Private groups: creator-managed encrypted group chat over the mesh (#1383)

* Add capability bits to announce TLV

Announces now carry an optional capabilities TLV (0x05): a little-endian
bitfield with named bits for upcoming features (prekeys, wifiBulk,
gateway, groups, board, vouch, meshDiagnostics). Old clients skip the
unknown TLV; peers without it decode as nil so features can distinguish
"legacy peer" from "advertises nothing".

PeerCapabilities lives in BitFoundation with a minimal-length encoding
that preserves unknown bits for forward compatibility. Peer capabilities
are stored in the BLE peer registry on verified announce and exposed via
BLEService.peerCapabilities(_:). The local advertisement set is empty
until each feature ships its bit.

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

* 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>

* Private groups: fix TLV truncation, roster downgrade, removal notice, block, media, signable bytes

Addresses the Codex review and adversarial-review findings on #1383:

- TLV encoding now throws GroupTLVError.valueTooLong instead of clamping to
  65535 and truncating, so an oversize group message fails to seal and
  surfaces send_failed rather than shipping ciphertext recipients drop.
- Roster nicknames truncate on a Character boundary (never mid-scalar), so a
  multi-byte nickname can no longer make the whole signed roster undecodable.
- Invites now bump the epoch (rotate the key) like removals, giving every
  roster change a strictly-increasing epoch so out-of-order invite states no
  longer last-writer-wins a just-added member back out.
- Removing a member now sends them a creator-signed roster-without-them under
  a throwaway all-zero key (never the rotated key), so their client
  deactivates the group and surfaces "removed" instead of going silently dark.
- /block is enforced in the group receive path: a blocked member's messages
  are dropped from display and notifications, consistent with every other
  inbound path.
- Media affordances are disabled in group chats (both computed sites) so the
  composer can't strand a media placeholder that never sends; media-in-groups
  is a documented v2 item.
- Creator signature now covers the group name and the sender signature covers
  the epoch (wire-format-affecting; needs Android parity before ship).
- Explicit isGroup guard in markPrivateMessagesAsRead so read/delivered
  receipts can never leak into group conversations under a future refactor.

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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parent 87910541ef
commit 81a10f73f0
35 changed files with 2903 additions and 49 deletions
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@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
var stalePeerTimeoutSeconds: TimeInterval = 60.0
var fragmentCapacity: Int = 600
var fileTransferCapacity: Int = 200
var groupMessageCapacity: Int = 200
var fragmentSyncIntervalSeconds: TimeInterval = 30.0
var fileTransferSyncIntervalSeconds: TimeInterval = 60.0
var messageSyncIntervalSeconds: TimeInterval = 15.0
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
private var messages = PacketStore()
private var fragments = PacketStore()
private var fileTransfers = PacketStore()
private var groupMessages = PacketStore()
private var latestAnnouncementByPeer: [PeerID: BitchatPacket] = [:]
// Latest verified prekey bundle per owner. Unlike announces, bundles are
// NOT dropped on leave/stale peer: their whole purpose is reaching a
@@ -131,7 +133,13 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
)
var schedules: [SyncSchedule] = []
if config.seenCapacity > 0 && config.messageSyncIntervalSeconds > 0 {
schedules.append(SyncSchedule(types: .publicMessages, interval: config.messageSyncIntervalSeconds, lastSent: .distantPast))
// Group messages ride the public-message cadence; old clients
// ignore the extended bit and answer with announces/messages only.
var messageTypes: SyncTypeFlags = .publicMessages
if config.groupMessageCapacity > 0 {
messageTypes.formUnion(.groupMessage)
}
schedules.append(SyncSchedule(types: messageTypes, interval: config.messageSyncIntervalSeconds, lastSent: .distantPast))
}
if config.fragmentCapacity > 0 && config.fragmentSyncIntervalSeconds > 0 {
schedules.append(SyncSchedule(types: .fragment, interval: config.fragmentSyncIntervalSeconds, lastSent: .distantPast))
@@ -175,6 +183,9 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
guard let self = self else { return }
var types: SyncTypeFlags = .publicMessages
if self.config.groupMessageCapacity > 0 {
types.formUnion(.groupMessage)
}
if self.config.fragmentCapacity > 0 && self.config.fragmentSyncIntervalSeconds > 0 {
types.formUnion(.fragment)
}
@@ -201,9 +212,11 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
// messages get the long town-crier window; fragments, file transfers and
// announces keep the short one.
private func isPacketFresh(_ packet: BitchatPacket) -> Bool {
// Group messages share the whole-message window: members off the mesh
// for a while should backfill their crew's history like public chat.
let maxAgeSeconds: TimeInterval
switch packet.type {
case MessageType.message.rawValue:
case MessageType.message.rawValue, MessageType.groupMessage.rawValue:
maxAgeSeconds = config.publicMessageMaxAgeSeconds
case MessageType.prekeyBundle.rawValue:
maxAgeSeconds = config.prekeyBundleMaxAgeSeconds
@@ -262,6 +275,13 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
guard isPacketFresh(packet) else { return }
let idHex = PacketIdUtil.computeId(packet).hexEncodedString()
fileTransfers.insert(idHex: idHex, packet: packet, capacity: max(1, config.fileTransferCapacity))
case .groupMessage:
// Opaque ciphertext to non-members; carried and served like any
// other broadcast so members get backfill from any relay.
guard isBroadcastRecipient else { return }
guard isPacketFresh(packet) else { return }
let idHex = PacketIdUtil.computeId(packet).hexEncodedString()
groupMessages.insert(idHex: idHex, packet: packet, capacity: max(1, config.groupMessageCapacity))
case .prekeyBundle:
// Callers only feed verified bundles here (own bundles at send
// time, peers' after signature verification), so gossip never
@@ -454,6 +474,19 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
}
}
if requestedTypes.contains(.groupMessage) {
let groupPkts = groupMessages.allPackets(isFresh: isPacketFresh)
for pkt in groupPkts {
if let since, pkt.timestamp < since { continue }
let idBytes = PacketIdUtil.computeId(pkt)
if !mightContain(idBytes) {
var toSend = pkt
toSend.ttl = 0
toSend.isRSR = true // Mark as solicited response
delegate?.sendPacket(to: peerID, packet: toSend)
}
}
}
// Like announces, prekey bundles are exempt from the since-cursor:
// there is at most one per owner (newer replaces older), so the
// resend cost is bounded and a joining peer must be able to learn
@@ -505,6 +538,9 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
if types.contains(.fileTransfer) {
candidates.append(contentsOf: fileTransfers.allPackets(isFresh: isPacketFresh))
}
if types.contains(.groupMessage) {
candidates.append(contentsOf: groupMessages.allPackets(isFresh: isPacketFresh))
}
if types.contains(.prekeyBundle) {
for (_, pair) in latestPrekeyBundleByPeer where isPacketFresh(pair.packet) {
candidates.append(pair.packet)
@@ -574,6 +610,7 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
}
fragments.removeExpired(isFresh: isPacketFresh)
fileTransfers.removeExpired(isFresh: isPacketFresh)
groupMessages.removeExpired(isFresh: isPacketFresh)
latestPrekeyBundleByPeer = latestPrekeyBundleByPeer.filter { _, pair in
isPacketFresh(pair.packet)
}
@@ -677,6 +714,7 @@ final class GossipSyncManager {
}
fragments.remove { PeerID(hexData: $0.senderID) == peerID }
fileTransfers.remove { PeerID(hexData: $0.senderID) == peerID }
groupMessages.remove { PeerID(hexData: $0.senderID) == peerID }
}
}