feat(module): add SignMessage for encodings the module does not model - #24
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Add a SignMessageRequest type that signs raw bytes with a key derived from a phrase, for encodings the backend does not model such as Solana SPL transfers and x402 payments. The scheme is explicit to prevent confusion between prehash and full-message signing, and the key remains confined to the backend rather than being derived in the host. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Adds a new `SignMessage` capability that signs arbitrary bytes with a key derived from a secret phrase. This complements the existing transaction signing path by allowing hosts to sign data that cannot be expressed as a `TransactionSpec`, while routing through the same `sign_payload` function to ensure consistent prehash handling. The method is confidential and wipes the secret material after use, matching the behavior of other key-touching operations. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add tests for the new sign_message service method, verifying ed25519 signatures against the derived public key, confirming that the requested scheme is honoured rather than inferred from the chain, and ensuring the message signing path produces identical signatures to the transaction signing path. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe wallet service adds confidential ChangesMessage signing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is mergeable with owner awareness: it adds an intentional blind-signing path whose safety depends on upstream authorization and derivation-path scoping, and it also needs a small documentation fix so the confidentiality guidance remains attached to the correct method. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Wallet->>sign_payload: sign SigningPayload
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In `@crates/tinywallet-module/src/service/mod.rs`:
- Around line 138-143: Restore the rustdoc boundaries in the service
definitions: ensure the “Hand back the raw derived key” confidentiality
documentation is immediately above export_key, and keep the SignMessage
documentation immediately above sign_message. Preserve the existing wording
while moving the blocks so each method receives the intended documentation.
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| /// Sign opaque bytes with the key derived from a phrase. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// Confidential. Blind: nothing here can check what the bytes mean, so | ||
| /// prefer `SignTransaction` wherever the request can be expressed as a | ||
| /// `TransactionSpec`. See `SignMessageRequest` for when this is the right | ||
| /// call and why it is still better than the alternative. |
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Restore the ExportKey documentation boundary.
Lines 133-143 form one rustdoc block. Rustdoc attaches “Hand back the raw derived key” and its confidentiality text to sign_message. export_key at Line 150 then has no documentation. Move the SignMessage docs before the existing ExportKey docs, or move the existing ExportKey docs directly above export_key.
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In `@crates/tinywallet-module/src/service/mod.rs` around lines 138 - 143, Restore
the rustdoc boundaries in the service definitions: ensure the “Hand back the raw
derived key” confidentiality documentation is immediately above export_key, and
keep the SignMessage documentation immediately above sign_message. Preserve the
existing wording while moving the blocks so each method receives the intended
documentation.
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| #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)] | ||
| #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] | ||
| pub struct SignMessageRequest { | ||
| /// The phrase and derivation to sign with. |
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Remove secret material from the wire request
SignMessageRequest includes secret: SecretMaterial in a type that derives Serialize and Deserialize and is part of the wire contract. This makes it possible for a mnemonic phrase to travel over the JSON frame, which directly violates the documented boundary in docs/specs/tinybus-module.md that «No method accepts key material». Even if this particular type is not yet used by the tinybus module, its presence invites secret transit and weakens the security posture. Prefer keeping the key in the host: derive and sign there, then return only a signature, or extend the existing split-build-and-attach flow to cover these payloads without exposing the key.
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Why
Two callers in OpenHuman still derive and sign in the host, and neither can be
expressed as a
TransactionSpec:TransactionSpec::Solanamodels a nativetransfer only.
transfer_checkedwithdecimals, a memo, and two signature slots where the fee payer's is left
zeroed for a facilitator to fill in.
SignMessage(SignMessageRequest) -> Signaturetakes the bytes the host builtand signs them with the derived key. Confidential, like the rest of that set.
It is a blind signature, and the PR should be read with that in mind
Every other signing method takes transaction fields, so the module rebuilds
the transaction and checks the recipient — the Tron decoy test exists to prove
it does. This one cannot: it does not know what the bytes mean.
What it is not is a downgrade. The alternative for these two callers is not a
verified signature; it is deriving the key in the host and signing there, which
is what they do today. Against that it is strictly better — the key exists only
inside the module. Against
SignTransactionit is strictly worse, so the docsays plainly that anything expressible as a
TransactionSpecmust use that.The considered alternative was teaching this crate the x402 wire format to gain
a check. That puts one protocol's details into a general wallet crate that every
other host also pays for, and it would still not cover SPL. Modelling SPL
properly here is worthwhile and would let the module verify recipients again —
it is a separate change that does not affect custody either way.
Design points
schemeis explicit, not inferred from the chain. A caller cannot get aprehash signature over something it had already hashed, or the reverse, by
changing an unrelated field.
sign_payloadthe transaction paths use, sothe prehash-vs-whole-message distinction lives in exactly one place. A second
implementation is how the two would eventually disagree, and a signature over
the wrong bytes is still a perfectly valid signature.
message handed over by mistake fails rather than being signed as a digest.
Tests
a_signed_message_verifies_against_the_derived_public_key— verified withed25519-dalekagainst the account's own public key, not against another callinto the same signing code.
signing_a_message_honours_the_requested_scheme_rather_than_the_chain—includes the over-length prehash refusal.
a_message_signature_equals_what_the_transaction_path_produces— the driftguard:
SignMessageover a builder-emitted payload must equal whatSignTransactionputs in the transaction, or the Solana callers wouldbroadcast a different signature than the equivalent module-built transfer.
Manifest method list and the E2E drift guard both updated — that list is
hand-maintained and the compiler does not check it.
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