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authorChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-08-14 19:35:37 +0200
committerChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-08-14 19:35:37 +0200
commitc83a4f6ab0c8a83e8679e78427ae60dc29bb2c60 (patch)
treedea71c8e115742beaac5952c8c65481bbc130b07 /packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py
parentee6573c57f721db8550e34e1c1c79c5922c62a4b (diff)
parentd324792d68503109ab99616af6c85ee37045e169 (diff)
downloadmeshbay-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.
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-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py58
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py
index 321e43c..0770148 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/nodes.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from meshbay_hub.auth import issue_access_token
from meshbay_hub.api.deps import get_current_user
from meshbay_hub.api.middleware import limiter
+from meshbay_hub.api.netutil import client_ip
from meshbay_hub.db.engine import get_db
from meshbay_hub.db.models import GroupMember, IPLog, Node, User
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ async def node_auth(
sig = base64.b64decode(body.signature)
pk.verify(sig, message)
except (InvalidSignature, Exception):
- db.add(IPLog(event="node_auth_fail", ip_address=_ip(request), detail=body.username))
+ db.add(IPLog(event="node_auth_fail", ip_address=client_ip(request), detail=body.username))
await db.commit()
raise HTTPException(status_code=401, detail="Invalid signature")
@@ -68,9 +69,9 @@ async def node_auth(
group_ids = [gid for (gid,) in memberships.all()]
access_token = issue_access_token(
- user.id, user.pk_node_ed25519, ttl=3600, groups=group_ids, scope="node")
+ user.id, ttl=3600, groups=group_ids, scope="node")
- db.add(IPLog(user_id=user.id, event="node_auth", ip_address=_ip(request)))
+ db.add(IPLog(user_id=user.id, event="node_auth", ip_address=client_ip(request)))
await db.commit()
return {
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ async def node_auth(
class NodeAnnounceRequest(BaseModel):
pk_node: str
endpoint_hint: str | None = None
+ timestamp: int | None = None # unix seconds
+ signature: str | None = None # base64 Ed25519 over the announce message
@router.post("/announce", status_code=201)
@@ -92,6 +95,48 @@ async def announce_node(
current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user),
db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
):
+ """
+ Register a node record.
+
+ Finding M8: this accepted any pk_node with no proof the announcer held the
+ matching private key, so a user could announce a record carrying someone
+ else's node key — useful for muddying node identity, and records accumulated
+ without limit. The announcer must now sign a domain-separated message binding
+ the key to their account, the same pattern already used by /v1/nodes/auth.
+ """
+ if body.timestamp is None or not body.signature:
+ raise HTTPException(
+ status_code=400,
+ detail="announce requires timestamp and signature (proof of possession)")
+
+ now = int(time.time())
+ if abs(now - body.timestamp) > NODE_AUTH_TIMESTAMP_WINDOW:
+ raise HTTPException(status_code=401, detail="Timestamp too old or too far ahead")
+
+ message = (f"meshbay:node_announce:{current_user.id}:"
+ f"{body.pk_node}:{body.timestamp}").encode()
+ try:
+ pk = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(base64.b64decode(body.pk_node))
+ pk.verify(base64.b64decode(body.signature), message)
+ except Exception:
+ db.add(IPLog(user_id=current_user.id, event="node_announce_fail",
+ ip_address=client_ip(request), detail=body.pk_node[:16]))
+ await db.commit()
+ raise HTTPException(status_code=401, detail="Invalid node key proof of possession")
+
+ # One active record per key per account — announcing again updates in place
+ # instead of accumulating rows.
+ existing = await db.execute(
+ select(Node).where(Node.user_id == current_user.id,
+ Node.pk_node == body.pk_node))
+ node = existing.scalar_one_or_none()
+ if node is not None:
+ node.endpoint_hint = body.endpoint_hint
+ db.add(IPLog(user_id=current_user.id, event="node_announce",
+ ip_address=client_ip(request), detail=body.endpoint_hint))
+ await db.commit()
+ return {"node_id": node.id}
+
node = Node(
user_id=current_user.id,
pk_node=body.pk_node,
@@ -101,7 +146,7 @@ async def announce_node(
db.add(IPLog(
user_id=current_user.id,
event="node_announce",
- ip_address=_ip(request),
+ ip_address=client_ip(request),
detail=body.endpoint_hint,
))
await db.commit()
@@ -128,8 +173,3 @@ async def get_node(
}
-def _ip(request: Request) -> str:
- fwd = request.headers.get("X-Forwarded-For")
- if fwd:
- return fwd.split(",")[0].strip()
- return request.client.host if request.client else "unknown"