- CHANGELOG: tines-core 1.0.0 and the hosts' 0.4.0 are separate, unreleased sections. Every core API break is listed (the nine pub(crate) items, the private modules and the frame_sender path, the local constants per decision K, non_exhaustive types, store_mut). The new names (WallClockStore, Node::set_wall_clock, peer_time_estimate, flush, IdentityChanged) are called out. The host section covers tines::trust, the config changes, decision J, snapshots, and the review fixes. - THREAT_MODEL: F6, F8, F9 and F13 are fixed with their commits. F18 is partly fixed: the store side and the flush on first trusted time are done, but timed and shutdown flushes are still open. F19 now records decision J and the plausibility bounds, and what remains. §9, §10 and §11 are updated to match. - README: Dest and sig in the observation table; flush and is_empty in the store table; only the public wire constants are listed; a new "Trusted time" section with the config keys and the systemd ordering; the MSRV and fuzz CI jobs; frame_sender's new path. - AGENTS: 1.0 is implemented but not yet published. The constants list shows the pub(crate) split, PEER_IDLE_MS, MIN_MTU's role and where MAX_FRAGMENTS lives. Notes the hidden conformance module. - tines-bt README: frame_sender's path, and its own MAX_PEERS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tines-bt
The BLE transport for tines: a Transport implementation whose address is
the peer's advertised NodeId, so identity survives BLE address rotation.
Real radio I/O sits behind the small Radio trait (implemented over
bluer/BlueZ by BluerRadio); everything else — the from/Addr check, the
central/peripheral role decision, and the address→NodeId binding — is pure and
unit-testable without hardware.
Framing
Connections are bluer l2cap::SeqPacket channels (LE L2CAP
Connection-Capable Channel): each received SDU is exactly one frame. The MTU is
clamped to MAX_FRAME, so a single SDU is a single wire envelope — no
length-prefix framing is needed.
Roles
Every node advertises and scans. To keep two nodes from both dialing, the
numerically-smaller NodeId acts as the BLE central (initiator) and the
larger accepts on the SeqPacketListener bound to PSM 0x008D. The listener
runs for the whole session.
Binding
The BLE address is only a routing key (it rotates), so a connection is bound to
the peer's advertised NodeId instead:
- the scanner decodes the peer's
NodeIdfrom a tines advertisement — theService Data — 16-bit UUIDrecord must carry the tines service UUID (0xFE7E), which is checked byadv::decode_ad_node_id; - the decoded
bt address → NodeIdpair is recorded in the scan map; - an inbound connection is bound by looking its peer address up in that map — an inbound from an unknown address is rejected immediately;
- an outbound connection dials using the discovered address type, not a hard-coded one.
A frame's declared sender is then checked against the bound NodeId: the
transport peeks the from field with frame_sender and drops any frame
whose declared sender differs from the bound peer (an address-spoofing
violation).
Lifecycle
- connection up →
Event::Contact(addr); - connection end (EOF, error, or adapter loss) →
Event::Lost(addr); - scanning and listening continue after a loss.
Multi-peer
Up to MAX_PEERS (8, tines-bt's own cap, equal to tines-core's peer table)
connections may be live at once, one per bound NodeId;
a second connection to the same NodeId replaces the first.
Current limit: BluerRadio::new and BtTransport::new still take a single
peer. The allowlist is exactly that one NodeId, and BtTransport drops
frames and events from any other peer, so in practice each node exchanges with
one configured partner. A configurable allowlist (empty = any tines advertiser)
is still to come; see THREAT_MODEL.md F3.
Manual verification
The SeqPacket framing can't be exercised in CI (it needs two real radios), so
verify it by hand with two devices running the tines service:
- start
tineson both devices with distinctNodeIds; - confirm the smaller-
NodeIddevice dials and the larger accepts (check thetines-bt: connected to … (central)/accepted connection from … (bound)trace lines); - send a burst of observations on one device and confirm the other receives each as a separate, intact frame (no merged or truncated frames).
No result has been recorded yet. Once it's done, note the date, hardware and BlueZ version here, along with whether SeqPacket worked or the length-prefix fallback was needed.