Private groups: creator-managed encrypted group chat over the mesh

Small encrypted crews (hard cap 16) between public broadcast and 1:1 DMs:

Protocol
- MessageType.groupMessage = 0x25: broadcast packets with a cleartext
  16-byte group ID + epoch, ChaCha20-Poly1305 ciphertext (epoch bound as
  AEAD AAD), inner Ed25519 sender signature over
  "bitchat-group-msg-v1"|groupID|messageID|timestamp|content
- NoisePayloadType.groupInvite = 0x06 / .groupKeyUpdate = 0x07:
  creator-signed group state (key, epoch, roster) 1:1 over Noise; signature
  over "bitchat-group-v1"|groupID|epoch|key-hash|roster-hash and the Noise
  session peer must BE the creator
- SyncTypeFlags bit 10 (groupMessage): variable-length LE bitfield widens
  1 -> 2 bytes inside the length-prefixed REQUEST_SYNC TLV; old clients
  ignore unknown bits and answer with types they know
- PeerCapabilities.localSupported now advertises .groups

Storage
- GroupStore: symmetric keys in the keychain, roster/name/epoch as
  protected JSON in Application Support; wiped in panicClearAllData()

Behavior
- Non-members relay 0x25 like any broadcast but cannot read it; group
  messages join gossip-sync backfill with the public-message window
- Receivers drop wrong-epoch envelopes, bad sender signatures, and
  senders missing from the creator-signed roster
- Fire-and-flood delivery (no per-member acks in v1)

UI
- Groups open as chat windows through the private-chat sheet (virtual
  "group_" peer IDs); groups section in the people sheet; /group
  create/invite/remove/leave/list commands; invitees get a system message
  + notification and the group appears in their people sheet

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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jack
2026-07-06 20:22:38 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 688b954fb8
commit 7ad19ab4c3
30 changed files with 2731 additions and 34 deletions
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@@ -72,15 +72,20 @@ enum NoisePayloadType: UInt8 {
case privateMessage = 0x01 // Private chat message
case readReceipt = 0x02 // Message was read
case delivered = 0x03 // Message was delivered
// Private groups (0x04/0x05 reserved by other features)
case groupInvite = 0x06 // Creator-signed group state (invite)
case groupKeyUpdate = 0x07 // Creator-signed group state (key rotation / roster update)
// Verification (QR-based OOB binding)
case verifyChallenge = 0x10 // Verification challenge
case verifyResponse = 0x11 // Verification response
var description: String {
switch self {
case .privateMessage: return "privateMessage"
case .readReceipt: return "readReceipt"
case .delivered: return "delivered"
case .groupInvite: return "groupInvite"
case .groupKeyUpdate: return "groupKeyUpdate"
case .verifyChallenge: return "verifyChallenge"
case .verifyResponse: return "verifyResponse"
}
@@ -114,6 +119,9 @@ protocol BitchatDelegate: AnyObject {
// Low-level events for better separation of concerns
func didReceiveNoisePayload(from peerID: PeerID, type: NoisePayloadType, payload: Data, timestamp: Date)
// Encrypted group broadcast (opaque envelope; decrypted by the group coordinator)
func didReceiveGroupMessage(payload: Data, timestamp: Date)
// Bluetooth state updates for user notifications
func didUpdateBluetoothState(_ state: CBManagerState)
func didReceivePublicMessage(from peerID: PeerID, nickname: String, content: String, timestamp: Date, messageID: String?)
@@ -133,6 +141,10 @@ extension BitchatDelegate {
// Default empty implementation
}
func didReceiveGroupMessage(payload: Data, timestamp: Date) {
// Default empty implementation
}
func didReceivePublicMessage(from peerID: PeerID, nickname: String, content: String, timestamp: Date, messageID: String?) {
// Default empty implementation
}