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Same feature as #766 but for the nip77 usecase (auth parameter)

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  • New Features
    • Added optional NIP-42 relay authentication for NIP-77 reconciliation.
    • Added policies to never authenticate, authenticate when allowed, or require authentication.
    • Added handling for authentication requests, unavailable signing accounts, and closed negotiations.
    • Added support for routing reconciliation across specific relay connections.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded NIP-77 and NIP-42 guidance with authentication policies and error-handling examples.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for authenticated, anonymous, refused, and unavailable-authentication scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

NIP-77 reconciliation now supports RelayAuth policies, connection-key routing, authentication retries, authentication exceptions, relay close handling, and mock-relay coverage. Documentation describes the policies and error behavior.

Changes

NIP-77 authentication

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public authentication contracts
packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/entities/nip77_state.dart, packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/nip77/nip77.dart, packages/ndk/lib/ndk.dart
NIP-77 state stores the connection key, filter, authentication policy, and pauseable timeout. The public API accepts RelayAuth, uses connection keys for message routing, and exposes authentication exceptions.
Authenticated reconciliation flow
packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/nip77/nip77_internal.dart
Reconciliation opens keyed connections, validates message origins, retries refused negotiations with authentication when allowed, and handles authentication failures and repeated connection moves.
Relay event and connection wiring
packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart, packages/ndk/lib/presentation_layer/init.dart
RelayManager dispatches keyed NIP-77 events, reports CLOSED negotiations, provides authentication and connectivity lookups, and forwards close events to Nip77.
Mock relay and authentication validation
packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart, packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_refusing_signer.dart, packages/ndk/test/usecases/nip77/nip77_auth_test.dart, doc/concepts/nip42-auth.md, doc/usecases/negentropy.md
The mock relay handles negentropy messages and authentication refusals. Tests cover authentication policies, signer failures, anonymous reconciliation, and timeout behavior. Documentation describes the policies and exceptions.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule this NIP-77 reconciliation change because it broadens the public API with RelayAuth policies, connection-key routing, authentication retries, and related error handling.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5264d

This change adds identity-aware relay authentication to NIP-77 reconciliation, but unresolved connection-routing and timeout-accounting behavior could incorrectly end a reconciliation or let it exceed its requested timeout. The authentication mock concern also limits confidence in the covered flow.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant Nip77
  participant RelayManager
  participant Relay
  Caller->>Nip77: reconcile(filter, auth)
  Nip77->>RelayManager: open keyed connection
  Nip77->>Relay: send NEG-OPEN
  Relay-->>Nip77: NEG-MSG or authentication refusal
  Nip77->>RelayManager: authenticate when policy allows
  Nip77->>Relay: retry NEG-OPEN on authenticated connection
  Relay-->>Nip77: reconciliation response
  Nip77-->>Caller: Nip77Response
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packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart (1)

923-923: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Match NOTICE failures by RelayConnectionKey.

Line 923 compares only the relay URL. This PR allows anonymous and account-bound connections to the same relay. A negentropy NOTICE on one connection can therefore fail a negotiation on another connection.

Compare entry.value.connectionKey with relayConnectivity.key.

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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart` at line 923,
Update the NOTICE failure matching condition in the surrounding relay
negotiation logic to compare entry.value.connectionKey with
relayConnectivity.key instead of comparing only relayUrl, ensuring failures are
associated with the correct anonymous or account-bound connection.
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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/nip77/nip77_internal.dart`:
- Around line 356-365: Update both authentication retry futures in the
negotiation flow, including the `authenticateConnection` chain and the nearby
`openConnectionAs` chain, to attach error handlers that call `fail(...)` and
prevent unhandled rejections. Have the authentication handler complete with
`false` and the connection handler with `null`, while preserving the existing
success and completed-state behavior.

In `@packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart`:
- Line 139: Update the socket disconnect cleanup in onDone to remove the
disconnected socket from _negOpenedSubscriptions, and clear
_negOpenedSubscriptions during stopServer() alongside the other connection maps.
Preserve existing cleanup behavior while ensuring no stale sockets or
subscription IDs remain.
- Around line 110-111: Update MockRelay’s initial AUTH-challenge condition to
also trigger when requireAuthForNegentropy is true, ensuring NIP-77
authenticateConnection receives a challenge without changing other
authentication behavior.

In `@packages/ndk/test/usecases/nip77/nip77_auth_test.dart`:
- Around line 58-59: In each of the seven tests, register addTearDown callbacks
immediately after creating the relay and Ndk resources, using callbacks that
clean up those specific instances. Ensure teardown registration occurs before
later expectations or setup can fail, and preserve reverse-order cleanup so Ndk
is released before the relay server.

---

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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart`:
- Line 923: Update the NOTICE failure matching condition in the surrounding
relay negotiation logic to compare entry.value.connectionKey with
relayConnectivity.key instead of comparing only relayUrl, ensuring failures are
associated with the correct anonymous or account-bound connection.

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/// when true a NEG-OPEN on an unauthenticated connection is refused
bool requireAuthForNegentropy = false;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Send an AUTH challenge for negentropy-only authentication.

When only requireAuthForNegentropy is true, MockRelay sends no initial AUTH challenge. The NIP-77 retry calls authenticateConnection, which waits for a challenge until authChallengeTimeout and then fails.

Include requireAuthForNegentropy in the initial AUTH-challenge condition.

Proposed fix
-        if ((requireAuthForRequests || requireAuthForEvents) &&
+        if ((requireAuthForRequests ||
+                requireAuthForEvents ||
+                requireAuthForNegentropy) &&
             sendAuthChallenge) {
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In `@packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart` around lines 110 - 111, Update
MockRelay’s initial AUTH-challenge condition to also trigger when
requireAuthForNegentropy is true, ensuring NIP-77 authenticateConnection
receives a challenge without changing other authentication behavior.

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Comment thread packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart Outdated
...entry.value,
};

final Map<WebSocket, Set<String>> _negOpenedSubscriptions = {};

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove each socket from _negOpenedSubscriptions when it disconnects.

onDone removes the socket from the other connection maps but not from _negOpenedSubscriptions. Later negOpensNotAuthenticatedAs queries can report stale IDs, and the map retains disconnected sockets. Remove the entry in onDone and clear _negOpenedSubscriptions in stopServer().

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In `@packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart` at line 139, Update the socket
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Comment on lines +58 to +59
final relay = await negentropyRelay(port: portBase);
final ndk = ndkFor(relay);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Register cleanup with addTearDown after each resource is created.

If an expectation or setup step fails, the trailing cleanup calls are skipped. MockRelay.startServer() then leaves its fixed port bound, and Ndk can retain active resources. Register teardown callbacks immediately after creation. The callbacks run after failures, in reverse registration order.

♻️ Proposed cleanup pattern
       final relay = await negentropyRelay(port: portBase);
+      addTearDown(relay.stopServer);
       final ndk = ndkFor(relay);
+      addTearDown(ndk.destroy);
       await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 1));
-      await ndk.destroy();
-      await relay.stopServer();
     });

Apply the same change to the other six tests.

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In `@packages/ndk/test/usecases/nip77/nip77_auth_test.dart` around lines 58 - 59,
In each of the seven tests, register addTearDown callbacks immediately after
creating the relay and Ndk resources, using callbacks that clean up those
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…uture

A `require` naming an account that cannot sign was answered by completing
the session's completer with an error, synchronously, before `reconcile`
had returned the response the caller listens to. Nothing was attached to
that future yet, so the error reached the zone as an unhandled one and
crashed a caller that only read `response.future` after an await.
A negotiation refused for auth-required retries on a bound connection,
and the time that takes was counted against the reconciliation timeout.
Signing is the part that hurts: a remote signer waits for a human, so a
bunker tap alone could outlast the 30s budget and time out a session the
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packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart (1)

923-923: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Match the notifying connection before completing NIP-77 sessions. The NOTICE handler currently matches only relayUrl, then calls completeWithError for every matching session. A NOTICE from one identity-bound connection can therefore fail a session on another connection to the same relay. Compare entry.value.connectionKey with relayConnectivity.key in this branch.

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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart` at line 923,
Update the NOTICE handling branch around relayUrl matching to also require
entry.value.connectionKey to equal relayConnectivity.key before calling
completeWithError, so only the notifying connection’s NIP-77 session is
completed.
packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart (1)

110-144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include requireAuthForNegentropy in the AUTH-challenge guard. When only this flag is enabled, MockRelay rejects unauthenticated NEG-OPEN but sends no AUTH challenge. The NIP-77 retry cannot authenticate, so authenticated reconciliation fails.

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In `@packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart` around lines 110 - 144, Update the
NEG-OPEN authentication guard in MockRelay to include requireAuthForNegentropy
alongside the existing AUTH-challenge conditions. When this flag is enabled,
unauthenticated NEG-OPEN requests must receive an AUTH challenge before being
refused, allowing the NIP-77 retry to authenticate successfully.
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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/entities/nip77_state.dart`:
- Line 118: Update the timeout-resume logic around _startTimeout so starting a
timer with the remaining duration also stores that duration in _timeoutDuration,
ensuring subsequent pauses subtract elapsed time from the reduced budget rather
than restoring the original timeout.

In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/nip77/nip77_internal.dart`:
- Around line 356-365: Update _authenticateAndReopen to catch errors from
_relayManager.authenticateConnection, resume the timeout if the state is still
active, and call _fail(state, error). Ensure authentication failures do not
leave the state future incomplete or the timeout paused.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/relay_manager.dart`:
- Line 923: Update the NOTICE handling branch around relayUrl matching to also
require entry.value.connectionKey to equal relayConnectivity.key before calling
completeWithError, so only the notifying connection’s NIP-77 session is
completed.

In `@packages/ndk/test/mocks/mock_relay.dart`:
- Around line 110-144: Update the NEG-OPEN authentication guard in MockRelay to
include requireAuthForNegentropy alongside the existing AUTH-challenge
conditions. When this flag is enabled, unauthenticated NEG-OPEN requests must
receive an AUTH challenge before being refused, allowing the NIP-77 retry to
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final remaining = _remainingTimeout;
if (remaining == null) return;
_remainingTimeout = null;
_startTimeout(remaining);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the reduced timeout budget after a resume.

When an unauthenticated NEG-OPEN is refused, the authentication retry can pause and resume the timeout. A subsequent refusal can pause it again. Because _startTimeout(remaining) does not update _timeoutDuration, the second pause subtracts elapsed time from the original duration and restores consumed budget. Update _timeoutDuration when _startTimeout starts the timer.

Proposed fix
 void startTimeout(Duration duration, void Function() onTimeout) {
-  _timeoutDuration = duration;
   _onTimeout = onTimeout;
   _startTimeout(duration);
 }

 void _startTimeout(Duration duration) {
+  _timeoutDuration = duration;
   _timeoutStartedAt = DateTime.now();
   _timeoutTimer = Timer(duration, () => _onTimeout?.call());
 }
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In `@packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/entities/nip77_state.dart` at line 118, Update
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Comment thread packages/ndk/lib/domain_layer/usecases/nip77/nip77_internal.dart
A remote signer answers a refused request by throwing, and nothing caught
that. The exception escaped an unawaited future.
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