BLE announce trust verified the packet signature against the Ed25519
signing key carried inside the same announce, and the trust policy only
rejected on noise-key mismatch. Since peerIDs derive from the broadcast
(public) noise key, an on-mesh attacker could replay a victim's
peerID+noiseKey with their own signing key, nickname, and a valid
self-signature; BLEPeerRegistry.upsertVerifiedAnnounce then overwrote
the victim's entry unconditionally. That enabled mesh nickname spoofing
and, via the persisted identity, forged attribution of signed
public/broadcast messages.
Fix: TOFU-pin the signing key per peer (noise-key-derived peerID).
- BLEAnnounceTrustPolicy now rejects announces whose signing key
differs from the one already recorded for the peer
(.signingKeyMismatch) and logs a security event.
- BLEPeerRegistry.upsertVerifiedAnnounce refuses to replace a pinned
signing key (returns nil), closing the race where the pre-barrier
trust check reads the registry outside the collections barrier. It
also never drops a pinned key when an announce omits one.
- BLEAnnounceHandler skips registry upsert, topology updates, and
identity persistence for rejected announces.
No wire-format change: the packet signature already covers senderID,
timestamp, and the full announce payload (noise key, signing key,
nickname), so mixed-version meshes are unaffected. First contact for an
unknown peer behaves exactly as before (trust on first use); the pin is
scoped to the registry entry lifetime, so a legitimately re-keyed
identity recovers after normal peer eviction.
Tests: trust-policy signing-key mismatch/match cases, registry pinning
(attacker upsert refused, legitimate re-announce accepted, omitted key
keeps pin), handler-level pinned-key rejection, and an end-to-end test
with real Ed25519 keys showing a fully self-consistent attacker
announce cannot displace the victim's pinned identity.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A broad audit surfaced ten critical/high issues across the crypto,
transport, identity, and panic-wipe layers. This fixes all ten.
Critical:
- Nostr DMs were unauthenticated. The NIP-17 seal was signed with a
throwaway ephemeral key and the receiver never verified it, so anyone
who knows a recipient's npub could forge messages (and delivery/read
receipts) into an existing trusted conversation. The seal is now
signed with the sender's real identity key, and the receiver verifies
the seal signature and that seal.pubkey == rumor.pubkey.
NOTE: this is a breaking wire-protocol change (see PR).
- Public BLE messages trusted registry membership instead of the packet
signature. Since senderID is attacker-controlled, any verified peer
could be impersonated in public chat. A valid signature from the
claimed sender is now required before any registry identity is used.
- Unverified announces still persisted the announced identity, letting a
replayed noisePublicKey overwrite a victim's stored signing key and
nickname. persistIdentity is now gated on verification.
High:
- Noise decrypt trapped on a 16-19 byte ciphertext (negative prefix
length after nonce extraction) — a remote crash. Now validated.
- Identity-cache debounce save used Timer.scheduledTimer on a GCD queue
with no run loop, so it never fired; block/verify/favorite changes
only persisted on explicit forceSave. Replaced with a
DispatchSourceTimer on the queue; forceSave is now serialized.
- Identity-cache key load couldn't tell "missing" from a transient
keychain failure and would regenerate (deleting) the key, orphaning
the cache. Now uses getIdentityKeyWithResult and falls back to a
session-only ephemeral key without clobbering the persisted key/cache.
- BLE receive-dedup key lacked a payload digest, so post-handshake
flushes (queued msgs + delivery/read acks in the same ms) were dropped
as duplicates. Digest added, matching the ingress registry.
- Maintenance timer was created only in init and never recreated after a
panic stop/start, silently degrading the mesh until app restart. Now
recreated in startServices.
- Panic wipe left persisted location state (selected channel, teleport
set, bookmarks) and cached per-geohash Nostr private keys behind. Both
are now cleared.
- Panic spawned an orphan NostrRelayManager instead of reusing .shared,
splitting relay state from every other component. Now reuses .shared.
Tests updated to assert the fixed behavior (announce no longer persists
unverified identities; public messages require a signature; receive
dedup ID includes the payload digest).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BLEService's per-packet-type orchestration moves into owned, tested
components (BLEAnnounceHandler, BLEPublicMessageHandler,
BLENoisePacketHandler, BLEFileTransferHandler, BLEFragmentHandler),
each taking an environment struct of closures so every queue hop stays
in BLEService and the handlers are synchronously testable. Behavior is
preserved verbatim, including Noise session recovery on decrypt failure
and single-block UI event ordering. handleLeave/handleRequestSync stay
in place as already-thin delegations. BLEService drops to 3393 lines.
Four coordinators (delivery, private conversation, Nostr, public
conversation) drop their unowned/weak ChatViewModel back-references for
narrow @MainActor context protocols, with ChatViewModel conformances as
single shared witnesses for overlapping members. Their true coupling is
now an explicit, reviewable surface, and each gains a mock-context test
suite covering flows previously testable only through the full view
model. Delivery/read acks now also clear the router's retained-send
outbox via the delivery context.
New LargeTopologyTests exercise production-shaped meshes with the
in-memory harness: an 8-peer relay chain with per-hop TTL decay, a
14-peer cyclic mesh with exactly-once delivery, partition/heal, and
topology churn.
App-layer runtime/model files updated alongside.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
