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| author | Bitflash <btf01@proton.me> | 2026-07-29 14:11:58 -0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2026-07-29 14:11:58 -0300 |
| commit | 41b2ba748531605a1afd84fdb967330c0efc529f (patch) | |
| tree | 4675efd69a09bee537bb7606bd895bd1a4995827 /src/script.cpp | |
| parent | 997e511e120272e8f2ddd29716b486e597410f02 (diff) | |
net: exchange signed .btf descriptors between peers (#32)
Discovery has depended entirely on the Nostr relays. Two connected nodes never
told each other who else existed, so a relay outage left a running network
unable to grow, and a node that found one stale peer had no way to learn there
was anything better. The old `addr` gossip went out with the IRC seed.
Peers now trade signed descriptors over a new "btfpeers" message: our own
first, then peers that actually answered us. The receiver checks each Schnorr
signature against the key the `.btf` address decodes to, so the sender is
trusted for nothing -- forging an entry needs somebody else's secret key. That
leaves flooding with self-generated keys, which the per-message caps and the
"peers that answered" ordering are there to blunt.
Unknown commands are ignored (main.cpp), so nodes without this just drop the
message; nothing here is a protocol break.
The cache from the peer-cache change now keeps each peer's descriptor verbatim
alongside the parsed fields, because that signature is what makes a peer
relayable. Entries without one -- resolved through Nostr, or written before
this -- stay dialable, just not passed on. A dial never clears a descriptor
already on file.
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