Treat remote key context failures as unverifiable

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Malformed or unavailable JSON-LD contexts can abort signature verification during key decoding. Return unavailable keys for context failures when decoding keys or their owners. Unwrap context-loading errors so unexpected loader bugs still propagate. Retain the existing negative caching behavior on 2.0-maintenance.

Fixes #1267.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Signature key lookup now handles malformed or unavailable remote JSON-LD contexts without letting classified failures escape. Regression tests cover actor, key, and owner documents, and the changelog records the behavior.

Changes

Signature key lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify and handle JSON-LD failures packages/fedify/src/sig/key.ts	The lookup classifies malformed JSON-LD and context fetch failures. Actor, key, and fallback decoding treat classified failures as unavailable results; unexpected errors can still propagate.
Regression coverage and release notes packages/fedify/src/sig/key.test.ts, CHANGES.md, changes.d/fedify/remote-key-context-errors.md	Tests cover classified failures, cache behavior, recovery after transport failures, and propagation of programming errors. The changelog records the unverifiable outcome.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: ojspp41

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 634cf

Keep the release note in its fragment and remove the direct changelog edit before merging; the remaining issue is limited to release-note maintenance.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the handling of malformed and unavailable JSON-LD contexts, error propagation, and caching behavior covered by the changes.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely states the main change: treating remote key context failures as unverifiable.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1267 requires JSON-LD context failures during key lookup to produce an unverifiable key, preserve transient transport-failure classification, and propagate unrelated programming errors. `packag…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the key-decoding error handling, regression tests, and changelog entries. These changes directly support issue #1267 and do not demonstrate unrelated product behavior.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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- Around line 11-19: Remove the manually added release note and its reference
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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 92.85714% with 6 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
packages/fedify/src/sig/key.ts	92.85%	0 Missing and 6 partials ⚠️

Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
packages/fedify/src/sig/key.ts	88.06% <92.85%> (+3.95%)	⬆️

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