feat: device linking, and signing in to the hub with a device key

Stage C. Identity keys are per node, so a browser and a desktop client are two
keys on one account there — and the node refused the second where it accepted
the first. Without this, an account created natively could never be opened in a
browser without an operator code per node, and "a native client must not prevent
web use" would have been dead on arrival.

Device linking (node)
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`identities` is keyed by `(user_id, pk_ed25519)` instead of `user_id` alone. The
old shape did `INSERT OR REPLACE`, so a second device overwrote the first
silently; SQLite cannot change a primary key in place, so the table is rebuilt.
Existing pins are carried over — verified against a live roster with 10 of them,
nobody re-pairs.

A new device files a request bound by `sha256(code ‖ its own keys)`, and a key
the node **already pinned** countersigns it. The hub cannot: it has stored no
user keys since 2026-08-14, which is what makes this safe to do without an
operator in the loop.

**The code never reaches the node.** It lists this account's pending requests
with their stored hashes; the approver recomputes and keeps the match. A node
offering fabricated keys would have to produce a hash over a code it has never
seen. Nothing rests on a human comparing digits — that ritual was dropped in
12.1 as "correct, unusable as the default" and must not return by the back door.

The design document had the approver look a request up *by* its hash, which is
circular: computing it needs the keys being asked about. Corrected in both.

Revocation marks rather than deletes, because a deleted row is a key the node
would happily pin again — which is the laptop somebody just reported lost. Your
last device cannot be revoked: coming back would need an operator's code.

Hub — the only change in the whole plan
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`POST /v1/users/auth` signs in with a device Ed25519 key, on the same pattern as
`/v1/nodes/auth`, plus `/v1/users/devices` to register, list and retire. New
`user_devices` table with an Alembic migration, because `create_all()` is not
one.

This is **not** the key directory that was H3, and the tests say so: nothing
reads it but the hub, no group key is ever wrapped for one, and it is a
different key from the per-node identities. What it does cost is metadata — the
hub now knows how many devices an account has and when each last signed in.

Also `client.minimum` / `client.recommended` in `GET /v1/hub/version`: an
installed client meets a newer hub the day the interface ships in a package, and
that is cheap now and awkward to retrofit.

Browser
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The `key_changed` refusal becomes `unknown_device` and offers a linking code
instead of telling someone to find their operator. The Members panel lists this
account's devices here, approves one by code, and retires one.

773 tests pass. `e2e.py` gained a step that links a device end to end against
the live deployment — file, list, recompute, countersign, then open the group
with the new keys and no code — and it also gained `recv_type`, because a step
that assumes the next message is its own answer reads an ack left by the step
before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/config.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/config.py
index 42ebcfd..c0326f0 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/config.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/config.py
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ ui_port  = 18000   # local admin UI (127.0.0.1 only)
 # operator pairing code is typed during the SSH session that printed it.
 invite_ttl_hours = 168   # 7 days
 pair_ttl_hours   = 24
+# How long a new device may wait for one of your existing devices to approve it.
+device_request_ttl_minutes = 60
 
 # How many people may watch a video at once. One ffmpeg runs per viewer for as
 # long as they watch — it remuxes rather than re-encodes, so it costs little CPU
@@ -105,6 +107,10 @@ class NodeConfig:
     # the SSH session that printed it.
     invite_ttl_hours: int = 168   # 7 days
     pair_ttl_hours:   int = 24
+    # A device-add code is read off one screen and typed into another, in one
+    # sitting. Comfort rather than security: the code is bound to the requesting
+    # keys by its hash, so a longer window widens nothing an attacker can use.
+    device_request_ttl_minutes: int = 60
     # How many people may watch a video at the same time. One ffmpeg runs per
     # viewer for as long as they watch, so this is the knob that decides when
     # the node answers "server busy" — see MAX_CONCURRENT_TRANSCODES in
@@ -252,6 +258,9 @@ def load_config(path: Path = DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH) -> Config:
             nd.get("invite_ttl_hours", cfg.node.invite_ttl_hours))
         cfg.node.pair_ttl_hours = int(
             nd.get("pair_ttl_hours", cfg.node.pair_ttl_hours))
+        cfg.node.device_request_ttl_minutes = int(
+            nd.get("device_request_ttl_minutes",
+                   cfg.node.device_request_ttl_minutes))
         cfg.node.max_concurrent_streams = _positive(
             nd.get("max_concurrent_streams", cfg.node.max_concurrent_streams),
             cfg.node.max_concurrent_streams, "max_concurrent_streams")