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feat(peering): treat authenticated peers as feeds - #1034
Adds `limits.peer` with separate subscription caps and message rate limits for authenticated peering peers.
Peer REQ, COUNT and NIP-77 filter handling use peer caps instead of client caps; a full-feed subscription no longer trips `max_subscriptions` or the client EWMA message bucket.
`limits.peer.subscription.maxLimit` defaults to 0 (no cap), so a peer can request a full feed.
Peer messages are counted in a separate rate-limit bucket; defaults remain high but finite.
Only a verified AUTH from an enabled `peering.peers` pubkey selects peer limits. Unauthenticated and unconfigured connections keep the existing client limits exactly as before.
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New Features
Authenticated connections from configured peers now use separate subscription and message-rate limits; other connections retain client limits.
Peer defaults allow up to 100 subscriptions, 100 filters, and 10,000 filter values. Requested result limits are uncapped by default, and requests are no longer restricted by a fixed filter-count cap.
Peer message rates default to 6,000 per minute.
Documentation
Added guidance on peer feed limits and documented the available settings and defaults.
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Review comments at @src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts:
- Around line 235-236: Update the peer branch that assigns findEvents from
findByFilters so full-feed reads honor WebSocket backpressure: pause the
database stream when the socket cannot accept more data and resume it when the
socket drains. Reuse the established backpressure behavior from client queries
where applicable, preserve the existing client path, and do not assume
stream-control APIs without confirming the stream and socket interfaces.
Review comments at @src/repositories/event-repository.ts:
- Around line 95-96: Update findByFilters to apply the same soft-deletion and
expiry predicates used by countByFilters to each SQL query before applying
defaultLimit, so deleted or expired rows cannot consume result slots.
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The change adds peer-specific subscription and message limits for configured peers. Request handlers select limits based on peer status, and peer REQ queries can use a configured default result limit. REQ and COUNT schemas no longer enforce a fixed element-count cap.
Settings define peer subscription caps and a message rate limit. Validation checks peer message rate-limit periods. Documentation describes the defaults, peer eligibility, and how other connections retain client limits.
SUBSCRIBE passes peer maxLimit as the query default, or zero when unset. The repository applies explicit filter limits before defaults and omits the limit for zero or negative defaults. REQ and COUNT schemas no longer reject messages with more than 12 elements.
COUNT, NEG-OPEN, and SUBSCRIBE checks select peer or client subscription limits based on peer identity. Tests cover peer-specific limits and client-limit behavior when no peer public key is present.
Message rate limiting selects peer or general message limits. Peer messages use a separate peer-message bucket. Tests cover the peer-specific rate and bucket.
cameri/nostream#1030 — Adds access to peer public keys after verified AUTH, which this change uses to select peer limits.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to aa3a6
Peer feeds can silently omit live events when a positive maxLimit is configured. A slow or malicious peer can also exhaust relay memory on full-feed reads. In addition, a single large REQ or COUNT frame can stall the relay with quadratic deduplication. Address these before merging, or explicitly accept them.
Security architecture risk: High · up to aa3a6
The change weakens availability protections: ordinary remote clients can trigger excessive processing before filter limits are checked, while large peer feeds can overwhelm delivery buffers. Authentication restricts full feeds to trusted peers, but does not contain all of these resource-exhaustion risks.
Retained concerns
High · security · observed: Removing the global REQ/COUNT array cap exposes expensive structural deduplication before effective filter-count enforcement. An unauthenticated client can submit a payload-sized array of distinct valid filters; rejection by client maxFilters happens only after that work. The deduplication predates this PR, but its former ten-filter admission bound does not. Finite payload and per-message rate limits reduce volume without bounding the disproportionate work inside one admitted request.
Medium · security · inferred: The new default uncapped peer feed reuses delivery and ownership controls designed around bounded historical responses. Delivery advances without waiting for socket consumption, while normal CLOSE and changed-filter replacement update the subscription map without aborting the associated historical read. Slow, faulty, or malicious configured peers can consequently cause larger queued output and overlapping full-feed work. These mechanisms already existed, but the PR materially increases their possible workload. Positive peer caps and socket-disconnect abortion mitigate exposure; normal unsubscribe or replacement does not provide equivalent containment.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The broadest demonstrated attack surface is ordinary external WebSocket ingress: no peer credential is required to reach pre-limit filter deduplication. Excessive synchronous work can delay unrelated connections sharing the affected worker. Full-feed buffering and overlapping retrieval require a configured peer identity and can additionally consume shared process memory and read-replica capacity. Deployment-wide or cross-environment impact is not established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — The retained denial-of-service finding is supported by the base/head comparison: schema admission now permits large filter arrays, and both handlers structurally deduplicate those arrays before enforcing maxFilters. The finite transport limit still permits many compact distinct filters, while rate accounting charges one unit per message rather than its filter workload.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The stronger feed tier remains behind verified configured-peer authentication, and historical results retain per-event read authorization. These controls narrow privileged feed exposure but do not protect the earlier unauthenticated deduplication path. Peer identity is revalidated when queried, whereas an already-started fetch snapshots its selected result-limit policy.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Finite peer subscription counts and inbound message rates do not bound bytes queued by one full-feed response or historical reads surviving logical unsubscribe. Disconnect abortion and closed-socket write suppression provide partial containment, but do not make an open slow connection backpressured. Exact memory growth and server-side query cancellation behavior remain unmeasured.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Enforce an identity-appropriate raw filter-count budget before structural deduplication, retaining a finite ingress workload bound even when peers are allowed larger accepted queries.
proposed — Give each subscription explicit ownership of its historical read, cancel superseded or closed reads, and couple result production to bounded socket delivery. Full-feed behavior can then remain available without relying solely on peer trust or a finite result cap for resource containment.
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A rabbit checks the peer’s feed, Then sets the limits that it needs. With filters flowing, queries run, The peer bucket keeps its count, And client limits stay for others too.
Authenticated, configured peers now receive separate subscription and message limits.
Verified peers can request feeds using their own subscription limits.
Authenticated peers use a separate, finite message-rate limit.
Diagram
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flowchart TD
A[Incoming message] --> B[Apply client or peer message limit]
B --> C[Check message shape]
C --> D[Remove duplicate filters]
D --> E[Apply client or peer filter caps]
E --> F[Read stored events]
F --> G[Check event visibility]
G --> H[Queue events on socket]
P[Verified configured peer] --> B
P --> E
P --> I[No default result cap]
I --> F
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- Around line 422-423: Update the peer REQ query path using maxLimit so an
omitted limit reaches EventRepository.findByFilters as an uncapped full-feed
request rather than triggering DEFAULT_FILTER_LIMIT; preserve explicitly
supplied limits, and use an explicit paging contract if the repository cannot
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The PR removes the schema cap of 12 elements, but uniqWith(equals, message.slice(2)) still runs before canSubscribe and canCount. The configured maxFilters limit does not bound this work. The default 524,288-byte payload limit accepts a 168,901-byte frame with 10,000 distinct filters, and one frame is enough to trigger quadratic synchronous work. Apply the connection-specific filter bound before deduplication, or use bounded deduplication. COUNT has the same ordering.
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Review comment at @src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts at line 55:
Bound incoming filters by the connection-specific maxFilters limit before
uniqWith performs deduplication, or use deduplication that stops once the
permitted bound is reached. Apply the same bounded processing to both the
canSubscribe and canCount paths.
When a peer has maxLimit: 0 and omits limit, the query can stream the full matching feed. streamEach marks each write complete immediately, and sendMessage does not wait for WebSocket drain. A slow peer can therefore cause queued output to grow while the feed continues to be read. Pause the database stream while the socket is backpressured and resume it when the socket can accept more data.
The same behavior already exists for client queries with the default 500-event limit. This change increases the possible amount of queued data.
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Update the peer branch that assigns findEvents from findByFilters so full-feed
reads honor WebSocket backpressure: pause the database stream when the socket
cannot accept more data and resume it when the socket drains. Reuse the
established backpressure behavior from client queries where applicable, preserve
the existing client path, and do not assume stream-control APIs without
confirming the stream and socket interfaces.
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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sed -n 215,260p src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts
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echo"== current event-repository: deleted/expiry predicates and limit usage =="
rg -n -F -e 'deleted_at' -e 'expires_at' -e 'applyFilterConditions' -e 'DEFAULT_FILTER_LIMIT' -- src/repositories/event-repository.ts ||test"$?" -eq 1
echoecho"== applyFilterConditions body =="
ast-grep outline src/repositories/event-repository.ts --view expanded | sed -n '1,200p'||trueechoecho"== base commit: handler and repository limit/filter ordering =="
git show 18125d4d0366ac01f4bbee4c5efa7f806a1abbaa:src/repositories/event-repository.ts | rg -n -F -e 'DEFAULT_FILTER_LIMIT' -e 'builder.limit' -e 'deleted_at' -e 'expires_at'||test"$?" -eq 1
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git show 18125d4d0366ac01f4bbee4c5efa7f806a1abbaa:src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts | rg -n -F -e 'findByFilters' -e 'deleted_at' -e 'isExpiredEvent' -e 'isReadAuthorized' -e 'isSubscribedToEvent'||test"$?" -eq 1
Repository: cameri/nostream
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Exclude soft-deleted and expired events in SQL before applying the limit.
findByFilters applies the peer defaultLimit in SQL, but it does not exclude soft-deleted or expired rows. The handler drops those rows after the query. With a positive maxLimit, a deleted row can use the only slot. The handler then sends EOSE without the live matching event that follows.
Add the same deleted and expiry predicates that countByFilters uses.
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Review comment at @src/repositories/event-repository.ts around lines 95 - 96:
Update findByFilters to apply the same soft-deletion and expiry predicates used
by countByFilters to each SQL query before applying defaultLimit, so deleted or
expired rows cannot consume result slots.
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Filter lists block other clients
Removing the early filter-count cap lets unauthenticated clients send tens of thousands of distinct filters in one permitted frame. Both handlers run uniqWith(equals, ...) before checking maxFilters. They compare each distinct filter against those already seen before rejecting the request, causing hundreds of millions of synchronous comparisons that block other clients on the worker.
Bound the raw filter count using the connection's selected limits before removing duplicates.
How this was verified: Both REQ and COUNT accept unrestricted filter counts and deduplicate attacker-supplied filters before checking the configured cap.
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Slow peers exhaust worker memory
The new uncapped peer read feeds a send path that never waits for the socket. streamEach finishes each write immediately, and sendMessage calls client.send without waiting for completion or checking queued bytes.
When a peer requests a large stored feed over a slower connection, the database can fill the worker's memory with unsent events. Make stored reads wait for socket writes, or enforce a bounded outgoing queue, before making the default read unlimited.
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