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>

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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -83,7 +83,13 @@ struct BLEPublicMessageHandlerTests {
#expect(recorder.deliveries.first?.nickname == "Alice")
#expect(recorder.deliveries.first?.content == "hello mesh")
#expect(recorder.deliveries.first?.timestamp == now)
#expect(recorder.deliveries.first?.messageID == nil)
// No message ID on the wire: the handler derives the stable one
// every device agrees on for the same sender/timestamp/content.
#expect(recorder.deliveries.first?.messageID == MeshMessageIdentity.stableID(
senderIDHex: remotePeerID.id,
timestampMs: timestamp(now),
content: "hello mesh"
))
}
@Test