Tier 3 of a protest-hardening review. The BLE mesh is already properly
fenced off from network reachability and needs nothing here; every gap is
on the internet side, or in how someone gets a build they can trust.
Say when Tor is blocked. The bootstrap poll loop simply ended at its
75-second deadline, leaving isStarting true with no further state, so a
network that blocks Tor was indistinguishable from a slow one and the UI
said "starting tor…" indefinitely. TorManager now exposes
bootstrapDidStall and posts .TorBootstrapDidStall, and the app reports
that mesh messaging still works while internet delivery is paused. It is
cleared on each new start or restart, so a later attempt can report again.
Let relays be added by hand. The four built-in relays are well-known
clearnet hostnames, which is four names for a censor to block and no
recourse short of a new build. NostrRelaySettings persists up to eight
additional relays, normalized, .onion accepted, with a settings editor.
They join the same target set as the built-ins and are subject to the
same activation policy. Removal reconciles against the previous set:
the teardown path iterates the current targets, so without that a removed
relay's socket and queued sends would linger — covered by a test that
fails without it. The merged list is cached rather than recomputed,
because allowedRelayList consults it once per candidate URL and would
otherwise read UserDefaults inside that loop.
Stop stranding people who denied location. The activation gate required
location permission or a mutual favorite, but teleporting into a geohash
requires neither, so someone with no permission and no favorites could
sit in a channel that never connected while Tor and the relays stayed
suppressed and nothing said why. Being in a location channel is now a
third arm of the gate, in both the activation service and the relay
manager's copy of the policy, and leaving the channel closes it again.
Stop burning the Tor timeout when Tor is off. GeoRelayDirectory awaited
Tor readiness unconditionally, but with the preference off TorManager has
been shut down, so every refresh spent the full bootstrap deadline and the
directory froze on its cached copy. It now keys on the preference, not on
live readiness: Tor wanted but unavailable must still skip the fetch
rather than fall back to clearnet.
Say what turning Tor off costs. The toggle's copy described it as
hiding your IP "for location channels", understating both scope and
consequence. It now names private messages too, and while the toggle is
off the settings screen states that every relay can see the device IP.
Make builds verifiable. There was no release verification of any kind:
no signatures, no checksums, no documented procedure. Post-takedown that
is the acute gap, because mirrors appear and people install whatever they
can find during a shutdown. source-manifest.yml publishes a per-tag
SHA-256 manifest with a provenance attestation, self-checking before it
publishes, and docs/VERIFYING-A-BUILD.md explains how to verify source and
states plainly that compiled builds from anywhere but the App Store cannot
be verified. It also records the gaps honestly: no published signing key,
no reproducible build, no non-GitHub mirror.
docs/TOR-INTEGRATION.md was substantially stale — it documented a
torrc, SOCKSPort and ControlPort that the in-process Arti client does not
use, and claimed there are no user-visible settings — so it is rewritten,
including the deferred gap below.
Deferred: no Tor bridges or pluggable transports. arti-client is built
without pt-client or bridge-client and bootstraps from stock config, so
in a country that blocks Tor outright there is still no circumvention
path — only a clear report that there isn't. Closing it needs the Rust
features, bridge config through the FFI, and an xcframework rebuild under
the pinned toolchain with a provenance update, which is its own change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Periphery 3.7.4 audit of both schemes (macOS + iOS, intersected so
platform-specific code is never touched), with test targets indexed and
the share extension built. 277 dead declarations removed or demoted:
dead forwarding wrappers (ChatViewModel+Nostr/+PrivateChat), removed-
feature remnants (autocomplete command suggestions, back-swipe tuning,
MediaSendError, GeohashParticipantTracker), unused Tor dormancy
bindings, assign-only properties, unused parameters (renamed to _), and
redundant public accessibility. 13 orphaned localization keys deleted
across all 29 locales (old pre-#1392 location-notes UI, app_info
warnings).
Two real tests were flagged as unused because they never ran: Swift
Testing methods missing @Test (NostrProtocolTests.
testAckRoundTripNIP44V2_Delivered, NotificationStreamAssemblerTests.
testAssemblesCompressedLargeFrame). Re-armed both; they pass.
Deliberately kept, now recorded in .periphery.baseline.json: iOS-only
code invisible to the CI macOS scan, C FFI signatures, keep-alive
NWPathMonitor reference, InboundEventKey.eventID (dedup semantics),
wifiBulk capability bit (reserved for Wi-Fi bulk work, used by
BitFoundation package tests), and the String secureClear cluster
(exercised by package tests).
New: .periphery.yml config and an advisory Dead Code CI job (mirrors
the SwiftLint precedent from #1361) that fails on findings not in the
committed baseline.
Verified: full macOS app suite, BitFoundation (119) and BitLogger (13)
package tests green; periphery scan --strict exits clean.
Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
P1: TorManager.shutdownCompletely() resets didStart asynchronously
(after Arti has actually stopped, up to ~5s later). A brief
offline->online flap could call startIfNeeded() inside that window;
the guard on didStart dropped it, and nothing reevaluated afterwards,
so Tor stayed down while activationAllowed was true. Track shutdowns
in flight and record a deferred start, honored when the last shutdown
finishes (still gated on allowAutoStart/foreground at that point).
P2: NWPathReachabilityMonitor.ingest() cancelled and rescheduled the
flush a full debounce interval from "now" on every observation, even
duplicates (e.g. interface detail changes while still unsatisfied).
ReachabilityDebounce already preserves the original pending.since, so
schedule the flush for the remaining time to the true deadline instead
of restarting the window.
Tests: debounce deadline preservation (pure) + a monitor-level timing
test that a mid-window duplicate does not postpone the offline commit.
Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
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>
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>
