fix(client): E2EE framing-version detection and event renames - #2366
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`e2ee.broken` implied a cause the decryptor cannot know: a key mismatch is the common case, but a tampered or truncated frame is indistinguishable at that layer. The new name states the observable effect and joins the existing `decryption_failed` / `decryption_resumed` family, where `decryption_resumed` is what clears it. The payload is unchanged. Also renames `requestKeyDump()` to `requestKeyState()` to match the `e2ee.key_state` event it answers, along with the internal worker command, key store accessor, and notifier method. E2EE has no CHANGELOG entry yet, so there is nothing released to stay compatible with and no deprecation shim.
Section 9 read as reference material rather than implementation instruction. The normative content is now five numbered rules at the top: one counter per manager, check before incrementing, never reset on a key operation, throw at the ceiling, and a fresh 8-byte CSPRNG ivPrefix per import. The GHASH derivation, the between-sender collision math, and the frame budget move to a non-normative "Appendix A: why". The two "do not add / do not skip" paragraphs collapse to one line each. Section 9 goes from 58 lines to 35 with no rule dropped.
Adds `e2ee.unsupported_version`. A frame carrying our framing at a version this build cannot read is now dropped and reported as itself, rather than forwarded as cleartext under `e2ee.unencrypted_frame`. Forwarding handed ciphertext to the decoder, so version skew showed up as corrupt media plus an event that reads as a downgrade, when the real condition is that this client is the older one and needs updating. `readFramingVersion` reads the last 5 bytes of a frame, `version || magic`. SPEC section 5.2 now freezes that suffix across all versions and reads it relative to the end of the frame, so a receiver can identify a frame it cannot decrypt even if a later version changes the trailer length. The suffix only survives H.264 RBSP escaping while the byte 6 from the end is never 0x00; v1 gets that from the RBSP flag, and the spec makes it a requirement on future versions. No wire change, since the version byte was already the negotiation field. Both halves have to ship in v1 receivers: a v1 build without them cannot be fixed retroactively once v2 exists. The event is throttled per track, not per version. The version byte is plaintext, so keying the throttle by it would let a relay rewriting the byte per frame multiply the event rate by 255.
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In `@packages/client/src/rtc/e2ee/SPEC.md`:
- Around line 361-366: Declare a fence language for the code blocks around the
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In `@sample-apps/react/e2ee-demo/src/harness/E2EEHarness.ts`:
- Line 100: Update E2EEHarness stalled-state tracking to key the internal Set by
both userId and trackType, so resuming one track does not clear another track’s
stalled state. Adjust event handling and snapshot derivation to expose user IDs
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| c = counter + 1 | ||
| if c > 0xFFFFFFFF: | ||
| throw # do NOT store c - the counter stays pinned at the ceiling | ||
| throw # do NOT store c: the counter stays pinned at the ceiling | ||
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Declare languages for the fenced code blocks.
Lines 361 and 528 omit a fence language. markdownlint-cli2 reports MD040 for both blocks. Add a language such as text.
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In `@packages/client/src/rtc/e2ee/SPEC.md` around lines 361 - 366, Declare a fence
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corresponding block near the second occurrence, using text for both so the
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Preserve stalled state per track.
e2ee.decryption_stalled and e2ee.decryption_resumed are per-track events. The Set<string> stores only userId. If one track resumes while another track from the same user remains stalled, Line 738 removes the user and hides the remaining failure.
Store (userId, trackType) keys internally. Derive user IDs for the snapshot UI. Remove all matching track keys when a participant leaves.
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In `@sample-apps/react/e2ee-demo/src/harness/E2EEHarness.ts` at line 100, Update
E2EEHarness stalled-state tracking to key the internal Set by both userId and
trackType, so resuming one track does not clear another track’s stalled state.
Adjust event handling and snapshot derivation to expose user IDs for the UI, and
remove every track-specific key for a participant when that participant leaves.
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### 💡 Overview Follow-up to #2366. Per-user keys had no way to retire a single epoch: `removeSharedKey(keyIndex)` drops one shared epoch, but the per-user side only had `removeKeys(userId)`, which drops everything that user holds. - **Added `removeKey(userId, keyIndex)`** — retires one epoch, leaving the user's others usable. Rotation and single-epoch revocation previously required dropping every epoch and re-importing the current one, which opens a decrypt gap. - **Renamed `removeKeys` → `removeAllKeys`**, so the two cannot be confused. `removeKey` vs `removeKeys` differs by one character, and on the platforms this spec targets they would likely be overloads of one name, where omitting the index silently means "revoke everything". - **SPEC: added Appendix B**, tabulating the outcome of every key call, now that both key kinds retain and remove epochs one at a time. ### 📝 Implementation notes - Removing a user's latest epoch clears the latest-key pointer along with the slot. Left behind, it resolves nothing and falls through to the active shared epoch, quietly moving outgoing frames from a key only the local user holds to one every participant holds. No older epoch is promoted in its place, matching `removeSharedKey`. Three of the four new `keyStore` tests cover this. - Granular removal deliberately keeps the user's decode perf stats; only `removeAllKeys` discards them, since the peer is still publishing after one epoch is retired. - `removeKey` validates `keyIndex` at the API boundary like the other index-taking methods. Full client suite (1064 tests), lint, typecheck and build pass. 🎫 Ticket: 📑 Docs: <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added support for retiring an individual encryption key epoch while preserving other keys. - Added separate controls for removing one key or all keys associated with a participant. - Preserved frame-counter state when keys are removed. - **Bug Fixes** - Improved key and decode-statistics handling after individual or complete key removal. - **Tests** - Added validation for supported key indexes and removal behavior across active, inactive, and final epochs. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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💡 Overview
Three changes to the E2EE surface in
packages/client/src/rtc/e2ee. All on unreleased code, so no deprecation shims.e2ee.broken→e2ee.decryption_stalled(E2EEBrokenEvent→DecryptionStalledEvent). The old name asserted a cause the decryptor cannot know; the new one states the observable effect and matches the existingdecryption_failed/decryption_resumedpair.requestKeyDump()→requestKeyState(), matching thee2ee.key_stateevent it answers.e2ee.unsupported_version. A frame using our framing at a version this build cannot read is now dropped and reported, instead of forwarded as cleartext undere2ee.unencrypted_frame. Forwarding produced corrupt media that looked like a downgrade; the real condition is that the local client needs updating. No wire change.📝 Implementation notes
readFramingVersion()reads the last 5 bytes of a frame (version || magic). SPEC §5.2 freezes that suffix across all versions and reads it relative to the end of the frame, so a receiver can identify frames it cannot decrypt even if a later version changes the trailer length.0x00. v1 gets this from the RBSP flag; the spec now requires it of future versions.Full client suite, lint, typecheck and build pass.
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