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<title>Merge origin/main into the chat encryption work</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T16:03:52Z</updated>
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<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-09-07T16:03:52Z</published>
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Both sides landed a breaking MNP change and both called it 2.0, which is right:
the sealed upload, the removal of `stream_seg` and mandatory chat encryption
share one flag day. They are recorded as one version in `__init__.py` rather
than as a race between two.

The resolutions that were decisions rather than mechanics:

* **`MNP_MIN_SUPPORTED` moves to "2.0".** The sealed upload alone was a
  *confined* break — a 1.x peer could still connect, browse, download, stream
  and chat, with only its uploads refused by `upload_not_sealed` — so the floor
  deliberately stayed at "1.0". Mandatory chat encryption ends that
  confinement: a 1.x peer can neither produce a sealed chat message nor read
  one, so it would connect, look fine, and be unable to say anything. Refusing
  it at the handshake is the honest form. The per-message `upload_not_sealed`
  path is untouched and still right if the floor is ever lowered.
* **`sendChat` throws on an `error` reply**, from origin, applied to the sealed
  send. It matters more after this change, not less: the node now refuses a
  stale epoch, a malformed envelope and a device claim that is not the
  connection's own, so there are three new ways for a message to be rejected
  and none of them may look like a message that was sent.
* **`req_id` supersedes the per-type routing** this branch added for
  `chat_keys_resp` and `device_hello_ack`. Both blocks are kept beside the
  existing `chat_hist_resp` one, for the same stated reason — a node too old to
  stamp — and their comments no longer claim to be the mechanism that closes
  the class. `req_id` is.
* **`chat_send_probe.py` is rebuilt on origin's structure**, not beside it: two
  scenarios, a stub that stamps `req_id`, `music_meta_req` as the older pending
  request. The encrypted path is layered on — a real Ed25519 device key
  generated in the page, and a `chat_keys_resp` sealed by the shipped Python,
  because a payload the page built itself would prove only that the page agrees
  with the page.
* **`test_reply_correlation.py` now sends a sealed message.** Its subject is
  which of the two messages leaving that handler carries the id; plaintext chat
  was only the fixture, and the node refuses one now.
* `groupbox` keeps both new purposes (`upload`, `chat_keys`); `protocol.py`
  keeps origin's removal of `STREAM_SEGMENT` and this branch's correction of
  the "Double Ratchet message" comment on `CHAT_MESSAGE`, which was wrong when
  it was written and is wrong differently now.

Full suite on the merged tree: 1993 passed, 11 failed — the same 11 that fail
on a pristine checkout (2 Windows service tests, 1 apps-enabled policy, 7
transcode tests that pass in isolation, and the WebRTC invite test that hangs
on its own).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TZZxYjz8YeWRz13xDi8LJr
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<title>fix(mnp): give a reply an id, so it stops being routed by luck</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T14:02:10Z</updated>
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<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-09-07T14:02:10Z</published>
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MNP carried no correlation id. A reply named its own type and nothing
else, so a client with more than one request in flight worked out which
one a message answered from the message itself — and for the replies
that name nothing it could not. `_dispatch` fell through to matching by
arrival order, which is a guess. `_sendAndWait` had the right value all
along: it keys `_pending` by `this._seqId++` and never put it on the
wire.

The guess fails asymmetrically, which is why it hid. The victim is not
the request that was answered wrongly — it is the unrelated one that now
waits out its own 30s timeout for a reply already delivered elsewhere.
Live on 2026-09-06: five `music_meta_req` sat pending for over 100
seconds behind a failing MusicBrainz, and a `device_list_result` was
handed to one of them. The composer is disabled while a send is in
flight, so a chat message whose reply went astray the same way left the
Chat tab looking frozen for thirty seconds, then unfroze on its own.

The `ack` half of this was fixed on 2026-08-30 by matching on request
type. That closed the instance and left the class open: a refusal has no
type to match on either, and `_dispatch_message`'s catch-all answers
every unforeseen failure with `{"type": "error", "detail": "Request
failed"}` — 238 of this module's 240 error sends name nothing at all.

`req_id` now rides on the request and comes back on the reply. On the
node it is published for the whole handler in a ContextVar and stamped
by `_send`: a parameter would have meant threading an argument through
all 240 send sites, and asyncio copies the context into a task, so a
handler that `_spawn`s its real work still answers under the right id.
It is never stamped on a broadcast — those answer nothing, and the
owner check in `_send` is what keeps a chat broadcast or an index push
from reaching another peer looking like a reply.

On the client, `_dispatch` resolves on `req_id` first and the
arrival-order fallback is gone the moment a node proves it stamps
(`_correlates`, armed by the handshake's own reply). The fallback stays
for an MNP 1.0 node, unchanged and no wider: there it is the only thing
there is, and removing it would leave device_list_result, join_result
and the handshake replies reaching nobody.

Two things fall out. `sendChat` refuses an `error` reply like every
other request in the file — it returned it as success, which did not
matter while a refusal reached the wrong caller anyway and would now
show a rejected message as sent. And `_group_ctx` uses `.get`: a reload
pops a removed group while sessions connected to it are open, and every
request they had left raised KeyError into that same catch-all.

Sealed index messages are the one exception to the fast path. They
cannot be handed over until they are opened, which is asynchronous while
`_dispatch` is not — resolving on the id alone gave `fetchIndex` the
envelope and skipped `onIndexSync` entirely. Caught by extending
`index_seal_probe.mjs` to stamp a reply the way a current node does,
after the hub suite passed over it: the probe built its own frames and
had never seen one.

Tests, all failing before and passing after: `test_chat_send.py` drives
the real ChatPanel over the real transport for both shapes of reply with
an older request pending (3 of its 6 are new, and the 3 for `ack` pass
either way, so it discriminates); `test_reply_correlation.py` pins the
node's half — the refusals that name nothing else, the broadcast that
must not be stamped, and a late reply from a spawned task answering
under its own id rather than the most recent request's.

Full suite: 1897 passed, same 11 pre-existing failures as before.

QUIC keeps its own dispatch and is not stamped. It is disabled by
default and no browser request reaches it, but the asymmetry is real.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dn1xYx9uT69mCB6UDvyKAN
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