Heal peer-ID rotation: rebind link on verified announce, retire ghost peer (#1401)

* Heal peer-ID rotation: rebind link on verified announce, retire ghost

When a peer relaunches it rotates its ephemeral peer ID, but a
still-open BLE connection kept its stale peripheral/central→peerID
binding for the reachability retention window (~45-60s). Until it aged
out, the other side showed a duplicate ghost peer and dropped the
rotated peer's direct announces as spoofing attempts.

Root cause: the ingress guard rejected a direct announce whose claimed
sender differed from the link binding before signature verification
could ever see it, so the binding could never heal.

- Ingress guard: let a mismatched direct announce through, attributed
  to the claimed sender; REQUEST_SYNC keeps the strict binding check.
- Bind sites: raw (pre-verification) announces may only bind unbound
  links, never rebind bound ones — rebinding now requires the announce
  handler's signature verification to pass.
- On a verified direct announce whose ingress link is bound to a
  different peer, rebind the link to the announced ID and retire the
  rotated-away ID immediately (registry + gossip + UI), mirroring
  handleLeave.
- BLELinkStateStore.bindPeripheral: drop the previous peer's reverse
  mapping on rebind so the retired ID no longer claims the link.

Fixes #1387

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Contain forged-directness rebinds: no identity steal, per-link cooldown

The announce signature does not authenticate directness (TTL is
excluded from signing because relays mutate it), so a bound peer could
replay another peer's fresh signed announce with its TTL restored and
reach the rotation rebind path. Contain what such a replay can do:

- Refuse a rebind when the claimed identity already owns another live
  link — a replayed announce can no longer steal a connected peer's
  binding or route its directed traffic to the replaying link.
- Allow at most one rebind per link per cooldown window (60s) so two
  identities cannot fight over a link in a replay flip-flop, with each
  flip retiring the other peer.

A replay against an identity with no live link remains possible, but
that capability already exists today on unbound links, where any raw
direct announce binds pre-verification.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -203,9 +203,19 @@ final class BLELinkStateStore {
func bindPeripheral(_ peripheralUUID: String, to peerID: PeerID) {
assertOwned()
if updatePeripheral(peripheralUUID, { $0.peerID = peerID }) != nil {
peerToPeripheralUUID[peerID] = peripheralUUID
var previousPeerID: PeerID?
let updated = updatePeripheral(peripheralUUID) {
previousPeerID = $0.peerID
$0.peerID = peerID
}
guard updated != nil else { return }
// Rebinding (peer-ID rotation): drop the retired ID's reverse mapping
// so the old peer no longer claims this link.
if let previousPeerID, previousPeerID != peerID,
peerToPeripheralUUID[previousPeerID] == peripheralUUID {
peerToPeripheralUUID.removeValue(forKey: previousPeerID)
}
peerToPeripheralUUID[peerID] = peripheralUUID
}
func removePeripheral(_ peripheralID: String) -> PeerID? {