The public-message signature check fell back to signedSenderDisplayName,
which only searches the asynchronously-persisted identity cache. Because
the peer registry is updated synchronously on a verified announce, a
message arriving immediately after that announce could have a valid
signature and a verified registry entry yet still be dropped (cache not
caught up).
Verify the packet signature against the signing key already present in
the synchronously-updated peer registry first; fall back to the
persisted-identity lookup only for peers not yet in the registry. The
security property is unchanged: a spoofed senderID claiming a registry
peer still fails registry verification and the persisted fallback, and
is dropped.
Adds tests for the race (delivered via registry key before cache
persists) and the spoof case (invalid signature falls back and drops).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>