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Shade/packages/shade-recovery
Sterister 1fb59a7076 release(v4.8.0): sender-fingerprint attribution + Inbox.start race fix
Two unblocking changes for first-contact flows.

Sender attribution: relay captures shortHash(senderSigningKey) at
PUT time (after signature verification, no new trust surface) and
surfaces it on bridge push (IncomingMessage.from) + inbox-fetch
(FetchedBlob.from) + DecryptHandler raw arg. Apps receiving a prekey
envelope from a never-before-seen peer can now bootstrap X3DH via
shade.receive('fp:<hex>', env) — pre-4.8 the wire envelope didn't
authenticate the sender and there was no out-of-band hint to use.
Idempotent ALTER TABLE migrations for SQLite + Postgres add a
sender_fp TEXT column; legacy rows surface as from=undefined
(inter-version compat).

Inbox.start() race: pre-4.8 start() called register() fire-and-forget
AND schedulePoll(0) synchronously, so the first poll on a fresh
address often beat the register HTTP RTT and got SHADE_NOT_FOUND.
start() now defers; register() success kicks schedulePoll(0). Manual
tick() is unaffected (deliberate user action, no gating).

Both reported by Prism. Tests cover all five acceptance criteria
from the sender-attribution request (PUT capture, bridge surface,
fetch surface, inter-version compat, end-to-end pair smoke) plus
the three from the race-fix request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 00:11:59 +02:00
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@shade/recovery

Social key recovery for Shade — V3.10.

Shamir Secret Sharing over GF(2^8) splits the user's identity backup key into n shares; any threshold-many k together reconstruct the identity onto a new device. Distribution and reconstruction ride existing 1:1 Shade sessions — no centralized recovery agent.

Install

bun add @shade/recovery

Quick wire-up

import {
  setupRecovery,
  attachGuardian,
  requestRecovery,
  MemoryRecoveryStore,
} from '@shade/recovery';

// Primary (Alice's existing device)
await setupRecovery({
  shade,
  guardians: ['bob', 'carol', 'dan', 'eve', 'faythe'],
  threshold: 3,
  deliver: async (to, envelope) => myOutbox.send(to, envelope),
});

// Each guardian
attachGuardian({
  shade,
  store: new MemoryRecoveryStore(),    // swap for persistent store in prod
  approve: async (ctx) => askUser(ctx),
  deliver: async (to, envelope) => myOutbox.send(to, envelope),
});

// New device (Alice on a fresh phone)
await requestRecovery({
  shade: tempShade,
  originalAddress: 'alice',
  setupId: '<from recovery card>',
  threshold: 3,
  guardians: ['bob', 'carol', 'dan', 'eve', 'faythe'],
  deliver: async (to, envelope) => myOutbox.send(to, envelope),
});

See docs/recovery.md for the full threat model, persistence recommendations, and guardian-UX guidance.

Tests

bun test                    # all
bun test tests/shamir       # Shamir primitives
bun test tests/integration  # 3-of-5 end-to-end
bun test tests/adversarial  # k-1 collusion + forged shares + OOB-gate