Personas prove what goes to relays; the server says what it reads

FEP-521a and FEP-8b32. Every persona has an Ed25519 key of its own (Avatar.SigningKey; migration 014 gives the earlier
ones theirs), named in its actor's assertionMethod as a Multikey, the terms defined in the actor's own context. A
persona's activity going to a relay carries an eddsa-jcs-2022 proof (JSON canonicalised by RFC 8785, Jcs), so what
Activity-Relay forwards reaches Mastodon, which verifies it with its own code. Nothing else carries one: Mitra takes a
proof over the HTTP signature and refuses one by a key it has not read, without reading the actor again. Received: an
actor's own Multikeys are kept, and a forwarded activity whose proof one of them verifies is taken as it came instead of
being read again from its origin.

Discovery: WebFinger for the server's origin links its instance actor (FEP-d556), NodeInfo links it as the application
actor (FEP-2677), and actors name RFC 9421 under implements (FEP-844e).

Checked live: relay 16 (Activity-Relay's forward of alice's post reaches Mastodon), Mitra, GoToSocial and Mastodon
unchanged (165 in all).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ PrivaPub/ ASP.NET Core Web API, net10.0
Objects/ Origin, ActivityJson, NoteParser, Addressing, ContentSanitizer
Moderation/ DomainBlocks (suspend / silence / reject media)
Signing/ HttpSignatures (draft-cavage sign/verify), MessageSignatures (RFC 9421 verify),
RequestSignature (whichever a request carries)
RequestSignature (whichever a request carries), IntegrityProofs (FEP-8b32
eddsa-jcs-2022 by a persona's Ed25519 key, FEP-521a Multikeys), Jcs (RFC 8785)
Inbox/ InboxReceiver (verify, queue, 202) → InboxProcessor (job) → Handlers/{Follow,Accept,Reject,
Undo,Create,Update,Delete,Like,Announce}; RemotePosts (build, fetch parents, FetchAncestors);
RemoteReplies (FetchReplies: a thread's `context`, else `replies` two levels down);
@@ -165,7 +166,10 @@ group www-data and reaches the private mongod; `sudo -u www-data` works too.
(its own `geo` client, a fixed HTTPS host, size-capped, the file checked before it is swapped in).
2. **Every fetch is signed by the instance actor** (`privapub`), never by a persona; deliveries are signed by the acting
avatar or group. Both are draft-cavage rsa-sha256 over `(request-target) host date` (+ `digest` on bodies). Inbound,
an RFC 9421 signature (`Signature-Input`) is verified too, its target against our public address.
an RFC 9421 signature (`Signature-Input`) is verified too, its target against our public address. A persona's own
activity going to a relay also carries a FEP-8b32 proof by its Ed25519 key (`Avatar.SigningKey`, one per persona,
never shared), and nothing else does: Mitra refuses a proof by a key it has not read. A forwarded activity is taken
as it came only when its proof verifies with a Multikey of its actor's.
3. **A remote document is believed only from its own address.** `RemoteActorService.FetchObject` requires the
document's `id` to be the URL it was served from (a same-origin alias is followed once). A key is accepted only if
the actor lists it, its `owner` is the actor and it shares the actor's origin.
@@ -600,8 +604,9 @@ tools/pasture/run.sh down # removes e
`peers/aoderelay.sh` aode-relay 0.3.129 as `aoderelay.test`):** `appsettings.Pasture.json` names both in
`Federation:Relays`, so PrivaPub subscribes a minute after it starts. `scenarios/relay.sh` has Mastodon subscribe to
each in turn, checks that a post of an account nobody here follows reaches the federated timeline (forwarded by one,
announced by the other), that alice's public post goes to the relays (and through aode-relay to Mastodon) and nothing
less public, and has Mastodon leave again, so the town sees no relayed posts. 15 checks.
announced by the other), that alice's public post goes to the relays (and through both to Mastodon: Activity-Relay's
forward on its FEP-8b32 proof, after the scenario makes Mastodon read alice's keys anew) and nothing less public, and
has Mastodon leave again, so the town sees no relayed posts. 16 checks.
- **Smithereen (1.0.3):** its image on the shared MySQL (database `smithereen`, its schema from the image's commit),
with imgproxy and a file server behind Caddy as `smithereen.test` (`/i` and `/s`), trusting the CA through a JDK
store with it added (`JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS`). MySQL takes its stored functions only with