feat(chat): migrate P2P peer chat to the kind-14 NIP-44 chat envelope - #657
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- Add NostrEventExtensions.createChatRumor: signed kind-1 inner event carrying a random nonce tag so identical texts sent within the same second produce distinct inner ids (dedup no longer drops them) - Adopt the helper in the dispute chat send path - Tests: rumor shape, id uniqueness at equal timestamps, and kind-14 envelope round-trip with the nonce tag
- Rename DisputeChatCursorStore to ChatCursorStore with a keyPrefix parameter; logic (clamp, monotonic advance, overlap, warmUp) unchanged - disputeChatCursorStoreProvider keeps the dispute_chat_since_ prefix, so cursors stored by older builds are preserved as-is - Add chatCursorStoreProvider (chat_since_ prefix, keyed by orderId) for the upcoming peer chat kind-14 migration - Move tests to test/services/, add a prefix-isolation case
- Replace the 1-layer gift wrap (kind 1059) with the spec envelope: inner kind 1 signed by the trade key, NIP-44 self-encrypted under K_conv, outer kind 14 authored by K_sign (full wire replacement, no network dual-read; stored 1059 history still decodes locally) - Subscribe by authors = pub(K_sign) with a durable since cursor and limit, never by #p (third-party flooding) - Route incoming events by outer author in the notifier and in the background service; background chat filters become author-based - Add Session.peerChatAllowedSigners for inner-signer validation - Remove p2pWrap (no producers left); keep p2pUnwrap for stored pre-migration history - Update P2P chat architecture docs
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. WalkthroughPeer chat now uses derived Kind 14 envelopes with authenticated signing and encryption keys. Legacy Kind 1059 handling remains for stored history. Chat cursors are shared across dispute and peer conversations. ChangesKind-14 chat contracts
Cursor persistence and subscriptions
Chat delivery and notifications
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The chat-envelope migration can allow an invalid relay envelope to be stored before authentication, potentially hiding a legitimate message with the same event ID. Merge should wait for this issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ChatRoomNotifier
participant ChatKeys
participant NostrEvent
participant ChatCursorStore
participant BackgroundNotificationService
ChatRoomNotifier->>ChatKeys: Derive conversation and signing keys
ChatRoomNotifier->>NostrEvent: Create rumor and Kind-14 envelope
ChatRoomNotifier->>ChatCursorStore: Advance cursor after acceptance
BackgroundNotificationService->>ChatKeys: Derive keys for notification handling
BackgroundNotificationService->>NostrEvent: Unwrap and validate peer chat
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In `@lib/features/chat/notifiers/chat_room_notifier.dart`:
- Around line 181-192: The event is persisted and deduplicated before its
envelope is authenticated, allowing an invalid copy to block a later valid event
with the same ID. In the event-processing flow around chatUnwrap, move the
duplicate check and putItem operation to after successful chatUnwrap, while
preserving cursor advancement only for accepted events. Add a regression test
covering an invalid envelope followed by a valid envelope sharing the same ID.
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- A signature-corrupted copy of an event keeps the same Nostr id, so storing it before verification let a malicious relay occupy the id slot and dedup away the valid copy permanently - Keep the cheap hasItem fast-path but persist only after chatUnwrap succeeds, in both the peer and dispute chat notifiers - Add a notifier-level regression test (invalid envelope delivered before the valid one with the same id)
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Thanks for the migration work. I found one blocking issue in the background peer-chat subscription path.
I verified the current head (66978e0b240787dbce089a1d853ab0d338bbc9c0), read the PR conversation/review thread (the earlier CodeRabbit auth-before-persist issue is resolved/outdated on this head), checked the changed code paths, and confirmed GitHub's build check is green. I could not run Flutter locally because this environment has neither flutter nor dart installed; git diff --check origin/main...HEAD passed.
The user information tab still showed session.sharedKey.private, which was the P2P chat read key under the kind-1059 envelope but became a mere HKDF input after the kind-14 migration. Disclosing the raw ECDH secret also handed over K_sign, letting a reader forge messages in the conversation. K_conv is the only key the dispute disclosure flow requires, and the solver derives pub(K_conv) from it to locate the events.
The dynamic hook that subscribes to a conversation learned while the app is backgrounded built a filter with only kinds and authors, so a restored subscription replayed an unbounded backlog after a service restart. - Carry the order id into the hook and reuse its persisted since cursor - Extract chatSubscriptionFilter so foreground and background cannot drift - Name the cursor key prefixes, shared with the Riverpod-free isolate The cursor is only read in the background, never advanced: that path does not persist events, so advancing it would move since past a message that was never stored.
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Thanks for the updates. I re-reviewed the current head (a359a6dcaa54da19b391ae095b1d130bac90db87). The earlier CodeRabbit auth-before-persist issue is fixed/outdated, but the background peer-chat cursor/dedup problem is still blocking.
The dynamic background chat subscription now includes since and limit, but the accepted peer-chat notification path still does not persist any processed marker or advance/update the peer-chat cursor after chatUnwrap accepts the event. Because the filter is also persisted for background-service restore, a restarted service can recreate the same stale {authors, since, limit} subscription and re-fetch/re-notify previously accepted messages. See the inline comment for the concrete path.
Checks performed: reviewed the PR conversation and resolved/outdated threads, inspected the current diff and background/foreground kind-14 chat paths, and git diff --check d9852bfc122d11a8460528b3b7fd9ae8c2a53d83...HEAD passed. I could not run Flutter locally because this environment has neither flutter nor dart installed. GitHub build was still in progress during this review, so this verdict is based on the code blocker above.
Inline anchor fallback: This still leaves the background peer-chat path without a durable accepted-event marker. The dynamic filter is now bounded, but after retryNotification() succeeds for a peer chat, _processPeerChat() only decrypts/validates and returns a synthetic notification message; it does not store the chat event, and this hook does not advance/update ChatCursorStore or the persisted filter. Since the same filter map is saved to backgroundFilters, a background-service restart restores the same stale since and can re-fetch/re-notify the already accepted message again.
Please make the background path update a durable marker only after chatUnwrap accepts the event: either persist the accepted event id, or advance the peer cursor and rewrite the persisted/restored filter for this conversation. Rejected/decrypt-failed events must still leave the cursor untouched.
The background service notified but stored nothing, so a service restart restored the same filter, refetched the event and notified again. Both the peer and dispute paths now write a durable marker right after chatUnwrap accepts the envelope; rejected events still leave storage untouched. - Persist through the isolate already-open event store via a hook, to avoid a second Sembast handle on the same database - Share the on-disk record shape between the notifiers and the background - Treat "already stored" as skip-the-write, not skip-the-event: dispute chat never reloads history on resume, so a background-stored message would have stayed invisible until an app restart The cursor is still only read in the background, never advanced: advancing it without the foreground having the event would move `since` past a message that was never stored.
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Re-reviewed the current head (cfefb993f8610ea5a3342fe40e36556e12ad0b46). The background peer-chat blocker from my previous review is now addressed: after chatUnwrap accepts a peer/admin chat event, the background path writes the same durable chat record shape that the foreground history loader expects, and the foreground notifier now keeps processing already-stored background events instead of dropping them at the outer-id dedup check. The earlier CodeRabbit auth-before-persist issue is also resolved/outdated on this head.
Checks performed: reviewed the PR conversation and thread state, inspected the current diff and the follow-up delta from a359a6dcaa54da19b391ae095b1d130bac90db87, verified the kind-14 foreground/background chat paths, ran git diff --check d9852bfc122d11a8460528b3b7fd9ae8c2a53d83...HEAD, and confirmed GitHub build is green. I still could not run Flutter locally because this environment has neither flutter nor dart installed.
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Migrates the buyer↔seller P2P chat from the legacy 1-layer gift wrap (kind 1059)
to the chat envelope specified in https://mostro.network/protocol/chat.html —
the same
ChatKeys+chatWrap/chatUnwrapprimitives already used by thedispute chat.
unonce tag so identicaltexts in the same second get distinct ids; outer kind 14 authored by
K_sign,NIP-44 self-encrypted under
K_conv(HKDF from the peer ECDH secret).authors = [pub(K_sign)]with a durablesincecursor, never by
#p— closes the third-party flooding vector.dispute chat migration. Pre-migration history stored on disk still decodes
via the retained
p2pUnwrap;p2pWrapis removed.peer → Mostro protocol).
Tests
allow-lists; legacy
p2pUnwrapcoverage kept with local fixtures.flutter analyzeclean, affected suites pass. Docs updatedSummary by CodeRabbit
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