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@@ -1006,6 +1006,17 @@ a film already playing — a reconnect fetches a fresh one. `meshbay_common/toke
holds the two audience strings, shared by the hub that issues and the node that
verifies.
+**The MNP token names the node it is for** (`node` claim = that node's Ed25519
+key), and a node refuses a token that names a different key. The client knows
+the target node's key before it connects (from `/v1/groups/{id}/nodes`) and asks
+for a token bound to it. So the credential a member hands one operator is of no
+use at any other node the member belongs to: not for a session there — the
+group-key proof already refuses one to whoever does not hold the key — nor for
+the **pre-proof window**, where a token accepted at face value would otherwise
+fetch the member's *encrypted* keypair bundle for that node. A token that names
+no node is accepted, since the hub mints one only for the authenticated
+requester and it therefore grants nothing across accounts.
+
**Authorization rules:**
- `group_id` is **mandatory**. Omitting it once skipped the membership check and
@@ -1808,7 +1819,10 @@ groups from a client (**NS7**).
Signaling is rate-limited, SDP-size bounded, capped per user, and **the caller must
share an active group with the target node**. Otherwise any authenticated user
could make a third party's machine allocate peer connections on demand (**H6**).
-The address in a NAT-punch request must match the caller's source address.
+The NAT-punch signal shares the offer relay's gate — the caller must share an
+active group with the node, checked before anything reveals whether the node is
+connected, so it is no liveness oracle — and the address it names must match the
+caller's own source address.
**The offer ceilings bound a member and never an ordinary one** (**AV30**). They
are sized against an account with twenty groups on three devices, because a
@@ -2601,6 +2615,28 @@ its own bounded pool after a file is first seen: the file appears in the index
immediately with size and hash, and an index delta fills in the technical and parsed
fields once ready. **No scan is blocked waiting for enrichment.**
+**TMDB metadata is queried in one node-wide language, and not until one is chosen.**
+A cached fiche is keyed by TMDB id alone — it records no language, because there is
+only ever one. Two rules keep it honest, both there to make the very first fetch the
+right language rather than English-then-corrected:
+
+- **No language configured, no query.** While `tmdb_language` is unset the node
+ answers `media_meta_req`/`season_meta_req` with confidence 0 and makes no TMDB call
+ — it does *not* fall back to TMDB's English default. Browsing the library is what
+ triggers the lazy fetch, and it routinely happens before the operator has opened the
+ settings, so querying on an unset language would fetch the whole library in English
+ and then throw it all away the moment a language was picked — double the requests
+ against TMDB's rate limit, for a result nobody wanted. The fetch waits for the
+ choice, so the first (and only) query is in the chosen language. English is a
+ first-class choice like any other (`en-US`), not the accidental default of skipping
+ the setting.
+- **Changing the language wipes the cache.** A fiche fetched under the old language
+ would otherwise be served for its whole 30-day TTL. The file→TMDB matches are
+ language-independent and survive the wipe; only the localized fiches are dropped and
+ refetched, lazily, on the next request. The client refetches on its own when the
+ `tmdb_config_ack` carrying the new language arrives, so the grid switches language
+ (or fills in for the first time) without a page reload.
+
### 9.8 Music
An album browser and a player over the audio files in the group's configured
@@ -3237,7 +3273,7 @@ had already been asked.
| **E7** | **Several named roots** per group, forming one virtual root (§6.2) |
| **E8** | **exFAT/NTFS and Windows are the common case.** Linux ships first; that is build order, not population (§10) |
| **E9** | **Group-related server state lives on the node. Always** (§1.3) |
-| **E10** | **The credential a member presents to a node is not the one the hub API accepts.** A member hands its handshake token to the node operator, who is in the threat model, so it is a short-lived node-audience token (`aud = MNP_AUD`, §5.2), useless at the hub API; the session token (`aud` = hub API) is never disclosed to a node. Before this the member presented its hub session token, so an operator held a live hub credential for the member — enough to enumerate their other groups and act as them at the hub. Closed by the audience split and the MNP 4.0 flag day (§5.6) |
+| **E10** | **The credential a member presents to a node opens nothing else.** A member hands its handshake token to the node operator (in the threat model), so it is a short-lived node-audience token (`aud = MNP_AUD`, §5.2): the session token that opens the hub API is never disclosed to a node, and the MNP token names the one node it is for (`node` claim) so it cannot be presented to another node the member uses. Established by the MNP 4.0 flag day (§5.6) |
| **O1** | Initial key setup in the pre-proof window — deferred; that window is where C4 and C5b came from |
| **O2** | A LAN enrolment door — one endpoint, bounded window, one-time code, closing permanently on success |
| **O3** | `device_policy {allow_bundle: false}`, signed by a pinned key — **the mechanism that actually closes C4** (§3.7) |
@@ -3279,7 +3315,7 @@ had already been asked.
20. **Private keys never leave the device on native clients.** Qualified: a browser has no durable storage of its own and still needs a bundle on each node, so C4 closes for an *account* only when it opts out of browser use.
21. **Hub minimisation is enforced by an acceptance test, not by policy.** The hub must be *unable* to see keys, content or file listings.
22. **No new code exchanges between people.** Safety numbers are refused for identity verification, permanently. The device-linking code is between a person's own devices and is unaffected. The total user-visible cost of the whole authorship story is **one notice**: *"this account's key changed"*.
-23. **A member's credential to a node is audience-separated from its hub credential** (**E10**, §5.2). The handshake carries a short-lived `aud = MNP_AUD` token, never the hub session token; the hub API accepts only its own audience. A node operator therefore holds nothing that acts at the hub.
+23. **A member's credential to a node is separate from its hub credential and bound to that node** (**E10**, §5.2). The handshake carries a short-lived `aud = MNP_AUD` token that names the node it is for, never the hub session token; the hub API accepts only its own audience, and each node accepts only a token that names it. A node operator therefore holds nothing that acts at the hub or at another node.
### 14.2 Client architecture