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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>
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Operator decisions (tmp-decisions.md D1/D2/D4):
- the hub keeps serving the web UI (zero-install path stays)
- a native desktop client is offered ALONGSIDE it, not as a replacement
- hub minimization is off the critical path and may be dropped
Phase 12 was "Hub minimization: registrar and nothing more". Most of it is
dropped: route-inventory blindness test, opaque private-group metadata,
chat_notify metadata minimization, residual schema cleanup. The swarm item
already shipped in 11.5.18.
Two items are kept, because the decision makes them more relevant rather than
less — the hub stays in the trusted path by choice, so what it can substitute
and what code it serves both still matter:
12.1 key transparency + safety numbers [H3]. This is the last open High
finding and nothing else fixes it: the hub is the public key directory,
so substituting a key during an invite hands it the group key silently,
with no JWT forgery and no code injection. Dropping Phase 12 wholesale
would have left it open indefinitely.
12.2 served-SPA integrity: CSP, SRI, and a hub-published signed digest of the
bundle so a native client can verify what the browser was given.
12.3 honest labelling of /app/ as the hub-served path.
12.4 written threat model — the thing that stops the overclaiming pattern.
Recorded consequence: T3 is now accepted permanently for browser users. A hub
that serves the code can exfiltrate keys from the page whatever the protocol
does. The claim that still holds, and that the docs should make, is "the hub
cannot read your content unless it actively attacks you" — not "unreadable by
other parties, even the hub".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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