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jack dc783ad3ca Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into spec/peer-id-rotation 2026-07-26 19:45:54 +02:00
c1ce9029d8 Keep working when the network is hostile, and make the app verifiable (#1486)
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: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 19:45:37 +02:00
jackandClaude Opus 5 19a56780d0 docs: specify peer ID rotation for cross-platform review
Draft protocol spec for review by both iOS and Android before any
implementation. Nothing here is implemented; this is the artifact to
agree on, since the change is a wire revision neither platform can ship
alone.

The headline correction, because it is easy to get wrong: rotating the
peer ID alone accomplishes nothing. The announce carries the Noise static
key, the Ed25519 signing key and the nickname in cleartext, so a rotated
ID is re-linked to the same device on its first announce. Rotation and
announce confidentiality have to land together.

The second thing an implementer needs to know up front is that
peerID == SHA-256(noiseStaticKey)[0..8] is not a convention, it is the
mechanism that makes peer IDs unforgeable, enforced in the announce
preflight and again at handshake completion. Making IDs independent of
the key fails both checks for every peer, so a replacement binding has to
ship in the same change. The spec proposes one: an Ed25519 proof over
(context, epoch, rotating ID, static key) carried inside the completed
Noise session via the existing AuthenticatedPeerStatePacket, checked
against a pinned signing key — strictly stronger than today's
self-signed announce.

Design summary: hour-epoch IDs derived from private key material via
HKDF+HMAC so no observer can predict or link them; pairwise recognition
tags from the X25519 shared secret so mutual favourites still recognise
each other with no handshake, padded to fixed slots so the tag count does
not leak how many favourites someone has; strangers discovered by
handshake-first-identify-second over Noise XX, whose static keys are
already encrypted on the wire. Nickname moves inside the session and the
neighbour list is dropped rather than rotated.

Includes a verified impact inventory separating what breaks hard (the
handshake check, the announce preflight, the disk outbox keyed by peer ID,
private-media stable IDs and their deletion tombstones, the initiator
tie-break, fingerprint-prefix lookups) from what degrades gracefully and
what is already safe because it keys on fingerprints or Noise keys.

Rollout uses the two mechanisms already proven in this repo: a
PeerCapabilities bit (11 is next; 10 is burned) with
capabilitiesWereExplicitlyAdvertised to tell an old client from a new one
with the bit off, and observed-version gating as used for source routing.

Two findings surfaced while writing this and are recorded in the spec.
CourierEnvelope.recipientTag is HMAC keyed on the recipient's *public*
static key, and since that key is broadcast in cleartext today, any
observer in radio range can compute a peer's courier tags for any day —
so the whitepaper's "cannot link it across days" does not currently hold,
and the pattern must not be copied. And NoiseEncryptionService's
buildAnnounceSignature/verifyAnnounceSignature/canonicalAnnounceBytes are
present but production-dead, called only from tests; the binding above
deliberately uses a different context string so the two can never be
confused.

Eight open questions are left explicitly unresolved, including the
rotation period, whether unsigned v2 announces are an acceptable posture,
and whether Android's decoder tolerates trailing bytes the way iOS's does
(which decides whether padding coverage can ship ungated).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 19:33:56 +02:00
c079d2ab5d Harden what a locked or seized device gives away (#1484)
* Harden what a locked or seized device gives away

The realistic compromise for many of the people this app is built for is
not interception but a phone taken, and often unlocked under coercion.
Content encryption is in good shape; these are the gaps around it.

Hide notification previews, by default. Notification content is rendered
by the system on the lock screen, so it was readable without unlocking:
DM alerts carried the sender's nickname and the full message body, and
geohash alerts put the geohash in the title. Alerts now state that a DM,
mention, or location-channel activity arrived and withhold the rest until
the app is opened. userInfo still carries the routing peer ID and deep
link, neither of which the system displays, so taps land where they did.
A settings toggle restores full previews for anyone who wants them.
Default-on is the deliberate part: a phone face-up on a table should not
narrate conversations, and someone who wants previews can say so.

Cover the window on willResignActive, so the snapshot iOS stores for the
app switcher shows a placeholder rather than an open conversation. Opaque
rather than blurred, because blurred large text stays partly legible and
the snapshot goes to disk. Added synchronously from a UIKit notification
with queue: nil, since the capture follows shortly after and an
OperationQueue hop or a SwiftUI state change can lose that race. Panic
wipe already deleted snapshots already on disk; this stops new ones from
being worth deleting.

Bound media by age as well as size. The 100 MB quota only ever considered
incoming files, so outgoing media had no lifetime at all and a received
photo could outlive its conversation indefinitely. A launch-time sweep now
deletes managed media older than seven days, incoming and outgoing, with
the same exemptions quota eviction honors: in-flight live captures and
files reserved by a delivery or deletion in progress.

Make /clear tell the truth on the mesh timeline. It recorded an echo
watermark and left the gossip archive on disk for up to 6 hours, so
someone who cleared before a police stop had deleted nothing. Clearing now
erases the archive too. The watermark still matters: it suppresses
pre-clear messages this device hears again from peers. The cost is that
the device stops serving recent public backlog until it hears fresh
traffic, which is a fair reading of what clearing a timeline means.

Documented in PRIVACY_POLICY.md and the privacy assessment, including a
new section on what is deliberately NOT addressed: there is still no
duress mechanism of any kind (no decoy passphrase, no wipe-on-failed-auth,
no app lock), macOS gets no file-protection classes, and media is not
sealed at the app layer. The duress question is a product decision as much
as an engineering one, since in some jurisdictions destroying data on
demand is itself an offence and hiding may protect someone better than
destroying, so it is called out rather than guessed at.

Three findings from the audit that prompted this work turned out to be
already fixed on main and are not included: keychain accessibility is
AfterFirstUnlockThisDeviceOnly with a retrying migration, the panic media
wipe uses a two-location durable marker transaction, and panic already
discards staged share-extension content.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Inject the previews preference instead of reading shared defaults

CI caught a real problem this introduced. `NotificationServiceTests`
already asserted the full-preview title and body, and both it and the new
redaction tests read `NotificationPrivacySettings` from
`UserDefaults.standard` in the same process. Whichever ran second
depended on the other's cleanup, so it passed locally and failed in CI:

  XCTAssertEqual failed: ("🔒 new dm") is not equal to ("🔒 DM from Alice")

Fixed at the source rather than by ordering or serialization.
`NotificationService` now takes a `hidePreviewsProvider`, defaulting to
the real preference, so each test states which behavior it asserts. The
pre-existing test asks for previews shown and gains a redacted
counterpart; the redaction tests no longer touch the shared store.

`NotificationPrivacySettings` also gained store-injecting accessors so
the default-value and round-trip assertions can use an isolated suite
rather than mutating preferences other tests read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 19:26:29 +02:00
229a41557e docs: correct inaccurate privacy and metadata claims (#1485)
* docs: correct inaccurate privacy and metadata claims

Several documented guarantees did not match the implementation. These
matter more than ordinary doc drift: someone deciding whether to carry
this phone to a protest reads these sentences as the threat model.

- Peer IDs were described as "short ephemeral IDs derived per session"
  that "rotate periodically" and "prevent tracking". They are the first
  8 bytes of the Noise static key fingerprint, stable across sessions
  and reboots, and replaced only by a panic wipe. Corrected in the
  whitepaper (§3, §8), IdentityModels, and BitchatProtocol, whose
  header notes claimed "no persistent identifiers in protocol headers"
  while every header carries exactly one.
- "No plaintext message content is ever written to disk" was false for
  accepted media, which is stored unsealed under the platform's
  data-protection class. Narrowed to what actually holds.
- Padding was described as applying to all packets but fragments. Only
  noiseEncrypted and noiseHandshake frames are padded; the pad bytes
  equal the pad length rather than being random; and because that
  length must fit one byte, a frame needing over 255 bytes of padding
  is emitted unpadded. Documented in the whitepaper (§4.1) and
  MessagePadding.
- The gossip archive window is 6 hours in production, not the
  15 minutes claimed in PRIVACY_POLICY.md and the privacy assessment.
  The 15-minute figure is the struct default that BLEService overrides.
- The privacy assessment credited iOS BLE address randomization without
  noting that stable app-layer identifiers defeat it.

The whitepaper's future-work list now names the changes these
corrections imply: rotating on-air identity, padding for non-Noise
types, and making the announce neighbor list optional.

No behavior change; comments and documentation only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: correct the same claims in the README

The README repeats two of the claims corrected elsewhere in this PR, and
it is the document people actually read before deciding to trust the app.

- "no persistent identifiers" is the inverse of what the mesh does; it
  now points at the whitepaper's identity and metadata sections.
- "end-to-end encryption with forward secrecy" holds for live Noise
  sessions but not for sealed store-and-forward mail, which the
  whitepaper already flags as its main cryptographic trade-off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 19:02:26 +02:00
jackandGitHub fb451bc6d0 Persist authenticated private-media delivery receipts (#1466)
Adds a durable receiver-side ledger (BLEPrivateMediaReceiptStore) mapping a deterministic private-media message ID — hash-bound to sender, recipient, and entropy-bearing filename — to the stored file before UI delivery and before the Noise-encrypted delivery ACK, so sender retries and relaunches cannot create duplicate bubbles or files. Receipts are unforgeable without the Noise session; capability bit 9 rides the existing announce bitfield (no wire-format change; rolling upgrade safe both directions).

Includes review fixes: corrupt receipt records are quarantined per-record (bytes preserved at <id>.json.corrupt, only that ID fail-closed — previously one bad record silently disabled ALL inbound private media forever); the panic reset now reaches BLEService's own store instance via completePanicReset with a production-wiring test; and both content.delivery.reason.* strings ship with full 30-locale coverage.
2026-07-26 14:00:21 +02:00
jackandGitHub e9275cb3d8 Relabel private Nostr envelopes honestly in docs; harden legacy envelope validation (#1480)
Split-out safe half of #1437 (the kind-1402 wire migration stays held for Android coordination). Docs (README/WHITEPAPER/PRIVACY_POLICY/privacy-assessment) now describe the actual proprietary DM construction — kind 1059 gift wrap carrying XChaCha20-Poly1305 with a 24-byte nonce, base64url v2: framing, and an HKDF that borrows the nip44-v2 info label but is not the NIP-44 key schedule — instead of claiming NIP-17/44/59.

Hardens the existing legacy inbound path: 64 KiB ciphertext cap before decode (~46x the largest producible legacy envelope), outer kind/recipient-tag/signature binding, tagless kind-13 seal binding, unsigned kind-14 inner binding, inner tags restricted to the two shapes deployed clients emit (verified against every historical iOS release and a fixture frozen from Android production), SecRandomCopyBytes failure now throws, non-UTF-8 plaintext now throws instead of returning empty. Adds frozen cross-platform fixtures with hash-pinned generators; interop-reviewed with no rejection surface for deployed clients.
2026-07-26 12:50:17 +02:00
jackandGitHub 2d96fd99a1 Encrypt private media before BLE fragmentation (#1434)
Closes the last cleartext private-content path over BLE: private DM images/voice were sent as plaintext signed fileTransfer packets, TTL-relayed across the mesh, so every relay saw the full bytes. Now the complete BitchatFilePacket is encrypted as a single Noise AEAD message (inner type 0x20, matching Android) and the opaque ciphertext is fragmented. Adds an authenticated in-session capability proof (0x21 TLV: capabilities + Ed25519 key), TOFU-style downgrade pinning, a per-send consent dialog for the signed-cleartext fallback to legacy peers, and a cancellation/admission registry so cancel/delete cannot race a deferred cleartext send.

Android wire constants (0x20 / 0x21 / capability bit 8) confirmed shipping. The 256-fragment preflight cap applies only to the directed fileTransfer migration fallback; encrypted media to capable peers uses the full receiver ceiling.

Rebased over #1428/#1349: identity reads go through BLELocalIdentityStateStore; the session-bound authenticated signing-key check and the announce-path TOFU pin are kept as complementary checks. Full local suite green (1744+197 tests).
2026-07-26 12:17:22 +02:00
cd727c6867 Make panic wipe deterministic and device-bound (#1431)
* Make panic wipe deterministic and device-bound

* Scope install markers to iOS

* Harden panic recovery and service shutdown

* Invalidate queued BLE ingress during panic

* Harden panic keychain and media cleanup

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Co-authored-by: jack <jackjackbits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: jack <jack@deck.local>
2026-07-26 10:28:50 +02:00
jackandGitHub 820c933958 Harden PTT audio and the 1.7.1 release (#1423)
Centralize PTT and voice audio-session ownership, harden courier/bridge/outbox delivery and recovery, correct location and delivery-state races, add privacy/release metadata, and ship reproducible universal Arti slices with Release CI coverage.

Validated by the full iOS suite, repeated audio/fragment/performance regressions, BitFoundation tests, strict lint and dead-code analysis, universal iOS Release builds, and iOS/macOS archives.
2026-07-10 14:04:09 +02:00
78a291ab77 Public-mesh push-to-talk: signed live voice bursts in the mesh channel (#1406)
* Live push-to-talk voice for DMs: stream while you talk, voice note as fallback

Holding the mic in a DM now streams AAC frames live over the Noise session
(walkie-talkie style, ~0.5s mouth-to-ear at one hop) while recording the same
audio as a normal voice note. On release the note ships through the existing
fileTransfer pipeline; receivers that heard the live stream absorb it silently
into the same bubble (matched by the burst ID embedded in the file name), so
reliability comes for free and nobody sees duplicates.

Protocol:
- NoisePayloadType.voiceFrame = 0x08 carrying VoiceBurstPacket
  (burstID + seq + START/data/END/CANCELED, length-prefixed AAC frames)
- 210-byte burst-content budget keeps each Noise packet inside the 256-byte
  padding bucket: one BLE frame, never the fragment scheduler
- fire-and-forget: frames are dropped (never queued) without an established
  session; live is only offered when the peer is mesh-reachable

Receive:
- ChatLiveVoiceCoordinator assembles bursts (jitter-ordered, 0.5s gap skip,
  3s idle end, flood/size caps), persists progressively as ADTS .aac so even
  a partial burst is a replayable bubble
- live autoplay only when the conversation is on screen, app active, and the
  new app-info "live voice messages" toggle is on (also gates live sending)
- one-playback-at-a-time via a shared ExclusivePlayback slot

Capture:
- PTTCaptureEngine taps AVAudioEngine, dual-encodes: live AAC frames + the
  finalized .m4a (same 16kHz/mono/16kbps settings as VoiceRecorder)
- VoiceRecordingViewModel now drives a pluggable VoiceCaptureSession; the
  composer HUD shows a pulsing LIVE treatment when streaming

Includes the push-to-talk design doc, 6 new localization keys across all 29
locales, and unit tests for framing, packetizer budget, ADTS output, codec
round-trip, and the assembly/absorb lifecycle. Public-mesh PTT (MessageType
0x29) lands separately on top of this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Public-mesh push-to-talk: signed live voice bursts in the mesh channel

Extends live PTT from DMs to the public mesh timeline. Holding the mic in
the mesh channel now broadcasts the burst live as signed voiceFrame packets
(MessageType 0x29) while the finalized voice note still ships on release —
new clients hear you as you speak and absorb the note silently into the live
bubble; old clients (and late joiners) keep receiving the note exactly as
before, so mixed-version meshes lose nothing.

Wire/relay:
- MessageType.voiceFrame = 0x29: ephemeral signed broadcast, never
  gossip-synced (SyncTypeFlags maps it to no bit), never padded (padding to
  the 512 block would push every ~490-byte signed packet into fragmentation)
- RelayController treats voiceFrame like media fragments: dense-graph TTL
  clamp contains the sustained ~15 pkt/s per-talker stream, tight 8-25 ms
  jitter keeps multi-hop latency inside the receiver's 350 ms jitter buffer
- inbound gate mirrors public messages: broadcast-only, 30 s freshness cap,
  packet signature verified against the claimed sender's announce before any
  audio reaches the UI

App:
- ChatLiveVoiceCoordinator gains burst scopes: public bubbles land in the
  mesh timeline, autoplay only while that timeline is on screen, and the
  finalized-note absorb is scope-bound (a public note can't replace a DM
  burst or vice versa)
- floor courtesy: while someone talks live in the public channel the
  composer mic tints red and pulses, with an accessibility value naming the
  talker ("%@ is speaking", localized in all 29 locales); holding still
  works — a decentralized mesh has no floor arbiter, the tint just
  discourages talk-over

Tests: relay policy (sparse cap + dense clamp), public bubble + talker
indicator lifecycle, note absorption into the mesh store, and scope-binding
rejection; full suite green (1382 tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* PTT follow-ups from review + field test: peer-ID normalization, toggle gates inbound, drop-path diagnostics

Codex review fixes (#1403):
- makeVoiceCaptureSession normalizes the selected peer with toShort() before
  the reachability/session checks and binds the send target to that same
  routing ID — a conversation selected under the stable 64-hex Noise key no
  longer silently falls back to a classic note while the short-ID session is
  established
- the live-voice toggle now gates inbound bursts too: off means
  classic-notes-only in both directions (no live bubble, partial file, or
  early notification; the finalized note still arrives), with a test

Field-test diagnostics (first device run: DM frames decrypted but no bubble
appeared, with no log evidence of which guard dropped them):
- coordinator logs undecodable frames (size + hex prefix) and blocked drops
- makeAssembly logs directory/file-handle failures instead of returning nil
  silently
- PTTLiveVoiceSession logs capture start and finish (packet/frame/duration
  counts); PTTCaptureEngine logs engine start success/failure with the input
  format; BLEService.sendVoiceFrame logs no-session drops

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix iPhone live-capture failure: dead input unit (AURemoteIO -10851, 0 Hz)

Field testing showed the phone's live capture failing at mic enable with
AURemoteIO -10851 and an input format of 0 Hz / 2 ch — an input unit bound
to an earlier (playback-only or settling) audio session. The Mac, which has
no session lifecycle, captured fine, which is why public bursts from the Mac
worked while phone-side sends degraded from working (first hold) to sporadic
to dead across holds.

Three layers of defense:
- PTTCaptureEngine recreates its AVAudioEngine on every start(), after the
  session is configured, so the input unit binds to the session that is
  active now; a dead input (0 Hz or 0 channels) is now a distinct, logged
  error instead of a silent setup failure
- PTTLiveVoiceSession retries the capture start once after a 150 ms
  route-settle pause
- VoiceRecordingViewModel falls back to the classic VoiceRecorder within the
  same hold if the live engine still cannot start — a route glitch now costs
  the live stream, never the voice note

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Blue mic when the hold will stream live

The mic button now shows readiness at a glance — and doubles as a build
marker for device testing:
- blue: holding will stream live (DM peer reachable with an established
  Noise session, or the public mesh channel)
- accent (orange in DMs): holding records a classic voice note (no session
  yet, peer unreachable, or live voice toggled off)
- red states unchanged (recording, floor busy)

Refactors capture-backend selection into a single liveVoiceTarget() so the
indicator and makeVoiceCaptureSession can never disagree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Revert the blue live-ready mic to the normal accent color

The build-verification marker did its job; idle mic color goes back to the
accent. The LIVE recording HUD remains the signal for whether a hold is
streaming. Keeps the liveVoiceTarget() refactor so backend selection stays
in one place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Leave a trace on every mic press and every inbound-frame drop

Field testing read "tap does nothing" as breakage: the mic start is async
(permission check + engine spin-up), so releasing before recording begins
has always been a silent cancel — for classic voice notes too. Every press
now logs which backend it chose and, for quick presses, that it released
before recording started.

Also logs the two remaining silent drops: inbound voice frames rejected by
the live-voice toggle (the one unlogged guard left in the receive path) and
the classic-note fallback now includes the toggle state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix mic hold dying instantly in DMs: sheet swipe gesture starved the composer

Field logs showed every DM mic hold ending 3-10 ms after it began, on both
platforms, while public-channel holds worked — the private sheet wraps its
entire content (composer included) in a high-priority swipe-right-to-leave
DragGesture, and a high-priority ancestor drag cancels the mic button's
press-and-hold within milliseconds. Same starvation mechanism as the DM
image-reveal bug (#1402), hitting a drag instead of a tap.

The swipe-to-leave gesture now lives on the message list only, so the
composer's gestures (mic hold, text field, buttons) are out of its reach and
the swipe still works where users actually swipe.

Also stops touching the capture engine when a hold cancels before the engine
ever started: probing inputNode on a never-started engine instantiates its
input unit against whatever session is active and spams benign-but-alarming
AURemoteIO -10851 errors into field logs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Reorder app info sheet: usage first, then settings, then reference

New section order: HOW TO USE, then the adjustable bits (appearance, voice,
network), then the reference material (features, privacy, symbols legend).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* App info: flow HOW TO USE into one paragraph; "list" and "person" wording

The six how-to-use bullets now read as a single comma-separated paragraph
(same instruction strings, legacy bullet prefix stripped at render). Two
wording updates across all 29 locales: the people icon opens the "list"
(not "sidebar"), and you tap a "person's" name (not a "peer's") to start
a DM.

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>
2026-07-08 09:23:16 +02:00
eacd8f0750 Live push-to-talk voice for DMs (streams while you talk, voice note as fallback) (#1403)
* Live push-to-talk voice for DMs: stream while you talk, voice note as fallback

Holding the mic in a DM now streams AAC frames live over the Noise session
(walkie-talkie style, ~0.5s mouth-to-ear at one hop) while recording the same
audio as a normal voice note. On release the note ships through the existing
fileTransfer pipeline; receivers that heard the live stream absorb it silently
into the same bubble (matched by the burst ID embedded in the file name), so
reliability comes for free and nobody sees duplicates.

Protocol:
- NoisePayloadType.voiceFrame = 0x08 carrying VoiceBurstPacket
  (burstID + seq + START/data/END/CANCELED, length-prefixed AAC frames)
- 210-byte burst-content budget keeps each Noise packet inside the 256-byte
  padding bucket: one BLE frame, never the fragment scheduler
- fire-and-forget: frames are dropped (never queued) without an established
  session; live is only offered when the peer is mesh-reachable

Receive:
- ChatLiveVoiceCoordinator assembles bursts (jitter-ordered, 0.5s gap skip,
  3s idle end, flood/size caps), persists progressively as ADTS .aac so even
  a partial burst is a replayable bubble
- live autoplay only when the conversation is on screen, app active, and the
  new app-info "live voice messages" toggle is on (also gates live sending)
- one-playback-at-a-time via a shared ExclusivePlayback slot

Capture:
- PTTCaptureEngine taps AVAudioEngine, dual-encodes: live AAC frames + the
  finalized .m4a (same 16kHz/mono/16kbps settings as VoiceRecorder)
- VoiceRecordingViewModel now drives a pluggable VoiceCaptureSession; the
  composer HUD shows a pulsing LIVE treatment when streaming

Includes the push-to-talk design doc, 6 new localization keys across all 29
locales, and unit tests for framing, packetizer budget, ADTS output, codec
round-trip, and the assembly/absorb lifecycle. Public-mesh PTT (MessageType
0x29) lands separately on top of this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* PTT follow-ups from review + field test: peer-ID normalization, toggle gates inbound, drop-path diagnostics

Codex review fixes (#1403):
- makeVoiceCaptureSession normalizes the selected peer with toShort() before
  the reachability/session checks and binds the send target to that same
  routing ID — a conversation selected under the stable 64-hex Noise key no
  longer silently falls back to a classic note while the short-ID session is
  established
- the live-voice toggle now gates inbound bursts too: off means
  classic-notes-only in both directions (no live bubble, partial file, or
  early notification; the finalized note still arrives), with a test

Field-test diagnostics (first device run: DM frames decrypted but no bubble
appeared, with no log evidence of which guard dropped them):
- coordinator logs undecodable frames (size + hex prefix) and blocked drops
- makeAssembly logs directory/file-handle failures instead of returning nil
  silently
- PTTLiveVoiceSession logs capture start and finish (packet/frame/duration
  counts); PTTCaptureEngine logs engine start success/failure with the input
  format; BLEService.sendVoiceFrame logs no-session drops

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix iPhone live-capture failure: dead input unit (AURemoteIO -10851, 0 Hz)

Field testing showed the phone's live capture failing at mic enable with
AURemoteIO -10851 and an input format of 0 Hz / 2 ch — an input unit bound
to an earlier (playback-only or settling) audio session. The Mac, which has
no session lifecycle, captured fine, which is why public bursts from the Mac
worked while phone-side sends degraded from working (first hold) to sporadic
to dead across holds.

Three layers of defense:
- PTTCaptureEngine recreates its AVAudioEngine on every start(), after the
  session is configured, so the input unit binds to the session that is
  active now; a dead input (0 Hz or 0 channels) is now a distinct, logged
  error instead of a silent setup failure
- PTTLiveVoiceSession retries the capture start once after a 150 ms
  route-settle pause
- VoiceRecordingViewModel falls back to the classic VoiceRecorder within the
  same hold if the live engine still cannot start — a route glitch now costs
  the live stream, never the voice note

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-08 09:20:58 +02:00
70229f0be1 Originate v2 source routes and wire fragmentIdFilter targeted resync (#1378)
* Originate v2 source routes and wire fragmentIdFilter targeted resync

Part A — source-route origination policy:
- Gate route application (BLESourceRouteOriginationPolicy): only packets we
  author, directed at a single peer, with TTL headroom, whose recipient is
  not directly connected. Relays no longer attach routes to (and re-sign)
  packets they merely forward.
- Version-gate paths: MeshTopologyTracker records the highest protocol
  version observed per peer; BFS routes require every intermediate hop and
  the recipient to be v2-observed, capped at 4 intermediate hops.
- Degrade on failure: BLESourceRouteFailureCache marks a routed send that
  sees no inbound traffic from the recipient within 10s as failed and floods
  for 60s before retrying routes.

Part B — REQUEST_SYNC fragmentIdFilter (TLV 0x06):
- Requester: BLEFragmentAssemblyBuffer reports stalled broadcast
  reassemblies (no new fragment for 5s, retried at most every 10s); the
  maintenance pass sends a types=fragment REQUEST_SYNC naming the stalled
  8-byte fragment stream IDs to each connected peer.
- Responder: GossipSyncManager restricts the fragment diff to exactly the
  named streams, bypassing the since-cursor while the GCS filter still
  excludes pieces the requester holds; RSR/TTL-0/rate-limit semantics
  unchanged and REQUEST_SYNC stays link-local.
- Bounds: at most 60 IDs per request (60*17-1 = 1019 bytes <= the 1024-byte
  decoder cap); oversized 0x06 values are ignored, not fatal.

Docs: SOURCE_ROUTING.md gains the iOS origination policy (§8);
REQUEST_SYNC_MANAGER.md documents 0x05/0x06 as implemented.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fix stall-clock refresh on duplicates and overflow suppression in fragment resync

Two fixes to stalledBroadcastFragmentIDs bookkeeping in
BLEFragmentAssemblyBuffer:

- Duplicate fragments no longer reset the stall clock. Fragment packets
  bypass the packet deduplicator, so relayed duplicates of an
  already-held index arriving every few seconds kept lastFragmentAt
  fresh and suppressed the targeted REQUEST_SYNC indefinitely. Now
  lastFragmentAt only updates when the index is new (actual progress).

- Only the streams that will actually be encoded on the wire are
  rate-limited. Previously every stalled candidate got
  lastResyncRequestAt set, but encodeFragmentIdFilter serializes at most
  RequestSyncPacket.maxFragmentIdFilterCount (60) IDs, so overflow
  streams were suppressed for retryAfter without ever being requested.
  Selection now caps at that shared constant, oldest stall first, so
  overflow stays eligible and rotates fairly on the next pass.

Tests: duplicates arriving periodically still trigger the stall report;
70 stalled streams yield the 60 oldest on the first pass and the
remaining 10 on the next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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2026-07-07 14:42:53 +02:00
jackandClaude Fable 5 38331e62f1 Cut views over to ConversationStore; delete legacy store, bridge, resolver
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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 13:57:12 +02:00
jackandClaude Fable 5 7fb1f4a219 Route delivery status through the store; delete the location index
ConversationStore maintains an exact messageID -> Set<ConversationID>
map at every mutation point (append/upsert/remove/migrate/trim/clear),
so delivery updates are ID-only lookups that fan out to mirrored
ephemeral/stable copies. ChatDeliveryCoordinator shrinks 327 -> 119
lines: the positional location index, its growth-detection/rebuild
machinery, and the duplicate no-downgrade check are deleted - the rule
now lives in exactly one place. The middle-insertion regression tests
are rewritten against the store since stale positional locations are
structurally impossible now.

delivery updates: 38k -> 262k/s (~6.9x); ingest pipelines unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 13:26:00 +02:00
jackandClaude Fable 5 99d1d1dccd Cut public message path over to ConversationStore; delete PublicTimelineStore
Mesh and geohash timelines are now store conversations. All public
mutation sites flow through store intents; PublicMessagePipeline keeps
its 80ms UI batching but commits batches via store appends with each
buffered entry carrying its destination conversation (a mid-batch
channel switch now flushes instead of dropping the buffer).
ChatViewModel.messages becomes a cached get-only view of the active
conversation, invalidated through the change subject. The mesh
late-insert threshold is consciously removed: it only ever ordered the
non-rendered messages copy, so strict timestamp insertion makes the
working set agree with rendered order. PublicTimelineStore and the
per-message full-array legacy sync are deleted; the coalescing bridge
mirrors public conversations for the remaining legacy readers.

pipeline.publicIngest: 6.6k -> 9.5k msg/s (+45%); private steady;
store.append 237k/s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 13:03:07 +02:00
jackandClaude Fable 5 45650854e7 Add conversation-store design doc and end-to-end ingest baselines
docs/CONVERSATION-STORE-DESIGN.md records the approved design: a
single-writer ConversationStore of per-conversation ObservableObjects
(per-conversation publishing, incremental ID index, folded caps, typed
change subject) replacing today's four-store/three-bridge topology,
with a five-step migration plan and explicit deletions/non-goals.

New pipeline benchmarks measure the CURRENT architecture end-to-end so
every migration step is judged against real before-numbers:
pipeline.privateIngest ~9.7k msg/s, pipeline.publicIngest ~6.8k msg/s
(200-message passes, stable within 1.5%).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 10:51:24 +02:00
jackandClaude Fable 5 4093ee6733 Rebuild Arti from audited source with enforced provenance
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>
2026-06-10 16:22:15 +01:00
df36b19afe [codex] Refine BLE ingress fanout (#1280)
* Refactor BLE transport event handling

* Make image output paths unique

* Keep queued Nostr read receipts alive

* Refine BLE ingress fanout

* Rediscover BLE service after invalidation

* Extract BLE notification retry buffer

* Extract BLE inbound write buffer

* Extract BLE fragment assembly buffer

* Tidy secure log handling from device run

* Allow self-authored RSR ingress replies

* Harden read receipt queue test timing

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2026-05-31 14:08:30 +02:00
ab0da61533 [codex] Refactor BLE transport event handling (#1266)
* Refactor BLE transport event handling

* Make image output paths unique

* Keep queued Nostr read receipts alive

* Allow self-authored RSR ingress replies

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2026-05-31 13:58:27 +02:00
764f016d17 [codex] Refactor app runtime and ownership architecture (#1104)
* Refactor app runtime and view model architecture

* Move app ownership into stores and coordinators

* Fix smoke test environment injection

* Stabilize fragmentation package tests

* Fix coordinator build warnings

* Clean up chat view model warnings

* Fix Nostr relay startup coalescing

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2026-05-30 14:13:26 +02:00
3fc64f6168 feat: Implement Request Sync Manager (V2 Sync) (#965)
* 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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2026-01-17 07:43:02 -10:00
jackandGitHub 10b7c1fd80 Merge branch 'main' into source-routing-packet-format 2026-01-12 10:09:29 -10:00
callebtc 9404c03477 fix doc 2026-01-12 16:56:45 +07:00
callebtc 0f5299a0f5 announce and read presence 2026-01-12 14:12:49 +07:00
callebtc eb3bbfd861 source routing v2 2026-01-12 10:18:04 +07:00
5f44af19da tor by default, small (#564)
* feat(tor): Tor-by-default scaffold and integration

- Add TorManager with static/dlopen start, torrc generation, SOCKS probe
- Add TorURLSession; route Nostr/Web fetches via SOCKS proxy
- Add chat system messages for Tor status; show progress (macOS) and ready
- Disable ControlPort bootstrap monitor on iOS; keep it on macOS
- Make Tor waits non-blocking; avoid main-actor stalls on startup
- Queue & flush Nostr subscriptions on relay connect; skip duplicates
- Always rewrite torrc at launch to fix iOS container path mismatches
- Link libz; add project wiring for tor-nolzma.xcframework
- Minor fixes: SOCKS probe resumeOnce guard, entitlement for network.server (macOS)

* iOS: deterministic Tor recovery + 100% gating; BLE-first; session rebuild

- Restart/wake Tor on foreground via ControlPort (ACTIVE/SHUTDOWN),
  avoid restarts during bootstrap; add NWPathMonitor to trigger checks
- Use NWConnection control polling for GETINFO; remove blocking CFStream
  readers to avoid QoS inversions; compute readiness from SOCKS + 100%
- Rebuild TorURLSession on resume; reset Nostr connections to rebind
- Gate all internet after full bootstrap; keep BLE mesh startup fast
- Fix Swift 6 capture issues; hop UI updates to @MainActor
- Remove Tor progress spam; persist initial "starting tor..." system message

* UI: show Tor system messages only in geohash channels (not mesh)

- Gate "starting tor..." and readiness/timeout messages to geohash view
- Add helper addGeohashOnlySystemMessage() to avoid posting to mesh timeline
- Persist system messages in geohash backing store via addPublicSystemMessage()

* Relays: treat repeated -1011 handshake failures as permanent; skip reconnects

- Classify NSURLErrorBadServerResponse as permanent and stop retrying
- Filter permanently-failed relays from subscribe/connect attempts
- Avoid reconnect scheduling for permanently failed relays

* Embed Tor via tor_api; deterministic restart + Nostr gating; add Tor notifications

- Run Tor via tor_api in a dedicated thread with OwningControllerFD
- Cleanly stop Tor on background; restart on .active (single instance)
- Avoid fallback to tor_main/dlopen; add is-running check to prevent duplicates
- Fix argv lifetime in C glue to avoid strcmp crash on start
- Gate Nostr connect/subscribe/send until Tor is fully ready
- Rebuild URLSession + reset relays after Tor readiness (scene-based)
- Remove TorDidBecomeReady double-reset and appDidBecomeActive resubscribe
- Add TorWillRestart/TorDidBecomeReady notifications and chat system messages
- Debounce path-change restarts; ACTIVE poke first; coalesce subs; cancel stale reconnect timers
- Project: add CTorHost.c and TorNotifications.swift to targets; fix libz.tbd path

* Defer Nostr setup logs until Tor is ready; fix subscribe coalescing and reconnect generation

- Move "Connecting to Nostr relays" log after awaitReady()
- Log "Queuing subscription" when Tor not ready; only coalesce when handler exists
- Clear coalescer on unsubscribe
- Cancel stale reconnect timers using connectionGeneration
- Remove app-level TorDidBecomeReady reset to avoid duplicate reconnects
- Debounce path-change restarts

* Gate Nostr init/subscription logs until Tor is ready

- ChatViewModel: await Tor readiness before initializing Nostr and logging
- Only log GeoDM subscription when Tor is ready to avoid early noise

* Make Nostr connect single-sourced; defer DM subscription until connected

- Remove duplicate connect call from ChatViewModel; let scene-based flow connect
- Setup DM subscription once on first connection via  sink
- Reduce early subscription send/cancel noise after Tor restarts

* On launch, queue Nostr subscriptions without initiating connects; let centralized connect handle it

- In subscribe(), if no connections exist, just list relays and queue subs
- Avoids early send/cancel churn before connect() runs post-Tor-ready

* Always queue subscriptions and flush on connection; avoid immediate sends

- Prevents early send/cancel churn at launch and during reconnects
- If relays are already connected, flush immediately; otherwise pending until connected

* UI: scope Tor restart messages to geohash channels; skip initial foreground restart on cold launch to avoid confusing system message in #mesh

* geo: disable background sampling + notifications\n- Gate sampling to foreground only (beginGeohashSampling, watchers)\n- Suppress geohash activity notifications unless app is active\n- Stop sampling explicitly on background scene phase

* Update BitchatApp.swift

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* Update BitchatApp.swift

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* Update BitchatApp.swift

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* Update bitchat/BitchatApp.swift

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* Update bitchat/BitchatApp.swift

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* fix(iOS App): resolve merge artifacts in scenePhase handler\n- Remove duplicate didEnterBackground state\n- Fix switch/if braces and logic for foreground restart gating

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Co-authored-by: asmo <asmogo@protonmail.com>
2025-09-11 19:08:43 +02:00
4f1ac30f12 Feat/mesh robustness efficiency (#451)
* chat: de-dup private chats across ephemeral/stable IDs; prefer most advanced delivery status\n\n- Fixes LazyVStack duplicate ID warnings and blank row in PM\n- Merges messages by id from ephemeral and Noise-key stores\n- Chooses read > delivered > partiallyDelivered > sent > sending > failed (newer wins on tie)\n- Ensures status icon updates immediately without waiting for another send\n- Adds exhaustive handling for DeliveryStatus in ranking

* logging: reduce noisy info logs to debug; keep errors/warnings\n\n- Downgrade routing/ACK/subscription/connect logs to debug\n- Retain security/fingerprint/keychain info logs\n- Keep errors and warnings intact\n\ndocs: add docs/privacy-assessment.md covering BLE privacy, routing TTL/jitter, Nostr E2E gift wraps, ACK throttling, and logging posture

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2025-08-17 21:25:25 +02:00