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lockbitchat 27279ae7c6 feat(crypto): Double Ratchet forward secrecy; hardening pass; release v5.7.1
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Adds the Double Ratchet (Signal's design) on top of the existing ECDH session
keys, so message protection no longer rests on one set of keys lasting the whole
conversation. Every message gets its own key, derived through a one-way function
and discarded after use, and each change of direction introduces a fresh ECDH
key pair that re-keys the session root.

The ratchet needed no handshake change: both peers already hold each other's
authenticated ECDH public key, and the safety code compared during verification
covers exactly those keys. Its root is derived from the existing shared secret
through its own branch of the key schedule.

Support is negotiated in the invitation and response and used only when both
sides have it; a peer on an earlier release falls back to per-session keys. The
security panel reports which of the two is actually in force.

Out-of-order delivery is supported within fixed bounds (512 skipped keys per
chain, 1024 retained, five-minute expiry), and inbound frames are authenticated
before any ratchet state is committed, so a malformed frame cannot desynchronise
a live session.

Also in this release:

- Verification is enforced as a gate, not a label: control frames (reconnection
  signalling, call setup, message deletion, delivery receipts) are acted on only
  after both peers have compared the safety code, and verified state is set in a
  single guarded place.
- Chat content reaches the interface through one authenticated path; an older,
  weaker inbound path was retired.
- The security panel measures what it displays — several checks previously
  returned a fixed result and now exercise the subsystem they describe.
- Invitation data is no longer kept in local storage, and entries left by earlier
  versions are cleared on first launch.
- View-once and disappearing messages no longer place their text in system
  notifications.
- Shared-secret buffers are overwritten once derivation completes; scanned QR
  codes are decompressed with a size limit; voice notes are validated against
  audio type and size budgets before skipping the consent prompt; the master
  password is collected by the app rather than a browser dialog.
- Connection setup no longer fails on networks where STUN/TURN are unreachable:
  it proceeds as soon as usable candidates exist and only waits while there are
  none.

Test suite grows from 27 to 41 files, covering forward secrecy, post-compromise
re-keying, out-of-order delivery across ratchet steps, the skipped-key bounds,
tamper resistance, negotiation fallback, and byte-level key-derivation
compatibility with 5.6.0.
2026-08-05 23:02:20 -04:00
lockbitchat 6152a77b51 security: fix SAS verification bypass and unauthenticated frame injection; release v5.5.2
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A security review of the transport and verification layers. Every item is a fix
to how untrusted peer input is handled; no features changed.

- SAS verification could be bypassed. `verification_both_confirmed` is an
  unauthenticated frame on a channel that is not yet trusted, but it was taken as
  proof that both sides had compared their codes — so a peer who completed the
  signalling exchange could send it right after the data channel opened and drive
  the other side to a "verified" session while the user never looked at the code.
  It is now only an acknowledgement: refused unless this side already confirmed
  locally, and _setVerifiedStatus() independently rejects any SAS-based
  transition without a local confirmation. Holding ECDH-derived keys was never
  proof of identity — a MITM has those too.

- Unauthenticated frames could be injected into the chat. A bare
  {type:"message"} frame, a raw non-JSON frame and a binary frame were each
  decoded and rendered, bypassing decryption, the HMAC check and the verification
  gate; the injected text was indistinguishable from a genuine message. Chat
  content now reaches the UI only through the authenticated enhanced_message
  path.

- A peer could supply the verification code. `sas_code` announcements were
  adopted verbatim when no local SAS had been derived yet. They may now only
  corroborate the locally derived code.

- Anti-replay never ran. The sequence-number and AAD validators were defined on
  SecureKeyStorage instead of the connection manager, so every call site failed
  with a TypeError and the sliding replay window was dead code. Moved onto the
  manager, wired into the live chat path, and a missing or non-numeric sequence
  number now fails closed instead of sailing through the range checks.

- File transfers are gated on verification in both directions. Control frames are
  written straight to the data channel by the transfer system; sending was
  already gated, receiving now is too.

- Tighter CSP: connect-src and img-src no longer allow arbitrary https: hosts
  (nothing in the app talks to a third party), plus base-uri 'none'.

- The SAS is no longer written to logs, and is compared in constant time on every
  path. Fixed SecureMasterKeyManager.isUnlocked() testing a field renamed long
  ago, so it never actually gated anything.

- Fixed the header showing "Secure undefined%": getRealSecurityLevel() became
  reachable for the first time by the move above and returned only per-feature
  booleans, while the header renders `level` and `score` directly. It now runs
  the same verified scoring as every other consumer.

Adds regression tests for the verification gate, inbound frame authentication and
the security-level shape.
2026-07-27 00:10:29 -04:00