Gateway mode: opt-in mesh↔Nostr uplink for geohash channels (#1384)

* 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>

* Gateway mode: opt-in mesh↔Nostr uplink for geohash channels

An opt-in "internet gateway" toggle lets one connected phone bridge the
local geohash channel for mesh-only peers: signed kind-20000 events ride
a new nostrCarrier (0x28) packet — directed to the gateway for uplink,
broadcast with TTL for downlink — with Schnorr verification at every
hop, CourierStore-style quotas, and explicit loop-prevention rules.

- BitFoundation: MessageType.nostrCarrier = 0x28
- NostrCarrierPacket: 2-byte-length TLV codec (direction, geohash,
  signed event JSON), 16 KiB cap, tolerant decoder
- GatewayService: closure-injected policy layer — verify gates (sig,
  kind, #g tag, age, size), uplink quotas (10/min/depositor rate limit,
  offline queue of 20 total / 5 per depositor, drop-oldest, flush on
  reconnect), downlink budget (30/min, bounded drop-oldest backlog),
  bounded loop-prevention ID sets
- BLEService: runtime capability bits (advertise .gateway only while
  the toggle is on, re-announce on change), signed directed uplink
  sends, carrier ingress with depositor signature verification
- Mesh-only senders uplink automatically from sendGeohash when no relay
  is connected and a reachable peer advertises .gateway; once-per-
  channel "sent via mesh gateway" notice
- UI: gateway toggle beside the Tor toggle, globe header indicator,
  VoiceOver labels, xcstrings entries

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

* Gateway: harden downlink freshness, uplink verify ordering, and drain

Fixes the confirmed downlink/uplink defects from the PR #1384 review +
Codex findings:

- Downlink age + #g gate (Codex P2 / review #1): rebroadcastRelayEvent
  now drops events outside the same freshness window receivers enforce
  and whose #g tag mismatches the carrier geohash, BEFORE spending any
  budget — so a 1h/200-event channel-resubscribe backfill no longer
  burns the 30/min BLE budget on events every receiver drops.
- Rate-limit + dedup before Schnorr (review #2): handleUplinkDeposit now
  runs cheap structural checks + carried-ID dedup + rate-token consume
  before isValidSignature(), so a replay flood is bounded by cheap work
  instead of unbounded main-actor verifies.
- Quota-dropped deposits not rendered (review #3): enqueueUplink reports
  acceptance and injectInbound only fires for events actually
  published/queued, ending the local-timeline divergence.
- Drain timer + mark-after-send (Codex P2 / review #4): a burst beyond
  budget now arms a timer to drain when the window frees; rebroadcast
  IDs are marked only after an event is actually sent, so overflow-
  dropped events stay retryable.
- Symmetric publish path (review #5): the gateway publish closure now
  refuses when no geo relay is known, matching the local send path
  instead of publishing dead traffic to default relays.
- Loop-rule doc (review #7): softened to reflect that rule 3 is a
  call-site convention with unit-tested backstops; added tests for the
  publishedEventIDs backstop, downlink freshness/mismatch, drain timer,
  and quota-drop non-injection.

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

* Gateway: stop self-echo of uplinked events onto the mesh

Every event a gateway uplinks to the relays comes back through its own
geohash subscription. `rebroadcastRelayEvent` deduped against
`meshBroadcastEventIDs`, `rebroadcastEventIDs`, and `pendingDownlinks`,
but not `publishedEventIDs` — so an event this gateway just published
was downlink-rebroadcast onto the same mesh it originated from, doubling
BLE airtime per uplinked message and able to starve the 30/min downlink
budget on a busy channel (device-confirmed, filed on #1384).

Fix: also skip the downlink rebroadcast when the event id is in
`publishedEventIDs`. That set is already the bounded (drop-oldest,
capacity maxTrackedEventIDs) loop-rule-2 uplink cache, populated only by
`publish()`, so genuine inbound-from-internet events (never published
here) still rebroadcast normally. Reconciles cleanly with the existing
loop-prevention sets — no new state.

Adds a GatewayServiceTests case asserting an uplinked event that echoes
back via the subscription is not rebroadcast, while a genuine inbound
event still is.

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 2360140760
commit d4f0c49787
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@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ final class BLEService: NSObject {
// Local-only store-and-forward counters; nil in unit tests.
var sfMetrics: StoreAndForwardMetrics?
// Gateway mode: sink for received nostrCarrier packets (set by app
// wiring, called on the main actor after transport-level checks) and the
// runtime-toggled capability bits ORed into `PeerCapabilities.localSupported`
// for every announce. `directedToUs` distinguishes an uplink deposit
// addressed to this device from a downlink broadcast.
var onNostrCarrierPacket: (@MainActor (_ payload: Data, _ from: PeerID, _ directedToUs: Bool) -> Void)?
private var runtimeCapabilities: PeerCapabilities = [] // collectionsQueue
#if DEBUG
// Test-only tap on the outbound pipeline so multi-node tests can ferry
// packets between in-process service instances.
@@ -638,6 +646,32 @@ final class BLEService: NSObject {
collectionsQueue.sync { peerRegistry.capabilities(for: peerID) }
}
/// Enables or disables a runtime-advertised capability bit (e.g. the
/// internet-gateway toggle) and re-announces so peers learn promptly.
/// Build-time bits stay in `PeerCapabilities.localSupported`.
func setLocalCapability(_ capability: PeerCapabilities, enabled: Bool) {
let changed: Bool = collectionsQueue.sync(flags: .barrier) {
let before = runtimeCapabilities
if enabled {
runtimeCapabilities.insert(capability)
} else {
runtimeCapabilities.remove(capability)
}
return runtimeCapabilities != before
}
guard changed else { return }
sendAnnounce(forceSend: true)
}
/// Reachable peers currently advertising the `.gateway` capability.
func reachableGatewayPeers() -> [PeerID] {
let now = Date()
return collectionsQueue.sync {
peerRegistry.peers(advertising: .gateway)
.filter { peerRegistry.isReachable($0, now: now) }
}
}
func getPeerNicknames() -> [PeerID: String] {
return collectionsQueue.sync {
peerRegistry.displayNicknames(selfNickname: myNickname)
@@ -1272,16 +1306,16 @@ final class BLEService: NSObject {
let noisePub = noiseService.getStaticPublicKeyData() // For noise handshakes and peer identification
let signingPub = noiseService.getSigningPublicKeyData() // For signature verification
let connectedPeerIDs: [Data] = collectionsQueue.sync {
peerRegistry.connectedRoutingData
let (connectedPeerIDs, advertisedCapabilities): ([Data], PeerCapabilities) = collectionsQueue.sync {
(peerRegistry.connectedRoutingData, PeerCapabilities.localSupported.union(runtimeCapabilities))
}
let announcement = AnnouncementPacket(
nickname: myNickname,
noisePublicKey: noisePub,
signingPublicKey: signingPub,
directNeighbors: connectedPeerIDs,
capabilities: PeerCapabilities.localSupported
capabilities: advertisedCapabilities
)
guard let payload = announcement.encode() else {
@@ -2762,6 +2796,81 @@ extension BLEService {
}
}
// MARK: Gateway carrier (nostrCarrier)
/// Sign and send an encoded `toGateway` carrier payload directed at a
/// gateway peer. The packet is signed so the gateway can key its uplink
/// quotas to an authenticated depositor; the carried Nostr event has its
/// own Schnorr signature for content authenticity. Returns false when
/// the gateway is not reachable or signing fails.
func sendNostrCarrier(_ payload: Data, to gatewayPeer: PeerID) -> Bool {
guard isPeerReachable(gatewayPeer) else { return false }
let packet = BitchatPacket(
type: MessageType.nostrCarrier.rawValue,
senderID: myPeerIDData,
recipientID: Data(hexString: gatewayPeer.id),
timestamp: UInt64(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000),
payload: payload,
signature: nil,
ttl: messageTTL
)
guard let signed = noiseService.signPacket(packet) else { return false }
messageQueue.async { [weak self] in
// broadcastPacket applies a known route when one exists and
// otherwise floods the directed packet like a DM, so a gateway
// that is reachable but multi-hop still gets the deposit.
self?.broadcastPacket(signed)
}
return true
}
/// Broadcast an encoded `fromGateway` carrier payload on the mesh with
/// the default TTL. Unsigned at the packet layer receivers verify the
/// carried event's own Schnorr signature.
func broadcastNostrCarrier(_ payload: Data) {
let packet = BitchatPacket(
type: MessageType.nostrCarrier.rawValue,
senderID: myPeerIDData,
recipientID: nil,
timestamp: UInt64(Date().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000),
payload: payload,
signature: nil,
ttl: messageTTL
)
messageQueue.async { [weak self] in
self?.broadcastPacket(packet)
}
}
/// Transport-level handling for a received nostrCarrier packet; policy
/// (verification of the carried event, quotas, loop prevention) lives in
/// `GatewayService` behind `onNostrCarrierPacket`.
private func handleNostrCarrier(_ packet: BitchatPacket, from peerID: PeerID) {
let senderID = PeerID(hexData: packet.senderID)
let directedToUs: Bool
if let recipientID = packet.recipientID {
// Carriers addressed elsewhere ride the generic relay path untouched.
guard recipientID == myPeerIDData else { return }
// Uplink deposit: quotas are keyed by the depositor, so the
// packet signature must verify against the sender's announced
// signing key. Unlike courier deposits the depositor may be
// multi-hop away, so ingress-link identity is not required.
let signingKey = collectionsQueue.sync { peerRegistry.info(for: senderID)?.signingPublicKey }
guard let signingKey,
noiseService.verifyPacketSignature(packet, publicKey: signingKey) else {
SecureLogger.debug("🌐 nostrCarrier uplink from \(senderID.id.prefix(8))… rejected (missing/invalid packet signature)", category: .security)
return
}
directedToUs = true
} else {
directedToUs = false
}
let payload = packet.payload
notifyUI { [weak self] in
self?.onNostrCarrierPacket?(payload, senderID, directedToUs)
}
}
// MARK: Link capability snapshots (thread-safe via bleQueue)
private func readLinkState<T>(_ body: (BLELinkStateStore) -> T) -> T {
@@ -3269,6 +3378,8 @@ extension BLEService {
case .boardPost:
// Invalid or deleted posts must not spread; skip the relay step.
guard handleBoardPost(packet, from: senderID) else { return }
case .nostrCarrier:
handleNostrCarrier(packet, from: peerID)
case .leave:
handleLeave(packet, from: senderID)