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Jonathan BennettandClaude Opus 5.5 34cb8d5828 Rework XEdDSA signing policy: Compatible stops signing, AES-CCM overrides, Strict exemptions (#12191)
* Rework XEdDSA signing policy: Compatible stops signing, AES-CCM overrides

Signing costs 66 bytes per packet. On a crowded mesh that matters, and
packets on an AES-CCM channel were paying it on top of the CCM tag.

Sending (perhapsEncode):
- Compatible, the default, no longer signs. Balanced and Strict sign
  broadcasts as before; licensed (ham) nodes also sign unicasts, but now
  only under Balanced or Strict.
- Packets on an AES-CCM (use_aead) channel are never signed. This also
  removes the case where a signed CCM packet passed signedDataFits() but
  then failed the CCM size check with TOO_LARGE.

Receiving (checkXeddsaReceivePolicy):
- Only Strict drops a packet for lacking a signature. Balanced no longer
  drops unsigned broadcasts from known signers; that downgrade rule and
  its canonical-sizing helper are removed.
- An AES-CCM channel overrides Strict: its unsigned or unverifiable
  packets are accepted, since the CCM tag authenticates them.
- A malformed or failing signature still drops the packet in every mode.

Identity (new NodeDB::refusesUnsignedIdentity, used by updateUser,
NodeInfoModule and TrafficManagementModule):
- Balanced and Strict still refuse an unsigned NodeInfo that would change
  a known signer's identity, except on an AES-CCM channel.
- Compatible accepts it, since firmware before 2.8 strips signatures when
  relaying.

Channels::isAEADEnabled() now returns false for an out-of-range index
instead of logging, since receive paths pass a packet's index unchecked.
XEDDSA_SIGNATURE_FIELD_BYTES lost its only user and is removed.

Tests: test_packet_signing drops the cases that pinned the removed
downgrade sizing (A7-A9, A18-A19, E5, E10-E13, D1), flips A4 and E1 to
acceptance, and adds AES-CCM, Compatible and ham cases (A18-A20, B18-B20,
N12-N13). test_mqtt and test_traffic_management pin the same rules on the
plaintext-MQTT and NodeInfo-cache paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Sign NodeInfo unicasts, forward signed requests, check signed NodeInfo keys

A NodeInfo request or reply carries the key a peer will use for PKI direct
messages, but off ham mode only broadcasts were signed. A Strict node
therefore dropped every NodeInfo reply and could only learn a new peer's key
from a signed broadcast, hours apart.

- perhapsEncode: under Balanced and Strict, NodeInfo is signed even when
  unicast (still never on an AES-CCM channel, never in Compatible).
- TrafficManagementModule: a NodeInfo request that carries a signature is
  forwarded instead of answered from the cache. Its sender may need a signed
  reply, and a reply sent on the target's behalf can never be signed.
- checkXeddsaReceivePolicy: a signed NodeInfo verified against a stored key
  must advertise that same key, and the key must hash to the sender's node
  number, as first contact already requires. Otherwise it is dropped. This
  stops a valid signature vouching for another key, and stops a key planted on
  trust under the wrong node number proving itself with fresh signatures.

Tests: B7 now expects NodeInfo unicasts signed; B21 pins signing per policy;
A21-A23 pin the key-consistency check; a traffic-management case pins that a
signed request is forwarded while the same request unsigned is answered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Strict: accept unsigned acks and traceroutes; never sign traceroutes

Strict dropped every unsigned packet that was not PKI-encrypted. Acks and
traceroutes are never signed, so a Strict node saw no acks, retransmitted
every reliable packet to exhaustion, and could not take part in traceroutes.

- checkXeddsaReceivePolicy: Strict no longer drops an unsigned ROUTING_APP
  packet; an ack carries its own proof (AckProof.h). Traceroutes are accepted
  in every mode, and any signature on one is ignored rather than verified.
- perhapsEncode: a traceroute is never signed, including in ham mode, which
  signs other unicasts. Every relay rewrites the route, so a signature fails
  verification from the second hop on, and a bad signature drops the packet in
  every mode.
- TraceRouteModule::alterReceivedProtobuf: strip any signature when rewriting
  the route, so a traceroute signed by older firmware is not dropped by older
  receivers further along.

Tests: A24-A26 (Strict accepts unsigned acks and traceroutes; a traceroute
signature is ignored), B22 (traceroutes never signed), B7 updated, and
test_traceroute_nexthop pins the signature strip on rewrite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Drop the traceroute signature strip

Only 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 pre-release nodes ever signed a traceroute: ham mode,
which signs every unicast, and client-sent broadcast traceroutes. Stripping
the signature on rewrite only helped those pre-releases interoperate, which
does not justify the code. Receivers still ignore a traceroute signature, and
traceroutes are still never signed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Sign unicast positions under Balanced and Strict

A position request or reply is PKI-excluded, so a signature is its only
authentication, but off ham mode only broadcasts were signed. Strict dropped
every position request and reply, and under Balanced any channel member could
fake another node's location with an unsigned reply.

perhapsEncode now signs POSITION_APP unicasts under Balanced and Strict, as it
does NodeInfo. Nothing rewrites a position in flight - precision is applied by
the originator before signing - so the signature survives relaying, and it
binds request_id so a reply cannot be retargeted. Compatible and AES-CCM
channels still sign nothing.

Tests: B23 pins position unicast signing per policy and Strict acceptance; B7
expects position unicasts signed; B2 and B5 use PRIVATE_APP as their unsigned
unicast now that position is signed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Strict: accept unsigned key verification messages

Key verification's bootstrap messages (M1, M2) go out channel-encrypted
because the peer's key is not known yet, so they cannot carry a signature the
receiver could verify. Strict dropped them, so two Strict nodes that did not
already hold each other's keys could never run key verification.

The handshake does not rely on the transport: hash1 binds both public keys to
the security number the users exchange, and a key is only stored after the
numbers match and the user accepts. A forged request can at most raise a
verification prompt, bounded by the single session slot and the 60 s remote
cooldown - as it already can under Balanced.

Test: A27 pins that Strict accepts an unsigned key verification message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* test_nodedb_identity_hygiene: pin the identity refusal to Balanced

Two cases expected updateUser() to refuse an unsigned update from a known
signer under a zeroed config. Zeroed is Compatible, which now accepts it, so
they failed in CI. Run them under Balanced, and add the Compatible
counterpart so both halves of the rule are pinned at the updateUser level.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Ham mode: sign in place of PKI, authenticate acks with the ack proof (#12200)

Ham mode signed every unicast under Balanced and Strict, acks included. A
signed ack from a node whose key a Strict receiver lacks is dropped, so the
sender retransmits to exhaustion, and the signature costs 66 bytes where the
ack proof costs about 10.

Ham mode now signs the unicasts PKI would cover in regular mode, plus
broadcasts, NodeInfo and position as before. Acks are no longer signed; they
carry the ack proof, which needs only the two nodes' keys, not PKI. Strict
already accepts unsigned acks.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Notify the client when an unsigned identity update is refused

Balanced and Strict refuse an unsigned NodeInfo that would change a known
signer's name or role, but the refusal only reached the device log, so the
user saw a stale name with no reason.

Send a ClientNotification naming the node (by the name already held, never
the refused claim) and how to accept its updates again: remove the node.
Rate limited to once per node per boot, over the last 8 nodes, and to one
notice per minute overall, so a signer relayed through pre-2.8 firmware or a
burst of them cannot flood the client.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Refused identity notice: only for a name or role change, drop the warnings

Notify only when the refused NodeInfo would have changed the stored long
name, short name or role, compared through CopyUserToNodeInfoLite so
truncation and sanitizing cannot read as a change. A signer held only in
the warm tier has no stored name to compare and is not reported.

Remove the two LOG_WARNs at the refusal sites; the notice replaces them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Refused identity notice: name the security setting that refused it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

* Refused identity notice: one global hourly throttle, no per-node tracking

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011DjtCrF8NLMGs9DtEVQkUK

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 01:08:36 +00:00
Ben MeadorsandClaude Opus 5 83fd62b756 test(native): add 14 suites for routing, persistence, parsing and identity gaps (#11515)
* test(native): add 14 suites for routing, persistence, parsing and identity gaps

Coverage audit of the native test tree; adds the highest-value untested
logic as 11 new suites and extends 3 existing ones (200 test functions).

New: test_stream_framing, test_nodedb_boot_recovery,
test_nodedb_legacy_migration, test_nodedb_v25_roundtrip,
test_nodedb_identity_hygiene, test_channel_keys, test_reliable_ack_matrix,
test_hop_start_policy, test_routing_response_hops,
test_phone_api_config_dump, test_observer.
Extended: test_rtc, test_mqtt, test_xmodem.

Two source changes the audit produced:

- StreamAPI::handleRecStream copied stream->read()'s `cInt < 0` EOF check
  into the buffer-fed path, where there is no EOF sentinel; with signed
  char any byte >= 0x80 (START1 is 0x94) aborted the parse. Read the byte
  as uint8_t directly. Latent on develop (no callers), pinned by
  test_stream_framing.
- Extract the post-decode pre-hop predicate from Router::handleReceived
  into shouldSkipHandleForPostDecodeHop() (NodeDB.h) so
  test_hop_start_policy drives the exact expression the router calls.
  No behavior change.

test/state-manifest.tsv declares the suites that construct a NodeDB.
Full 68-suite Docker coverage run matches the pre-change baseline.

* test(native): address review - harden observer dispatch, trim comments

Review follow-ups on the coverage-audit suites:

- Observable::notifyObservers() erased list nodes while holding an iterator
  into them, so an observer that unobserves itself from onNotify corrupted the
  dispatch. Today the only self-detacher (PhoneAPI::onNotify ->
  checkConnectionTimeout -> close -> unobserve) survives solely because it
  returns -1 and aborts the chain before the increment; that unwritten contract
  is now gone. Removal during a dispatch nulls the entry and the outermost
  notify sweeps afterwards, which keeps self-detach, next-detach and
  destruction-during-notify all safe without an allocation. Hoisting the next
  iterator instead would have inverted the hazard and broken the existing
  next-detach case. Two regression tests added.

- Correct the documented caller of shouldSkipHandleForPostDecodeHop: the call
  is in Router::dispatchReceived, not handleReceived.

- Cast hop fields to unsigned at the %u call site in test_hop_start_policy.

- Trim the new suites' file headers to the one-or-two-line rule in AGENTS.md.

- Rename eight test functions whose names were exactly `test_` + 35 chars:
  that is the shape of a Lob API key, so trufflehog flagged them as secrets
  and failed the Trunk CI check.

Full 68-suite Docker coverage run matches the pre-change baseline.

* test(native): revert the observer dispatch change, keep the contract test

Backs out the notifyObservers() deferred-removal hardening from the previous
commit. It was reviewer-driven scope creep: nothing in the coverage audit
needed it, no test required it, and it changes dispatch semantics in a header
with ~76 observe() call sites on native verification alone.

The hazard it addressed is not reachable today. The only observer that
unobserves itself from onNotify is PhoneAPI (onNotify ->
checkConnectionTimeout -> close -> unobserve), and it returns -1, which aborts
the chain before the iterator is advanced past the erased node.

test_self_detach_with_abort_during_notify stays: it passes against the
unmodified dispatch and pins that the -1 is load-bearing, so a later cleanup
that "simplifies" it away goes red. The unsafe variant (self-detach returning
0) is documented in a comment rather than tested, since asserting it would be
asserting UB.

* fix(serial): recover the frame behind a stray framing marker

A byte that failed the START2 check was discarded rather than re-tested as
a possible START1, so 0x94 0x94 0xc3 ... lost the real frame: one corrupted
byte on a noisy UART silently dropped the frame behind it. Re-test the byte
in place instead.

Applied to both copies of the receive state machine. readStream() is the one
that matters in the field - it is the serial path every phone client uses -
while handleRecStream() still has no callers on develop.

Strictly widens what the parser accepts; no frame that parsed before parses
differently. test_stream_framing covers it on both receive paths, plus a run
of stray markers and a START1-then-unrelated-byte resync.

This was originally documented as a known gap in the framing suite. Fixing it
instead was NomDeTom's call on review: a passing test asserting the bad
behavior is what makes it hard to change later, and it is the same defect
shape as the signedness fix three functions away.

Also: use Throttle::deadlinePassed() in test_reliable_ack_matrix rather than
a bare millis() compare, matching the house deadline rule.

* test(native): cover the stray-marker resync on the buffer path too

The stray-marker fix went into both copies of the receive state machine, but
only test_stray_start1_before_frame_still_delivers drove both. The repeated-
marker and unrelated-byte cases drove readStream() alone, so a regression in
handleRecStream() would have gone unnoticed by two of the three.

Verified load-bearing: reverting only the handleRecStream() half of the fix
turns test_repeated_stray_start1_before_frame_still_delivers red on the new
assertion. test_start1_then_unrelated_byte_resyncs stays green under that
mutation by design - its failing byte is 0x00, where both branches reset to 0 -
and covers the other half of the ternary.

Also drops the stale header on test_stray_start1_before_frame_still_delivers,
which still described the gap as pinned-as-is after the fix landed.

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

* test(native): make the hop-start truth table assert the rows it prints

test_truth_table_summary was six TEST_MESSAGE lines and no assertion, so it
reported as a case that could not fail - the anti-pattern #11517 names in its
unfinished assertion-presence lint, and the one exception to NomDeTom's "no
RUN_TEST without an assertion" pass over this PR.

The printed row and the checked expectation now come from one struct, so the
summary cannot narrate a table the predicates no longer implement. It also
covers the consequence columns the per-row tests do not assert together:
classifyHopStart, shouldDropPacketForPreHop and shouldSkipHandleForPostDecodeHop
for the same packet, with the expectations gated on MESHTASTIC_PREHOP_DROP.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 12:41:08 +00:00