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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//
// NostrCarrierPacketTests.swift
// bitchat
//
// This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
// For more information, see <https://unlicense.org>
//
import Foundation
import Testing
@testable import bitchat
@Suite("Nostr carrier packet TLV")
struct NostrCarrierPacketTests {
private func makeEvent(geohash: String = "u4pruy", content: String = "hello mesh") throws -> NostrEvent {
let identity = try NostrIdentity.generate()
return try NostrProtocol.createEphemeralGeohashEvent(
content: content,
geohash: geohash,
senderIdentity: identity,
nickname: "tester"
)
}
@Test("round-trips both directions with the signed event intact")
func roundTrip() throws {
let event = try makeEvent()
for direction in [NostrCarrierPacket.Direction.toGateway, .fromGateway] {
let packet = try #require(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: direction, geohash: "u4pruy", event: event))
let encoded = try #require(packet.encode())
let decoded = try #require(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(encoded))
#expect(decoded == packet)
#expect(decoded.direction == direction)
#expect(decoded.geohash == "u4pruy")
// The carried event survives byte-exact: same ID, and the
// signature still verifies after the mesh hop.
let carried = try #require(decoded.event())
#expect(carried.id == event.id)
#expect(carried.sig == event.sig)
#expect(carried.isValidSignature())
}
}
@Test("rejects an oversized event at construction and at decode")
func oversizedRejected() throws {
let oversized = Data(repeating: 0x7B, count: NostrCarrierPacket.maxEventJSONBytes + 1)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .toGateway, geohash: "u4pruy", eventJSON: oversized) == nil)
// Hand-build the TLV bytes to bypass the initializer's cap.
var data = Data([0x01, 0x00, 0x01, NostrCarrierPacket.Direction.toGateway.rawValue])
let geohash = Data("u4pruy".utf8)
data.append(contentsOf: [0x02, 0x00, UInt8(geohash.count)])
data.append(geohash)
data.append(contentsOf: [0x03, UInt8((oversized.count >> 8) & 0xFF), UInt8(oversized.count & 0xFF)])
data.append(oversized)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(data) == nil)
}
@Test("rejects an over-length or empty geohash")
func geohashBoundsEnforced() throws {
let event = try makeEvent()
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .toGateway, geohash: "", event: event) == nil)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .toGateway, geohash: String(repeating: "u", count: 13), event: event) == nil)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .toGateway, geohash: String(repeating: "u", count: 12), event: event) != nil)
}
@Test("skips unknown TLVs for forward compatibility")
func unknownTLVSkipped() throws {
let event = try makeEvent()
let packet = try #require(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .fromGateway, geohash: "u4pruy", event: event))
var encoded = try #require(packet.encode())
// Append an unknown TLV (type 0x7F, 2-byte value).
encoded.append(contentsOf: [0x7F, 0x00, 0x02, 0xDE, 0xAD])
let decoded = try #require(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(encoded))
#expect(decoded == packet)
}
@Test("rejects truncated and missing-field payloads")
func malformedRejected() throws {
let event = try makeEvent()
let packet = try #require(NostrCarrierPacket(direction: .toGateway, geohash: "u4pruy", event: event))
let encoded = try #require(packet.encode())
// Truncation anywhere inside the last TLV fails cleanly.
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(encoded.dropLast(1)) == nil)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(encoded.prefix(4)) == nil)
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(Data()) == nil)
// Direction TLV alone (missing geohash and event) fails.
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(Data([0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x01])) == nil)
// Unknown direction value fails.
#expect(NostrCarrierPacket.decode(Data([0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x77])) == nil)
}
}