Decentralized social media network — no central server, user-owned data
Removes the last persona-signed direct push on the wire. Group/circle
seeds no longer travel via the 0xA0 `GroupKeyDistribute` uni-stream from
admin to member. Instead the admin publishes an encrypted post containing
the seed + metadata; each member is a recipient; the post propagates via
the normal CDN. Members decrypt with their posting secret to recover the
seed.
Eliminates the wire-level coordination signal between an admin endpoint
and each member endpoint when a group is created, a member is added, or
a key is rotated.
Core pieces:
- New `VisibilityIntent::GroupKeyDistribute` variant.
- New `types::GroupKeyDistributionContent` — JSON payload inside the
encrypted post: group_id, circle_name, epoch, group_public_key, admin,
canonical_root_post_id, group_seed.
- New `group_key_distribution` module:
- `build_distribution_post(admin, admin_secret, record, group_seed, members)`
returns `(PostId, Post, PostVisibility::Encrypted)` — wraps the CEK
per member using standard `crypto::encrypt_post`.
- `try_apply_distribution_post(s, post, visibility, our_personas)`
iterates every posting identity's secret trying to decrypt; on
success stores `group_key` + `group_seed` and returns true.
- `process_pending(s, our_personas)` scans stored
GroupKeyDistribute-intent posts and applies any we can decrypt.
Node API:
- `add_to_circle`: builds a distribution post wrapping the current seed
to just the new member, stores with intent=GroupKeyDistribute, and
propagates via `update_neighbor_manifests_as` (no direct push).
- `create_group_key_inner`: at group creation, after wrapping keys for
every non-self member, builds one distribution post addressed to all
of them and propagates through the CDN.
- `rotate_group_key`: same pattern at epoch rotation.
- New `Node::process_group_key_distributions` — scans and applies.
`sync_all` now calls it automatically so seeds take effect right after
a pull cycle.
Removals (wire-breaking; v0.6.2 already forked):
- MessageType 0xA0 (`GroupKeyDistribute`), its payload struct, the
handler in connection.rs, and `Network::push_group_key` all deleted.
ConnectionManager's `secret_seed` (network secret) is no longer used for
group-key unwrapping — that shifted to posting secrets in the apply
pass, matching the v0.6.1+ identity split where group keys are wrapped
to posting NodeIds.
Tests: new `member_decrypts_and_applies` covers a recipient decrypting +
storing the seed and a non-recipient failing to apply. Workspace
compiles clean; 118 / 118 core tests pass on a stable run (pre-existing
flaky `relay_cooldown` test with a 1ms timing window is unrelated).
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