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* feat: device linking, and signing in to the hub with a device keyChristophe Besson2026-08-181-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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) --------------------- `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 --------------------------------------- `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 ------- 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>
* docs: settle the desktop client, and draft v6Christophe Besson2026-08-181-0/+1087
A design discussion on 2026-08-17 settled Phase 13 and, in doing so, changed four things the spec states. v6 restates only those; v5 stays authoritative for everything it does not touch, per the convention v5 itself used with v4. What changed: * The native shell is **Electron**, not pywebview — structural decision 18 reversed. The SPA depends on Chromium-class APIs (WebRTC, WebCrypto X25519/Ed25519, MSE, Service Workers), so keeping Chromium keeps transport.js, crypto.js, keyderive.js, downloads.js and sw.js *as the client*. A system webview meant reimplementing ~2500-3000 lines. The old "69 % reused" figure was measured against an app.js of ~2600 lines; it is 4586. * A group's content is **several named roots**, not one directory, because the planned video and audio libraries will not live in one folder on one disk. * **Device linking**: one person may hold several devices on a node, admitted by a key the node already pinned and bound by a one-time code the new device generates. Without it a native client is refused where a browser is not, and an account created natively could never be opened in a browser. * **Authorship is authenticated, not asserted** — chat senders sign, uploads have a provable owner, and delete authorization moves from the uploading key to the account. And one rule v5 assumed without writing down: **group-related server state lives on the node.** Verified for multi-root — SwarmSource carries hashes and endpoints, no paths. Also here: the Caddy configuration, which was a snippet in the roadmap that would have broken the SPA (it predates /a/<hash>/ asset versioning and would have 404ed /sw.js, silently killing streamed downloads on Firefox and Safari); and downloads.html, which becomes a security page once a release key exists. Phase 15 was re-read against device linking and is wrong as written: a sender key must be per **device**, never per person, or two devices sharing a chain produce key and nonce reuse — C1 again, one level down. senderkeys.py already fails this silently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>