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Summary

  • validate every stored JSON and legacy Relay device ID
  • accept valid JSON with leading whitespace while decoding the original stored value
  • fail the entire read on malformed or empty members
  • prevent rewrites and provisioning after invalid storage

Verification

Not verified

  • physical-device Keychain corruption and production Relay E2E remain for the isolated release-candidate campaign

Fixes #161

Summary

  • Validates every stored Relay device ID from JSON and legacy formats.
  • Rejects malformed, empty, or mixed-validity records without rewriting, deleting, or provisioning them.
  • Accepts JSON values with leading or trailing whitespace.
  • Preserves valid device IDs and uses the existing generic storage failure.
  • Does not log device IDs, which limits sensitive-data exposure.
  • Prevents background Relay provisioning from using invalid targets.
  • Adds focused tests for decoding, validation, no-write behavior, no-provisioning behavior, and user-visible failure handling.
  • Verification covered 23 focused tests and 506 full-suite tests. Physical-device Keychain corruption and production Relay end-to-end behavior remain unverified.

Validate every JSON and legacy Relay device ID before storage-dependent work. Treat any malformed member,
including empty legacy fields, as a failed read so VaultSync neither rewrites secure storage nor starts
provisioning.

What could go wrong and why this is safe: accepting one malformed identifier could rewrite
corrupt state or trigger paid Relay work with an invalid target. Valid values remain unchanged, the existing
generic error is reused, and failed reads perform no migration, deletion, write, or provisioning.

Not verified:
physical-device Keychain corruption and production Relay E2E remain part of the isolated release-candidate
campaign.

Fixes #161
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Cloud Relay now validates stored device IDs in JSON and legacy formats. Invalid IDs fail closed, remain unchanged, and prevent persistence and provisioning. Tests cover valid loading, malformed members, empty legacy entries, and generic failure reporting.

Changes

Stored Device ID Validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Decode and validate stored IDs
ios/VaultSync/Services/SubscriptionManager.swift, ios/VaultSyncTests/KeychainServiceTests.swift
decodeStoredValue accepts JSON arrays and legacy comma-separated values. It validates every ID and preserves valid stored strings unchanged. Tests cover whitespace, malformed members, mixed values, and empty legacy entries.
Block invalid provisioning
ios/VaultSyncTests/KeychainServiceTests.swift, ios/VaultSyncTests/SubscriptionManagerTests.swift, CHANGELOG.md
Invalid stored IDs prevent writes, target preparation, reprovisioning, and provisioning requests. Subscription tests verify the generic storage failure message and attention state. The changelog records the behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dad92

The change blocks invalid device IDs from provisioning, but malformed stored data can also cause subscription revocation or expiry to skip remote cleanup while local status is cleared, potentially leaving a Relay registration active. Merge requires explicit owner acceptance or a safeguard for this cleanup path.

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Stored IDs face validation
JSON and legacy share one path
Invalid members stop the read
Valid strings remain unchanged
No writes or provisioning start
Cloud Relay reports the failure

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #161. They validate JSON and legacy IDs, fail closed for invalid members, avoid writes and provisioning, preserve the generic storage failure, and add deterministic coverage …
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The production, test, and changelog changes remain within issue #161. They do not introduce schema changes, deletion repair, pairing UX, StoreKit, protocol, signing, entitlement, or product ID changes…
No Private Note Leakage ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request adds no logging, analytics, crash reporting, diagnostics, or network request code. The production diff only trims the stored string, decodes it, validates IDs with the pure `Sy…
Bounded Ios Background Work ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes RelayDeviceIDStorage.decodeStoredValue and adds tests and changelog text. The production diff contains no background-task APIs, lifecycle handlers, expiration callbacks, cancell…
Bridge Contract Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS — the bridge contract remains unchanged. The PR diff against origin/main changes only CHANGELOG.md, SubscriptionManager.swift, and Swift tests. It changes no Go bridge source, generated bridge su…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title uses a concise conventional-commit format and accurately describes the change to reject invalid stored Relay device IDs.
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The changes satisfy issue #161. They validate JSON and legacy IDs, fail closed for invalid members, avoid writes and provisioning, preserve the generic storage failure, and add deterministic coverage for valid, invalid, mixed, and no-side-effect cases.

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The production, test, and changelog changes remain within issue #161. They do not introduce schema changes, deletion repair, pairing UX, StoreKit, protocol, signing, entitlement, or product ID changes.

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PASS — The pull request adds no logging, analytics, crash reporting, diagnostics, or network request code. The production diff only trims the stored string, decodes it, validates IDs with the pure SyncthingDeviceID.canonicalize, and returns a generic failure or the decoded values. The invalid-storage path therefore stops before provisioning. Added tests use fixed test IDs and an in-memory recorder; they do not include note contents, filenames, vault paths, bookmark data, API keys, APNs tokens, or receipt details. Existing logger and RelayService.provision calls are unchanged and log or transmit no listed private data.

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PASS. The PR changes RelayDeviceIDStorage.decodeStoredValue and adds tests and changelog text. The production diff contains no background-task APIs, lifecycle handlers, expiration callbacks, cancellation paths, or new background work. The changed code only validates stored Relay device IDs and fails closed, so it introduces no unbounded work, cleanup omission, or iOS background-execution constraint violation.

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PASS — the bridge contract remains unchanged. The PR diff against origin/main changes only CHANGELOG.md, SubscriptionManager.swift, and Swift tests. It changes no Go bridge source, generated bridge surface, or SyncBridgeService.swift. The existing bridge rules remain in place: gomobile exports use primitive/string/[]byte types, complex values use JSON, and Swift maps empty Go error strings to nil. The production change only validates stored Relay device IDs before Relay provisioning; it does not alter any Go bridge call, type, JSON response shape, or success convention.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 15: Update the CHANGELOG release note to refer to malformed Relay device
IDs rather than server identities, and state that Cloud Relay provisioning did
not complete rather than registration. Preserve the documented behavior for
rejecting the malformed value, sending no provisioning request, retaining the
stored value, and leaving valid JSON and legacy records unchanged.

In `@ios/VaultSync/Services/SubscriptionManager.swift`:
- Around line 121-128: Update the format selection in SubscriptionManager’s
stored-ID parsing to inspect whitespace-trimmed text for the JSON-array prefix
while decoding the original stored value; preserve legacy comma-separated
parsing otherwise, and add a regression test covering valid JSON with leading
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Select the stored format from a whitespace-trimmed view while decoding the original JSON value, and align the
changelog with Relay device-ID and provisioning terminology.

What could go wrong and why this is safe: valid JSON with leading whitespace could otherwise be mistaken for a
legacy identifier and block Relay work. The change affects format selection only; every decoded member still passes
canonical validation, malformed reads remain fail-closed, and no rewrite, delete, or provisioning path is added.
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