%s\n' "jerboa-mail has no native/Rust/external package dependencies." > "$(DIST_DIR)/dependency-audit.txt"
+	shasum -a 256 Makefile .jerboa/security.json SECURITY.md docs/threat-model.md docs/parser-hardening.md docs/rendering-policy.md docs/release-evidence.md scripts/security-check.sh support/corpus-smoke.ss support/fuzz-evidence.ss > "$(DIST_DIR)/release-inputs-sha256.txt"
+	find jerboa-mail test -type f -name '*.ss' -print | sort | xargs shasum -a 256 > "$(DIST_DIR)/source-sha256.txt"
+	$(MAKE) corpus-smoke > "$(DIST_DIR)/corpus-smoke.txt" 2>&1
+	$(MAKE) fuzz-evidence > "$(DIST_DIR)/fuzz-evidence.txt" 2>&1
+	@{ \
+		echo "rendering_policy_status=present"; \
+		grep -E 'rendering_policy_status: documented|html_rendering_status: hostile-text-only|sanitizer_status: caller-required-before-html-rendering|url_policy_status: caller-validated-before-linking|attachment_filename_status: caller-validated-before-use|logging_status: body-redaction-required' docs/rendering-policy.md; \
+	} > "$(DIST_DIR)/rendering-policy.txt"
+	grep -q 'rendering_policy_status: documented' "$(DIST_DIR)/rendering-policy.txt"
+	grep -q 'html_rendering_status: hostile-text-only' "$(DIST_DIR)/rendering-policy.txt"
+	grep -q 'sanitizer_status: caller-required-before-html-rendering' "$(DIST_DIR)/rendering-policy.txt"
+	cp -R "$(SBOM_DIR)" "$(DIST_DIR)/sbom"
+	cp -R "$(REPRO_DIR)" "$(DIST_DIR)/reproducibility"
 
 clean:
-	rm -rf tmp
+	rm -rf tmp dist
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 889b479..d72c6f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,8 +14,40 @@ The initial scope is read-oriented:
 Sending helpers can be added later, but this first version is intentionally
 small and fixture-driven.
 
+## Security posture
+
+`jerboa-mail` parses hostile mail input and remains private/experimental until
+the release gates in `SECURITY.md`, `docs/threat-model.md`, and
+`docs/release-evidence.md` are complete.
+
+The parser library is capability-free by design: it does not open files, call
+the shell, use the network, load dynamic libraries, use FFI, or handle
+credentials. The local security gate enforces that parser and test source keep
+that shape.
+
+Default parser limits are exported as parameters for callers that need tighter
+deployment budgets:
+
+Decoded HTML and MIME metadata are still hostile data. Callers that display
+mail must follow `docs/rendering-policy.md`; this library does not sanitize HTML
+or make body text safe for browser rendering.
+
+- `mail-max-message-chars`: 25 MiB.
+- `mail-max-header-chars`: 256 KiB.
+- `mail-max-header-lines`: 4096.
+- `mail-max-line-chars`: 64 KiB.
+- `mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars`: 25 MiB.
+- `mail-max-encoded-word-chars`: 64 KiB.
+- `mail-max-mime-depth`: 16.
+- `mail-max-mime-parts`: 1024.
+- `mail-max-boundary-chars`: 200.
+
 ## Development
 
 ```sh
 make test
+make corpus-smoke
+make fuzz-evidence
+make verify
+make release-evidence
 ```
diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aafc0bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Security Policy
+
+`jerboa-mail` is a hostile-input parser library for mail headers, common
+content-transfer encodings, and simple MIME trees. It remains
+private/experimental until the parser release gates are complete.
+
+## Supported Status
+
+No public production-support commitment exists yet. Security-sensitive releases
+must be cut from a clean checkout after:
+
+- `make security`
+- `make test`
+- `make verify`
+- `make release-evidence`
+
+## Hardening Expectations
+
+- The parser threat model is tracked in `docs/threat-model.md`.
+- Parser limits and caller guidance are tracked in `docs/parser-hardening.md`.
+- Caller-specific display and HTML handling policy is tracked in
+  `docs/rendering-policy.md`.
+- Parser and test source must not import `(chezscheme)` directly.
+- Parser and test source must remain free of shell/process execution,
+  filesystem sinks, network access, FFI, and dynamic-library loading.
+- Oversized messages, headers, lines, encoded payloads, MIME part counts, MIME
+  nesting, and invalid boundaries must fail closed.
+- Parsed HTML, subjects, display names, attachment names, and body text remain
+  hostile strings for downstream renderers and indexers.
+- This library never makes decoded HTML safe for browser rendering. Callers
+  must render it as inert text or apply a reviewed sanitizer for their own UI.
+- Do not log message bodies, private addresses, operational paths, credentials,
+  or parser payloads from inside this library.
+
+## Reporting
+
+Before public release, report issues privately to the repository owner. After a
+public release, add a dedicated advisory contact, supported versions, and
+disclosure window here.
diff --git a/corpus/mail/accept/folded-header.eml b/corpus/mail/accept/folded-header.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46d18f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/corpus/mail/accept/folded-header.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+From: Alice Example <alice@example.invalid>
+Subject: This header
+ continues on the next line
+Content-Type: text/plain
+
+Folded header body.
diff --git a/corpus/mail/accept/multipart-alternative.eml b/corpus/mail/accept/multipart-alternative.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dcdba0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/corpus/mail/accept/multipart-alternative.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+From: Alice Example <alice@example.invalid>
+Subject: Multipart
+Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="safe-boundary"
+
+--safe-boundary
+Content-Type: text/plain
+
+Plain body.
+--safe-boundary
+Content-Type: text/html
+
+<p>HTML body.</p>
+--safe-boundary--
diff --git a/corpus/mail/accept/simple.eml b/corpus/mail/accept/simple.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be9f5a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/corpus/mail/accept/simple.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+From: Alice Example <alice@example.invalid>
+To: Bob Example <bob@example.invalid>
+Subject: Plain message
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+Hello from the safe public corpus.
diff --git a/corpus/mail/reject/empty-boundary.eml b/corpus/mail/reject/empty-boundary.eml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0fa7d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/corpus/mail/reject/empty-boundary.eml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+From: Alice Example <alice@example.invalid>
+Subject: Empty boundary
+Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=""
+
+--unused
+Content-Type: text/plain
+
+This message must be rejected because the declared boundary is empty.
diff --git a/docs/parser-hardening.md b/docs/parser-hardening.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d50493f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/parser-hardening.md
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# jerboa-mail Parser Hardening
+
+`jerboa-mail` is deliberately capability-free. The release gate requires parser
+and test source to avoid direct Chez imports, shell/process primitives,
+filesystem sinks, dynamic loading, and FFI.
+
+## Default Limits
+
+The parser exports these parameters so callers can tighten limits per
+deployment:
+
+- `mail-max-message-chars`: 25 MiB.
+- `mail-max-header-chars`: 256 KiB.
+- `mail-max-header-lines`: 4096.
+- `mail-max-line-chars`: 64 KiB.
+- `mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars`: 25 MiB.
+- `mail-max-encoded-word-chars`: 64 KiB.
+- `mail-max-mime-depth`: 16.
+- `mail-max-mime-parts`: 1024.
+- `mail-max-boundary-chars`: 200.
+
+Set a parameter to `#f` only in controlled offline tooling that already applies
+stronger outer resource controls.
+
+## Regression Coverage
+
+`make test` exercises:
+
+- Header/body splitting and unfolded headers.
+- Base64, quoted-printable, and encoded-word decoding.
+- Plain-text and multipart/alternative body selection.
+- Over-limit message, header, header-line-count, line, transfer-payload,
+  encoded-word, MIME-part-count, MIME-depth, boundary-length, and empty-boundary
+  failures.
+
+`make fuzz-evidence` adds deterministic hostile-input property coverage:
+
+- `fuzz_property_status: documented`
+- `fuzz_cases_minimum: 2048`
+- `fuzz_scope_status: headers-transfer-multipart-limits`
+
+The harness generates 2048 stable cases across header parsing, encoded words,
+content-transfer decoding, multipart boundaries and nesting, accepted-message
+invariants, malformed input rejection, and parser limit policy. Conditions from
+malformed mail are counted as rejections; accepted messages must keep headers,
+bodies, content types, best-text output, and part lists structurally valid.
+
+## Caller Rules
+
+- Treat parsed HTML as text output from `mail-best-text-body`; do not render it
+  as trusted browser HTML. The required caller policy is in
+  `docs/rendering-policy.md`.
+- Treat attachment filenames, address display names, and subjects as hostile
+  strings in downstream code.
+- Keep message-body logging disabled by default in mail readers and daemons.
+- Use process, queue, and memory limits around bulk importers that parse
+  untrusted mail archives.
diff --git a/docs/release-evidence.md b/docs/release-evidence.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e556b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-evidence.md
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# jerboa-mail Release Evidence
+
+`jerboa-mail` stays private until a release candidate has current evidence for
+parser hardening, regression coverage, reproducibility, and external review.
+
+Run from a clean checkout:
+
+```sh
+make clean
+make release-evidence JERBUILD=/path/to/jerbuild
+```
+
+The `release-evidence` target runs `make verify` first, then writes untracked
+artifacts under `dist/release-evidence/`:
+
+- `git-commit.txt` and `git-status.txt`.
+- `build-environment.txt` with OS and Jerboa toolchain identity when available.
+- `dependency-audit.txt` documenting the absence of native, Rust, or external
+  package dependencies.
+- `release-inputs-sha256.txt` for the release gate, security profile, policy,
+  and hardening documentation.
+- `source-sha256.txt` for parser and test source.
+- `corpus-smoke.txt` with safe public malformed-message corpus results.
+- `fuzz-evidence.txt` with deterministic hostile-input parser property results.
+- `rendering-policy.txt` with required caller HTML/rendering policy markers.
+- `sbom/` with source, corpus, release-input, and no-native-dependency
+  provenance.
+- `reproducibility/` with two repeated local parser evidence passes and
+  `result.txt`.
+
+For a release candidate, archive those files with the exact Jerboa toolchain
+used to run the tests. Reproducibility is claimed only when
+`reproducibility/result.txt` records matching `source_status`,
+`corpus_status`, `release_inputs_status`, `test_output_status`,
+`corpus_smoke_status`, `fuzz_evidence_status`, and overall `status`.
+
+The external review packet must include this file, `SECURITY.md`,
+`docs/threat-model.md`, `docs/parser-hardening.md`,
+`docs/rendering-policy.md`, the safe malformed-message corpus under
+`corpus/mail/`, `dist/release-evidence/fuzz-evidence.txt`, and any accepted
+parser-limit or rendering risks.
diff --git a/docs/rendering-policy.md b/docs/rendering-policy.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e621cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/rendering-policy.md
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# jerboa-mail Rendering Policy
+
+`jerboa-mail` parses mail. It does not sanitize, render, trust, rewrite, or
+store message content for user interfaces. Every caller that displays parser
+output must choose a rendering policy for its own sink before treating decoded
+headers, bodies, filenames, links, or MIME metadata as displayable content.
+
+Required release markers:
+
+- `rendering_policy_status: documented`
+- `html_rendering_status: hostile-text-only`
+- `sanitizer_status: caller-required-before-html-rendering`
+- `url_policy_status: caller-validated-before-linking`
+- `attachment_filename_status: caller-validated-before-use`
+- `logging_status: body-redaction-required`
+
+## Parser Output
+
+The following values are hostile strings even after successful parsing:
+
+- HTML MIME bodies and any text returned by `mail-best-text-body`.
+- Subjects, display names, addresses, and message IDs.
+- Attachment filenames, MIME boundary strings, content descriptions, and media
+  type parameters.
+- Links, image sources, forms, CSS, scripts, inline event handlers, and
+  `cid:` references found inside body text.
+
+The parser may decode transfer encodings and MIME structure, but decoding is
+not validation. Parsed output must remain data until a caller escapes or
+sanitizes it for a specific destination.
+
+## Caller Rules
+
+- Text UI and terminal callers must escape or strip control characters before
+  display.
+- HTML/browser callers must either render parsed HTML as inert text or pass it
+  through a reviewed sanitizer that removes active content, remote loads,
+  unsafe URLs, forms, scripts, styles, event handlers, and dangerous attributes.
+- Indexers must store raw and rendered text in separate fields so search output
+  cannot accidentally become trusted HTML.
+- Mail daemons and background importers must not log message bodies or full
+  header values by default. Diagnostic logging must redact body text, private
+  addresses, and operational paths.
+- Attachment filenames must be treated as labels only. Filesystem callers must
+  replace or validate names against their own path policy before writing files.
+- URL extraction callers must reject unsupported schemes, local/private network
+  targets where applicable, userinfo, embedded credentials, and rewritten or
+  redirected destinations that do not pass the same policy.
+
+## Release Use
+
+Any `jerboa*` app that renders mail content must name its concrete rendering
+sink and sanitizer/escaping policy in its own security docs. A library release
+of `jerboa-mail` may ship with this policy as caller guidance, but an
+application release cannot claim safe HTML rendering based on this parser
+alone.
diff --git a/docs/threat-model.md b/docs/threat-model.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b5b715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/threat-model.md
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# jerboa-mail Threat Model
+
+Status: private/experimental until the parser release gates in
+`~/Release-plan.md` and `~/mine/jerboa-production-readiness.md` are complete.
+
+## Scope
+
+`jerboa-mail` is a pure Scheme library for RFC 5322 header/body splitting,
+header unfolding, RFC 2047 encoded-word decoding, content-transfer decoding,
+simple MIME tree construction, and best-effort text body selection. It does not
+open files, make network connections, invoke shell commands, load dynamic
+libraries, or store credentials.
+
+## Assets
+
+- Message bodies, headers, addresses, subjects, and attachment metadata passed
+  in by callers.
+- Availability of mail readers, importers, indexers, and daemons that call the
+  parser on hostile mail.
+- Parser configuration limits used by those callers.
+
+## Trust Boundaries
+
+- Raw message strings are hostile input.
+- Header, MIME boundary, encoded-word, base64, and quoted-printable payloads
+  cross parser boundaries.
+- Callers decide how parsed text is stored, logged, rendered, or indexed.
+
+## Threat Actors
+
+- Remote senders attempting parser crashes, CPU exhaustion, memory exhaustion,
+  pathological multipart nesting, unbounded header unfolding, oversized encoded
+  payloads, or malformed boundary handling.
+- Local operators accidentally using parser output as trusted HTML, a trusted
+  filename, or a safe log string.
+
+## Security Objectives
+
+- Keep the parser capability-free: no shell, filesystem, network, credential,
+  or FFI access in parser/test source.
+- Fail closed on over-limit messages, headers, lines, encoded payloads, MIME
+  part counts, MIME nesting, and boundary values.
+- Treat decoded HTML as text only. This library does not sanitize HTML for
+  browser display.
+- Do not log message contents, private addresses, deployment paths, or parser
+  payloads from inside the library.
+
+## Required Controls
+
+- `make verify` must pass before release.
+- `scripts/security-check.sh` must remain clean for direct Chez imports,
+  shell/process primitives, filesystem sinks, generated artifacts, FFI, stale
+  license text, and high-confidence secrets.
+- Regression tests must cover successful parsing and limit-triggering failure
+  paths for messages, headers, lines, transfer payloads, encoded-word headers,
+  MIME part counts, MIME nesting, and boundaries.
+- `make fuzz-evidence` must pass with at least 512 deterministic hostile-input
+  cases covering headers, transfer encodings, multipart handling, encoded words,
+  structural invariants, malformed input rejection, and limit policy.
+- Applications that accept arbitrary mail should lower the exported parser
+  limit parameters to match their queue and memory budgets.
+- Applications that display mail must follow `docs/rendering-policy.md`; this
+  parser does not sanitize HTML or make decoded content safe for a browser.
+
+## Open Release Gates
+
+- Extend the safe public malformed-message corpus beyond the current smoke set.
+- Keep deterministic fuzz/property evidence current, and add longer external
+  fuzzing before widening supported MIME features.
+- Keep caller-specific rendering rules current before using parsed HTML in a
+  UI.
+- Keep SBOM and repeated reproducibility evidence current for release bundles
+  that include this library.
+- Replace private reporting instructions in `SECURITY.md` with a public
+  advisory contact before public release.
diff --git a/jerboa-mail/encoding.ss b/jerboa-mail/encoding.ss
index 5678de3..d2113e7 100644
--- a/jerboa-mail/encoding.ss
+++ b/jerboa-mail/encoding.ss
@@ -3,22 +3,37 @@
 
 (library (jerboa-mail encoding)
   (export
+    mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars
+    mail-max-encoded-word-chars
     mail-base64-decode-string
     mail-quoted-printable-decode-string
     mail-transfer-decode-string
     mail-decode-encoded-words)
 
-  (import (except (chezscheme)
-                  make-hash-table hash-table?
-                  sort sort!
-                  printf fprintf
-                  path-extension path-absolute?
-                  with-input-from-string with-output-to-string
-                  iota 1+ 1-
-                  partition
-                  make-date make-time)
+  (import (scheme)
           (only (std text base64) base64-string->u8vector))
 
+  (define mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars (make-parameter (* 25 1024 1024)))
+  (define mail-max-encoded-word-chars (make-parameter 65536))
+
+  (define (limit-value who param label)
+    (let ([limit (param)])
+      (cond
+        [(not limit) #f]
+        [(and (integer? limit) (>= limit 0)) limit]
+        [else (error who
+                     (string-append label " limit must be a nonnegative integer or #f")
+                     limit)])))
+
+  (define (check-string-limit who label s param)
+    (let ([limit (limit-value who param label)]
+          [count (string-length s)])
+      (when (and limit (> count limit))
+        (error who
+               (string-append label " exceeds jerboa-mail parser limit")
+               count
+               limit))))
+
   (define (ascii-whitespace? ch)
     (or (char=? ch #\space)
         (char=? ch #\tab)
@@ -36,6 +51,10 @@
       (get-output-string out)))
 
   (define (mail-base64-decode-string s)
+    (check-string-limit 'mail-base64-decode-string
+                        "base64 payload"
+                        s
+                        mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars)
     (utf8->string (base64-string->u8vector (strip-ascii-whitespace s))))
 
   (define (hex-value ch)
@@ -49,6 +68,10 @@
       [else #f]))
 
   (define (mail-quoted-printable-decode-string s)
+    (check-string-limit 'mail-quoted-printable-decode-string
+                        "quoted-printable payload"
+                        s
+                        mail-max-transfer-encoded-chars)
     (let ([out (open-output-string)])
       (let loop ([i 0])
         (cond
@@ -139,6 +162,10 @@
         (values #f start)))
 
   (define (mail-decode-encoded-words s)
+    (check-string-limit 'mail-decode-encoded-words
+                        "encoded-word header"
+                        s
+                        mail-max-encoded-word-chars)
     (let ([out (open-output-string)])
       (let loop ([i 0])
         (cond
diff --git a/jerboa-mail/header.ss b/jerboa-mail/header.ss
index e190f12..f971c49 100644
--- a/jerboa-mail/header.ss
+++ b/jerboa-mail/header.ss
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 (library (jerboa-mail header)
   (export
+    mail-max-message-chars
+    mail-max-header-chars
+    mail-max-header-lines
+    mail-max-line-chars
     mail-split-header-body
     mail-headers-parse
     mail-header-ref
@@ -10,15 +14,56 @@
     mail-string-trim
     mail-split-lines)
 
-  (import (except (chezscheme)
-                  make-hash-table hash-table?
-                  sort sort!
-                  printf fprintf
-                  path-extension path-absolute?
-                  with-input-from-string with-output-to-string
-                  iota 1+ 1-
-                  partition
-                  make-date make-time))
+  (import (scheme))
+
+  (define mail-max-message-chars (make-parameter (* 25 1024 1024)))
+  (define mail-max-header-chars (make-parameter (* 256 1024)))
+  (define mail-max-header-lines (make-parameter 4096))
+  (define mail-max-line-chars (make-parameter 65536))
+
+  (define (mail-limit who label count limit)
+    (when (and limit (> count limit))
+      (error who
+             (string-append label " exceeds jerboa-mail parser limit")
+             count
+             limit)))
+
+  (define (limit-value who param label)
+    (let ([limit (param)])
+      (cond
+        [(not limit) #f]
+        [(and (integer? limit) (>= limit 0)) limit]
+        [else (error who
+                     (string-append label " limit must be a nonnegative integer or #f")
+                     limit)])))
+
+  (define (check-message-size who s)
+    (mail-limit who
+                "message"
+                (string-length s)
+                (limit-value who mail-max-message-chars "message")))
+
+  (define (check-header-size who n)
+    (mail-limit who
+                "header"
+                n
+                (limit-value who mail-max-header-chars "header")))
+
+  (define (check-line-size who n)
+    (mail-limit who
+                "line"
+                n
+                (limit-value who mail-max-line-chars "line")))
+
+  (define (check-header-line-count who n)
+    (mail-limit who
+                "header line count"
+                n
+                (limit-value who mail-max-header-lines "header line count")))
+
+  (define (checked-substring-line who s start end)
+    (check-line-size who (- end start))
+    (substring s start end))
 
   (define (mail-string-trim s)
     (let* ([n (string-length s)]
@@ -50,10 +95,10 @@
     (let loop ([i 0] [start 0] [acc '()])
       (cond
         [(= i (string-length s))
-         (reverse (cons (trim-cr (substring s start i)) acc))]
+         (reverse (cons (trim-cr (checked-substring-line 'mail-split-lines s start i)) acc))]
         [(char=? (string-ref s i) #\newline)
          (loop (+ i 1) (+ i 1)
-               (cons (trim-cr (substring s start i)) acc))]
+               (cons (trim-cr (checked-substring-line 'mail-split-lines s start i)) acc))]
         [else
          (loop (+ i 1) start acc)])))
 
@@ -68,19 +113,24 @@
              (char=? (string-ref s (+ i 1)) #\newline))))
 
   (define (mail-split-header-body raw)
+    (check-message-size 'mail-split-header-body raw)
     (let loop ([i 0])
       (cond
-        [(>= i (string-length raw)) (values raw "")]
+        [(>= i (string-length raw))
+         (check-header-size 'mail-split-header-body (string-length raw))
+         (values raw "")]
         [(and (< (+ i 3) (string-length raw))
               (char=? (string-ref raw i) #\return)
               (char=? (string-ref raw (+ i 1)) #\newline)
               (char=? (string-ref raw (+ i 2)) #\return)
               (char=? (string-ref raw (+ i 3)) #\newline))
+         (check-header-size 'mail-split-header-body i)