The Tor egress self-check probe had no outer bound: the proxied session
sets waitsForConnectivity = true, which can defer the per-request timer
indefinitely, leaving a canary request bounded only by URLSession's
default 7-day resource timeout. Because verify() joins concurrent
callers on the in-flight task and invalidate() neither cancelled nor
cleared it, one hung probe wedged every subsequent verify() caller --
even across a Tor restart -- parking awaitingTorForConnections in
NostrRelayManager until process restart.
Fixes (liveness only; the fail-closed policy is unchanged):
- Race every probe against an independent async watchdog
(probeTimeout, default 20s = the live probe's request timeout, via
TorEgressVerifier.defaultProbeTimeout). On timeout the probe task is
cancelled (cooperatively cancelling the underlying URLSessionTask),
the verdict is the fail-closed .unreachable, and the in-flight slot
is cleared so the next verify() starts fresh.
- invalidate() now cancels the in-flight probe and clears it (plus the
throttle timestamp it already cleared), so Tor restart/dormant/
shutdown genuinely resets the verifier.
- A probe generation counter keeps actor reentrancy safe: a cancelled/
superseded probe cannot re-seed the throttle/cache that invalidate()
just cleared or clobber a fresh probe's in-flight slot; its awaiting
callers resolve promptly as false.
Concurrent-caller join semantics are preserved (one shared probe), and
the race resolves exactly once behind an NSLock never held across an
await. Tests cover the hung-probe timeout bound, invalidate-cancels-
in-flight, post-restart recovery, and the shared-probe invariant, all
with the injected probe/clock harness (no real network).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address two review findings on the Tor egress self-check:
1. Bypass on the already-bootstrapped path: shouldWaitForTorBeforeConnecting
only checked torIsReady, so once Tor was up, connectToRelays/connectToRelay
(initial connect, reconnect backoff timers, manual retry, subscription-
triggered connects) opened relay WebSockets without ever running the egress
canary. The gate now also requires a fresh cached egress verification
(TorManager.isEgressVerified, backed by a nonisolated TTL snapshot on
TorEgressVerifier); any path lacking one queues behind awaitEgressReady().
2. unreachable canary no longer allows: an unreachable canary is exactly the
ambiguous case where we cannot tell whether the platform honored the SOCKS
proxy, so it now refuses relay connections (fail-closed) instead of
allow-with-warning. A verifiedTor verdict still allows connection opens for
its 300s TTL (a cached good verdict covers brief canary blips); after TTL
expiry or invalidate() (Tor restart/dormant/shutdown) connections stay
closed until a probe succeeds again. Probe cadence stays bounded via the
verifier's minRetryInterval, and the relay manager schedules a bounded
30s-cadence gate retry after wait-attempt exhaustion so a transient canary
outage recovers automatically (GeoRelayDirectory already retries with its
own backoff).
Tests: verifier policy (unreachable refuses, recovery via retry, cached-
within-TTL allows during blip, TTL expiry + unreachable refuses, snapshot
invalidation) and relay-manager gating (ready path awaits egress verification,
reconnect requeues behind the gate, exhaustion schedules the bounded retry and
recovers).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runtime-verified whether Apple's URLSession honors connectionProxyDictionary
SOCKS settings for Nostr relay traffic (plain HTTPS + URLSessionWebSocketTask),
since the app routes all Nostr traffic through Arti's local SOCKS5 proxy solely
via those keys and Apple does not officially support SOCKS for URLSession on iOS.
Verification harness (scripts/tor-egress-verification/): a minimal SOCKS5 CONNECT
proxy that logs arriving connections, plus a Swift probe that runs an HTTPS GET
and a WebSocket ping through a URLSession configured with the proxy dict. Result:
on macOS (kCFNetworkProxiesSOCKS* constants) and the iOS simulator (raw
"SOCKSProxy"/"SOCKSPort" string keys, the exact app path) BOTH HTTP and WebSocket
are proxied, do remote DNS through the proxy, and the proxied session is
fail-closed (every request errors when the SOCKS proxy is down). The feared
direct-egress leak did not reproduce on the tested platforms.
Defense-in-depth for the platform Apple does not guarantee (physical iOS):
add TorEgressVerifier, which performs a canary request through the proxied
session and asserts the exit is a Tor node (check.torproject.org IsTor==true),
positively detecting a direct egress even if the OS silently ignored the proxy.
Policy: verifiedTor allows (cached for a TTL); notTor refuses (leak detected,
never open relays); unreachable allows-with-warning (session stays fail-closed
by construction). Wired into TorManager.awaitEgressReady() and required by both
NostrRelayManager and GeoRelayDirectory before opening connections. Cache is
invalidated on Tor restart/dormant/shutdown. Never falls back to a direct
connection.
Probe is injected so the policy/caching is unit-tested offline; the live-network
harness lives under scripts/ and is not run by CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Centralize UI theme colors into semantic ThemePalette tokens
Introduce AppTheme/ThemePalette (Utils/Theme.swift) with an environment
key and @ThemedPalette property wrapper, persisted via @AppStorage.
Views now resolve background/primary/secondary/accentBlue/alertRed/
divider tokens from the environment instead of computing colors inline,
removing the backgroundColor/textColor/secondaryTextColor prop-drilling
through the header, composer, and people-sheet hierarchy.
Matrix theme output is pixel-identical; this is groundwork for a
user-selectable theme switcher.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Add liquid glass theme with in-app appearance switcher
Add a .liquidGlass AppTheme alongside the matrix terminal theme,
selectable from a one-line APPEARANCE row in the app info sheet
(persisted via @AppStorage, applies live).
Liquid glass renders system fonts and colors over a subtle gradient
backdrop, with the header and composer floating as Liquid Glass panels
(real .glassEffect() on iOS/macOS 26, compiler-gated with an
ultraThinMaterial fallback for older SDKs). The message list scrolls
underneath the chrome via safe-area insets, and all sheets share the
same backdrop and surface language. The matrix theme is unchanged.
Details:
- Theme is threaded through ChatMessageFormatter so message
AttributedStrings switch font design per theme; the per-message
format cache gains a variant key so themes never serve each other's
cached strings
- New palette tokens: accent (interactive tint) and locationAccent
(geohash green), replacing scattered hardcoded greens/blues in the
voice note, waveform, verification, and people-sheet views
- Header controls get full-height tap targets and the people count
becomes a real Button (previously a tap gesture on the cluster)
- CommandSuggestionsView renders nothing when empty instead of a
zero-height view that pushed the composer input off-center
- New appearance strings localized for all 29 catalog languages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Production builds previously still emitted info/warning/error entries
via os_log (content private-redacted, but entries, categories, and
timing metadata were visible, and message strings were constructed).
For a privacy-first app the right posture is silence: every SecureLogger
wrapper and both cores are now gated behind #if DEBUG, so release
builds construct no log strings and emit nothing. Debug builds are
unchanged (public formatting, level threshold via BITCHAT_LOG_LEVEL).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SecureLogger's public wrappers evaluated their message autoclosure before
the level check inside log(), so every filtered debug message across the
codebase still paid for string interpolation - hundreds of call sites on
the per-packet/per-event hot paths. The wrappers now guard the level
first, and debug() compiles out of release builds entirely. Regression
tests verify filtered messages are never constructed.
The two heaviest per-event debug logs (NostrRelayManager inbound events,
ChatNostrCoordinator geo events) are now sampled every 100th with a
running count, so debug-enabled dev builds stop emitting hundreds of
lines per minute in busy geohashes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Vendored arti.xcframework rebuilt from source (Rust 1.96.0, normalized
archive metadata for reproducible hashes). New ARTI-BINARY-PROVENANCE.md
records toolchain, rebuild steps, and a SHA256 manifest for every file
in the xcframework. A new CI workflow turns that policy into a gate:
PRs must keep the binary matching the manifest, and binary changes must
ship with source/lockfile/build-script evidence.
Also raises TorManager.awaitReady's default timeout from 25s to 75s to
match the bootstrap monitor deadline - a shorter wait reported "not
ready" while Arti was still legitimately bootstrapping, silently
stranding queued relay work.
Privacy policy, Tor integration doc, and privacy assessment updated to
match the current implementation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: Implement Request Sync Manager (V2 Sync)
- Add RequestSyncManager to track and attribute sync requests
- Update BitchatPacket and BinaryProtocol to support IS_RSR flag (0x10)
- Update RequestSyncPacket with new TLV fields (sinceTimestamp, fragmentIdFilter)
- Update GossipSyncManager to use unicast sync requests and mark responses as RSR
- Update BLEService to enforce timestamp validation for normal packets and exempt valid RSRs
- Add documentation for the new sync manager mechanism
* fix: Resolve compilation errors in V2 Sync implementation
- Remove duplicate restartGossipManager in BLEService
- Add missing TransportConfig constants for sync
- Add 'sync' log category to BitLogger
- Add missing BitLogger import in GossipSyncManager
* fix: Update tests for V2 Sync changes
- Add requestSyncManager parameter to GossipSyncManager init in tests
- Implement getConnectedPeers stub in RecordingDelegate
- Remove unused variable warning in SubscriptionRateLimitTests
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Co-authored-by: jack <212554440+jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Arti's dormant/wake FFI functions are no-op stubs that don't actually
implement dormant mode. The app was wasting 2.5-12 seconds trying to
wake from a dormant state that doesn't exist before falling back to
a full restart.
This change:
- Removes wakeFromDormant() call and function
- Simplifies goDormantOnBackground() to just mark state as not ready
- Goes straight to restartArti() on foreground, eliminating the delay
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace C Tor (0.4.8.21) with Rust Arti (1.9.0/arti-client 0.38)
- 70% smaller binary: 21MB xcframework vs 67MB (6.9MB vs 14MB per slice)
- Memory-safe Rust implementation with modern async (tokio)
- Same SOCKS5 proxy interface at 127.0.0.1:39050 for drop-in compatibility
- FFI wrapper (arti-bitchat crate) with C-compatible exports
- Swift TorManager maintains identical public API
- Aggressive size optimization: opt-level=z, lto=fat, panic=abort, strip
- Supports iOS device, iOS simulator (Apple Silicon), and macOS
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Include the build-minimal.sh script alongside BITCHAT_TOR.md so future
rebuilds can be done directly from the bitchat repo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Extract Tor into a separate module
* Add Tor package as a dependency for iOS & macOS targets
* Move `tor-nolzma.xcframework` inside Tor
* Remove `libz` from Frameworks as its linked in Tor
* Remove stray `.gitkeep` from macOS target membership
* Fix missing import and access control for modularized Tor
- Add import Tor to NetworkActivationService
- Make TorManager.shutdownCompletely() public for external access
* Fix tor-nolzma.xcframework structure for Xcode builds
- Add missing Info.plist files to all framework slices
- Restructure macOS framework to use deep bundle format (Versions/)
- Keep iOS frameworks as shallow bundles (standard for iOS)
This fixes the Xcode build errors while maintaining SPM compatibility.
* Remove stale xcframework references from Xcode project
Xcode cleaned up old direct references to tor-nolzma.xcframework
since it's now managed internally by the Tor Swift package.
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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>