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This is the third slice of R76. Devices on one network now find each other with no address typed in. While a device serves, it advertises itself over mDNS under a random name. The record carries only the frame version and a hash of its current certificate, so nothing in it names an account, and both change at every renewal. The device also browses for other devices and reports each as PeerFound and PeerGone. Unless the app turns autolink off, the client dials what it finds. An unreachable peer is retried from 5 seconds up to 5 minutes. A refused, revoked or expired peer is never dialled again until it advertises a renewed certificate. Since anyone on the network can advertise, at most 8 dials run at once and at most 256 found devices are tracked. Android holds a multicast lock while it browses, and the demo declares the permission for it.

The plan records the three decisions behind this, each with its rows in a new discovery table. A device that joins a hotspot will dial the host on the port the join hands over, which arrives with the hotspot slice. The client dials what it finds unless the app turns that off. Discovery is bounded against a hostile network. The proofs run two nodes and two clients on loopback multicast. CI now requires loopback multicast, so a runner without it fails these proofs instead of skipping them. The branch sits on #135.

Peer discovery and device-to-device linking were missing, so clients could not find nearby devices or establish links automatically. The new peer system advertises certificate fingerprints over mDNS, reports peers as they appear or disappear, and supports optional automatic linking.

Discovery bounds concurrent dials and tracked peers. It retries unreachable peers with backoff, and waits for a renewed certificate before retrying peers refused for trust or certificate reasons. Android acquires a multicast lock while browsing. CI requires loopback multicast for discovery proofs.

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This change adds a Rust crate for authenticated device-to-device links and mDNS discovery. It integrates peer serving, dialing, and revocation-list exchange into client enrolment. It also adds peer events, Android multicast-lock handling, and tests.

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Device peer links

Layer / File(s) Summary
Peer contracts and secure transport
Cargo.toml, crates/connetto-peer/*
The new crate defines peer identity and trust types, framed messages, typed errors, device-backed TLS signing, and certificate verification.
Peer node and link lifecycle
crates/connetto-peer/src/node.rs, crates/connetto-peer/src/link.rs, crates/connetto-peer/src/tests.rs
Nodes serve and dial peers, exchange revocation lists, renew certificates, and enforce liveness and link-close rules. Tests cover these behaviors.
mDNS discovery and autolink
crates/connetto-peer/src/discovery.rs, crates/connetto-peer/src/policy.rs, crates/connetto-peer/src/discovery_proofs.rs, .config/nextest.toml, .github/workflows/*, docs/architecture/19-device-to-device.md
Discovery advertises peer fingerprints and applies bounded tracking, dialing, and retry rules. Loopback proofs exercise discovery; CI requires multicast and includes the peer crate in test and coverage runs.
Client peer lifecycle and API
crates/connetto-client/Cargo.toml, crates/connetto-client/src/*, crates/connetto-client/tests/it/enrolment.rs, examples/dioxus-desktop-demo/android/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, plans/master-implementation-plan.md
The client configures peer serving and dialing, applies certificate-standing transitions, forwards peer events, and shares revocation lists with the peer node. Android adds the multicast permission.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NativeClient
  participant Enroller
  participant Discovery
  participant mDNS
  participant Node
  NativeClient->>Enroller: Configure peer settings
  Enroller->>Node: Serve identity when certificate is valid
  Enroller->>Discovery: Start discovery for listener
  Discovery->>mDNS: Register and browse peer services
  mDNS-->>Discovery: Return peer address and fingerprint
  Discovery->>Node: Dial discovered peer address
  Node-->>Discovery: Return link outcome
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d3032

A misleading mDNS advertisement can prevent a legitimate device from linking automatically. Bind discovery success to the authenticated fingerprint before merging.


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Inline comments:
Review comments at @Cargo.toml:
- Line 17: Keep the Cargo.lock change out while any Cargo.toml contains an
unpinned git dependency; otherwise, pin each such dependency with a rev or tag
before retaining the lockfile change. The shown workspace entry for
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Review comments at @crates/connetto-client/src/enrolment/task.rs:
- Around line 397-413: Update Task::link_peer to account for the clock_off latch
when Standing::of_leaf returns Expired: if the task is already in ClockOff,
return PeerError::ClockOutsideWindow without queuing CertificateExpired;
otherwise preserve the existing expired-certificate behavior. Reuse the latch
maintained by Run::clock_outside and Run::standing, making it available to
link_peer if necessary.

Review comments at @crates/connetto-client/tests/it/enrolment.rs:
- Around line 1872-1882: In the enrolment test, replace the `try_recv` busy loop
with an awaited `next_event` call using the same three-second timeout and
`PeerLinked` predicate; assert that the result is `None` to preserve the
expectation that b does not link c.

Review comments at @crates/connetto-peer/src/node.rs:
- Around line 632-643: Update map_frame so non-rustls FrameError::Io errors
become LinkError::Unreachable while preserving map_rustls for rustls errors. In
exchange_hello, map Ok(None) from read_frame to LinkError::Unreachable with an
UnexpectedEof error instead of Protocol.
- Around line 646-672: Update accept_loop to cap concurrent inbound handshakes
with a bounded semaphore, holding each permit until inbound completes and
dropping newly accepted sockets when no permit is available; define the limit
alongside the existing bounds. Add a short delay after listener.accept errors so
persistent failures do not cause a busy loop.

Review comments at @crates/connetto-peer/src/policy.rs:
- Around line 290-306: Update the due-instance collection in the policy
scheduling flow to sort by each entry’s seq before taking capacity, so queued
dials start oldest first regardless of fingerprint ordering.
- Around line 184-189: Keep running dials counted until dial_result handles
their outcome: in removed, add a removed entry’s fingerprint to orphaned when
entry.dialing is true; remove the dialing resets from linked, unlinked, and
addresses_changed so these transitions cannot release the slot early.

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❌ Patch coverage is 89.64724% with 270 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
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🟠 Major · Compare the authenticated fingerprint before reporting Linked. · discovery.rs:529-533

crates/connetto-peer/src/discovery.rs:529-533
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the authenticated fingerprint before reporting Linked.

ServiceResolved accepts the advertised fingerprint and resolved address independently. A publisher can advertise peer A's fingerprint at trusted device B's address. node.link(address) then authenticates and registers B, while Ok(_) => true reports A as Linked. Policy stops retrying A, so a later legitimate address for A does not start autolink.

A mismatch must skip that address, continue checking the remaining addresses, and fall through to the existing non-barring Unreachable result when none matches. Returning Unreachable immediately is not sufficient because it leaves the mismatched address in the instance's address set and can skip a legitimate address on every retry.

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-            Ok(_) => true,
+            Ok(peer) if node.peer_fingerprint(&peer) == Some(fp) => true,
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Review comment at @crates/connetto-peer/src/discovery.rs around lines 529 - 533:
In the address-checking loop around `node.link(address)`, report a successful
link only when `node.peer_fingerprint(&peer)` matches the advertised `fp`;
continue to the next address on a mismatch so remaining candidates are checked
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- Around line 529-533: In the address-checking loop around `node.link(address)`,
report a successful link only when `node.peer_fingerprint(&peer)` matches the
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