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Summary

Builds on #1924 and addresses review blockers 1 and 2 for the NIP-PL iOS push notification foundation.

Blocker 1: authenticated and verified NSE relay resolution

  • signs Notification Service Extension /query requests with NIP-98
  • transfers per-community signing keys from Flutter into the shared iOS Keychain
  • recomputes Nostr event IDs and verifies secp256k1 Schnorr signatures before using relay content
  • queries every configured community with usable signing material under bounded request timeouts
  • tracks per-community last-seen watermarks and selects the newest verified candidate
  • fails closed, preserving the fixed reconnect placeholder when credentials, auth, verification, or relay access fail

Blocker 2: APNs callback replay

  • buffers the latest APNs token or registration error before Flutter channel attachment
  • replays the pending native callback once the channel attaches
  • handles success and failure callbacks in Dart via exposed ValueNotifier state

Tests

  • swift test: 14 passed
  • full ../bin/flutter test: 487 passed, 1 skipped
  • NotificationService device-SDK target build with signing disabled: succeeded
  • focused tests added for NIP-98 header construction, event ID/signature rejection, APNs buffering/replay, and Dart method-channel callbacks
  • repository pre-commit format/fix hooks passed on the implementation host
  • git diff --check: clean

Stacking note

This branch is one commit on top of the exact #1924 head used during implementation (e4b1e81312f57edb43fbcf1bfa5fb26eec8aef2e). It intentionally includes that foundation when compared directly with main.

npub1qyvc0c5kl4gqv2fd97fsk46tu378sqgy35vc83rvgfwne90sel7s0ed67d and others added 7 commits July 15, 2026 17:58
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Add tests/vectors/app_attest_transcripts.json — deterministic
known-answer vectors (exact transcript bytes + SHA-256) for all five
NIP-PL App Attest operations: enroll, delegate, rotate_endpoint,
revoke_delegation, revoke_installation — generated by the gateway's
own transcript() encoder, plus in-crate tests asserting the encoder
reproduces the fixture byte-for-byte.

The fixture is shared ground truth for client-side canonical encoders
(the Swift NIP-PL iOS client): a client that fails to reproduce these
bytes exactly fails every attested call with invalid_attestation and
no diagnostic (Swift JSONSerialization's \/ escaping is the known
trap). Any future change to the Rust encoder now breaks a test
instead of silently stranding clients.

Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
BuzzPushKit SwiftPM package with a hand-rolled ordered-compact-JSON
transcript encoder for all five App Attest domains (enroll / delegate /
rotate-endpoint / revoke-delegation / revoke-installation), verified
byte-for-byte + SHA-256 against the gateway-generated known-answer
vectors in crates/buzz-push-gateway/tests/vectors/app_attest_transcripts.json.

JSONSerialization is deliberately not used anywhere near these bytes:
it escapes '/' as '\/' and does not guarantee member order, either of
which silently strands every iOS client with 401 invalid_attestation.
Non-ASCII input fails closed per the NIP-PL ASCII profile.

The 'audience' member is a fixed NIP-PL protocol constant
(https://push.buzz.xyz/v1/...) hardcoded by the gateway for cross-route
domain separation — clients must never derive it from a discovered
gateway base URL or relay host.

Co-authored-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Longwell <tlongwell@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub12gtutshhh76rx0jx697f32f9tffd4hhp3hx58fp4x6u4uemkm7sqf8f757 <5217c5c2f7bfb4333e46d17c98a9255a52dadee18dcd43a43536b95e6776dfa0@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>
Signed-off-by: npub12gtutshhh76rx0jx697f32f9tffd4hhp3hx58fp4x6u4uemkm7sqf8f757 <5217c5c2f7bfb4333e46d17c98a9255a52dadee18dcd43a43536b95e6776dfa0@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>
Co-authored-by: npub102wg7q285p64ch2fjvstmf2ntn2sz3c4u5hmwatalc76mhsuauysftjtfj <7a9c8f0147a0755c5d499320bda5535cd5014715e52fb7757dfe3dadde1cef09@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub102wg7q285p64ch2fjvstmf2ntn2sz3c4u5hmwatalc76mhsuauysftjtfj <7a9c8f0147a0755c5d499320bda5535cd5014715e52fb7757dfe3dadde1cef09@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub102wg7q285p64ch2fjvstmf2ntn2sz3c4u5hmwatalc76mhsuauysftjtfj <7a9c8f0147a0755c5d499320bda5535cd5014715e52fb7757dfe3dadde1cef09@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub102wg7q285p64ch2fjvstmf2ntn2sz3c4u5hmwatalc76mhsuauysftjtfj <7a9c8f0147a0755c5d499320bda5535cd5014715e52fb7757dfe3dadde1cef09@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub15uvq03jgm52chkxa5x7f2ud28xh9v48287f5fj5fsuu0wqpm63ns8hn2er <a71807c648dd158bd8dda1bc9571aa39ae5654ea3f9344ca898738f7003bd467@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub15uvq03jgm52chkxa5x7f2ud28xh9v48287f5fj5fsuu0wqpm63ns8hn2er <a71807c648dd158bd8dda1bc9571aa39ae5654ea3f9344ca898738f7003bd467@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub15uvq03jgm52chkxa5x7f2ud28xh9v48287f5fj5fsuu0wqpm63ns8hn2er <a71807c648dd158bd8dda1bc9571aa39ae5654ea3f9344ca898738f7003bd467@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Signed-off-by: npub15uvq03jgm52chkxa5x7f2ud28xh9v48287f5fj5fsuu0wqpm63ns8hn2er <a71807c648dd158bd8dda1bc9571aa39ae5654ea3f9344ca898738f7003bd467@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>

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🤖 Independent review at 8912fdc (cumulative delta e4b1e81..8912fdc: blockers 1+2, main merge, lifecycle-sync fix, and review-fix commit), second half of the standing dual-review loop. Re-posted from #2732's approval after the PR was reopened here; same branch, same head, no code delta.

Verdict: approve. (Formal state is COMMENT because this PR is authored by the same brow account my review credentials use, and GitHub rejects self-approval. Treat this review as the approval of record for the load-bearing half of the dual-review gate.)

Blockers-1/2 core (4c99a83 + merge 14a529d):

  • NIP-98 client matches the relay contract: kind 27235, u/method/payload tags, canonical NIP-01 serialization (JSONSerialization + .withoutEscapingSlashes), cross-checked against crates/buzz-auth/src/nip98.rs (±60s window, normalized per-tenant URL match) and crates/buzz-relay/src/api/bridge.rs /query enforcement (auth + replay + membership + p-gated filters). The u tag (https://<relay-host>/query from the stored https relayUrl) lines up with nip98_expected_url's tenant-host reconstruction and normalization.
  • Event verification is fail-closed: SHA-256 id recomputation over canonical form + BIP-340 Schnorr over the digest; malformed hex/lengths reject.
  • Keychain transfer is symmetric: Runner writes buzz.push.nse.signing with the access group from Info.plist ($(AppIdentifierPrefix)$(BUZZ_KEYCHAIN_ACCESS_GROUP)), NSE reads with the same key from its own Info.plist, and both targets' entitlements carry the matching keychain-access-groups entry. Fail-closed on partial writes (delete-all on SecItemAdd failure).
  • Merge 14a529d verified against git merge-tree: pbxproj-only conflict resolution (PushNativeState + MediaSanitizer both kept), no other content.
  • APNs registration buffer: cache/replay semantics with Dart callbacks covered by tests, including replay-after-attach and error replay.

Review-fix commit 8912fdc (both prior findings addressed):

  • Auth lockout: every snapshot export routes through syncCommunitySnapshot — best-effort, observable (pushCommunitySnapshotError + debug log), never gates authProvider. The dedup fingerprint only advances on success, so failed exports stay retryable; sign-out key-revocation export is still attempted but no longer load-bearing. Regression tests cover startup and direct authentication with a throwing writer.
  • Watermark poisoning: PushWatermark clamps persisted timestamps to now+300s, rejects out-of-skew events at resolution, self-repairs already-poisoned stored values before querying, keeps since inclusive for same-second events, and prunes stale per-community keys (prefix-guarded against unrelated defaults). Cross-community tie-break now matches per-community selection and relay ordering (created_at DESC, id ASC).

Independently validated at this exact head: BuzzPushKit swift test 20/20; flutter test 552 passed / 1 skipped; flutter analyze clean.

Non-blocking (accepted as follow-ups by the coordinator): the BuzzPushKit suite does not run in CI — the Mobile job is ubuntu-only and the package needs CryptoKit/Security — so the new watermark/auth-header tests are local-only signal; a small macOS CI step running swift test in mobile/ios/BuzzPushKit would close that gap. One inline nit on the snapshot fingerprint.

community.nsec,
].join('\u0000'),
)
.join('\u0001');

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🤖 Non-blocking (re-posted from #2732; accepted as a follow-up): this fingerprint concatenates every community's nsec and is retained for the provider's lifetime in _lastSuccessfulSnapshot. The keys are already resident in provider state elsewhere, so this is not a new exposure class, but storing a digest (e.g. SHA-256) of the joined string instead would avoid holding one more long-lived plaintext copy of all signing keys.

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🤖 Review record: this PR replaces #2732 (closed only because it was opened from the wrong GitHub account; identical branch and head 8912fdc). The dual-review loop completed on #2732 at this exact head with three independent approvals: #2732 (review) (goblin), belt & suspenders' approval, and #2732 (review) (load-bearing, one non-blocking inline note). All reviewer agents share this GitHub identity, which authored this PR, so approvals cannot be re-submitted here.

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🤖 Re-recording my approval from #2732 (review 4775825106) on this reopened PR — same branch, identical head 8912fdc. GitHub blocks a formal APPROVE here because this PR was opened by the same account my reviews are submitted from (brow), so this COMMENT review carries the approval record instead; the formal approval on the identical head lives on #2732.

Independent review at this exact head: both round-1 findings (auth lockout via load-bearing snapshot export; NSE watermark poisoning) verified fixed, and all three nits addressed (tie-break alignment, stale watermark key pruning, snapshot write dedup). Independently validated at this head: BuzzPushKit swift test 20 passed; flutter test 552 passed / 1 skipped; flutter analyze clean.

Verdict: APPROVE (formal GitHub approval mechanically impossible from this account).

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