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buzz/mobile/lib/shared/huddle/huddle_auth.dart
Tom Brow 4ff02bf03b perf(mobile): sign events with native libsecp256k1 on iOS and Android (#8654)
Mobile signs every Nostr event (sends, relay AUTH, media auth headers,
preference writes) in pure Dart on the UI isolate. On an iPhone SE (2nd
gen, Profile build) one BIP-340 signature costs about 10.7 ms and
deriving the public key another 5.6 ms, so a burst of signed writes
drops frames.

This adds `mobile/packages/buzz_secp256k1`, a small FFI package that
builds vendored bitcoin-core/libsecp256k1 v0.8.0 (ecdh, extrakeys,
schnorrsig modules) through a Dart build hook, so the same C and the
same Dart API ship on iOS and Android with no platform bridge code. All
13 `nostr.Event.from` signing sites now go through `signNostrEvent`,
which keeps the `nostr` package's event-id serialization and moves only
key derivation and signing to native code. Calls stay synchronous.

The package also exposes `schnorrVerify` and `ecdhX`; follow-up PRs move
verification and the NIP-44 conversation key over. Incoming relay events
are still not verified, unchanged by this PR.

Safety: the signing context is randomized once per isolate, secret keys
and keypairs are wiped from the native scratch buffer after each call,
aux randomness comes from `Random.secure()`, and the static verify
context runs libsecp256k1's self test before first use.

### Validation

- Added tests: BIP-340 official vectors and native-vs-pure-Dart
differential tests in the package; `event_signing_test.dart` signs with
64 random keys and checks pubkey, event id and signature against the
existing `nostr` builder and verifier, plus malformed-key rejection.
- Full mobile analyze and test suite pass locally.
- Builds: iOS release (framework ~1.3 MB) and Android debug APK with the
library for arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a and x86_64 (~1.2–1.3 MB each).
- On-device (iPhone SE 2nd gen, Profile, median per op): sign 10,736 µs
→ 41 µs, derive pubkey 5,580 µs → 16.5 µs, full signed event 10,744 µs →
65 µs. Event-id JSON and SHA-256 are 23 µs, so they stay in Dart.
- Device, iOS (iPhone SE 2nd gen, Profile): `buzz_secp256k1.framework`
embedded; the signed-in app authenticated to a real community relay,
loaded channels and history, and paged older messages. No native-asset
or secp256k1 errors in the console.
- Device, Android (emulator, debug): APK contains `libbuzz_secp256k1.so`
and loads it. Against a local mock relay that verifies with the
pure-Dart `nostr` package, the app's NIP-42 AUTH, NIP-98 `POST /query`
headers, and kind 20001/30078 events all verified.
- Blossom GET auth, iOS: the dev relay returns 401 for unauthenticated
`/media/` GETs. From inside the running app, the production
`MediaGetAuthService.headersFor()` header for a nonexistent hash got 404
(accepted, file missing), compared with 401 without it. The community
has no relay-hosted image, so none was rendered.


buzz-review-completed (agent review, Codex and security review clean;
device validation above; human app test not applicable under the mobile
testing exception)

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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: george <973be878edd6d4f79692a3827f20a6f7fe0ed0362f269ff6b6ba8867033d7d8e@sprout-oss.stage.blox.sqprod.co>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 16:28:26 -07:00

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import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
import 'package:nostr/nostr.dart' as nostr;
import '../relay/nostr_models.dart';
import 'huddle_wire.dart';
import 'package:buzz/shared/crypto/event_signing.dart';
/// Immutable connection inputs for one Huddle audio WebSocket.
@immutable
final class HuddleConnectionParameters {
final String relayWebSocketUrl;
final String nsec;
final String parentChannelId;
final String ephemeralChannelId;
HuddleConnectionParameters({
required this.relayWebSocketUrl,
required this.nsec,
required this.parentChannelId,
required this.ephemeralChannelId,
}) {
final relayUri = Uri.tryParse(relayWebSocketUrl);
if (relayUri == null ||
!relayUri.hasAuthority ||
(relayUri.scheme != 'ws' && relayUri.scheme != 'wss')) {
throw ArgumentError.value(
relayWebSocketUrl,
'relayWebSocketUrl',
'must be an absolute ws:// or wss:// relay URL',
);
}
if (relayUri.hasQuery || relayUri.hasFragment) {
throw ArgumentError.value(
relayWebSocketUrl,
'relayWebSocketUrl',
'must not contain a query or fragment',
);
}
_validateUuid(parentChannelId, 'parentChannelId');
_validateUuid(ephemeralChannelId, 'ephemeralChannelId');
if (nsec.trim().isEmpty) {
throw ArgumentError.value(nsec, 'nsec', 'must not be empty');
}
}
/// The endpoint is derived from the relay origin, but NIP-42's `relay` tag
/// must remain [relayWebSocketUrl], not this Huddle-specific URL.
Uri get audioWebSocketUri {
final base = Uri.parse(relayWebSocketUrl);
return base.replace(
path: '/huddle/${Uri.encodeComponent(ephemeralChannelId)}/audio',
query: null,
fragment: null,
);
}
}
/// Fixed NIP-42 + Huddle auth envelope used after the audio relay challenge.
abstract final class HuddleAuthV2 {
static Map<String, dynamic> buildMessage({
required HuddleConnectionParameters parameters,
required String challenge,
int? createdAt,
}) {
if (challenge.isEmpty) {
throw const HuddleAuthException('Relay challenge must not be empty.');
}
final secretKey = _decodeSecretKey(parameters.nsec);
final event = signNostrEvent(
kind: EventKind.auth,
content: '',
tags: [
['relay', parameters.relayWebSocketUrl],
['challenge', challenge],
],
secretKey: secretKey,
createdAt: createdAt ?? DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch ~/ 1000,
);
return {
'type': 'auth',
'event': event.toMap(),
'parent_channel_id': parameters.parentChannelId,
'protocol_version': HuddleWireV2.protocolVersion,
};
}
static String _decodeSecretKey(String value) {
final trimmed = value.trim();
if (RegExp(r'^[0-9a-fA-F]{64}$').hasMatch(trimmed)) {
return trimmed.toLowerCase();
}
try {
final decoded = nostr.Nip19.decode(payload: trimmed).data;
if (RegExp(r'^[0-9a-fA-F]{64}$').hasMatch(decoded)) {
return decoded.toLowerCase();
}
} catch (_) {
// Fall through to the stable domain error below.
}
throw const HuddleAuthException('Invalid Nostr signing key.');
}
}
final class HuddleAuthException implements Exception {
final String message;
const HuddleAuthException(this.message);
@override
String toString() => 'HuddleAuthException: $message';
}
final _canonicalUuid = RegExp(
r'^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-'
r'[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$',
);
void _validateUuid(String value, String name) {
if (!_canonicalUuid.hasMatch(value)) {
throw ArgumentError.value(value, name, 'must be a canonical UUID');
}
}