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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a design specification for network monitor v3 liveness testing. It covers contract identity authorization, per-kind scheduling, mixnode and gateway probes, per-signal results, shadow scoring, migration, configuration, and verification. ChangesNetwork monitor liveness
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`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/network-monitors-contract/spec.md`:
- Around line 27-29: Update the network-monitor authorization/rehydration
contract so reused bs58_x25519_noise keys cannot cause entries from distinct
agents to be merged: either enforce noise-key uniqueness during authorization or
define collision-safe grouping with explicit failure handling. Ensure the
orchestrator’s cache rehydration remains correct for multiple address entries
and does not silently drop or mispair colliding entries.
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`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`:
- Line 150: Clarify the liveness result model for mixnode_and_gateway nodes by
specifying whether both probes share one run or create separate mixnode-liveness
and gateway-liveness runs. Define the assignment variant, signal denominator,
persistence shape, and aggregation key consistently with that choice, while
preserving the requirement that both probes execute and their produced signals
contribute to the liveness score.
- Line 204: Update the node refresher’s bonded-node upsert so fields populated
from self-description are replaced only when the per-node query succeeds;
preserve existing cached addresses, keys, ports, roles, and related data when
the query fails or returns NULL. Continue updating all other fields as required
while retaining the existing identity_key exclusion and node_id-based upsert
behavior.
- Line 228: Update the liveness eligibility predicate in the orchestrator’s
target-selection transaction so a node is eligible when its stress record is
absent or its stress.last_tested_at is older than the configured cooldown.
Preserve the existing cooldown check for nodes with stress history and continue
applying all other assignment constraints.
- Line 266: Update the agent re-announcement flow around KnownAgents and
AuthoriseNetworkMonitor so superseded IPv4 or IPv6 addresses are revoked from
the network-monitors contract when the agent’s address changes, preventing stale
authorization after address reuse. Define the cleanup behavior for in-flight
probes and ensure the authorization set remains bounded while preserving the
single-transaction requirement for the new authorizations.
- Line 7: Align the liveness profile requirements so liveness_target_rate is
derived from the aggregate send-rate budget and liveness_wave_size, or remove it
as an independently configurable field. Update the liveness wave and agent
requirements consistently, ensuring changes to liveness_wave_size cannot exceed
the configured aggregate budget.
- Around line 292-294: Specify the nyxd websocket payload fields for
AuthoriseNetworkMonitor, RevokeNetworkMonitor, and RevokeAllNetworkMonitors,
including optional bs58_ed25519_identity handling. Define watcher transitions
for adding entries, replacing identities, revoking one address, and revoking all
entries; remove an old identity only when no remaining authorised entry
references it, retain shared identities used by other addresses, and clear
RoutableNetworkMonitors, NoiseNetworkView, and the announced identity set on
RevokeAllNetworkMonitors.
- Around line 290-338: Update ChainSubscriber::remake_connection() to reload the
complete authorised-agent snapshot from the contract and atomically replace
RoutableNetworkMonitors, NoiseNetworkView, and the announced monitor identity
set before accepting monitor traffic after websocket reconnection. Ensure missed
revocations remove replay-bypass and unmetered-session permissions, while
preserving event subscription for subsequent updates.
In `@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/tasks.md`:
- Line 113: Update task 12.6 to cover two gateway rollout states: with task
group 7 absent, verify credential-free client-session establishment fails and
both ingress and egress signals are zero; with task group 7 deployed but task
group 6 absent, verify ingress is non-zero while egress remains zero and the
divergence bucket behaves as designed.
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| The contract places NO uniqueness constraint on `bs58_x25519_noise` OR on `bs58_ed25519_identity`: the same noise key MAY appear under several socket addresses, and does so by design, because a single agent authorises one ipv4 and one ipv6 address so that nodes accept its probes over either family. The registry therefore holds roughly TWO entries per agent, both carrying that agent's noise key and, once announced, the same identity key, and nothing on-chain records that a pair of entries belongs to one agent. | ||
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| An off-chain consumer that needs to recover which entries belong to one agent MUST group them by that noise key; the two entries of one agent are NOT adjacent in the pagination order, which sorts ipv4 before ipv6. The nym-network-monitor orchestrator does exactly this when it rehydrates its agent cache after a restart. That grouping is only sound as long as distinct agents never share a noise key, and the contract does not enforce it, so this is an assumption held by the consumer rather than an on-chain guarantee. A consumer that builds a set of authorised monitor identities MUST likewise tolerate the same identity arriving from several entries. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not leave noise-key uniqueness as an unenforced assumption.
The orchestrator rehydrates the two address entries by grouping on bs58_x25519_noise, but this requirement permits distinct agents to reuse that key. Two entries from different agents can then look like one IPv4/IPv6 pair, while larger groups can be dropped or mispaired. Enforce uniqueness during authorization, or define a collision-safe rehydration rule and failure behavior.
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In
`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/network-monitors-contract/spec.md`
around lines 27 - 29, Update the network-monitor authorization/rehydration
contract so reused bs58_x25519_noise keys cannot cause entries from distinct
agents to be merged: either enforce noise-key uniqueness during authorization or
define collision-safe grouping with explicit failure handling. Ensure the
orchestrator’s cache rehydration remains correct for multiple address entries
and does not silently drop or mispair colliding entries.
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| The subsystem SHALL support a second test kind, `liveness`, alongside `stress`. Every unit of work MUST be identified by a `test_kind`, and the orchestrator MUST be the party that decides which kind a given assignment carries; an agent MUST support every kind. | ||
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| For a mixnode (or a `mixnode_and_gateway` node), a liveness probe SHALL be the same two-hop self-loop probe as a stress test - route `[tested_node, this_agent]`, `AckPacket`-sized mix packets, the same connectivity and bloomfilter probe sequence, the same `reuse_header` behaviour - executed under its own low-volume profile (`liveness_packets`, `liveness_target_rate`, `liveness_waiting_duration`) rather than the stress profile. The reported sent count MUST be forced to the profile's expected packet count on success, exactly as for a stress test, so a node that applies back-pressure to a liveness probe is penalised rather than flattered. |
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Define liveness_target_rate as derived, or remove it from the configurable profile.
The mixnode requirement treats liveness_target_rate as an independent value, but the wave and agent requirements define an aggregate budget from which the per-target rate is derived. Align these requirements with the actual wave width. Otherwise, changing liveness_wave_size can exceed the aggregate send-rate budget.
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at line 7, Align the liveness profile requirements so liveness_target_rate is
derived from the aggregate send-rate budget and liveness_wave_size, or remove it
as an independently configurable field. Update the liveness wave and agent
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| ### Requirement: Each test kind defines which node types it assigns and how their results are typed | ||
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| Each test kind SHALL declare the node types it is eligible to assign. The `stress` kind MUST assign only nodes whose type is `mixnode` or `mixnode_and_gateway` and MUST record its runs as the mixnode test type. The `liveness` kind MUST assign nodes of type `mixnode`, `gateway`, or `mixnode_and_gateway`, selecting the mixnode probe for mixing-capable nodes and the two-phase gateway probe for gateway-capable ones. A node that is both MUST be eligible for both probes, each producing its own signal, and its liveness score MUST be the average over the signals its probes produce. |
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Define one result shape for dual-role nodes.
This requirement says a mixnode_and_gateway node receives both probes and averages all produced signals. Other requirements define a gateway run as exactly two signals, while the task contract lists separate mixnode-liveness and gateway-liveness payloads. Specify whether the node receives one three-signal run or multiple runs, including the assignment variant, denominator, persistence, and aggregation key.
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`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`
at line 150, Clarify the liveness result model for mixnode_and_gateway nodes by
specifying whether both probes share one run or create separate mixnode-liveness
and gateway-liveness runs. Define the assignment variant, signal denominator,
persistence shape, and aggregation key consistently with that choice, while
preserving the requirement that both probes execute and their produced signals
contribute to the liveness score.
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| ### Requirement: The node refresher builds the testable-node registry from the mixnet contract and each node's self-description | ||
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| The node refresher SHALL source the node list from the MIXNET contract (all `NymNodeBond`s), NOT from nym-api. For each bonded node it MUST query that node's self-described HTTP endpoint directly (with host-info verification) to learn EVERY ip address the node announces, its announced mix port, its versioned x25519 noise key, its sphinx key and key-rotation id, and its role-derived `NodeType`. For a node that announces an entry-gateway interface it MUST additionally learn that interface's plain client websocket port, and MUST record whether the node also announces a wss entry (a hostname plus a wss port), because the presence of a wss entry is what distinguishes divergence this subsystem knowingly introduces from divergence that indicates a fault. Per-node queries MUST be bounded by `node_info_query_timeout` (default 10 seconds) and run with concurrency `number_of_concurrent_node_queries` (default 32); a node that fails to answer leaves the corresponding fields NULL. The refresher MUST persist ALL bonded nodes, including unreachable ones (upserting on `node_id`, updating every field except `identity_key`), so that previously-learned keys are retained when a node is transiently unreachable. |
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Preserve cached node data after a transient refresh failure.
The requirement says an unreachable node leaves fields NULL and that the upsert updates every field except identity_key, but it also requires previously learned keys to remain. Writing NULL for a failed response would erase addresses, noise keys, gateway ports, or roles and make the node ineligible. Specify conditional updates so only a successful self-description replaces cached fields.
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In
`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`
at line 204, Update the node refresher’s bonded-node upsert so fields populated
from self-description are replaced only when the per-node query succeeds;
preserve existing cached addresses, keys, ports, roles, and related data when
the query fails or returns NULL. Continue updating all other fields as required
while retaining the existing identity_key exclusion and node_id-based upsert
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| There SHALL be no in-memory work queue. Work is identified by `(node_id, test_kind)`, and staleness, the address rotation and the eligibility gates are all evaluated PER KIND, so that kinds running at different cadences do not disturb one another. | ||
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| When an agent requests work, the orchestrator MUST choose the kind, then select targets inside a `BEGIN IMMEDIATE` write transaction that: excludes any node with a `testrun_in_progress` row, REGARDLESS of which kind that row belongs to; requires the fields that kind needs to be non-null; requires the node's type to be one the kind may assign; treats a node as eligible only if that kind has never tested it or last tested it before `now - staleness_age` for that kind; for the `liveness` kind additionally requires that the node's `stress` kind last ran before `now - liveness_after_stress_cooldown`; orders by that kind's test timestamp ascending with never-tested first; takes one target for a `stress` assignment or up to `liveness_wave_size` targets for a `liveness` assignment; rotates each selected node onto the next address in its announced set FOR THAT KIND; records that address as the node's per-kind rotation pointer; and atomically inserts a `testrun_in_progress` row for each, stamped with `started_at`, the kind, and an `expires_at` of `now` plus that kind's lease budget. The response MUST carry the chosen kind and its per-target payload, or an empty assignment when no eligible node exists. |
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Allow liveness when no stress result exists.
The liveness predicate requires stress.last_tested_at < now - liveness_after_stress_cooldown. A missing stress row does not satisfy that comparison. Gateway-only nodes can never have a stress run, and new nodes can have no stress history, so they would never receive liveness work. Treat missing stress state as eligible.
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In
`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`
at line 228, Update the liveness eligibility predicate in the orchestrator’s
target-selection transaction so a node is eligible when its stress record is
absent or its stress.last_tested_at is older than the configured cooldown.
Preserve the existing cooldown check for nodes with stress history and continue
applying all other assignment constraints.
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| On `POST /v1/agent/announce` the orchestrator SHALL reject with a 400, before touching any state, an announcement whose addresses are not one plain ipv4 address and one ipv6 address that is not ipv4-mapped. Such a pair MUST NOT be normalised into shape, because an ipv4-mapped ipv6 address collapses onto the ipv4 one when a node canonicalises the authorised set, leaving the agent with a single authorised ingress while both the contract and the orchestrator believe it has two, and because rewriting an address would authorise something the agent never announced and will not use in its sphinx return hop. An announced identity key that is not valid base58 decoding to 32 bytes MUST likewise be rejected with a 400 at the same point. | ||
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| It MUST then upsert the agent into its in-memory `KnownAgents` cache, keyed by the agent's ipv4 mixnet socket address with the ipv6 address and the identity key held inside the entry, and, if the agent was not already announced, MUST authorise BOTH addresses in the network-monitors contract by submitting ONE transaction carrying an `AuthoriseNetworkMonitor` message per address, each with the agent's base58 x25519 noise key, noise version, and identity key, then mark the agent announced. Both authorisations MUST travel in a single transaction so that an agent is never left with only one of its addresses authorised. A contract transaction failure MUST surface as a 500 and leave the agent un-announced; re-announcing is safe because the contract's agent save is an upsert. An agent whose announced noise key, ipv6 address, OR identity key differs from the cached one MUST have its announced flag reset so it is re-authorised, and that divergence SHOULD be surfaced (log plus counter) because a superseded ipv6 address stays authorised in the contract. This on-chain write is what ultimately causes network nodes to accept the agent's probe connections and to recognise its client sessions. |
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Remove superseded addresses from the authorization set.
When an agent changes an address, the specification authorizes the new pair but leaves the old address authorized. The node's IP-keyed monitor gates continue to trust that stale address after address reuse, and the authorization set grows after each change. Revoke superseded entries in the same announcement flow, or define bounded cleanup and its effect on in-flight probes.
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at line 266, Update the agent re-announcement flow around KnownAgents and
AuthoriseNetworkMonitor so superseded IPv4 or IPv6 addresses are revoked from
the network-monitors contract when the agent’s address changes, preventing stale
authorization after address reuse. Define the cleanup behavior for in-flight
probes and ensure the authorization set remains bounded while preserving the
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| ### Requirement: Network nodes learn the authorised-agent set from the contract and gate connection, routing, and replay-bypass on it | ||
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| A Nym node SHALL derive which network-monitor agents may probe it directly from the network-monitors contract, not from any orchestrator or nym-api. A node MUST load the full authorised-agent set once at startup (via `get_all_network_monitor_agents`; a failed load aborts node startup) and MUST thereafter keep it current in REAL TIME through a nyxd websocket event subscription that dispatches `AuthoriseNetworkMonitor`, `RevokeNetworkMonitor`, and `RevokeAllNetworkMonitors` contract events. This is an event subscription, NOT a periodic contract poll; the node's periodic topology refresher explicitly preserves (does not reload) the agent set. | ||
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| The node MUST fold the set into THREE shared, lock-free structures: a canonical-IP-keyed routing set (`RoutableNetworkMonitors`), a canonical-IP-keyed noise-key map (`NoiseNetworkView`, in which one IP may host several agents disambiguated by port), and a set of announced monitor ed25519 CLIENT IDENTITIES keyed by that identity rather than by any address. The two IP-keyed structures MUST key on `IpAddr::to_canonical()` at insert AND lookup so that a v4-mapped-IPv6 form matches its canonical IPv4 form. The identity set MUST tolerate the same identity arriving from several agent entries, since an agent authorises one entry per address family and both carry its identity, and MUST tolerate entries carrying no identity at all, which is a validly authorised agent that simply cannot be recognised on the client-session path. There is no separate "extra initiator IPs" allowlist; inbound acceptance is a facet of the noise map. The authorised set MUST gate five behaviours: (1) the Noise responder handshake - an inbound connection from an IP not in the noise map falls back to raw TCP and the agent's handshake fails; (2) packet routing through `NetworkRoutingFilter`, in which a packet originating from an authorised monitor may ONLY be routed to another authorised monitor; (3) most importantly, the sphinx REPLAY / bloomfilter BYPASS - a packet detected as replayed MUST be dropped as a replay UNLESS it originates from an authorised network-monitor agent IP, which is the mechanism that lets the agent's deliberately-replayed probe header (see the `reuse_header` requirement) be processed rather than filtered; (4) FINAL-HOP DELIVERY - a final-hop packet originating from an authorised monitor MUST be processed and delivered to a live client session, and MUST NOT be written to the recipient's on-disk store if no session is live, so that a packet which did not arrive on the socket was definitively not delivered and monitor traffic cannot accrue undeliverable stored messages on every gateway; and (5) CLIENT SESSION METERING - a client websocket session whose registration handshake authenticates an ed25519 identity in the announced-identity set MUST be treated as an ephemeral monitor session: it MUST NOT be metered for bandwidth, MUST NOT require any bandwidth credential, and MUST NOT persist a shared-key, bandwidth, or stored-message entry. | ||
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| Gates (4) and (5) are what make gateway liveness testing possible; before them a monitor's final-hop packets were dropped outright as unsupported, and a monitor could not open a client session without presenting bandwidth credentials. | ||
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| Gates (1) through (4) are keyed by SOURCE IP only (not public key); the port is effectively ignored on the agent-as-initiator probe path (it is consulted only when the node dials an agent). Gate (5) is the ONE exception and MUST be keyed on the handshake-verified client identity, with the source IP playing no part, because the client websocket port performs no Noise handshake and so can never be covered by the follow-up that moves the mixnet gates onto the Noise-authenticated static key, and because the exemption it guards is not confined by gate (2): a packet handed to a gateway over a client session is forwarded without the monitor flag and may therefore be routed to any known node, so an IP-keyed exemption inherited by a co-tenant behind a shared host port or a recycled address pool would grant unconfined unmetered transit. | ||
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| The consequences are: an agent cannot successfully probe a node until it is authorised on-chain AND that authorisation event has been ingested by the node (propagation is bounded by block inclusion plus websocket delivery, on the order of seconds, NOT by any refresh interval); for gates (1) through (4) the IP the agent actually connects from MUST equal one of the `mixnet_address` IPs recorded on-chain for it (an egress IP that is neither, whether through NAT or a third interface, still breaks all four); an authorised agent with an announced identity obtains unmetered gateway transit for sessions presenting that identity, bounded by the orchestrator's ability to revoke the authorisation; and because there is no periodic reconciliation against the contract, a node that misses a revoke event (for example during websocket downtime) only re-syncs on its next restart's one-time load, which for gate (5) means a revoked monitor keeps its unmetered sessions until then. | ||
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| Because an agent authorises one ipv4 and one ipv6 address, it occupies TWO entries in each node's structures - one per address, both carrying the same noise key - so a probe arriving over either family passes every gate. The node treats those entries independently: it neither knows nor needs to know that they belong to one agent, and revoking one leaves the other authorised. | ||
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| Intended follow-ups (recorded here as planned changes, NOT current behaviour): (1) add a periodic reconciliation of each node's authorised-agent set against the contract, so a missed revoke event no longer lingers until the next node restart - this is a prerequisite for liveness scores ever carrying weight, because a node that missed its agents' authorisation events fails every gate and is indistinguishable from a dead node; and (2) gate the replay bypass and the final-hop delivery on the agent's Noise-authenticated x25519 static key rather than its source IP. The current `Noise_XKpsk3` handshake already receives and possession-authenticates that key (the message-3 `se` step proves the agent holds the corresponding private key), so this hardening needs no packet-format change and would remove the source-IP spoofing and NAT-fragility of the present gates. Follow-up (2) covers the MIXNET gates only; the client-session exemption is out of its reach and is why gate (5) is identity-keyed from the outset. | ||
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| #### Scenario: A newly authorised agent is accepted in near real time | ||
| - **WHEN** an orchestrator authorises an agent on-chain and the transaction is included in a block | ||
| - **THEN** each node's websocket watcher ingests the `AuthoriseNetworkMonitor` event and adds the agent's IP and noise key to its routing set and noise map without waiting for any refresh interval | ||
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| #### Scenario: An unauthorised agent cannot complete a handshake or have replays accepted | ||
| - **WHEN** an agent that the node has not ingested opens a connection and sends replayed packets | ||
| - **THEN** the Noise handshake falls back to raw TCP and fails, and any replayed packet is dropped as a replay because it does not come from an authorised agent IP | ||
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| #### Scenario: Replayed probe traffic from an authorised agent bypasses the bloomfilter | ||
| - **WHEN** an authorised agent sends its deliberately-replayed probe header | ||
| - **THEN** the node still runs its replay-detection bloomfilter but bypasses the drop because the packet's source IP is in the authorised network-monitor set, and processes the packet | ||
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| #### Scenario: A monitor's final-hop packet is delivered to its live session | ||
| - **WHEN** an authorised agent sends a final-hop packet to a gateway addressed to a client session it currently holds open | ||
| - **THEN** the gateway unwraps it and pushes it into that session | ||
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| #### Scenario: A monitor's final-hop packet is dropped rather than stored | ||
| - **WHEN** an authorised agent sends a final-hop packet whose recipient has no live session | ||
| - **THEN** the packet is dropped and nothing is written to the on-disk store | ||
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| #### Scenario: A monitor's client session needs no bandwidth | ||
| - **WHEN** an authorised agent opens a client websocket session presenting its announced ed25519 identity and forwards packets | ||
| - **THEN** the session is not metered, no credential is required, and no shared-key, bandwidth, or stored-message entry is persisted for it | ||
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| #### Scenario: An authorised IP alone does not earn the session exemption | ||
| - **WHEN** a client opens a websocket session from an authorised agent's IP but presents an identity that is not in the announced-identity set | ||
| - **THEN** the session is metered and requires credentials like any other client's | ||
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| #### Scenario: Revocation stops acceptance after the event is ingested, with no periodic re-sync | ||
| - **WHEN** an agent is revoked on-chain and the node ingests the `RevokeNetworkMonitor` event | ||
| - **THEN** the node removes it from the routing set and noise map so new handshakes fail, replays are dropped again, and its client sessions are metered like any other | ||
| - **AND** if the node misses that event it will only re-sync the agent set on its next restart, because there is no periodic reconciliation | ||
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reconcile monitor authorization after websocket reconnect. ChainSubscriber::remake_connection() only recreates the websocket and resubscribes to new blocks. It does not reload the contract or replay missed blocks. A revoke missed during downtime therefore leaves the IP in RoutableNetworkMonitors; ConnectionHandler::handle_post_replay_detection_packets() can continue bypassing replay protection for that revoked source, and the shared identity set may retain its unmetered-session exemption. Reload and atomically replace the full contract snapshot before accepting monitor traffic after reconnect.
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In
`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`
around lines 290 - 338, Update ChainSubscriber::remake_connection() to reload
the complete authorised-agent snapshot from the contract and atomically replace
RoutableNetworkMonitors, NoiseNetworkView, and the announced monitor identity
set before accepting monitor traffic after websocket reconnection. Ensure missed
revocations remove replay-bypass and unmetered-session permissions, while
preserving event subscription for subsequent updates.
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| A Nym node SHALL derive which network-monitor agents may probe it directly from the network-monitors contract, not from any orchestrator or nym-api. A node MUST load the full authorised-agent set once at startup (via `get_all_network_monitor_agents`; a failed load aborts node startup) and MUST thereafter keep it current in REAL TIME through a nyxd websocket event subscription that dispatches `AuthoriseNetworkMonitor`, `RevokeNetworkMonitor`, and `RevokeAllNetworkMonitors` contract events. This is an event subscription, NOT a periodic contract poll; the node's periodic topology refresher explicitly preserves (does not reload) the agent set. | ||
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| The node MUST fold the set into THREE shared, lock-free structures: a canonical-IP-keyed routing set (`RoutableNetworkMonitors`), a canonical-IP-keyed noise-key map (`NoiseNetworkView`, in which one IP may host several agents disambiguated by port), and a set of announced monitor ed25519 CLIENT IDENTITIES keyed by that identity rather than by any address. The two IP-keyed structures MUST key on `IpAddr::to_canonical()` at insert AND lookup so that a v4-mapped-IPv6 form matches its canonical IPv4 form. The identity set MUST tolerate the same identity arriving from several agent entries, since an agent authorises one entry per address family and both carry its identity, and MUST tolerate entries carrying no identity at all, which is a validly authorised agent that simply cannot be recognised on the client-session path. There is no separate "extra initiator IPs" allowlist; inbound acceptance is a facet of the noise map. The authorised set MUST gate five behaviours: (1) the Noise responder handshake - an inbound connection from an IP not in the noise map falls back to raw TCP and the agent's handshake fails; (2) packet routing through `NetworkRoutingFilter`, in which a packet originating from an authorised monitor may ONLY be routed to another authorised monitor; (3) most importantly, the sphinx REPLAY / bloomfilter BYPASS - a packet detected as replayed MUST be dropped as a replay UNLESS it originates from an authorised network-monitor agent IP, which is the mechanism that lets the agent's deliberately-replayed probe header (see the `reuse_header` requirement) be processed rather than filtered; (4) FINAL-HOP DELIVERY - a final-hop packet originating from an authorised monitor MUST be processed and delivered to a live client session, and MUST NOT be written to the recipient's on-disk store if no session is live, so that a packet which did not arrive on the socket was definitively not delivered and monitor traffic cannot accrue undeliverable stored messages on every gateway; and (5) CLIENT SESSION METERING - a client websocket session whose registration handshake authenticates an ed25519 identity in the announced-identity set MUST be treated as an ephemeral monitor session: it MUST NOT be metered for bandwidth, MUST NOT require any bandwidth credential, and MUST NOT persist a shared-key, bandwidth, or stored-message entry. |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Specify websocket event payloads and identity-set transitions.
The contract requirements already add optional bs58_ed25519_identity to AuthoriseNetworkMonitor and AuthorisedNetworkMonitor. Define the event fields and watcher behavior for creation, identity changes, single-address revocation, and RevokeAllNetworkMonitors. The watcher must remove an old identity only when no authorised entry still references it, retain it when another address uses it, and clear all three structures on revoke-all.
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In
`@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/specs/nym-network-monitor/spec.md`
around lines 292 - 294, Specify the nyxd websocket payload fields for
AuthoriseNetworkMonitor, RevokeNetworkMonitor, and RevokeAllNetworkMonitors,
including optional bs58_ed25519_identity handling. Define watcher transitions
for adding entries, replacing identities, revoking one address, and revoking all
entries; remove an old identity only when no remaining authorised entry
references it, retain shared identities used by other addresses, and clear
RoutableNetworkMonitors, NoiseNetworkView, and the announced identity set on
RevokeAllNetworkMonitors.
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| - [ ] 12.3 Migrate the contract on a devnet and confirm an existing agent entry still reads back, then confirm a re-announcement populates its identity with no migration logic involved | ||
| - [ ] 12.4 Exercise mixnode liveness end to end against a testnet node and confirm a non-zero score with correct per-address attribution | ||
| - [ ] 12.5 Exercise gateway liveness end to end against a testnet gateway carrying task groups 6 and 7, and confirm both signals are non-zero | ||
| - [ ] 12.6 Confirm an un-upgraded gateway yields a zero egress signal and a non-zero ingress signal, so the divergence bucket behaves as designed |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Split the gateway compatibility test into two rollout states.
If task group 7 is not deployed, the agent cannot establish the credential-free client session, so both phases score zero. A non-zero ingress and zero egress result requires task group 7 to be deployed while task group 6 is absent. Add separate checks for these two states.
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In `@openspec/changes/network-monitor-liveness-tests/tasks.md` at line 113, Update
task 12.6 to cover two gateway rollout states: with task group 7 absent, verify
credential-free client-session establishment fails and both ingress and egress
signals are zero; with task group 7 deployed but task group 6 absent, verify
ingress is non-zero while egress remains zero and the divergence bucket behaves
as designed.
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