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-rw-r--r--docs/MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md1
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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
index 394dfb5..6e3513d 100644
--- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
@@ -1006,6 +1006,18 @@ 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 also names the node it is for** (`node` claim = that node's
+Ed25519 key), and the node refuses one that names a different key. The client
+knows the target node's key before it connects and asks for a token bound to it.
+This closes the one thing the audience split alone did not: a member's token,
+handed to the operator of node A, could otherwise be **replayed to node B** the
+member also belongs to — not to read content (that still needs node B's group
+key in the proof, which the operator lacks) but to reach node B's **pre-proof
+window** and fetch the member's *encrypted* keypair bundle for node B. Binding
+the token to node A makes node B refuse it outright. A token that names no node
+is still accepted, because the hub only ever mints one for the authenticated
+requester, so it grants nothing across accounts.
+
**Authorization rules:**
- `group_id` is **mandatory**. Omitting it once skipped the membership check and
@@ -3237,7 +3249,7 @@ 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 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. The token also **names the node it is for** (`node` claim), so a token captured by one node's operator cannot be replayed to another node the member uses — not even to reach its pre-proof window. Closed by the audience split, the node binding, and 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) |
diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md b/docs/MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md
index b3cd6eb..8de731e 100644
--- a/docs/MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md
+++ b/docs/MESHBAY_NODE_PROTOCOL.md
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ absent. `verify_proof` compares with `hmac.compare_digest`.
|---|---|---|
| JWT verifies under the hub's Ed25519 public key (`EdDSA`) | `Invalid JWT: ...` | |
| `aud == MNP_AUD`, and `exp`/`sub`/`scope` present (MNP 4.0) | `Invalid JWT: ...` | the member presents a short-lived **node-audience** token (`POST /v1/nodes/mnp-token`), not its hub session token — the operator holds whatever is presented, and the session token opens the hub API. The two audience strings are in `meshbay_common/tokens.py` |
+| `node` claim, when set, equals this node's key (MNP 4.0) | `Token is not for this node`, code `wrong_node` | the token names the node it was minted for, so one captured by node A's operator cannot be replayed to node B (E10). A token naming no node is accepted — the hub mints an unbound one only for the requester |
| `scope == "user"` | `Wrong token scope` | a node-scoped daemon token must not be usable as a client token |
| `sub` non-empty | `Token has no subject` | |
| `group_id` non-empty | `group_id is required` | an absent group means no membership check to make; there is no default group, and a node's first group is not one |