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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-08-14 19:35:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-08-14 19:35:37 +0200 |
| commit | c83a4f6ab0c8a83e8679e78427ae60dc29bb2c60 (patch) | |
| tree | dea71c8e115742beaac5952c8c65481bbc130b07 /packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py | |
| parent | ee6573c57f721db8550e34e1c1c79c5922c62a4b (diff) | |
| parent | d324792d68503109ab99616af6c85ee37045e169 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-c83a4f6ab0c8a83e8679e78427ae60dc29bb2c60.tar.gz | |
merge: Phase 11.5 security remediation, invite redesign, per-node identity
Brings in the security remediation branch. Three bodies of work, and what they
changed about what this project may claim.
Phase 11.5 closed the gap between the documents and the code: the unauthenticated
node HTTP API and the TCP transport deleted, one handshake shared by the
remaining two transports, mutual authentication, structured admin transcripts,
upload confinement, group isolation, revocation that reaches nodes. Six critical
and seven high findings closed, bounded, or deferred by decision.
The invite redesign closed H3 and M3 — the last open High. The hub was the key
directory: an inviter fetched the invitee's key from it and wrapped the group key
for whatever came back, so a hub answering with its own key was handed the group
key by an honest member following the protocol exactly. That lookup is gone. The
node holds the group key and wraps it itself, for a key its recipient proves
possession of, bound to an account by a one-time code the hub never sees. M3 fell
out of the same work: node authority comes from a local roster, never from the
hub.
Per-node identity cut what remains of C4 down to one operator. A single keypair
used to be copied to every node its owner joined; each node now gets its own, so
cracking the bundle on one machine yields a key that is a stranger everywhere
else — and on that machine, one that unlocks nothing its holder did not already
serve. The bundle KDF moved to Argon2id 128 MB, and the hub stopped storing or
publishing user keys at all.
What this project may now say: the hub cannot read your content unless it ships
you malicious client code. T3 remains, accepted (D1), and is what the native
client removes. C4 is reduced, not closed, until 13.3. Chat is still plaintext at
rest until Phase 15. Draft-v5 §2 states each claim against the adversary it holds
against, which is the convention this branch exists to keep.
Four defects were found by deploying it and using a browser, none by the test
suite: a node going deaf on its hub socket, a token that predated group
membership, a client reading values before they were assigned, and identity keys
a browser held but never re-read. The lessons are recorded in CLAUDE.md.
Tests: 343 across the three packages, plus QE/deploy/e2e.py — register, pair,
invite, join, download, stream, second browser, revoke — run against the live
deployment on a wiped hub and node.
Diffstat (limited to 'packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py index 55dcdde..50e8663 100644 --- a/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py +++ b/packages/meshbay-common/src/meshbay_common/protocol.py @@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ class MNP: CHAT_ATTACHMENT = "chat_attach" # attachment metadata CHAT_HISTORY = "chat_hist" # request message history CHAT_HISTORY_RESPONSE = "chat_hist_resp" # history response with messages - GEK_REQUEST = "gek_req" # browser requests group GEK - GEK_RESPONSE = "gek_resp" # node delivers GEK over secure channel + # GEK_REQUEST / GEK_RESPONSE were removed (NS3, and finding L1): the node must + # never serve the GEK in plaintext. Members obtain it by unwrapping their own + # ECIES bundle. The constants lingered after the handlers were deleted, leaving + # the wire contract looking as though the endpoint still existed. FILE_UPLOAD = "file_upload" # client pushes file chunk to node FILE_UPLOAD_ACK = "file_upload_ack" # node acknowledges chunk receipt FILE_DELETE = "file_delete" # client requests file deletion @@ -44,12 +46,19 @@ class MNP: HANDSHAKE_RESPONSE = "handshake_response" # client → node: HMAC(GEK, nonce) ADMIN_CHALLENGE = "admin_challenge" # node → client: Ed25519 sign challenge ADMIN_RESPONSE = "admin_response" # client → node: Ed25519 signature - GEK_BUNDLE_STORE = "gek_bundle_store" # client → node: store wrapped GEK for a user + # GEK_BUNDLE_STORE was removed with the invite redesign: the node wraps the GEK + # itself, for a key the recipient proved possession of, so no member ever hands + # the node key material (C5b, and the H3 substitution it enabled). GEK_BUNDLE_FETCH = "gek_bundle_fetch" # client → node: request own wrapped GEK GEK_BUNDLE_RESP = "gek_bundle_resp" # node → client: wrapped GEK bundle KEYPAIR_BUNDLE_STORE = "keypair_bundle_store" # client → node: store encrypted keypair bundle KEYPAIR_BUNDLE_FETCH = "keypair_bundle_fetch" # client → node: request own keypair bundle KEYPAIR_BUNDLE_RESP = "keypair_bundle_resp" # node → client: encrypted keypair bundle + KEYPAIR_BUNDLE_DELETE = "keypair_bundle_delete" # client → node: withdraw own backup + JOIN_REQUEST = "join_request" # client → node: pair/recognise this identity + JOIN_RESULT = "join_result" # node → client: outcome + wrapped GEK + INVITE_CREATE = "invite_create" # operator → node: issue a pairing code + INVITE_RESULT = "invite_result" # node → operator: the code, once # ── Index entry ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── |