Prekey bundles: forward-secret async first contact for courier mail (#1381)

* 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>

* Prekey bundles: forward-secret async first contact for courier mail

Courier envelopes were sealed with one-way Noise X to the recipient's
long-lived static key, so a later compromise of that key exposed every
envelope captured in transit. This adds one-time prekey bundles:

- PrekeyBundle (MessageType 0x24): 8 one-time Curve25519 public prekeys
  bound to the owner's Noise static key by an Ed25519 signature over
  "bitchat-prekey-bundle-v1" canonical bytes; gossiped mesh-wide on its
  own 60s sync round (SyncTypeFlags bit 9, 200-peer cap, 24h freshness)
  and verified against the announce-bound signing key before caching.
- Sealed envelope v2: Noise X where the responder static is the one-time
  prekey, prologue "bitchat-prekey-v1" || prekeyID. Sender identity rides
  encrypted inside and is authenticated exactly like v1 (blocked-sender
  check included). CourierEnvelope gains an optional prekeyID TLV that
  v1 decoders skip as unknown.
- Local prekeys live in the Keychain; consumed privates survive a 48h
  grace window for spray-and-wait redeliveries, then are deleted (the
  forward-secrecy clock starts at deletion). The batch tops back up and
  re-gossips when unconsumed count drops below 3, and everything is
  wiped in panic mode.
- Routing: courier sealing picks a cached verified bundle when one
  exists (one prekey per message, reused across deposit retries), with
  the advertised .prekeys capability as a veto for on-mesh peers, and
  falls back to static sealing otherwise.

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

* Prekeys: authenticate bundle packets, fix consume-republish, deflake CI

Fixes the prekey-bundle PR review + CI failure:

- CI root cause: the receive queue (mesh.message) is concurrent, so a
  gossiped prekey bundle can be processed before the announce that binds
  its owner's signing key. The old handler dropped such bundles outright,
  so under CI parallel load the bundle was permanently lost and the
  cache/gossip tests flaked (verifiedBundleEntersGossipStore,
  prekeySealedMailTravelsViaCourierAndOpens). Bundles that arrive before
  their binding are now retained per-owner (bounded) and re-attempted when
  the verified announce lands, atomically to avoid a check-then-act race.

- Authenticate the OUTER prekey-bundle packet (Codex P2 / review MEDIUM):
  require senderID == PeerID(bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey) and verify the
  packet's Ed25519 signature (covers senderID + timestamp) against the
  owner's bound signing key, in addition to the inner bundle signature.
  Stops replay under a fresh timestamp / fake senderID.

- Key the gossip prekey-bundle store/dedup by the bundle's authenticated
  identity (noiseStaticPublicKey), not the unauthenticated packet
  senderID, so one valid bundle sprayed under many fabricated sender IDs
  can't multiply entries and exhaust the 200-owner cap.

- Bump published-bundle generatedAt strictly on consume (Codex P1):
  consuming a prekey shrinks the published bundle, so it now republishes
  with a strictly newer generatedAt and re-gossips, so peers replace the
  cached copy and stop assigning the consumed ID before its 48h grace.

- Guard the panic/clear detached Application Support tree-deletes behind
  TestEnvironment.isRunningTests: the SPM test process shares that tree,
  so the wipe could land mid-test and flake file-dependent tests.

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

* Update sync tests for prekeyBundle as bit 9 / default sync round

Prekeys makes bit 9 (prekeyBundle) a known SyncTypeFlags bit and enables
a prekey sync round by default. That broke tests authored by other PRs
that assumed bit 9 was phantom or that only their own sync round fires:

- SyncTypeFlags(Board)Tests: move the "unknown bits" probes to bits 10+
  (0xFE -> 0xFC / 0xFD), since bit 9 is now assigned.
- GossipSync(Board)Tests + GossipSyncManagerTests: disable the prekey sync
  round in configs that run maintenance (as they already do for message/
  fragment/fileTransfer), so they isolate the behavior under test.

Full app suite (1301 tests) green locally via SPM.

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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//
// PrekeyBundleStore.swift
// bitchat
//
// This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
// For more information, see <https://unlicense.org>
//
import BitFoundation
import BitLogger
import Foundation
/// Signature-verified one-time prekey bundles received from other peers.
///
/// One bundle per Noise static key: a newer `generatedAt` replaces the cached
/// copy, keeping the IDs we already sealed with marked used so a prekey is
/// never reused across messages. Assignments are remembered per message ID so
/// deposit retries of the same message re-use its prekey (and its budget)
/// instead of burning a fresh one per courier.
///
/// Only public key material lives here; it persists to disk so a sender can
/// prekey-seal for recipients met long ago. Included in the panic wipe.
final class PrekeyBundleStore {
struct StoredBundle: Codable {
let noiseKey: Data
var generatedAt: UInt64
var prekeyIDs: [UInt32]
var prekeyPublicKeys: [Data]
/// IDs this device already sealed with (never reused).
var usedIDs: Set<UInt32>
/// messageID prekey ID, so re-deposits of one message share one prekey.
var assignments: [String: UInt32]
var updatedAt: Date
}
enum Limits {
static let maxPeers = 200
/// Don't seal to bundles older than this: the owner may have rotated
/// the unconsumed keys out (see `LocalPrekeyStore.Policy`).
static let maxBundleAgeForSealingSeconds: TimeInterval = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60
}
static let shared = PrekeyBundleStore()
private var bundles: [Data: StoredBundle] = [:]
private let queue = DispatchQueue(label: "chat.bitchat.prekeys.bundles")
private let fileURL: URL?
private let maxPeers: Int
private let now: () -> Date
/// - Parameter fileURL: Overrides the on-disk location (tests). Ignored
/// when `persistsToDisk` is false.
init(
persistsToDisk: Bool = true,
fileURL: URL? = nil,
maxPeers: Int = Limits.maxPeers,
now: @escaping () -> Date = Date.init
) {
self.now = now
self.maxPeers = maxPeers
self.fileURL = persistsToDisk ? (fileURL ?? Self.defaultFileURL()) : nil
loadFromDisk()
}
// MARK: - Ingest
/// Stores a bundle whose signature the caller has already verified
/// against the owner's announce-bound signing key. Returns false when an
/// equal-or-newer bundle is already cached (nothing changed).
@discardableResult
func ingest(_ bundle: PrekeyBundle) -> Bool {
guard bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey.count == PrekeyBundle.keyLength,
!bundle.prekeys.isEmpty else { return false }
return queue.sync {
if let existing = bundles[bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey],
existing.generatedAt >= bundle.generatedAt {
return false
}
let previous = bundles[bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey]
let newIDs = Set(bundle.prekeys.map(\.id))
// Keep consumption state for IDs the fresh bundle still offers
// (a top-up keeps the owner's unconsumed keys); drop the rest.
let carriedUsed = (previous?.usedIDs ?? []).intersection(newIDs)
let carriedAssignments = (previous?.assignments ?? [:]).filter { newIDs.contains($0.value) }
bundles[bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey] = StoredBundle(
noiseKey: bundle.noiseStaticPublicKey,
generatedAt: bundle.generatedAt,
prekeyIDs: bundle.prekeys.map(\.id),
prekeyPublicKeys: bundle.prekeys.map(\.publicKey),
usedIDs: carriedUsed,
assignments: carriedAssignments,
updatedAt: now()
)
enforceCapLocked()
persistLocked()
return true
}
}
// MARK: - Sealing support
/// Whether an unexpired bundle with sealable prekeys is cached for a peer.
func hasUsableBundle(for noiseKey: Data) -> Bool {
queue.sync {
guard let bundle = bundles[noiseKey], isFreshLocked(bundle) else { return false }
return bundle.usedIDs.count < bundle.prekeyIDs.count
}
}
/// The prekey to seal a message with: the message's existing assignment if
/// any (re-deposits reuse it), else the lowest unused ID, which is then
/// marked used. Nil when no fresh bundle is cached or all its prekeys are
/// spent callers fall back to static sealing.
func assignPrekey(messageID: String, recipientNoiseKey: Data) -> PrekeyBundle.Prekey? {
queue.sync {
guard var bundle = bundles[recipientNoiseKey], isFreshLocked(bundle) else { return nil }
if let assigned = bundle.assignments[messageID],
let index = bundle.prekeyIDs.firstIndex(of: assigned) {
return PrekeyBundle.Prekey(id: assigned, publicKey: bundle.prekeyPublicKeys[index])
}
guard let index = bundle.prekeyIDs.indices
.filter({ !bundle.usedIDs.contains(bundle.prekeyIDs[$0]) })
.min(by: { bundle.prekeyIDs[$0] < bundle.prekeyIDs[$1] }) else {
return nil
}
let id = bundle.prekeyIDs[index]
bundle.usedIDs.insert(id)
bundle.assignments[messageID] = id
bundle.updatedAt = now()
bundles[recipientNoiseKey] = bundle
persistLocked()
return PrekeyBundle.Prekey(id: id, publicKey: bundle.prekeyPublicKeys[index])
}
}
// MARK: - Maintenance
/// Panic wipe: drop all cached bundles from memory and disk.
func wipe() {
queue.sync {
bundles.removeAll()
if let fileURL {
try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: fileURL)
}
}
}
// MARK: - Internals (call only on `queue`)
private func isFreshLocked(_ bundle: StoredBundle) -> Bool {
let ageSeconds = now().timeIntervalSince1970 - Double(bundle.generatedAt) / 1000
return ageSeconds <= Limits.maxBundleAgeForSealingSeconds
}
private func enforceCapLocked() {
while bundles.count > maxPeers {
guard let victim = bundles.min(by: { $0.value.updatedAt < $1.value.updatedAt }) else { return }
bundles.removeValue(forKey: victim.key)
}
}
private func persistLocked() {
guard let fileURL else { return }
do {
if bundles.isEmpty {
try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: fileURL)
return
}
try FileManager.default.createDirectory(
at: fileURL.deletingLastPathComponent(),
withIntermediateDirectories: true
)
let data = try JSONEncoder().encode(Array(bundles.values))
var options: Data.WritingOptions = [.atomic]
#if os(iOS)
options.insert(.completeFileProtection)
#endif
try data.write(to: fileURL, options: options)
} catch {
SecureLogger.error("Failed to persist prekey bundle store: \(error)", category: .security)
}
}
private func loadFromDisk() {
guard let fileURL else { return }
queue.sync {
guard let data = try? Data(contentsOf: fileURL),
let stored = try? JSONDecoder().decode([StoredBundle].self, from: data) else {
return
}
for bundle in stored where bundle.prekeyIDs.count == bundle.prekeyPublicKeys.count {
bundles[bundle.noiseKey] = bundle
}
}
}
private static func defaultFileURL() -> URL? {
guard let base = try? FileManager.default.url(
for: .applicationSupportDirectory,
in: .userDomainMask,
appropriateFor: nil,
create: true
) else { return nil }
return base
.appendingPathComponent("prekeys", isDirectory: true)
.appendingPathComponent("bundles.json")
}
}