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The pinned keep core now owns NIP-46 revocation: a revoke drops the client's grants in the running engine and in storage, removes it from authorized_clients, replaces the connect secret and stops the bunker, and an approval answered after its client was revoked is refused. This removes the Kotlin stopgaps from #561 that covered for the core.

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  • BunkerService.revokeClients is the core revoke plus a restart. It runs under the bunker config lock, and every revoke moves a generation that a connect save checks, so a connect that a revoked bunker reported late cannot write the client back into authorized_clients.
  • A revoke no longer rotates the bunker key. Only the connect secret changes, so other clients keep their remembered grants and do not pair again. The revoke dialogs say so.
  • If the core revoke fails, the old secret may still work: the bunker key and secret are rotated at once, which also orphans every grant, and every client is revoked before the next start serves.
  • The Kotlin denylist is gone: the request gate, the post-prompt re-check, the connect save check and the NostrConnect writes. A revoked client cannot connect without the new secret, and the engine refuses any request from a client it holds no grant for, before and after a prompt.
  • The stored denylist is read once more, by the existing one-time rotation for clients revoked before revoke rotated the URL (they may still hold a working secret and grants), and deleted after it.
  • rotateBunkerCredentials restarts a service that began starting during the rotation instead of rotating twice.

A revoked client still knows the bunker key, so it can keep sending requests that the bunker refuses and logs.

Testing

  • Unit tests, lintDebug, verifyNoProprietaryDeps and the CI check scripts pass.
  • BunkerRevokeE2ETest through testharness/nip46probe/run-revoke-e2e.sh on an API 33 emulator against a public relay, passing on both commits. Reworked so each revoke path checks that the revoked client's old secret and signs are refused while the bunker key stays the same, and that a client with a remembered grant keeps signing until Revoke All. The late-approval step now revokes through the real path while the prompt is open, and the approval is refused.
  • BunkerRevokeRotationTest (4 of 4), with a new test that a revoke with the service stopped replaces the connect secret and keeps the bunker key, and a check that the one-time rotation deletes the stored denylist.

Not covered by a test: a failed core revoke, and a connect racing the revoke. Both depend on timing or storage faults the instrumented tests cannot inject.

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  • New Features

    • Revoking a client replaces the connection secret while keeping the bunker key unchanged. Other clients can continue using their remembered grants; the revoked client must use the new connection URL.
    • Revocation is supported while the bunker service is stopped.
    • Revoke All prevents previously remembered grants from reconnecting.
  • Documentation

    • Updated confirmation messages to clarify how revocation affects the selected client and other clients.

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Major Scope the revoke guard per client so an unrelated in-flight connect is not dropped.

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- Line 868: Update the revoke guard in authorizeClient to use a per-client
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revokeGeneration changes. Record each revoked client’s generation in
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Client revocation now replaces the connect secret while preserving the bunker key. The service delegates revocation to the core and removes affected client-store entries. Authorization no longer checks the legacy denylist. Tests cover revocation, remembered grants, approval handling, and recovery.

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Client revocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revocation and credential lifecycle
app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt, app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/Nip46ClientStore.kt, app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/RevokeAllMark.kt
revokeClients gathers configured, cached, and pending clients under the config lock, clears pending saves, and calls core revocation. On core failure, the service attempts credential rotation and records a revoke-all mark if rotation also fails. It restarts a serving bunker and propagates the revoke failure. Standalone rotation restarts a serving service. The client store retains legacy denylist data for one-time migration and provides a test-only setter.
Authorization and approval flow
app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt, app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/NostrConnectActivity.kt, app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/RequestGate.kt, app/src/test/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/*, app/src/main/res/values/strings_connections.xml
Authorization accepts clients in the pending-auth set or cache without checking denylist status. A revoke-generation check prevents stale connect callbacks from saving clients. Approval persistence and rollback no longer update the denylist. Tests and connection messages reflect these changes.
Revocation and recovery tests
app/src/androidTest/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerRevokeE2ETest.kt, app/src/androidTest/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerRevokeRotationTest.kt, testharness/nip46probe/README.md
Tests verify secret-only URL changes, refusal of revoked grants, continued operation of another client’s remembered grant, and refusal after late approval. Rotation tests verify that stopped-service revocation preserves the bunker key and that legacy denylist data is cleared after migration. Cleanup restores saved denylist and device state.

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

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BunkerService
  participant Core
  participant Nip46ClientStore
  BunkerService->>Core: revoke selected client keys
  BunkerService->>Nip46ClientStore: remove revoked client entries
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 1475b

Revoking one client can occasionally leave a different client that was connecting at the same moment unable to make requests until it reconnects. Scoping the revoke guard per client would fix this before merge. The confirmation dialog text now matches the new revoke behavior.

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Minor · Update connections_app_disconnect_client_text. It contradicts… · strings_connections.xml:177

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Update connections_app_disconnect_client_text. It contradicts the new revoke behavior.

This string is the confirmation text for the App Permissions "Disconnect Client" flow. That flow calls BunkerService.revokeClients through revokeNip46Client. The string was not changed in this PR. It now makes two false claims:

  • It says the client "stays blocked until you approve a new connection from it". No denylist exists now. The client can connect again with the new URL.
  • It says other clients must pair again and approve again their remembered actions. Revoke no longer rotates the bunker key, so other clients keep their remembered grants. The updated connections_bunker_revoke_client_text already says this.

Users could cancel a disconnect or re-pair clients without need.

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-    <string name="connections_app_disconnect_client_text">This will remove all saved permissions and revoke authorization for <xliff:g id="name" example="App">%1$s</xliff:g>, which stays blocked until you approve a new connection from it. The bunker URL also changes, so your other clients will need to pair again with the new URL and approve again the actions they were allowed to remember.</string>
+    <string name="connections_app_disconnect_client_text">This will remove all saved permissions and revoke authorization for <xliff:g id="name" example="App">%1$s</xliff:g>. The bunker URL also changes so the old URL can no longer connect. This client can connect again only with the new URL. Your other clients keep the actions they were allowed to remember.</string>
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revokeGeneration changes. Record each revoked client’s generation in
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// pendingAuthSaves and moves the generation when it revokes, so a revoke
// that lands while this connect is being saved is never undone by it.
if (pk !in pendingAuthSaves || revokeGeneration.get() != generation) return@update config

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Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'revokeGeneration|pendingAuthSaves|restartIfServing|fun revokeClients|fun authorizeClient|stopBunker|generation' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt
sed -n '170,235p' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt
sed -n '640,690p' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt
sed -n '840,885p' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt

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rg -n -F -e 'authorizedClients' -e 'authorizedClientsCache' -e 'inPendingAuth' -e 'shouldPersistConnectAuthorization' -e 'fun restartIfServing' -- app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt || test "$?" -eq 1
echo '--- 555-585'
sed -n '555,585p' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt
echo '--- 905-935'
sed -n '905,935p' app/src/main/kotlin/io/privkey/keep/nip46/BunkerService.kt

Repository: privkeyio/keep-android

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Scope the revoke guard per client so an unrelated in-flight connect is not dropped.

revokeClients increments the global revokeGeneration while it holds the config lock. If a connect from client B is still queued behind that lock, its authorizeClient save fails revokeGeneration.get() != generation and returns without saving. The core has already accepted B, but B is not added to authorizedClients or authorizedClientsCache. Later non-connect requests from B then fail the approval gate, which uses those sets.

Connects that reach the bunker after the revoke are not affected. restartIfServing starts a new handler, and that handler captures a new generation.

Record the revoke generation for each revoked client. In authorizeClient, reject a save only when that client was revoked after the save's captured generation. Keep the reads and writes under the same config lock. The pk !in pendingAuthSaves check already drops a revoked client's queued save. The per-client record therefore needs to cover only a revoked client that re-enters pendingAuthSaves through the old handler before the restart.

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line 868:
Update the revoke guard in authorizeClient to use a per-client revoke-generation
record instead of rejecting saves whenever the global revokeGeneration changes.
Record each revoked client’s generation in revokeClients under the config lock,
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