Critical
- Any pubkey could publish a kind:30078 roles document and become root of a
deployment, granting itself every capability and denying anyone. Roles are now
accepted only from the configured root, compared against the constructor
value rather than current authority state so a bad ingest cannot move the
goalposts. Reproduced end to end before the fix; regression test added.
- Administrative state now fails closed without signature verification. Without
it, event.pubkey is an unauthenticated claim, so an authorship check alone
proves nothing — a relay can put the root's key on an event the root never
wrote. trustUnsignedEvents opts in for local and test use.
High
- Report categories could evade moderation entirely: resolveThresholds used
bracket truthiness, so "constructor" resolved to the Object constructor (all
gates undefined) and "__proto__" to Object.prototype, both bypassing the
default threshold. Own-property lookups and null-prototype tables throughout
core — policy, evaluator, evidence, authority, presets.
- Live subscriptions bypassed signature verification entirely; an attacker only
had to wait for the subscription rather than the load.
- The default administrative query asked relays for every kind:30078 and
kind:30000 event in existence, with no author, identifier, or limit. Now
filtered to governance identifiers with a bounded limit.
Medium
- Cached state was trusted as authority: a cache naming a different root is now
rejected, so same-origin tampering cannot persist a takeover.
- Provider attribute changes silently stopped working after the first one, and
concurrent starts leaked a transport. Generation-guarded.
- Unbounded growth in the report store, mute store, decision cache, and the
transport's per-subscription dedupe set — all now capped.
Also restores the on-wire `d` identifier to <namespace>:governance:<scope>:v1.
The BitGate rename replaced "governance:" too broadly and silently changed the
event format; both encoder and parser changed together, so round-trip tests
never noticed. The identifier names the kind of document, not the library.
Adds docs/security.md and 21 regression tests reproducing each finding.
832 tests.
Closes the four spec gaps from the audit, verified against the NIPs repo.
NIP-65 (kind 10002) — the one that was actually breaking things. Mute lists are
published by each contact to their own write relays, so querying a fixed relay
set finds only the subset who happen to write where this deployment reads. The
trust graph was silently under-fed and counts came out low, which looks like
"nobody muted them" rather than like a bug. Adds a relay-list codec, per-author
grouping with a fallback for accounts that have published no list, and
on-demand relay connections in the transport so an outbox query can reach
relays that were never configured.
NIP-51 private entries — the viewer's own private mutes are now decrypted
through their signer (NIP-44) and applied as viewer mutes. Someone who mutes
privately previously got no effect at all. The privacy boundary is asymmetric
and enforced at the codec: another account's private list is never decoded,
and the check lives there rather than in the caller's discipline.
NIP-02 (kind 3) — the runtime can build the trust graph itself, so
<bitgate-provider> no longer needs a host to supply a follow list. Set
trust="manual" to opt out.
NIP-56 vocabulary — SOCIAL_POLICY declared thresholds for "harassment", which
is not a NIP-56 type, so no standard client could ever trigger it. Replaced
with the defined vocabulary and asserted in tests. Commerce keeps its
marketplace-specific categories, now documented as deliberate, with defaults so
unclassified reports are never silently dropped.
Two bugs found by the new tests:
- checkout had no default threshold, so a flood of "other" reports did nothing
at the one place money changes hands. Now earns review, never auto-denial.
- describe() spread diagnostics after a derived field, so a stale zero shadowed
the live relay-list count.
Adds docs/nips.md recording coverage, deliberate choices, and remaining gaps —
NIP-32 labelling being the largest.
811 tests.
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