meshbay.git/docs/auth-confirm.md, branch 0.15

docs: remove the documents MESHBAY_DESIGN.md replaces

2026-09-10T22:19:06Z

Twenty-four files, about 17 000 lines: the two architecture drafts, the three security reviews, eleven design notes, the roadmap, the decisions file, the v1–v4 archive, the deprecated user guide and the stale quickstart. Their content is in MESHBAY_DESIGN.md, and git history holds the originals. The reason to delete rather than keep bannered: a document that is superseded but present still gets read, and a reader cannot always tell which of two accounts of one mechanism is the live one. That was the argument for retiring the user guide rather than repairing it, and it applies to the whole set. What made this safe is the concordance. Roughly 290 comments and docstrings cite these files by section — `musicbay.md §6`, `mediacenter.md §5.5`, `draft-v6 §2.11` — and section 16 maps every one onto its replacement, so not a single comment needs editing to stay followable. It now says plainly that the files are gone and where to recover them, and it gained rows for the three reviews (their findings are section 13), and for the two guides. Four kept documents pointed into the set and were repointed first: `playlists.md` (nine references — it is a live proposal and must not dangle), `WINDOWS-PORT.md`, and CLAUDE.md's example. No dangling reference remains outside section 16. Two files were dropped from the list after checking what they hold. `HTTPS.md` is an operational runbook — Caddy, certificate renewal, DNS, troubleshooting — and MESHBAY_DESIGN.md deliberately covers no operations, so nothing would replace it; the versioned Caddyfile is the config, not the procedure. `cast-smart-tv.md` is the plan for the unbuilt DLNA phase of a feature whose first two phases ship, and section 11.4 summarises it in four lines rather than carrying the SSDP/UPnP work. There is no user guide now, and section 0.1 says so rather than leaving a reader to discover it. Suites green: 2258 passed, 4 skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YVoHVCcfBqud6ZjG4db3y7

docs: point the superseded drafts at the design document

2026-09-10T16:45:03Z

Twenty-three documents that MESHBAY_DESIGN.md absorbs gain a header saying so and naming the sections their content went to. None is deleted: code comments, tests and the documents themselves cite their sections and their labels, and each records reasoning a synthesis compresses. The header states the precedence, because two documents describing one system will disagree eventually: where a draft disagrees with MESHBAY_DESIGN.md the design document is right, and where either disagrees with the code the code is. Seven status lines were corrected on the way through, all of them claiming less than the truth. Videos, Music, Photos, partial-read hashing and account recovery were headed "proposal, not implemented" months after they shipped; the desktop client said "nothing here is implemented" with stages A through D running; draft v6 still called itself the current specification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YVoHVCcfBqud6ZjG4db3y7

feat: passphrase change and account recovery (auth-confirm)

2026-08-31T23:03:43Z

The passphrase derives two independent client-side values: auth_key (the hub verifier) and bundle_key (AES-GCM key for the per-node identity bundles, which live on nodes and never on the hub). Changing or recovering a passphrase is therefore two operations — swap the hub verifier, and re-wrap every reachable node's identity bundle. Flow A — change a known passphrase (Profile page) - POST /v1/users/password re-proves the current passphrase, swaps pw_hash/salt/version, revokes every refresh token and returns a fresh pair so the tab that made the change stays signed in. - MeshBayTransport.rewrapAllNodes: for every group's online node, connect with the old key, read the identity off the handshake, store it back under the new key. Returns updated / unreachable / failed so the UI can point at the operator-unpin fallback for the gaps. Always-shown confirmation dialog listing reachable and unreachable groups. Recovery key - keyderive.js generateRecoveryKey (32 random bytes, grouped Base32) and deriveRecoveryKey (HKDF-SHA256, domain meshbay:recovery:v1:). - Every per-node identity gets a second copy wrapped under the recovery key: keypair_bundles.bundle_enc_recovery (node-only column, added in _SCHEMA_KEYPAIR and via a PRAGMA-guarded ALTER for existing DBs), carried on keypair_bundle_store / _resp. MNP 0.13 -> 0.14, additive. - session.recoveryKey is persisted in IndexedDB (slot rk) and lazy-loaded on connect, so a group joined in any later session still leaves a recovery copy. - Shown once at registration; optionally folded into the verification e-mail as a pass-through the hub never stores or logs, with an opt-out. - Profile -> Recovery key re-loads R and backfills every reachable node via rewrapAllNodes in bundleKey mode (no passphrase re-entry). Flow B — recover a lost passphrase (#/reset, linked from sign-in) - POST /v1/users/password/reset-request {username, email}: both must be the pair on file, checked against the blind email_hash (never decrypted). A mismatch — wrong e-mail, unknown username, non-active account — takes the identical no-op path (no code, no mail, same 200), so it reveals nothing and cannot be used to spray reset mail from a username alone. 5/min, 1-hour single-use code. - POST /v1/users/password/reset {username, code, new_auth_key}: same expiry / attempts / single-use checks as e-mail verification; revokes every session and deletes every registered device key so a stored one cannot sign back in past the reset. - ResetPasswordPage: request code -> code + optional recovery key + new passphrase -> reset + sign-in -> fan-out. connect() falls back to the recovery-wrapped copy when the passphrase key cannot open bundle_enc. Without a recovery key: sign-in is restored and each group needs the operator-unpin fallback. Supporting fixes (found in live testing) - member unpin now also deletes the keypair bundle; connect() mints a fresh identity when handed a bundle it cannot open (unless _rewrapOnly, set by rewrapAllNodes), so a rejoin completes instead of dead-ending before the invite-code prompt. - A browser with no bundle key gets a passphrase prompt on the group page instead of a "go back to the browser you registered on" message. - RegisterPage / LoginPage / ResetPasswordPage trim the username so every key derivation matches the hub's stored form. Docs: docs/auth-confirm.md. Locale keys across all ten catalogues. Tests: test_password_change, test_password_reset, test_recovery_email, test_recovery_key, test_rewrap_fanout, test_bundle_store_recovery, plus additions to test_admin_ops_mnp and test_webrtc_transport. Hub suite 492 passed; node suite 741 passed (the lone test_packaging_units failure is a pre-existing RPM-spec flake, reproducible on main). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGkxJW9br8Y9bhT8ywJ3oc