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Bridge dedup: content-derived stable mesh message ID (#1419)
* Bridge dedup keys on a content-derived stable mesh message ID Public mesh messages carry no message ID on the BLE wire, so every non-origin device minted a fresh UUID and the bridge's m-tag dedup only matched on the origin device: duplicate bridged rows, misattributed "across the bridge" counts, redundant downlink rebroadcasts, and an m-tag spoof vector (an attacker could claim a victim's message ID). Every device now derives the same stable ID from the signed wire fields (sender ID + ms timestamp + trimmed content, SHA256/32 hex) via the new MeshMessageIdentity — zero BLE wire change. The bridge event's m tag carries the origin coordinates ["m", senderIDHex, timestampMs] and receivers recompute the key from those plus the event's own content instead of trusting a claimed ID; old-format/absent tags fall back to the event ID as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Fix mixed-version message loss: m tag leads with the derived stable ID The previous layout (["m", senderIDHex, timestampMs]) broke v1.7.0 receivers: their parser takes m[1] unconditionally as the timeline dedup key whenever the tag has >= 2 elements, so every bridged message from a new-version sender keyed on the CONSTANT sender hex and inject-dedup dropped all but the first. The tag is now ["m", <derived stable ID>, senderIDHex, timestampMs]: old parsers get a per-message-unique m[1] (exactly today's semantics), while the new parser recomputes the ID from elements 2-3 plus the event's own content and never trusts element 1, keeping the recompute-don't-trust property. Also: - Soften the overstated security claim in MeshMessageIdentity and the BridgeService classify comment: forging a chosen ID onto different content is infeasible, but all three hash inputs are cleartext on the radio, so identical-content front-running by a radio-local attacker remains possible (no worse than the unbridged mesh). - Fix the stale archivedEchoKeys rationale: re-synced copies of others' messages now carry the derived stable ID (insert-by-ID catches them); the content key remains for echo--prefixed archive rows + self echoes. - Tests: old-parser semantics on the new tag (m[1] per-message-unique and equal to the derived ID) and a forged-m[1] event that cannot pre-poison a genuine message's dedup slot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// MeshMessageIdentity.swift
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// bitchat
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//
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// This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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// For more information, see <https://unlicense.org>
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//
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import BitFoundation
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import Foundation
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/// Content-derived identity for public mesh messages.
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///
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/// The BLE wire carries no message ID for public broadcasts, so every device
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/// recomputes the same stable ID from the signed wire fields (sender ID,
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/// millisecond timestamp, content). That gives the mesh bridge a
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/// cross-device-consistent dedup/attribution key with zero wire change — and
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/// because receivers derive the key themselves instead of trusting a claimed
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/// ID, forging a bridge tag that binds a chosen ID to *different* content is
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/// infeasible. The inputs are cleartext on the radio, though: an attacker in
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/// radio range can re-sign the identical sender/timestamp/content under
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/// their own Nostr key and win first-wins injection on remote islands —
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/// duplicate-content spoofing the unbridged mesh already permits, so no
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/// worse than before.
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enum MeshMessageIdentity {
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/// Matches the wire truncation in `BLEService.sendMessage`.
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static func millisecondTimestamp(_ date: Date) -> UInt64 {
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UInt64(date.timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000)
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}
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static func stableID(senderIDHex: String, timestampMs: UInt64, content: String) -> String {
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let input = senderIDHex.lowercased() + "|" + String(timestampMs) + "|" + content.trimmed
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return String(Data(input.utf8).sha256Hex().prefix(32))
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}
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}
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