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They do outline all of that, explaining how it works. The private key pair and secret are never sent to Apple. And yes, it’s end-to-end encrypted of course.
https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
Page 202 of you care to learn how it works.
Is the source code public so we can verify the implementation matches the spec?
It's not open source if that's what you mean. If you think that stops people looking at code then I'll have some of what you're smoking please.
If you're genuinely interested in how the Find My system works Here's a good paper on it. The papers publishers even have an open source tool to connect to Apples Find My network which is neat.