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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@@ -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)