Small encrypted crews (hard cap 16) between public broadcast and 1:1 DMs:
Protocol
- MessageType.groupMessage = 0x25: broadcast packets with a cleartext
16-byte group ID + epoch, ChaCha20-Poly1305 ciphertext (epoch bound as
AEAD AAD), inner Ed25519 sender signature over
"bitchat-group-msg-v1"|groupID|messageID|timestamp|content
- NoisePayloadType.groupInvite = 0x06 / .groupKeyUpdate = 0x07:
creator-signed group state (key, epoch, roster) 1:1 over Noise; signature
over "bitchat-group-v1"|groupID|epoch|key-hash|roster-hash and the Noise
session peer must BE the creator
- SyncTypeFlags bit 10 (groupMessage): variable-length LE bitfield widens
1 -> 2 bytes inside the length-prefixed REQUEST_SYNC TLV; old clients
ignore unknown bits and answer with types they know
- PeerCapabilities.localSupported now advertises .groups
Storage
- GroupStore: symmetric keys in the keychain, roster/name/epoch as
protected JSON in Application Support; wiped in panicClearAllData()
Behavior
- Non-members relay 0x25 like any broadcast but cannot read it; group
messages join gossip-sync backfill with the public-message window
- Receivers drop wrong-epoch envelopes, bad sender signatures, and
senders missing from the creator-signed roster
- Fire-and-flood delivery (no per-member acks in v1)
UI
- Groups open as chat windows through the private-chat sheet (virtual
"group_" peer IDs); groups section in the people sheet; /group
create/invite/remove/leave/list commands; invitees get a system message
+ notification and the group appears in their people sheet
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When a Noise session establishes with a peer I verified and that peer
advertises the .vouch capability, send signed attestations (up to 16,
most recently verified first, at most once per peer per 24h) for the
OTHER fingerprints I verified. Receivers accept vouches only from
senders they verified themselves, verify the Ed25519 signature against
the sender's announce-bound signing key, and surface the result as a
new derived trust tier: vouched (unfilled seal) between casual and
trusted.
Protocol:
- NoisePayloadType.vouch = 0x12 carries a batch of TLV attestations:
voucheeFingerprint (32B), voucheeSigningKey (32B), timestamp
(uint64 ms BE), Ed25519 signature over
"bitchat-vouch-v1" | fingerprint | signingKey | timestamp.
The voucher is implicit in the authenticated session.
- PeerCapabilities.localSupported now advertises .vouch.
Storage (SecureIdentityStateManager / IdentityCache):
- vouches keyed by vouchee, capped at 8 vouchers each; validity is
recomputed on read (voucher still verified-by-me, < 30 days old), so
unverifying a voucher retires their vouches without cascade deletes.
- New IdentityCache fields are Optional so pre-existing encrypted
caches decode cleanly; TrustLevel.vouched is inserted mid-ladder but
raw values are strings, so persisted values are unaffected (and
vouched itself is never persisted).
- Panic wipe clears vouch state with the rest of the identity cache.
UI: unfilled checkmark.seal badge in the mesh peer list (filled seal
stays exclusive to verified) and a "vouched for by N people you
verified" section with voucher names in FingerprintView; VoiceOver
labels and xcstrings entries included.
Tests: attestation encode/decode + signature (forged/tampered/expired),
accept-policy gates, batch cap, trust-level derivation incl. voucher
invalidation, persistence compat, and coordinator exchange/accept
policies. Full macOS suite: 1088 tests passing.
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Store-and-forward previously delivered to an out-of-range peer only if a
mutual favorite happened to be connected at send time and later met the
recipient directly, and everything except courier envelopes died with the
app process. This closes those gaps end to end:
- Persist the MessageRouter outbox to disk, sealed with a ChaChaPoly key
held only in the Keychain (no plaintext at rest); queued private
messages now survive an app kill and flush on next launch.
- Deposit retry: queued messages are re-deposited whenever a new eligible
courier connects, tracked per message so the same courier is never
double-burned, until 3 distinct couriers carry it or it expires.
- Tiered open couriering: signature-verified strangers can now carry mail
(2 envelopes/depositor into a 20-slot pool) alongside mutual favorites
(5 each); overflow evicts verified-tier mail before favorites'.
- Spray-and-wait: envelopes carry a copy budget (4, capped 8, new TLV,
wire-compatible with old clients); couriers split half their remaining
budget with each newly encountered courier so mail diffuses through a
moving crowd.
- Remote handover: a verified relayed announce now floods a copy toward
the multi-hop recipient (directed-relay treatment, 10-min per-envelope
cooldown) while the carried original stays put for a direct encounter.
- Public history: gossip-sync window for whole public messages widened
from 15 min to 6 h, matched on the receive-acceptance side, and the
message store persists to disk so devices bridge partitions and
restarts ("town crier").
- Privacy-safe local delivery counters (bare tallies, log-only) so the
store-and-forward stack is measurable on-device.
- Panic wipe now also clears the sealed outbox, gossip archive, and
counters.
- Rewrite WHITEPAPER.md to describe the app as implemented (Noise XX/X,
actual flood control, courier system, gossip sync, Nostr path); the old
document described a bloom filter, three fragment types, and a
MessageRetryService that don't exist.
1037 macOS tests pass (17 new); iOS builds.
Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mechanical style fixes across the enabled rule set, mostly via
swiftlint --fix (trailing_comma, comma, colon, trailing_newline,
comment_spacing, unused_closure_parameter, unneeded_break_in_switch,
opening_brace) plus hand fixes:
- non_optional_string_data_conversion (45): .data(using: .utf8)! and
?? Data() fallbacks replaced with the non-optional Data(_.utf8),
including two production sites (NIP-44 HKDF info constant and the
announce canonicalization context/nickname bytes — byte-identical
output, only the impossible-nil handling is gone).
- switch_case_alignment: LocationChannel had a misindented closing
brace; also repaired an --fix artifact in BLEService's .none case.
- redundant_string_enum_value: TrustLevel raw values equal to the case
names (encoded form unchanged).
- unused_optional_binding: let _ = binds replaced with != nil / is Bool.
- static_over_final_class: PreviewView.layerClass.
- Resolved the BinaryProtocolTests TODO by documenting that 8-byte
recipient ID truncation is the fixed wire-field size, not a bug.
The 4 remaining violations are all todo markers for a shared
test-helpers module (tracked in #1088) and one Reuse note.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Feature models observe per-conversation objects directly: PublicChatModel
forwards the active Conversation's objectWillChange, PrivateInboxModel
republishes only for the selected peer's conversation - background
appends no longer invalidate foreground views. LegacyConversationStore,
the coalescing bridge, and IdentityResolver are deleted (resolver
canonicalization proved display-invisible: nothing enumerates direct
conversations, lookups are by exact peer ID, and raw keying is strictly
more robust - documented as a design deviation). Selection state moves
into the store. ChatViewModel.messages/privateChats survive as derived
read views for coordinators that genuinely need them; hot paths use a
new store-direct privateMessages(for:) witness.
Final numbers vs pre-migration baselines:
pipeline.privateIngest 9.7k -> 24.0k msg/s (2.5x)
pipeline.publicIngest 6.8k -> 13.7k msg/s (2.0x)
delivery updates 38k -> 117-133k/s
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All private-message mutations now flow through store intents:
coordinators, PrivateChatManager (its @Published dicts deleted - now
read-only views over the store), outbound sends, delivery status, and
chat migration. The O(1) store dedup replaces the full-scan duplicate
check; insertion order is maintained by the store so sanitizeChat's
re-sort is a documented no-op. Both bootstrapper Combine bridges and
the Task.yield store synchronization are deleted.
ChatViewModel.privateChats/unreadPrivateMessages become get-only derived
views (measured: naive rebuild equals a change-invalidated cache within
noise, so the simpler form stays). Feature models still read the legacy
store, fed by a coalescing LegacyConversationStoreBridge (one mirror
per burst, marked for step-5 deletion).
pipeline.privateIngest: 9.6k -> 14.7k msg/s (+53%).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChatTransportEventCoordinator, ChatPeerIdentityCoordinator,
ChatMediaTransferCoordinator, ChatVerificationCoordinator, and
ChatLifecycleCoordinator drop their unowned ChatViewModel back-refs for
narrow @MainActor contexts (20-36 members each), reusing shared
witnesses across protocols. The two remaining raw writers of
sentReadReceipts now route through owner intent ops
(unmarkReadReceiptsSent, syncReadReceiptsForSentMessages), closing the
gaps noted in the previous commit. NoiseEncryptionService stays fully
out of the verification coordinator via installNoiseSessionCallbacks.
26 new mock-context tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
jack