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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-08 14:18:33 +0000
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-08 15:32:31 +0100
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envelope: a signed value names its swarm
Review 3.1, part of finding 12: a signed value's payload bound path, user, time and prev, but not the swarm. A user with the same name and key in two swarms could have an envelope replayed from one into the other, wherever the path holds no envelope yet (prev ""). The payload now names the swarm (`swarm`), and a node takes an envelope only for its own. /auth/whoami says the swarm, and continuum-signed and the example in api.md sign it. Wire version 44: nodes before this refuse such envelopes, and those after refuse the old ones.
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@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ forgets it. The login page
token pasted, from a login by key, say; the dashboard renews it while open
([`dashboard.md`](dashboard.md)).
-`GET /auth/whoami` says who a request's user is, how it proved it, and what it may do.
+`GET /auth/whoami` says the swarm, who a request's user is, how it proved it, and what
+it may do.
Pages of other origins, the dashboards of other members, may call a node with a token:
its own links (`/admin/dashboard/links/own`, and its events) and messages