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Gate connected-link trust on a secure session; deny forged direct announces the connected shortcut
Residual gap after the rotation-heal containment (#1401): "verified direct" announces prove the signature but not directness — TTL is unsigned — so a malicious connected peer can replay a victim's fresh announce with its TTL restored. When the victim has no live link, the replayer's link rebinds to the victim's ID and reads as "connected", and MessageRouter's connected fast-path then trusts it outright: every DM stalls on a Noise handshake the replayer can never complete and is silently lost while showing "sent". Router-level trust gate (no wire change): - Transport gains canDeliverSecurely(to:) — BLE answers with an established Noise session; Nostr keeps its prompt-delivery predicate; the protocol default forwards to canDeliverPromptly for transports without a forgeable link layer. - MessageRouter.sendPrivate only trusts a connected link outright when it can deliver securely; otherwise it still sends (kicking the handshake on a genuine link) but retains a copy and hands a sealed copy to couriers, like the reachable path. flushOutbox gets the same gate so a flush over an insecure link resends instead of dropping the retained copy. Presence hardening (defense in depth): a "direct" announce arriving on a link already bound to a different peer no longer shortcuts the claimed peer into "connected" — only real link state does. Genuine first-contact and direct announces are unaffected; only the ambiguous heal path loses the forgeable shortcut. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -316,6 +316,76 @@ struct MessageRouterTests {
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#expect(couriers.contains(favorite))
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}
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/// Residual gap after the rotation-heal containment: a replayed "direct"
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/// announce (TTL is unsigned) can bind an absent victim's peer ID to the
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/// replayer's link, leaving the victim "connected" on a link whose Noise
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/// handshake can never complete. The connected fast-path must not trust
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/// that outright: the send still goes out (a genuine link finishes the
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/// handshake), but a copy is retained and a sealed copy goes to couriers
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/// so nothing is silently lost.
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@Test @MainActor
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func sendPrivate_connectedWithoutSecureSessionRetainsAndDepositsWithCourier() async {
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let victim = PeerID(str: "00000000000000aa")
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let victimKey = Data(repeating: 0xBB, count: 32)
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let courier = PeerID(str: "00000000000000cc")
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let courierKey = Data(repeating: 0xCC, count: 32)
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let transport = MockTransport()
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transport.connectedPeers.insert(victim)
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transport.connectedPeers.insert(courier)
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transport.securePeers = [] // no established Noise session with anyone
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transport.updatePeerSnapshots([Self.snapshot(courier, key: courierKey, verified: true)])
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let router = MessageRouter(
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transports: [transport],
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courierDirectory: Self.directory(recipient: victim, recipientKey: victimKey)
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)
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router.sendPrivate("Hello", to: victim, recipientNickname: "Peer", messageID: "cs1")
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// The send is still attempted (it kicks the handshake on a genuine
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// link) but not trusted outright: a courier gets a sealed copy now …
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#expect(transport.sentPrivateMessages.map(\.messageID) == ["cs1"])
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#expect(transport.sentCourierMessages.count == 1)
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#expect(transport.sentCourierMessages.first?.messageID == "cs1")
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#expect(transport.sentCourierMessages.first?.recipientNoiseKey == victimKey)
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#expect(transport.sentCourierMessages.first?.couriers == [courier])
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// … and the retained copy keeps flushing until a delivery ack — a
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// flush over the insecure link must resend without dropping it.
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router.flushOutbox(for: victim)
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router.flushOutbox(for: victim)
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#expect(transport.sentPrivateMessages.count == 3)
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router.markDelivered("cs1")
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router.flushOutbox(for: victim)
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#expect(transport.sentPrivateMessages.count == 3)
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}
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/// With an established secure session the connected fast-path stays
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/// exactly as before: trusted outright, no retained copy, no courier.
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@Test @MainActor
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func sendPrivate_connectedWithSecureSessionIsTrustedOutright() async {
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let peerID = PeerID(str: "00000000000000ab")
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let peerKey = Data(repeating: 0xAB, count: 32)
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let courier = PeerID(str: "00000000000000cc")
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let transport = MockTransport()
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transport.connectedPeers.insert(peerID)
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transport.connectedPeers.insert(courier)
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transport.securePeers = [peerID]
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transport.updatePeerSnapshots([Self.snapshot(courier, key: Data(repeating: 0xCC, count: 32), verified: true)])
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let router = MessageRouter(
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transports: [transport],
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courierDirectory: Self.directory(recipient: peerID, recipientKey: peerKey)
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)
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router.sendPrivate("Hello", to: peerID, recipientNickname: "Peer", messageID: "cs2")
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#expect(transport.sentPrivateMessages.map(\.messageID) == ["cs2"])
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#expect(transport.sentCourierMessages.isEmpty)
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router.flushOutbox(for: peerID)
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#expect(transport.sentPrivateMessages.count == 1)
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}
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@Test @MainActor
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func courierBecameAvailable_retriesDepositOnceWithoutDoubleBurn() async {
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let recipient = PeerID(str: "00000000000000aa")
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