Move DKG roster assembly, validation and fingerprint into keep-mobile

[wksantiago]

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• New Features
  • Added mobile DKG roster assembly and validation.
  • Added checks for duplicate or invalid participant keys and coordinator assignment.
  • Added roster verification with local device index resolution.
  • Added canonical group fingerprint generation for finalized rosters.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved validation of roster configuration and participant encoding.
  • Added safeguards for oversized rosters exceeding the supported participant limit.

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Walkthrough

The mobile DKG module now assembles coordinator-first rosters, validates participant keys and limits, resolves local indices, and formats canonical group fingerprints. UniFFI exports expose these operations through the RosterVerification result record.

Changes

Mobile DKG roster flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Public roster API contract keep-mobile/src/types.rs, keep-mobile/src/lib.rs	Adds the RosterVerification UniFFI record and exports frost_assemble_roster and frost_verify_roster.
Roster assembly and verification keep-mobile/src/dkg.rs	Assigns coordinator index 1, validates keys and the 255-participant limit, resolves the local index, and returns the formatted canonical group fingerprint. Tests cover validation, encoding, index resolution, and fingerprint formatting.

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A rabbit checks each roster row,
Keys line up in numbered flow.
The group ID shines bright and clear,
A local index appears near.
DKG hops safely on its way.

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In `@keep-mobile/src/dkg.rs`:
- Around line 187-207: Update assemble_roster to reject a coordinator plus
joiner count above u8::MAX before allocating entries or iterating keys, matching
the participant limit enforced by build_roster. Preserve existing parsing,
duplicate detection, and one-based index generation for valid roster sizes.

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[wksantiago]

Once #973 merges, bump keep-android's keep.version to the merged SHA to unblock the Kotlin commit 0781e49.

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Reviewed at d155f72 and exercised locally: cargo fmt --check, clippy --all-targets -D warnings, and the full keep-mobile lib suite (323 passed) are all clean. CI is green across the board; the UNSTABLE state is only CodeRabbit still queued.

This closes the gap I flagged on the Android side. The fingerprint is now derived from the canonical frost_group_id rather than recomputed natively, so the digest participants read aloud is the same one the roster binding and the d-tag channel come from. The two can no longer drift, which was the actual problem: the Kotlin implementation used its own domain string and hashed pubkey strings verbatim, so a roster carrying one key as hex and another as bech32 produced a false mismatch on a ceremony that was fine. verify_roster_resolves_our_index_and_matches_group_id pins exactly that by resolving the same participant through both encodings.

The rest of the surface reads well. Assembly and validation being one authority instead of two is the point of the change, assemble_roster refuses duplicate and unparseable keys before anything reaches the wire, verify_roster reuses build_roster rather than reimplementing its checks, and resolving our_index by matching the device's own key means an outsider is rejected instead of silently taking someone else's slot. Passing relays: Vec::new() into the synthetic DkgConfig is fine, since build_roster never looks at relays.

One finding: assemble_roster_rejects_more_than_u8_participants cannot fail

The fixture builds its 255 joiners as 255 copies of the same key:

let joiners = vec![subkey(1).public_key().to_hex(); u8::MAX as usize];

Duplicate rejection would reject that roster on its own, so the assertion holds whether or not the cap exists. I verified this rather than inferring it: with if joiner_pubkeys.len() + 1 > u8::MAX disabled, the test still passes. Deleting the cap would not be caught.

Making it distinct-keyed is not a one-line change, which is probably why it ended up this way. subkey takes a u8 seed and builds the secret from [seed; 32], so seed 0 is an invalid secret key and panics; that leaves 255 usable keys, one short of the 256 participants needed to reach the cap. A wider helper fixes it:

/// Distinct key for any `n`, unlike `subkey` whose u8 seed tops out at 255 usable
/// values (seed 0 is an invalid secret key). Needed to build a roster of 256
/// all-distinct participants, the only way to reach the u8 cap without duplicate
/// rejection firing first.
fn subkey_n(n: u16) -> Keys {
    let mut b = [1u8; 32];
    b[0] = (n & 0xff) as u8;
    b[1] = (n >> 8) as u8;
    let sk = nostr_sdk::secp256k1::SecretKey::from_slice(&b).unwrap();
    Keys::new(sk.into())
}

with the fixture becoming:

let joiners: Vec<String> = (0..u8::MAX as u16)
    .map(|i| subkey_n(i).public_key().to_hex())
    .collect();
assert_eq!(joiners.len(), u8::MAX as usize);
assert!(assemble_roster(&subkey_n(1000).public_key().to_hex(), &joiners).is_err());

Verified both directions: passes with the cap, fails with the cap removed. Happy to push it if you want.

One note, not a finding

The fingerprint is 8 bytes, so a birthday collision on the displayed value is about 2^32 work, which is cheap. I looked at whether that buys an attacker anything and concluded it does not: two rosters that collide in the first 8 bytes still have different full frost_group_id values, so they land on different d-tag channels and the certificate will not verify across them. The ceremony fails closed rather than binding the wrong roster. The truncation costs a wasted ceremony at worst, not a key. Recording the reasoning so the choice is deliberate rather than assumed; widening it later is a display change only, since the underlying id is untouched.

[wksantiago]

Good catch — you're right that the test wasn't guarding the cap. Fixed in d3fa247: added a distinct-key subkey_n(u16) helper (essentially your snippet) and rebuilt the fixture with 255 distinct joiners + a distinct coordinator. Verified both directions — passes with the cap, and fails when the cap is disabled (if false), so it now actually guards it. fmt/clippy/dkg suite all clean. Thanks for verifying rather than inferring it.

[kwsantiago]

Confirmed d3fa247 independently, both directions: the test passes as-is, and it fails once if joiner_pubkeys.len() + 1 > u8::MAX is disabled. It now guards the cap rather than riding on duplicate rejection. Full gate re-run on the new head: cargo fmt --check clean, clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean, 323 tests passing.

The comment you added on the fixture is the part worth having. Someone trimming that test later would otherwise have no way to know the distinct keys are load-bearing, and swapping in vec![key; 255] would look like a harmless simplification while quietly removing the only thing that checks the bound.

Nothing further from me. This is ready as far as I can tell: the fingerprint now comes from the canonical frost_group_id, assembly and validation have one authority instead of two, and the duplicate, encoding, and cap cases each have a test that can actually fail.

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