Everything on, phase 3: sign-in and recovery tell nothing, recovered passwords end sessions, deleted roots are gone everywhere

Owner decision 2026-10-04: fix the account privacy findings.

- Sign-in. Every failure answers "That username and password do not match." after the same work: an unknown login
  is hashed against a decoy, and the comparison is constant-time. "Banned" is told only to someone who gave the right
  password. This covers /clientapi/user/login, /invitation/login and /oauth/login.
- Recovery.
  - Every request answers the same sentence and queues a SendRecovery job, whether or not the account exists or has an
    email. The lookup, the code and SMTP move to RecoveryJob, so neither the answer nor its timing says anything.
  - Codes are kept only as a SHA-256 hash, for one hour. Migration _011 drops the plaintext ones, which never expired.
  - A recovered password ends every session of the root. RootSessions sets CredentialsChangedAt, which JwtEvents
    checks against the JWT's issue time, now stamped as nbf, and revokes each persona's OAuth tokens and authorizations.
- Deleting a root (RootRemoval: the admin route, or the restored self-delete at /clientapi/user/delete, which asks for
  the password).
  - Its sessions end.
  - Each persona and each group it owns sends Delete{Actor} to its followers, its members and the accounts it follows.
  - The personas' posts are emptied.
  - /peasants/{name} answers 410 with a Tombstone (formerType Person or Group), as do its inbox and WebFinger, through
    LocalActorService.Gone. The names stay reserved.
  - The root keeps only a unique `deleted-{id}` name; the second deletion on an instance used to collide on
    "Deleted user".

Also, from phase 2's pasture: GoToSocial files a circle post like a DM and shows it only to accounts it mentions. Each
member's copy, and a member's refetch, now also mentions that member silently. The GoToSocial scenario checks circle
posts in conversations, like DMs, and they pass there now, as on Mastodon.

657 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2

PrivaPub/Federation/Controllers/PeasantsController.cs

@@ -53,6 +53,20 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		public async Task<IActionResult> GetActor(string actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local == default && await _localActors.Gone(actor, token) is { } gone)
+				return new ContentResult
+				{
+					Content = new JsonObject
+					{
+						["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.ActivityStreams,
+						["id"] = gone.Uri,
+						["type"] = "Tombstone",
+						["formerType"] = gone.FormerType,
+						["deleted"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Timestamp(gone.DeletedAt)
+					}.ToJsonString(),
+					ContentType = ActivityContentType,
+					StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status410Gone
+				};
 			if (local is not { IsFederated: true })
 				return NotFound();
 			if (WantsHtml() && local.Kind != LocalActorKind.Application)
@@ -282,6 +296,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		public async Task<IActionResult> Inbox(string actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local == default && await _localActors.Gone(actor, token) != default)
+				return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status410Gone);
 			if (local is not { IsFederated: true })
 				return Answer(_inbox.NoSuchRecipient(Request));
 			return Answer(await _inbox.Receive(Request, local, token));
@@ -328,7 +344,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 			{
 				var circle = await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(post.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
 				var note = ActivityPubRenderer.Note(post, local, _localActors.FromGroup(circle), post.InReplyToURI);
-				return (local, post, OutboxPublisher.Naming(note, SignedFetchAuthorizer.CircleReaders(circle, requester)));
+				var readers = SignedFetchAuthorizer.CircleReaders(circle, requester);
+				var named = readers.Count == 0 ? new List<Models.User.ForeignAvatar>() : await _dbEntities.ForeignAvatars.Match(a => readers.Contains(a.ActorURI)).ExecuteAsync(token);
+				return (local, post, OutboxPublisher.Naming(note, named));
 			}
 			var rendered = post.Visibility == PostVisibility.Direct
 				? ActivityPubRenderer.DirectNote(post, local, Array.Empty<(string, string)>(), post.ContextURI)

PrivaPub/Federation/Controllers/WellKnownController.cs

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 				if (parts.Length != 2 || !parts[1].Equals(domain, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
 					return NotFound();
 				actor = await _localActors.FindByUserName(parts[0], token);
+				if (actor == default && await _localActors.Gone(parts[0], token) != default)
+					return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status410Gone);
 			}
 			else
 				actor = await _localActors.FindByUri(resource, token);