feat!: MNP 1.0 — seal index and handshake_ack under the group key

2026-09-03T14:16:55Z

`index_sync`, `index_delta` and the `handshake_ack` config payload now travel sealed under a GEK-derived subkey (`meshbay_common/groupbox.py`, mirrored by `sealGroup`/`openGroup` in `crypto.js`). Only `type`, `v`, `group_id` and the ack's `node_pk`/`proof`/`sig` stay in clear — a receiver must route and authenticate before it would trust a decryption. Verify, then decrypt. The ack line is integrity, not confidentiality: the signed handshake transcript names no ack field, so `is_node_admin`, `enabled_apps`, `video_root` and the rest were authenticated by the DTLS channel alone. The index line is defence in depth against a repeat of C1/C6 — a peer served before the handshake completes now gets ciphertext, not filenames. Nothing against an observer, the hub, or a member; that is the whole claim. `index_progress` stays clear (D3, counters only). Chat is out of scope. Failure is fatal: a payload that does not open ends the session naming the message type — never an empty index or an empty `enabled_apps`, both of which are legitimate states. Version negotiation ships here too (phase 15.6, brought forward): `v` + `v_min` on `handshake` and `handshake_challenge`, refused with `version_too_old` / `version_too_new` / `version_unreadable`. The flag day was already being paid for; the next breaking change now costs a refusal message. BREAKING CHANGE: breaks the WebRTC wire every deployed client speaks. Hub and every node must deploy together; the SPA is served by the hub, so a browser picks up the new client on reload. See MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md §11.1a, §13.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HkzbhmMmK8PqQBtGz5zCvY

refactor!: one file_chunk and index_sync encoder for every transport

2026-09-03T13:20:40Z

`file_chunk` and `index_sync` were each built twice, once per transport, and the two copies did not agree. WebRTC sent binary, unsigned chunks carrying a `file_id`; QUIC sent base64 fields, two BLAKE3 hashes, a per-chunk Ed25519 signature and no `file_id`. `index_sync` was plain entries on one transport and a `GroupIndex.serialize()` envelope on the other. One message type, two shapes, one consumer each, and nothing that failed when they drifted — finding C6 one size down, in the two places the handshake unification did not reach. Phase 9.15 moved WebRTC to the binary format and dropped the per-chunk signature; the QUIC encoder was never brought along. It is dropped here rather than reintroduced: the AES-GCM tag authenticates the ciphertext under a GEK-derived key, and since C3 the node authenticates itself once in the handshake instead of once per megabyte. `meshbay_common.protocol` now owns the chunk codec (`chunk_ciphertext`, `file_chunk_wire`, `file_chunk_plaintext`) and `meshbay_node/transport/wire.py` the index builder, which also absorbs the delta the daemon used to hand-build. `test_transport_wire_parity.py` fails if either server grows its own copy back. `ChunkRequest`/`ChunkResponse` are deleted. `ChunkResponse` described the QUIC half while reading like the contract for both, which is what made the fork hard to see at all. BREAKING CHANGE: MNP 0.15 changes the encoding of `file_chunk` and `index_sync` on the QUIC transport. The WebRTC shapes are byte for byte unchanged and no QUIC client ships, which is why this is a MINOR bump; a deployed QUIC peer would have made it MAJOR. Also fixes a test fixture that put a `Path` where the daemon puts a `RootSet`. Nothing caught it: the old QUIC index handler never touched `roots`, and `entry_abs_path` fell through `Path.resolve(strict=...)`, reading the virtual path as a truthy flag and returning the right file by accident. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AsoWC3GmhNdwVFomW3QjH3

meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-node/tests/test_transport_wire_parity.py, branch 0.11

feat!: MNP 1.0 — seal index and handshake_ack under the group key

refactor!: one file_chunk and index_sync encoder for every transport