refactor: check a group's signature against the room id, not against a key

Phase 1 of docs/member-archive.md. No wire change, no behaviour change, and one
function where there was one.

`GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByGroup` did three things: walk a threshold key to
the room it derives, compare that to the event's author, and check the id and the
signature. Only the first of those needs a key. The other two need the id the
walk produces -- and a room's id *is* that value, held from both ends by
`GroupKeyState.verifies` and `FrostSigningManager.signingPath`.

So the walk splits off and `isSignedByRoom(event, chatRoomId)` is what remains:
the same three checks, with the one input a caller might not have already
resolved. `isSignedByGroup` becomes the one-line caller that walks first, and
every existing call site and test is untouched.

**Why this is worth a commit of its own.** A member added after the ceremony
holds no `DkgSession`, no share, and -- until a state is re-announced, which
nothing does -- no `GroupKeyState` row either. Under the old signature they could
not check a group signature at all, and an archive of the group's work would have
had to be believed because a member said so. Under the new one they check it
against the id in their own Welcome, and the sender of an archive stops needing
to be trusted. That is the property phases 2-9 are built on, so it lands first
and lands alone.

**The catch moved and had to be kept.** `marmotGroupId` is now called outside
`isSignedByRoom`, so `isSignedByGroup` keeps a `runCatching` of its own.
Without it a threshold key that is not a point stops being a refused state and
becomes an exception in the middle of the inbound path -- every input here is off
the wire, and the whole contract of these functions is that malformed means no.
There is a test that fails if the catch is dropped.

**Tests**, added to `GroupKeyStateTest` where the FROST key material, the second
group and the real-quorum `groupSignature` helper already live:

- a room's id is the only key its signature verifies against -- the same group's
  sibling room fails, and so does another group entirely;
- the verifier does not care what kind it is looking at, over four kinds
  including `GroupKeyStateEvent` itself. That last one is not incidental: a
  key state signed by the room passes exactly as a dialect does, which is why
  the archive needs an allowlist of kinds on top of this and cannot read "the
  group signed it" as permission to apply it;
- a rumor nobody signed is not a group signature -- empty sig, member author,
  which is what every nip30303 event on the wire looks like today;
- claiming the room as author proves nothing without the signature. The room id
  is in the h tag of every kind:445 the group has sent, so writing it into
  `pubKey` is free; the author check and the id check both pass and the signature
  is the whole feature;
- an event edited after signing fails on the id, not on the signature -- and the
  original still passes, which is why the id check is not redundant;
- malformed input is a no rather than a throw, on both forms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ import press.mantra.compose.database.model.FrostSigningItem
import press.mantra.compose.database.model.GroupKeyState
import press.mantra.compose.extensions.toHex
import press.mantra.compose.nostr.frost.GroupKeyStateEvent
import press.mantra.compose.nostr.nip30303.ArtifactEvent
import press.mantra.compose.nostr.nip30303.ChapterEvent
import press.mantra.compose.nostr.nip30303.DialectEvent
/**
* What a room's key state is allowed to convince a member of.
@@ -511,4 +514,200 @@ class GroupKeyStateTest {
assertNull(GroupKeyStateManager.stateFrom(chatRoomId, signed))
}
// ---- The verifier on its own -----------------------------------------
//
// `isSignedByGroup` is the caller that knows a threshold key and a path.
// `isSignedByRoom` is the same three checks with the walk already done, and
// it is what a member holding neither has to work from -- see
// docs/member-archive.md. What these pin down is that a room id alone is
// enough, and that it is enough for any kind rather than only a key state.
/** An event of [kind] authored and signed by [author]'s room at [path]. */
private fun signedByRoom(
kind: Int = DialectEvent.KIND,
content: String = "isiZulu",
tags: Array<Array<String>> = arrayOf(arrayOf("name", "isiZulu")),
createdAt: Long = 1_700_000_500,
author: KeyMaterial = keyMaterial
): Event {
val groupPubKey = identityOf(author).hex
val id = EventHasher.hashId(
pubKey = groupPubKey,
createdAt = createdAt,
kind = kind,
tags = tags,
content = content
)
return Event(
id = id,
pubKey = groupPubKey,
createdAt = createdAt,
kind = kind,
tags = tags,
content = content,
sig = groupSignature(author, id)
)
}
@Test
fun `a room's id is the only key its signature verifies against`() {
val signed = signedByRoom()
assertTrue(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signed, chatRoomId))
// The same group and a real quorum, but another of its rooms. A group
// signature is evidence about one room only, which is what stops work
// signed in one room being applied in another.
assertFalse(
GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(
signed,
SharedKeyDerivation.marmotGroupId(thresholdPublicKey, listOf(9420L, 0L, 1L))
)
)
// And another group entirely.
assertFalse(
GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signed, SharedKeyDerivation.marmotGroupId(otherKey, path))
)
}
@Test
fun `the verifier does not care what kind it is looking at`() {
// The point of splitting it out: an archive carries documents rather than
// key states, and none of the three checks knows the difference.
//
// Note the last one. A GroupKeyStateEvent signed by the room passes here
// exactly as a dialect does, which is why the archive needs an allowlist
// of kinds on top of this and cannot treat "the group signed it" as
// permission to apply it.
listOf(
DialectEvent.KIND,
ArtifactEvent.KIND,
ChapterEvent.KIND,
GroupKeyStateEvent.KIND
).forEach { kind ->
assertTrue(
GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signedByRoom(kind = kind), chatRoomId),
"kind $kind"
)
}
}
@Test
fun `a rumor nobody signed is not a group signature`() {
// Every nip30303 event on the wire today is a rumor: the signature is
// empty and the author is the member who sent it, because what vouches
// for it is the MLS frame. Neither half survives this check, which is
// what makes "the group signed it" mean something narrower than "it
// arrived from the group".
val member = PrivateKey(
ByteVector32("4c0ffee0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000d4")
)
val memberPubKey = XonlyPublicKey(member.publicKey()).value.toHex()
val tags = arrayOf(arrayOf("name", "isiZulu"))
val rumor = Event(
id = EventHasher.hashId(
pubKey = memberPubKey,
createdAt = 1_700_000_500,
kind = DialectEvent.KIND,
tags = tags,
content = "isiZulu"
),
pubKey = memberPubKey,
createdAt = 1_700_000_500,
kind = DialectEvent.KIND,
tags = tags,
content = "isiZulu",
sig = ""
)
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(rumor, chatRoomId))
}
@Test
fun `claiming the room as author proves nothing without the signature`() {
// The forgery an archive would otherwise carry: write the room's id into
// pubKey -- every member knows it, it is in the h tag of every kind:445
// the group has ever sent -- and put anything at all in sig. The author
// check and the id check both pass. The signature is the whole feature.
val tags = arrayOf(arrayOf("name", "isiZulu"))
val forged = Event(
id = EventHasher.hashId(
pubKey = chatRoomId,
createdAt = 1_700_000_500,
kind = DialectEvent.KIND,
tags = tags,
content = "isiZulu"
),
pubKey = chatRoomId,
createdAt = 1_700_000_500,
kind = DialectEvent.KIND,
tags = tags,
content = "isiZulu",
sig = "9".repeat(128)
)
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(forged, chatRoomId))
}
@Test
fun `an event edited after signing fails on the id, not on the signature`() {
val signed = signedByRoom()
val tampered = Event(
id = signed.id,
pubKey = signed.pubKey,
createdAt = signed.createdAt,
kind = signed.kind,
tags = arrayOf(arrayOf("name", "seSotho")),
content = signed.content,
sig = signed.sig
)
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(tampered, chatRoomId))
// The signature over the original id is still perfectly good, which is
// why the id check is not redundant with it: without it, the fields could
// say anything and the signature would still verify against the id they
// no longer hash to.
assertTrue(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signed, chatRoomId))
}
@Test
fun `malformed input is a no rather than a throw`() {
// Everything here arrives off the wire inside somebody else's archive, so
// the failure mode has to be a verdict. A throw would take down the whole
// inbound transaction the page is being applied in.
val signed = signedByRoom()
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signed, ""))
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(signed, "not hex"))
assertFalse(
GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByRoom(
Event(
id = signed.id,
pubKey = signed.pubKey,
createdAt = signed.createdAt,
kind = signed.kind,
tags = signed.tags,
content = signed.content,
sig = "beef"
),
chatRoomId
)
)
}
@Test
fun `a threshold key that is not a point is a no rather than a throw`() {
// The derivation walk moved when isSignedByRoom was split off, and it kept
// a catch of its own. Without one, a malformed key in a state's content
// stops being a refused state and becomes an exception in the middle of
// the inbound path.
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByGroup(signedKeyState(), "z".repeat(66), path))
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByGroup(signedKeyState(), "", path))
assertFalse(GroupKeyStateEvent.isSignedByGroup(signedKeyState(), thresholdPublicKey, emptyList()))
}
}