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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//
// SyncTypeFlagsGroupTests.swift
// bitchat
//
// Wire-compat proof for the groupMessage sync bit (bit 10): the types
// bitfield widens from 1 to 2 bytes, and clients that don't know the bit
// simply ignore it.
//
// This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
// For more information, see <https://unlicense.org>
//
import Foundation
import Testing
import BitFoundation
@testable import bitchat
struct SyncTypeFlagsGroupTests {
@Test func groupMessageOccupiesBitTen() {
#expect(SyncTypeFlags.groupMessage.rawValue == 1 << 10)
#expect(SyncTypeFlags.groupMessage.contains(.groupMessage))
#expect(!SyncTypeFlags.publicMessages.contains(.groupMessage))
}
@Test func extendedBitfieldWidensToTwoBytes() throws {
// Legacy flags fit one byte
#expect(SyncTypeFlags.publicMessages.toData() == Data([0x03]))
// the group bit widens the little-endian encoding to two bytes.
let combined = SyncTypeFlags.publicMessages.union(.groupMessage)
let encoded = try #require(combined.toData())
#expect(encoded == Data([0x03, 0x04]))
let decoded = try #require(SyncTypeFlags.decode(encoded))
#expect(decoded == combined)
#expect(Set(decoded.toMessageTypes()) == Set([.announce, .message, .groupMessage]))
}
@Test func unknownBitsAreIgnoredNotRejected() throws {
// An "old client" reading a 2-byte field keeps the raw bits but maps
// unknown bit indices to no message type it answers with the types
// it knows instead of dropping the request.
let futuristic = try #require(SyncTypeFlags.decode(Data([0x03, 0xFC])))
#expect(Set(futuristic.toMessageTypes()) == Set([.announce, .message, .groupMessage]))
#expect(futuristic.contains(.announce))
#expect(futuristic.contains(.message))
}
@Test func requestSyncPacketRoundTripsGroupFlag() throws {
let types = SyncTypeFlags.publicMessages.union(.groupMessage)
let packet = RequestSyncPacket(p: 8, m: 1024, data: Data([0xAB, 0xCD]), types: types)
let encoded = packet.encode()
let decoded = try #require(RequestSyncPacket.decode(from: encoded))
#expect(decoded.types == types)
#expect(decoded.types?.contains(.groupMessage) == true)
#expect(decoded.p == 8)
#expect(decoded.m == 1024)
#expect(decoded.data == Data([0xAB, 0xCD]))
}
}