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Authorize NWC clients, verify requests, and move to libnostr-z 0.5.0 - #11
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WalkthroughThe change adds client-key authorization and request validation to Puck’s Nostr Wallet Connect flow. It adds replay and expiration checks, encryption-scheme handling, invoice validation, and LNbits input checks. It also updates relay parsing, Zig build compatibility, CI, configuration examples, and setup documentation. ChangesNostr Wallet Connect Flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant NWCClient
participant Relay
participant Main
participant Config
participant NostrCrypto
participant LNbitsClient
NWCClient->>Relay: Publish signed request event
Relay->>Main: Deliver request event
Main->>Config: Check author with isAuthorized
Config-->>Main: Return authorization result
Main->>Main: Check recipient, signature, expiration, age, and replay status
Main->>NostrCrypto: Decrypt accepted request
NostrCrypto-->>Main: Return request parameters
Main->>LNbitsClient: Execute invoice or payment operation when requested
LNbitsClient-->>Main: Return operation result
Main->>NostrCrypto: Encrypt and sign response event
Main->>Relay: Publish response event
Relay-->>NWCClient: Deliver response event
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The client allowlist and request checks work as intended in normal setups, with three gaps. A leftover second client_pubkeys line keeps old keys authorized. Requests dated far in the future can be replayed after a restart. Very large key lists stop the service from subscribing to the relay. Fix the allowlist parsing before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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Review comments at @src/config.zig:
- Around line 58-59: Update the `client_pubkeys` handling in the configuration
parser to reject a second assignment instead of passing it to
`config.addClientPubkeys` and combining its entries. Track whether
`nostr.client_pubkeys` has already been assigned and return the parser’s
existing error for duplicate keys; preserve processing of the first assignment.
Review comments at @src/main.zig:
- Line 221: Update the createdAt check in checkRequest to reject timestamps
outside the allowed window in both directions, including requests dated too far
in the future. Allow only a small clock-skew margin for future timestamps while
preserving the existing stale-request behavior.
- Around line 102-103: Validate the client_pubkeys count in Config.load and
reject configurations whose generated filter and Relay.subscribe request wrapper
exceed their fixed buffers; report the issue as a configuration load error so
runEventLoop does not repeatedly reconnect.
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| } else if (std.mem.eql(u8, key, "client_pubkeys")) { | ||
| try config.addClientPubkeys(allocator, value); |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject duplicate client_pubkeys assignments.
If an operator adds a new client_pubkeys assignment during key rotation but leaves the old assignment, addClientPubkeys combines both lists. The old key remains authorized. Duplicate key assignments are invalid TOML; reject a second nostr.client_pubkeys assignment instead of appending its entries. (github.com)
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Review comment at @src/config.zig around lines 58 - 59:
Update the `client_pubkeys` handling in the configuration parser to reject a
second assignment instead of passing it to `config.addClientPubkeys` and
combining its entries. Track whether `nostr.client_pubkeys` has already been
assigned and return the parser’s existing error for duplicate keys; preserve
processing of the first assignment.
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| var filter_buf: [4096]u8 = undefined; | ||
| const filter = try buildRequestFilter(config, nostr.io.timestamp(), &filter_buf); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fail at config load when the authors filter cannot fit the fixed buffers.
Each authorized key adds 67 bytes to filter_buf (4096 bytes). If the config has roughly 59 or more client keys, buildRequestFilter returns error.NoSpaceLeft. Relay.subscribe adds the ["REQ","nwc",...] wrapper inside a second 4096-byte buffer, so it returns SendFailed at a slightly lower key count.
Both failures happen inside runEventLoop. main logs the error and reconnects every 5 seconds without end. The service never subscribes, and the log does not name the configuration as the cause.
Reject an oversized client_pubkeys list in Config.load. As an alternative, size both buffers from client_pubkeys.items.len.
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Review comment at @src/main.zig around lines 102 - 103:
Validate the client_pubkeys count in Config.load and reject configurations whose
generated filter and Relay.subscribe request wrapper exceed their fixed buffers;
report the issue as a configuration load error so runEventLoop does not
repeatedly reconnect.
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| event.validate() catch return error.InvalidSignature; | ||
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| if (expired) return error.Expired; | ||
| if (event.createdAt() < now - max_request_age_s) return error.Stale; |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject requests whose created_at is far in the future.
checkRequest enforces a lower bound only: event.createdAt() < now - max_request_age_s. A signed request with created_at hours or days ahead of now passes this check.
ReplayGuard resets on every process restart. After a restart, the guard is empty. A captured future-dated request is still inside the window, so it can be replayed and executed again. The 600-second replay guarantee in the comment at Lines 18-20 therefore fails for future-dated events. A client with a clock that runs fast can create such events by accident.
Add an upper bound with a small allowance for clock skew.
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if (expired) return error.Expired;
- if (event.createdAt() < now - max_request_age_s) return error.Stale;
+ const created_at = event.createdAt();
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| if (event.createdAt() < now - max_request_age_s) return error.Stale; | |
| const created_at = event.createdAt(); | |
| if (created_at < now - max_request_age_s or created_at > now + max_request_age_s) return error.Stale; |
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Review comment at @src/main.zig at line 221:
Update the createdAt check in checkRequest to reject timestamps outside the
allowed window in both directions, including requests dated too far in the
future. Allow only a small clock-skew margin for future timestamps while
preserving the existing stale-request behavior.
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Puck answered every NIP-47 request addressed to its key, from any author, so any Nostr key that knew the wallet's pubkey could call
pay_invoiceand spend the wallet. This restricts service to configured clients, verifies requests, and moves puck to libnostr-z 0.5.0 on Zig 0.16 and 0.17.Breaking: puck now refuses to start unless
[nostr] client_pubkeyslists the client keys it serves (hex or npub). Requests from any other key are dropped without a reply, and the relay subscription only asks for those authors.Security fixes:
Event.validate), and theptag must be puck's key.sinceon the subscription. The NIP-47expirationtag is honored.pay_invoicechecks a client-suppliedamountagainst the invoice's own amount and refuses amountless or malformed invoices; LNbits is never sent an amount.make_invoicerejects amounts that are not whole sats (1500 msat used to create a 1 sat invoice while reporting 1500).lookup_invoicerequires a 64-hexpayment_hash(it was placed into the LNbits URL path, sent with the admin key).UNSUPPORTED_ENCRYPTION, unknown methodsNOT_IMPLEMENTED. A negative balance, SIGPIPE, and a socket error that looped without reconnecting no longer crash or hang puck.Unit tests cover authorization, request checks, amount parsing and response building (21 tests). Run live against a local relay and an LNbits stand-in on both compilers: get_info and get_balance answered and encrypted to the client, unauthorized keys got no response, a byte-exact replay was ignored, and the rejection paths above returned the expected errors. A real LNbits payment was not exercised. CI is added for Linux and macOS on both Zig versions.
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