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

PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/ActorDocument.cs

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 		public List<CustomEmoji> Emojis { get; init; } = new();
 		public Dictionary<string, string> Fields { get; init; } = new();
 		public IReadOnlyList<ActorKey> Keys { get; init; } = Array.Empty<ActorKey>();
+		public List<Models.User.AssertionKey> AssertionKeys { get; init; } = new();
 		public List<string> Features { get; init; } = new();
 
 		public ActorKey Key(string keyId) => Keys.FirstOrDefault(k => k.Id == keyId);
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 				Icon = root.TryGetProperty("icon", out var icon) ? RemoteActorService.Text(icon, "url") : default,
 				Discoverable = !root.TryGetProperty("discoverable", out var discoverable) || discoverable.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.False,
 				Keys = ParseKeys(root, id),
+				AssertionKeys = ParseAssertionKeys(root, id),
 				Indexable = Flag(root, "indexable"),
 				Locked = Flag(root, "manuallyApprovesFollowers"),
 				Memorial = Flag(root, "memorial"),
@@ -121,6 +123,32 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 			return fields;
 		}
 
+		const int MaxAssertionKeys = 5;
+
+		// its Ed25519 keys (FEP-521a) its document holds, as Mastodon reads them: Multikeys it controls, under its own id
+		static List<Models.User.AssertionKey> ParseAssertionKeys(JsonElement root, string actorId)
+		{
+			var keys = new List<Models.User.AssertionKey>();
+			if (!root.TryGetProperty("assertionMethod", out var methods))
+				return keys;
+			var candidates = methods.ValueKind switch
+			{
+				JsonValueKind.Object => new[] { methods },
+				JsonValueKind.Array => methods.EnumerateArray().Where(k => k.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Object).ToArray(),
+				_ => Array.Empty<JsonElement>()
+			};
+			foreach (var key in candidates.Take(MaxAssertionKeys))
+			{
+				var keyId = RemoteActorService.Text(key, "id");
+				var publicKey = Signing.IntegrityProofs.FromMultikey(RemoteActorService.Text(key, "publicKeyMultibase"));
+				if (RemoteActorService.Text(key, "type") != "Multikey" || RemoteActorService.Text(key, "controller") != actorId
+					|| keyId == default || !keyId.StartsWith(actorId + "#", StringComparison.Ordinal) || publicKey == default)
+					continue;
+				keys.Add(new Models.User.AssertionKey { Id = keyId, PublicKey = Convert.ToBase64String(publicKey) });
+			}
+			return keys;
+		}
+
 		static List<ActorKey> ParseKeys(JsonElement root, string actorId)
 		{
 			var keys = new List<ActorKey>();

PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/LocalActorService.cs

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 		public string ThumbnailURL { get; init; }
 		public string PrivateKeyPem { get; init; }
 		public string PublicKeyPem { get; init; }
+		public string SigningKey { get; init; }//a persona's Ed25519 seed (FEP-521a), for the proofs its activities carry (FEP-8b32)
 		public bool Discoverable { get; init; } = true;
 		public bool ManuallyApprovesFollowers { get; init; }
 		public bool IsFederated { get; init; } = true;
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 
 		public string Uri => $"{BaseAddress}/peasants/{UserName}";
 		public string KeyId => $"{Uri}#main-key";
+		public string AssertionKeyId => $"{Uri}#ed25519-key";
 		public string Inbox => $"{Uri}/mouth";
 		public string Outbox => $"{Uri}/anus";
 		public string Followers => $"{Uri}/groupies";
@@ -231,6 +233,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 			ThumbnailURL = avatar.ThumbnailURL,
 			PrivateKeyPem = avatar.PrivateKey,
 			PublicKeyPem = avatar.PublicKey,
+			SigningKey = avatar.SigningKey,
 			Published = avatar.PublishedOn,
 			Fields = avatar.Fields ?? new Dictionary<string, string>(),
 			ManuallyApprovesFollowers = avatar.Settings?.IsLocked == true,

PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/RemoteActorService.cs

@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 				.Modify(a => a.FollowingURL, actor.Following)
 				.Modify(a => a.FeaturedURL, Origin.Same(actor.Featured, actor.Id) ? actor.Featured : default)
 				.Modify(a => a.WallURL, Origin.Same(actor.Wall, actor.Id) ? actor.Wall : default)
+				.Modify(a => a.AssertionKeys, actor.AssertionKeys)
 				.Modify(a => a.SharedInboxURL, actor.SharedInbox)
 				.Modify(a => a.PictureURL, actor.Icon)
 				.Modify(a => a.ThumbnailURL, actor.Header)

PrivaPub/Federation/Controllers/WellKnownController.cs

@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		{
 			if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(resource))
 				return BadRequest();
+			// the server itself (FEP-d556): its instance actor
+			if (resource.TrimEnd('/') == _localActors.BaseAddress)
+			{
+				var instance = await _localActors.GetInstanceActor(token);
+				return Content(new JsonObject
+				{
+					["subject"] = resource,
+					["links"] = new JsonArray(new JsonObject
+					{
+						["rel"] = "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Service", ["type"] = "application/activity+json", ["href"] = instance.Uri
+					})
+				}.ToJsonString(), "application/jrd+json; charset=utf-8");
+			}
 
 			LocalActor actor;
 			// Mastodon, GoToSocial and Pleroma also take a bare user@domain or @user@domain, so we do too.
@@ -72,7 +85,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		}
 
 		[HttpGet, Route("/.well-known/nodeinfo")]
-		public IActionResult NodeInfoLinks()
+		public async Task<IActionResult> NodeInfoLinks(CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var document = new JsonObject
 			{
@@ -86,6 +99,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 					{
 						["rel"] = "http://nodeinfo.diaspora.software/ns/schema/2.0",
 						["href"] = $"{_localActors.BaseAddress}/nodeinfo/2.0"
+					},
+					// the application actor (FEP-2677)
+					new JsonObject
+					{
+						["rel"] = "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Application",
+						["href"] = (await _localActors.GetInstanceActor(token)).Uri
 					})
 			};
 			return Content(document.ToJsonString(), "application/json; charset=utf-8");

PrivaPub/Federation/Inbox/Forwarded.cs

@@ -17,9 +17,21 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox
 	// activity in its threads. The signature proves who passed it on, never who wrote it, so nothing in it is believed: a
 	// Create or an Update is taken as its object reads at the actor's origin now, a Delete once that origin says the object
 	// is gone, and anything else is let go (a vote or a follow cannot be checked against its origin). An LD signature
-	// (RsaSignature2017) would prove the author, but needs JSON-LD; integrity proofs (FEP-8b32) will.
+	// (RsaSignature2017) would prove the author, but needs JSON-LD. An integrity proof (FEP-8b32, eddsa-jcs-2022) by one of
+	// the actor's Ed25519 keys does: such an activity is taken as forwarded, read again from nowhere.
 	public static class Forwarded
 	{
+		// whether the activity carries a proof made by one of the actor's own keys (FEP-521a)
+		public static bool Proven(JsonNode activity, Models.User.ForeignAvatar actor) =>
+			activity is JsonObject document && document["proof"] is JsonObject proof && Value(proof, "verificationMethod") is { } method
+			&& actor.AssertionKeys.FirstOrDefault(k => k.Id == method) is { } key
+			&& Signing.IntegrityProofs.Verify(document, Convert.FromBase64String(key.PublicKey));
+
+		// whether it names a key of the actor's own that we do not hold (the actor was read before it had one)
+		public static bool NamesUnknownKey(JsonNode activity, Models.User.ForeignAvatar actor) =>
+			activity is JsonObject document && document["proof"] is JsonObject proof && Value(proof, "verificationMethod") is { } method
+			&& method.StartsWith(actor.ActorURI + "#", StringComparison.Ordinal) && actor.AssertionKeys.All(k => k.Id != method);
+
 		// what may be taken from a forwarder: a post of the activity's actor, created, edited or deleted
 		public static bool Takeable(string type, JsonNode activity, string actorUri)
 		{

PrivaPub/Federation/Inbox/InboxProcessor.cs

@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox
 				Record(job, payload, activity, type, started, new ArrivalVerdict(), Interactions.Deferred, "actor-unavailable");
 				return JobOutcome.Retry("the actor could not be loaded");
 			}
-			if (payload.ForwardedBy != default)
+			if (payload.ForwardedBy != default && Forwarded.NamesUnknownKey(activity, actor))
+				actor = await _remoteActors.GetActor(actor.ActorURI, refresh: true, token) ?? actor;
+			if (payload.ForwardedBy != default && !Forwarded.Proven(activity, actor))
 			{
 				var (confirmed, drop) = await Forwarded.Confirm(activity, type, actor.ActorURI, _remoteActors, token);
 				if (drop != default)

PrivaPub/Federation/Outbox/DeliveryService.cs

@@ -47,9 +47,26 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 		{
 			var body = activity.ToJsonString();
 			var activityId = activity["id"] is JsonValue id && id.TryGetValue<string>(out var text) ? text : default;
-			var jobs = inboxes
+			var targets = inboxes
 				.Where(i => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(i) && !i.StartsWith(signer.BaseAddress + "/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
 				.Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal)
+				.ToList();
+			// what goes to a relay carries the signer's proof (FEP-8b32): the relay passes it on as it came, signed with its own
+			// key, and Mastodon takes it on the proof's strength. Nothing else does: a server that knew the persona before it
+			// had its key (Mitra) refuses a proof by a key it does not hold, and does not read the actor again
+			var relayed = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(signer.SigningKey) && activity["actor"] is JsonValue actor && actor.TryGetValue<string>(out var actorUri) && actorUri == signer.Uri)
+				relayed = (await DB.Default.Find<RelaySubscription, string>().Match(s => targets.Contains(s.InboxURL)).Project(s => s.InboxURL).ExecuteAsync(token))
+					.ToHashSet(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			var provenBody = default(string);
+			if (relayed.Count > 0)
+			{
+				var proven = activity.DeepClone().AsObject();
+				proven.Remove("proof");
+				proven["proof"] = IntegrityProofs.Create(proven, signer.AssertionKeyId, signer.SigningKey, DateTime.UtcNow);
+				provenBody = proven.ToJsonString();
+			}
+			var jobs = targets
 				.Select(inbox => Uri.TryCreate(inbox, UriKind.Absolute, out var uri) ? (inbox, uri) : default)
 				.Where(target => target.uri != default)
 				.Select(target => new Job
@@ -57,7 +74,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 					Kind = JobKind.Deliver,
 					Host = target.uri.Host.ToLowerInvariant(),
 					DedupeKey = activityId == default ? default : again == default ? $"{activityId}|{target.inbox}" : $"{activityId}|{target.inbox}|{again}",
-					Payload = JsonSerializer.Serialize(new DeliveryPayload(signer.Id, signer.Kind, target.inbox, body))
+					Payload = JsonSerializer.Serialize(new DeliveryPayload(signer.Id, signer.Kind, target.inbox, relayed.Contains(target.inbox) ? provenBody : body))
 				})
 				.ToList();
 			if (jobs.Count > 0)

PrivaPub/Federation/Rendering/ActivityPubRenderer.cs

@@ -79,9 +79,29 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering
 				["privacySettings"] = "sm:privacySettings",
 				["wallPosting"] = "sm:wallPosting",
 				["wallPostVisibility"] = "sm:wallPostVisibility",
-				["allowedTo"] = "sm:allowedTo"
+				["allowedTo"] = "sm:allowedTo",
+				// FEP-521a keys and FEP-8b32 proofs, defined here rather than by the data-integrity and multikey contexts,
+				// which strict JSON-LD readers would have to fetch
+				["assertionMethod"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:assertionMethod", ["@type"] = "@id", ["@container"] = "@set" },
+				["Multikey"] = "sec:Multikey",
+				["controller"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:controller", ["@type"] = "@id" },
+				["publicKeyMultibase"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:publicKeyMultibase", ["@type"] = "sec:multibase" },
+				["DataIntegrityProof"] = "sec:DataIntegrityProof",
+				["proof"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:proof", ["@type"] = "@id", ["@container"] = "@graph" },
+				["cryptosuite"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:cryptosuite", ["@type"] = "sec:cryptosuiteString" },
+				["proofValue"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:proofValue", ["@type"] = "sec:multibase" },
+				["proofPurpose"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:proofPurpose", ["@type"] = "@vocab" },
+				["verificationMethod"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "sec:verificationMethod", ["@type"] = "@id" },
+				["implements"] = new JsonObject { ["@id"] = "https://w3id.org/fep/844e/implements", ["@type"] = "@id", ["@container"] = "@set" }
 			});
 
+		// what PrivaPub reads that a sender cannot tell from our documents (FEP-844e): RFC 9421 signatures, with RSA keys
+		static JsonArray Implements() => new(new JsonObject
+		{
+			["href"] = "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9421",
+			["name"] = "RFC-9421: HTTP Message Signatures"
+		});
+
 		public static string Html(string markdown) =>
 			string.IsNullOrEmpty(markdown) ? string.Empty : Markdown.ToHtml(markdown, Pipeline).Trim();
 
@@ -150,6 +170,20 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering
 				document["attributedTo"] = actor.Wardens;
 				document["postingRestrictedToMods"] = actor.PostingRestrictedToModerators;
 			}
+			// what the server reads (FEP-844e): on the application actor itself, on any other as its generator
+			if (actor.Kind == LocalActorKind.Application)
+				document["implements"] = Implements();
+			else
+				document["generator"] = new JsonObject { ["type"] = "Application", ["implements"] = Implements() };
+			// its Ed25519 key (FEP-521a), which signs the proofs its activities carry (FEP-8b32)
+			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(actor.SigningKey))
+				document["assertionMethod"] = new JsonArray(new JsonObject
+				{
+					["id"] = actor.AssertionKeyId,
+					["type"] = "Multikey",
+					["controller"] = actor.Uri,
+					["publicKeyMultibase"] = Signing.IntegrityProofs.Multikey(Signing.IntegrityProofs.PublicKey(actor.SigningKey))
+				});
 			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(actor.PictureURL))
 				document["icon"] = new JsonObject { ["type"] = "Image", ["url"] = actor.PictureURL };
 			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(actor.ThumbnailURL))

PrivaPub/Federation/Signing/IntegrityProofs.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Parameters;
+using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Signers;
+
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Numerics;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Signing
+{
+	// FEP-8b32 object integrity proofs, eddsa-jcs-2022, by an actor's Ed25519 key, which its document names under
+	// assertionMethod as a FEP-521a Multikey. An activity that carries one needs no HTTP signature by its actor: Mastodon
+	// 4.7 takes what a relay forwards on its strength.
+	public static class IntegrityProofs
+	{
+		public const string Cryptosuite = "eddsa-jcs-2022";
+		const string Base58Alphabet = "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+		static readonly byte[] Ed25519Codec = { 0xed, 0x01 };
+
+		// a new key: its 32-byte seed, in base64
+		public static string NewSeed() => Convert.ToBase64String(RandomNumberGenerator.GetBytes(32));
+
+		public static byte[] PublicKey(string seed) => new Ed25519PrivateKeyParameters(Convert.FromBase64String(seed)).GeneratePublicKey().GetEncoded();
+
+		// the public key as a Multikey's publicKeyMultibase: base58btc ("z") of the ed25519-pub multicodec and the key
+		public static string Multikey(byte[] publicKey) => "z" + Base58(Ed25519Codec.Concat(publicKey).ToArray());
+
+		// the Ed25519 public key a publicKeyMultibase holds, or null
+		public static byte[] FromMultikey(string multibase)
+		{
+			var bytes = multibase is { Length: > 1 } && multibase[0] == 'z' ? FromBase58(multibase[1..]) : default;
+			return bytes is { Length: 34 } && bytes[0] == Ed25519Codec[0] && bytes[1] == Ed25519Codec[1] ? bytes[2..] : default;
+		}
+
+		public static JsonObject Create(JsonObject document, string verificationMethod, string seed, DateTime created)
+		{
+			var proof = new JsonObject
+			{
+				["type"] = "DataIntegrityProof",
+				["cryptosuite"] = Cryptosuite,
+				["verificationMethod"] = verificationMethod,
+				["proofPurpose"] = "assertionMethod",
+				["created"] = DateTime.SpecifyKind(created, DateTimeKind.Utc).ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
+			};
+			var signer = new Ed25519Signer();
+			signer.Init(true, new Ed25519PrivateKeyParameters(Convert.FromBase64String(seed)));
+			var data = SignedData(proof, Unsecured(document));
+			signer.BlockUpdate(data, 0, data.Length);
+			proof["proofValue"] = "z" + Base58(signer.GenerateSignature());
+			return proof;
+		}
+
+		// whether the document's proof was made by the key, as Mastodon checks it: a proof that names an @context makes that
+		// the document's for the check, which must begin with it
+		public static bool Verify(JsonObject document, byte[] publicKey)
+		{
+			if (document["proof"] is not JsonObject proof || Text(proof, "type") != "DataIntegrityProof" || Text(proof, "cryptosuite") != Cryptosuite
+				|| Text(proof, "proofValue") is not { Length: > 1 } value || value[0] != 'z' || publicKey is not { Length: 32 })
+				return false;
+			var options = proof.DeepClone().AsObject();
+			options.Remove("proofValue");
+			var unsecured = Unsecured(document);
+			if (options["@context"] is JsonArray context)
+			{
+				if (unsecured["@context"] is not JsonArray own || own.Count < context.Count
+					|| !context.Select((c, i) => JsonNode.DeepEquals(c, own[i])).All(same => same))
+					return false;
+				unsecured["@context"] = context.DeepClone();
+			}
+			var signature = FromBase58(value[1..]);
+			if (signature is not { Length: 64 })
+				return false;
+			var verifier = new Ed25519Signer();
+			verifier.Init(false, new Ed25519PublicKeyParameters(publicKey));
+			var data = SignedData(options, unsecured);
+			verifier.BlockUpdate(data, 0, data.Length);
+			return verifier.VerifySignature(signature);
+		}
+
+		static JsonObject Unsecured(JsonObject document)
+		{
+			var unsecured = document.DeepClone().AsObject();
+			unsecured.Remove("proof");
+			return unsecured;
+		}
+
+		// what eddsa-jcs-2022 signs: the SHA-256 of the canonical proof options, then that of the canonical document
+		static byte[] SignedData(JsonObject options, JsonObject document) =>
+			SHA256.HashData(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Jcs.Serialize(options))).Concat(SHA256.HashData(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Jcs.Serialize(document)))).ToArray();
+
+		static string Text(JsonObject node, string name) => node[name] is JsonValue value && value.TryGetValue<string>(out var text) ? text : default;
+
+		public static string Base58(byte[] bytes)
+		{
+			var number = new BigInteger(bytes, isUnsigned: true, isBigEndian: true);
+			var builder = new StringBuilder();
+			while (number > 0)
+			{
+				number = BigInteger.DivRem(number, 58, out var remainder);
+				builder.Insert(0, Base58Alphabet[(int)remainder]);
+			}
+			foreach (var b in bytes)
+			{
+				if (b != 0)
+					break;
+				builder.Insert(0, '1');
+			}
+			return builder.ToString();
+		}
+
+		public static byte[] FromBase58(string text)
+		{
+			var number = BigInteger.Zero;
+			foreach (var c in text)
+			{
+				var digit = Base58Alphabet.IndexOf(c);
+				if (digit < 0)
+					return default;
+				number = number * 58 + digit;
+			}
+			var body = number.IsZero ? Array.Empty<byte>() : number.ToByteArray(isUnsigned: true, isBigEndian: true);
+			var zeros = text.TakeWhile(c => c == '1').Count();
+			return new byte[zeros].Concat(body).ToArray();
+		}
+	}
+}

PrivaPub/Federation/Signing/Jcs.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Signing
+{
+	// RFC 8785, the JSON Canonicalization Scheme: members sorted by their names' UTF-16 code units, no whitespace, strings
+	// escaped only where JSON must be, numbers as ECMAScript writes them. What an eddsa-jcs-2022 proof signs (FEP-8b32).
+	public static class Jcs
+	{
+		public static string Serialize(JsonNode node)
+		{
+			var builder = new StringBuilder();
+			Write(builder, node);
+			return builder.ToString();
+		}
+
+		static void Write(StringBuilder builder, JsonNode node)
+		{
+			switch (node)
+			{
+				case null:
+					builder.Append("null");
+					break;
+				case JsonObject obj:
+					builder.Append('{');
+					var first = true;
+					foreach (var (name, value) in obj.OrderBy(p => p.Key, StringComparer.Ordinal))
+					{
+						if (!first)
+							builder.Append(',');
+						first = false;
+						String(builder, name);
+						builder.Append(':');
+						Write(builder, value);
+					}
+					builder.Append('}');
+					break;
+				case JsonArray array:
+					builder.Append('[');
+					for (var i = 0; i < array.Count; i++)
+					{
+						if (i > 0)
+							builder.Append(',');
+						Write(builder, array[i]);
+					}
+					builder.Append(']');
+					break;
+				case JsonValue value:
+					switch (value.GetValueKind())
+					{
+						case JsonValueKind.String:
+							String(builder, value.GetValue<string>());
+							break;
+						case JsonValueKind.Number:
+							builder.Append(Number(double.Parse(value.ToJsonString(), NumberStyles.Float, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)));
+							break;
+						case JsonValueKind.True:
+							builder.Append("true");
+							break;
+						case JsonValueKind.False:
+							builder.Append("false");
+							break;
+						default:
+							builder.Append("null");
+							break;
+					}
+					break;
+			}
+		}
+
+		static void String(StringBuilder builder, string text)
+		{
+			builder.Append('"');
+			foreach (var c in text)
+			{
+				switch (c)
+				{
+					case '"':
+						builder.Append("\\\"");
+						break;
+					case '\\':
+						builder.Append("\\\\");
+						break;
+					case '\b':
+						builder.Append("\\b");
+						break;
+					case '\f':
+						builder.Append("\\f");
+						break;
+					case '\n':
+						builder.Append("\\n");
+						break;
+					case '\r':
+						builder.Append("\\r");
+						break;
+					case '\t':
+						builder.Append("\\t");
+						break;
+					default:
+						if (c < 0x20)
+							builder.Append("\\u").Append(((int)c).ToString("x4", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
+						else
+							builder.Append(c);
+						break;
+				}
+			}
+			builder.Append('"');
+		}
+
+		// ECMAScript's Number.prototype.toString: integers without a fraction, the shortest digits that read back the same,
+		// an exponent from 1e21 up and below 1e-6
+		public static string Number(double value)
+		{
+			if (double.IsNaN(value) || double.IsInfinity(value))
+				throw new ArgumentException("JSON has no NaN or Infinity", nameof(value));
+			if (value == 0)
+				return "0";
+			var abs = Math.Abs(value);
+			if (abs >= 1e21 || abs < 1e-6)
+			{
+				var exponential = value.ToString("R", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).Replace("E", "e");
+				var at = exponential.IndexOf('e');
+				if (at < 0)
+					return exponential;
+				var mantissa = exponential[..at];
+				var exponent = int.Parse(exponential[(at + 1)..], CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+				return $"{mantissa}e{(exponent < 0 ? "-" : "+")}{Math.Abs(exponent)}";
+			}
+			var text = value.ToString("R", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+			if (!text.Contains('E'))
+				return text;
+			// "R" chose an exponent ECMAScript would not: written out in full
+			return decimal.Parse(text, NumberStyles.Float, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
+		}
+	}
+}

PrivaPub/Infrastructure/Data/Migrations/_014_personas_have_ed25519_keys.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Signing;
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Data.Migrations
+{
+	// every persona signs the proofs its activities carry (FEP-8b32) with an Ed25519 key of its own (FEP-521a): new ones
+	// get theirs when made, the earlier ones once here
+	public class _014_personas_have_ed25519_keys : IMigration
+	{
+		public async Task UpgradeAsync()
+		{
+			foreach (var avatar in await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().Match(a => a.SigningKey == null).Project(p => p.Include(a => a.ID)).ExecuteAsync())
+				await DB.Default.Update<Avatar>().Match(a => a.ID == avatar.ID && a.SigningKey == null).Modify(a => a.SigningKey, IntegrityProofs.NewSeed()).ExecuteAsync();
+		}
+	}
+}

PrivaPub/Models/User/Avatar.cs

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.User
 		public Dictionary<string, string> SharedPersonalContacts { get; set; } = new();
 		public string PrivateKey { get; set; }
 		public string PublicKey { get; set; }
+		public string SigningKey { get; set; }//the seed of its Ed25519 key (FEP-521a), which signs its activities' proofs (FEP-8b32)
 		public AvatarAccountState AccountState { get; set; } = AvatarAccountState.Normal;
 		public AvatarSettings Settings { get; set; } = new();
 		public Dictionary<string, string> Fields { get; set; } = new();
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.User
 		public string InboxURL { get; set; }
 		public string OutboxURL { get; set; }
 		public string FeaturedURL { get; set; }//featured: the posts it pins
+		public List<AssertionKey> AssertionKeys { get; set; } = new();//its Ed25519 keys (FEP-521a), which prove what it sends (FEP-8b32)
 		public string WallURL { get; set; }//sm:wall (FEP-400e): where others write to it, Smithereen's walls
 		public string MovedToURL { get; set; }
 		public List<string> AlsoKnownAs { get; set; } = new();//alsoKnownAs: the accounts it says it also is
@@ -158,4 +160,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.User
 		Banned,
 		Deleted
 	}
+
+	public class AssertionKey
+	{
+		public string Id { get; set; }
+		public string PublicKey { get; set; }//the raw Ed25519 key, base64
+	}
 }

PrivaPub/PrivaPub.csproj

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <PackageReference Include="BouncyCastle.Cryptography" Version="2.7.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="FFMpegCore" Version="5.5.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="HtmlSanitizer" Version="9.2.1039" />
     <PackageReference Include="MailKit" Version="4.18.0" />

PrivaPub/Services/ClientToServer/Private/IPrivateAvatarUsersService.cs

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services.ClientToServer.Private
 					PersonalNote = form.PersonalNote,
 					PrivateKey = privateKey,
 					PublicKey = publicKey,
+					SigningKey = Federation.Signing.IntegrityProofs.NewSeed(),
 					Domain = _localActors.BaseAddress
 				};
 				newAvatar.ID = (string)newAvatar.GenerateNewID();