Expand store-and-forward: open couriers, spray-and-wait, persistent outbox, 6h public history (#1372)

Store-and-forward previously delivered to an out-of-range peer only if a
mutual favorite happened to be connected at send time and later met the
recipient directly, and everything except courier envelopes died with the
app process. This closes those gaps end to end:

- Persist the MessageRouter outbox to disk, sealed with a ChaChaPoly key
  held only in the Keychain (no plaintext at rest); queued private
  messages now survive an app kill and flush on next launch.
- Deposit retry: queued messages are re-deposited whenever a new eligible
  courier connects, tracked per message so the same courier is never
  double-burned, until 3 distinct couriers carry it or it expires.
- Tiered open couriering: signature-verified strangers can now carry mail
  (2 envelopes/depositor into a 20-slot pool) alongside mutual favorites
  (5 each); overflow evicts verified-tier mail before favorites'.
- Spray-and-wait: envelopes carry a copy budget (4, capped 8, new TLV,
  wire-compatible with old clients); couriers split half their remaining
  budget with each newly encountered courier so mail diffuses through a
  moving crowd.
- Remote handover: a verified relayed announce now floods a copy toward
  the multi-hop recipient (directed-relay treatment, 10-min per-envelope
  cooldown) while the carried original stays put for a direct encounter.
- Public history: gossip-sync window for whole public messages widened
  from 15 min to 6 h, matched on the receive-acceptance side, and the
  message store persists to disk so devices bridge partitions and
  restarts ("town crier").
- Privacy-safe local delivery counters (bare tallies, log-only) so the
  store-and-forward stack is measurable on-device.
- Panic wipe now also clears the sealed outbox, gossip archive, and
  counters.
- Rewrite WHITEPAPER.md to describe the app as implemented (Noise XX/X,
  actual flood control, courier system, gossip sync, Nostr path); the old
  document described a bloom filter, three fragment types, and a
  MessageRetryService that don't exist.

1037 macOS tests pass (17 new); iOS builds.

Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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//
// StoreAndForwardMetrics.swift
// bitchat
//
// This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
// For more information, see <https://unlicense.org>
//
import BitLogger
import Foundation
/// Privacy-safe local counters for the store-and-forward stack: bare event
/// tallies with no message IDs, peer identities, or timestamps, so delivery
/// behavior can be measured on-device without recording who talked to whom.
/// Log-only surface nothing here ever leaves the device.
final class StoreAndForwardMetrics {
enum Event: String, CaseIterable {
/// A private message entered the outbox (no prompt route available).
case outboxQueued = "outbox.queued"
/// A retained message was re-sent on a flush.
case outboxResent = "outbox.resent"
/// A delivery/read ack cleared a retained message.
case outboxDelivered = "outbox.delivered"
/// A retained message was dropped (attempt cap, TTL, or overflow).
case outboxDropped = "outbox.dropped"
/// We handed sealed mail to a courier.
case courierDeposited = "courier.deposited"
/// We accepted sealed mail to carry for a third party.
case courierAccepted = "courier.accepted"
/// We handed carried mail to its recipient over a direct link.
case courierHandedOver = "courier.handedOver"
/// We pushed carried mail toward a recipient heard via relay.
case courierRemoteHandover = "courier.remoteHandover"
/// We split spray copies to another courier.
case courierSprayed = "courier.sprayed"
/// Couriered mail addressed to us was opened and delivered.
case courierOpened = "courier.opened"
}
static let shared = StoreAndForwardMetrics()
private let lock = NSLock()
private var counts: [String: Int]
private let defaults: UserDefaults
private static let defaultsKey = "chat.bitchat.storeAndForwardMetrics"
init(defaults: UserDefaults = .standard) {
self.defaults = defaults
self.counts = defaults.dictionary(forKey: Self.defaultsKey) as? [String: Int] ?? [:]
}
func record(_ event: Event) {
lock.lock()
let total = (counts[event.rawValue] ?? 0) + 1
counts[event.rawValue] = total
defaults.set(counts, forKey: Self.defaultsKey)
lock.unlock()
SecureLogger.debug("📊 S&F \(event.rawValue)\(total)", category: .session)
}
func snapshot() -> [String: Int] {
lock.lock()
defer { lock.unlock() }
return counts
}
/// Included in the panic wipe alongside the stores it describes.
func reset() {
lock.lock()
counts = [:]
defaults.removeObject(forKey: Self.defaultsKey)
lock.unlock()
}
}