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Summary

Closes #836. AGENTS.md:48 says to scrub logs that might leak invoices or
Nostr keys. #834/#835 fixed 3 instances in restore_session.rs; a
/code-review pass on that fix found 5 more scattered across the daemon,
with no mechanism to stop the pattern from recurring — #836 asked for a
structural fix rather than another one-off patch.

Went with the lighter-weight of the two directions the issue proposed (a
CI check, vs. a tracing_subscriber::Layer redacting at runtime): smaller,
self-contained, faster to review. Trade-off: it only prevents new
instances at CI time, it doesn't redact anything at runtime.

  • scripts/check_log_redaction.py (new): flags any
    tracing::{trace,debug,info,warn,error}!(...) call whose arguments
    interpolate a Nostr key/identity-shaped identifier (*pubkey*,
    identity, sender, master_key, trade_key, nsec*, priv(ate)?_?key*).
    Not a full Rust parser — it balances parens while blanking string-literal
    contents (so a format string's own prose, e.g. "...taker pubkey in
    order...", can't false-positive) and searches only the real arguments.
    A // pubkey-log-allow: <reason> comment on the line above a call exempts
    a deliberate, documented exception.
  • .github/workflows/ci.yml: new log-redaction job, added to test's
    needs alongside fmt/clippy.
  • 14 call sites fixed across 8 files — the 5 #836 documented
    (scheduler.rs, app.rs ×2, last_trade_index.rs, db.rs) plus 9 the
    check itself found
    that manual review hadn't caught yet
    (admin_take_dispute.rs ×2, bond/payout.rs ×3, cancel.rs,
    rpc/service.rs, util.rs ×2 — including send_dm, which logged both
    sender and receiver on every single outbound protocol message, the
    highest-frequency call site of this pattern in the daemon). Same
    one-line-per-site treatment Nostr keys logged in cleartext in restore_session.rs (violates AGENTS.md log-scrubbing guideline) #834/fix(restore-session): scrub Nostr keys from log lines #835 used: drop the key, comment citing
    AGENTS.md:48.
  • cancel.rs: dropping taker_pubkey from one log line left the parameter
    fully unused in cancel_order_by_taker_inner and its only caller,
    cancel_order_by_taker — removed from both signatures and their 2 call
    sites rather than silenced with an underscore.

Test plan

  • python3 scripts/check_log_redaction.py — clean against the final tree.
  • cargo build — clean, no unused-variable warnings.
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — clean.
  • cargo fmt --check — clean.
  • cargo test — 1045 passed, 1 pre-existing unrelated flake
    (lightning::invoice::tests::test_lnurl_validation_with_test_server
    binds a hardcoded 127.0.0.1:8080, AddrInUse on a busy port —
    unrelated to this diff).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security & Privacy

    • Reduced sensitive information in application logs, including public keys, identities, payloads, and full event details.
    • Preserved existing event processing, publishing, cancellation, payout, and administrative workflows.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for detecting sensitive identifiers in tracing logs, including formatting cases and approved exceptions.
  • CI

    • Added automated log-redaction validation to CI before the main test suite.

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The pull request adds a Python CI gate for suspicious identifiers in Rust tracing calls. It removes sensitive values from affected logs, updates cancellation signatures, and makes the redaction check a prerequisite for tests.

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Log redaction enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tracing log scanner and regression coverage
scripts/check_log_redaction.py, scripts/check_log_redaction_test.py
Scans tracing macros, masks string contents, extracts format captures, supports allow comments, and tests detection and exemption behavior.
Rust log redaction
src/app.rs, src/app/admin_*.rs, src/app/bond/payout.rs, src/app/last_trade_index.rs, src/db.rs, src/rpc/service.rs, src/scheduler.rs, src/util.rs
Removes public keys, identities, payloads, and full event output from affected logs.
Cancellation call-path cleanup
src/app/cancel.rs
Removes the taker public-key parameter from cancellation functions and callers.
CI enforcement wiring
.github/workflows/ci.yml, .gitignore
Adds the redaction job, makes the test job wait for it, and ignores Python bytecode caches.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c87d6

The CI guard can miss sensitive identifiers in valid Rust logging forms, allowing future logs to expose Nostr keys or identities despite the intended protection. The PR is not merge-ready until these detection gaps are fixed and covered by regression tests.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI
  participant RegressionTests
  participant RedactionChecker
  participant RustSources
  CI->>RegressionTests: Run scanner tests
  RegressionTests->>RedactionChecker: Call check_file
  CI->>RedactionChecker: Scan Rust files
  RedactionChecker->>RustSources: Inspect tracing calls
  RedactionChecker-->>CI: Return status and violations
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A rabbit checks each tracing line,
And hides the keys that should not shine.
CI scans the source with care,
Clean logs carry less to share.
“No leaked keys!” the bunny cheers.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary changes: removing Nostr keys from logs and adding a CI check.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR removes the linked issue's identified key leaks and adds the requested structural CI safeguard for future tracing calls [#836].
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain focused on log redaction, related cleanup, regression tests, and CI enforcement described by the issue [#836].
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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py`:
- Around line 25-38: Update SUSPICIOUS_RE and the send_dm logging path to
prevent cleartext serialized identities or invoices from bypassing redaction
checks: cover identity_key and sender_key variants, add detection for opaque
payload/message content where feasible, and remove or redact payload logs that
cannot be reliably identified by names. Keep the existing narrowly targeted
key-name matching without broadening it to generic key variables.
- Line 23: Extend the scanner around MACRO_RE and its span-parsing logic to
recognize Rust macro calls with parentheses, braces, and angle brackets,
including whitespace before delimiters. Make tokenization/span detection
Rust-aware so comments and string syntax cannot prematurely terminate or skip
macro arguments, and add regression coverage for every supported delimiter and
edge case before using the scanner as a security gate.

In `@src/util.rs`:
- Around line 707-711: Update the logging call in the surrounding
message-sending function to remove the serialized payload from the log entirely.
Retain only the event ID or safe action metadata, ensuring no payload fields
such as identities or invoice data are written.
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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction_test.py`:
- Around line 27-45: Update the positive cases in test_paren_call_flags_pubkey,
test_brace_call_flags_pubkey, test_bracket_call_flags_pubkey,
test_identity_key_variant_is_flagged, and test_sender_key_variant_is_flagged to
assert the exact reported violation tuples, including source line 1 and the
expected identifier ("pubkey", "identity_key", or "sender_key"), rather than
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Addressed in 4945eb8.

The five positive cases now assert the exact (line, identifier) tuples rather than just the count, so a scanner reporting the wrong key name no longer slips through:

self.assertEqual(violations, [(1, "pubkey")])
self.assertEqual(violations, [(1, "identity_key")])
self.assertEqual(violations, [(1, "sender_key")])

One addition beyond the suggestion: every existing case is a one-liner, so asserting line 1 would still hold if check_file never computed a line number at all. Added a case with the call further down the file so that arithmetic is actually pinned:

def test_reported_line_is_the_macro_line_not_the_first(self):
    violations = self._violations(
        "fn x() {\n    let a = 1;\n    info!(\"{}\", pubkey);\n}"
    )
    self.assertEqual(violations, [(3, "pubkey")])

Both CI steps pass locally: python3 scripts/check_log_redaction_test.py → 8 tests OK (was 7), and python3 scripts/check_log_redaction.py → clean, exit 0.

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Nice direction. A structural gate beats another one-off patch, and the 14 call-site
fixes are correct: no unused params left behind (checked sender in payout.rs,
my_keys in pubkey_event_can_solve, taker_pubkey in cancel_not_active_order),
no format-arg mismatches, and the taker_pubkey removal from cancel_order_by_taker
updated both call sites cleanly. The checker runs clean and its 8 tests pass locally.

A few things worth addressing before merge.

Blocking-ish: the gate misses the most idiomatic form of the leak. find_call_span blanks string-literal contents, so Rust 2021 inline captured args are invisible:

tracing::info!("User with pubkey {pubkey} did X"); // check_file() -> []

This style is already used all over the tree (util.rs:465,467,839,919,1088,1101,

tracing::info!("User with pubkey {pubkey} did X"); // check_file() -> []

This style is already used all over the tree (util.rs:465,467,839,919,1088,1101, main.rs:108,229, scheduler.rs:78,201, lnurl.rs:179), so the gate green-lights exactly what it exists to stop. Suggestion: run SUSPICIOUS_RE over the {...} capture names inside the format string too, instead of blanking them along with the prose.

One leak still in the tree. src/app/admin_add_solver.rs:73:

Ok(r) => info!("Solver added: {} with category {}", r, category),

add_new_user returns the solver pubkey as stored (db.rs:1007, "Return the pubkey as stored (plain)"), the same key you redacted at the RPC entry point in rpc/service.rs:322. So the flow is scrubbed on the way in and logged on the way out. The checker misses it only because the binding is named r.

Checker gaps worth a follow-up (not necessarily this PR):

  • MACRO_RE doesn't cover println!/eprintln!, which is ironic since f485590 in this very PR removes a println! leaking order pubkeys that the gate couldn't have caught. event! and *_span! are uncovered too.
  • A '"' char literal desyncs the string scanner: info!("{} {}", s.trim_matches('"'), pubkey) returns [], and the unbalanced span then runs to EOF.
  • MACRO_RE scans raw text including comments, so a doc comment showing info!("{}", pubkey) as an example fails CI with no real code to fix.

Smaller stuff:

  • db.rs:1257 now reads "Solver assigned to order {}" unconditionally before the SELECT EXISTS that decides it, so it logs the assertion even when the function returns false. Worth moving after the query or rewording to "checking".
  • util.rs:660 info!("Sending DM") has no correlation data left on the daemon's highest-frequency path. Consider dropping it, or attaching order_id/request_id instead of the keys.
  • util.rs:465/839/919 still dump whole Nostr events with {event:#?} (pubkey, tags, content, sig), which is inconsistent with dropping payload from send_dm for the same reason.
  • The 14 (AGENTS.md:48) comments hardcode a line number, which AGENTS.md:42 explicitly prohibits. Citing the section ("AGENTS.md, Security & Configuration Tips") survives edits to that file.

Also: needs a rebase. The branch is 30 commits behind main and currently conflicts in src/scheduler.rs (touched by #879, #872, #862, #867 and #772 since the branch was cut). GitHub reports the PR as CONFLICTING / DIRTY.

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The gate blanked string-literal contents before scanning for suspicious
identifiers, which hid captured args living inside the format string itself
(`info!("pubkey {pubkey}")`) — a style used throughout the tree, so the gate
green-lit exactly what it exists to stop. Capture names are now pulled out
before blanking and checked alongside the call's other arguments.

Also, per review on MostroP2P#842:
- scrub the solver pubkey leaking out of admin_add_solver_action on the
  success path (it was scrubbed going in via the RPC entrypoint, logged
  going out here)
- stop dumping full Nostr events with {event:#?} (pubkey/tags/content/sig
  in clear) across six call sites; log a scoped identifier instead
- move the is_assigned_solver log after the query it was asserting
  unconditionally before
- give send_dm's log a request_id for correlation now that logging moved
  past the point where message is already parsed
- cite "AGENTS.md, Security & Configuration Tips" instead of a line number
  that drifts under edits
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Rebased onto main (was 30 commits behind — resolved the scheduler.rs conflict in notify_users_canceled_order: kept upstream's neutral "was not completed" wording, dropped the pubkeys per this PR's intent).

Addressed the review:

Blocking — inline captures. find_call_span now extracts {ident} capture names from each string literal before blanking its contents, so info!("pubkey {pubkey}") is caught alongside the existing info!("{}", pubkey) form. Added coverage for captures with format specs ({pubkey:?}), positional placeholders (not captures), and escaped braces (not captures).

The leak still in the tree. admin_add_solver.rs:73add_new_user's return (the stored pubkey) was being logged on the success path after being scrubbed at the RPC entrypoint. Dropped it.

{event:#?} dumps. Six call sites (admin_cancel.rs, admin_settle.rs, admin_take_dispute.rs, util.rs x3) were logging the full Event — pubkey, tags, content, sig — via {:#?}. Replaced each with a scoped identifier already in scope (dispute_id/order.id) or dropped it where redundant with the next line.

Smaller stuff:

  • db.rs's is_assigned_solver now logs after the SELECT EXISTS, gated on the actual result, instead of asserting unconditionally before the query ran.
  • send_dm's log moved past Message::from_json (already happening on this path) and now carries request_id for correlation.
  • The AGENTS.md:48 line-number references (11 in code, 2 in the script) now cite "Security & Configuration Tips" instead, so they survive edits to that file.

Left for a follow-up issue, per your note that it's not necessarily this PR: println!/eprintln!/event!/*_span! coverage, the unbalanced-span issue from an unescaped '"' char literal, and comments being scanned as code. Happy to file that if useful.

All green locally: cargo build, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --check, cargo test --bin mostrod (1186 passed), and both check_log_redaction.py runs (checker + its own test suite, now 12 tests).

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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py`:
- Around line 117-118: Update the exemption check in the redaction scanner to
accept ALLOW_COMMENT only when the preceding line, after trimming whitespace,
starts with the // comment prefix followed by the marker; do not exempt matches
inside string literals or other code. Add a regression test covering a preceding
string literal containing the marker and verify it still reports the sensitive
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57-99: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use Rust-aware tokenization before balancing macro delimiters.

find_call_span does not skip char literals, comments, or raw strings. A ), }, or ] inside one of these tokens can terminate the span before later arguments are scanned. For example, info!("{} {}", ')', pubkey) can hide pubkey from the check. Use a Rust-aware lexer, or explicitly handle these token types, and add regression tests.

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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py` around lines 57 - 99, Update find_call_span
to skip Rust char literals, line/block comments, and raw strings while scanning
and balancing macro delimiters, so delimiters inside those tokens cannot
terminate the span or hide later arguments such as pubkey. Preserve existing
string-literal capture extraction and blanking behavior, and add regression
tests covering each token type and the example with a char literal before
pubkey.

30-30: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Parse escaped braces before extracting captures.

FORMAT_CAPTURE_RE misses the valid {pubkey} capture in info!("{{{pubkey}}}"), so check_file reports no violation. Add brace-aware parsing and a regression test.

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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py` at line 30, Update FORMAT_CAPTURE_RE and the
parsing flow used by check_file to handle escaped braces before extracting
captures, ensuring info!("{{{pubkey}}}") recognizes pubkey as a capture. Add a
regression test covering this triple-brace format and verify the existing
escaped-brace behavior remains correct.

24-24: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include all tracing event and span macros in the redaction gate.

MACRO_RE misses event!, span!, trace_span!, debug_span!, info_span!, warn_span!, and error_span!. Sensitive identifiers in these macros bypass check_file. Add these macro families and regression tests for each family.

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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py` at line 24, Update MACRO_RE in the redaction
checker to recognize event!, span!, trace_span!, debug_span!, info_span!,
warn_span!, and error_span! alongside the existing logging macros, including
optional tracing:: qualification and current delimiters. Add regression coverage
exercising each newly supported macro family through check_file.
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In `@scripts/check_log_redaction.py`:
- Around line 57-99: Update find_call_span to skip Rust char literals,
line/block comments, and raw strings while scanning and balancing macro
delimiters, so delimiters inside those tokens cannot terminate the span or hide
later arguments such as pubkey. Preserve existing string-literal capture
extraction and blanking behavior, and add regression tests covering each token
type and the example with a char literal before pubkey.
- Line 30: Update FORMAT_CAPTURE_RE and the parsing flow used by check_file to
handle escaped braces before extracting captures, ensuring info!("{{{pubkey}}}")
recognizes pubkey as a capture. Add a regression test covering this triple-brace
format and verify the existing escaped-brace behavior remains correct.
- Line 24: Update MACRO_RE in the redaction checker to recognize event!, span!,
trace_span!, debug_span!, info_span!, warn_span!, and error_span! alongside the
existing logging macros, including optional tracing:: qualification and current
delimiters. Add regression coverage exercising each newly supported macro family
through check_file.

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ToRyVand added a commit to ToRyVand/mostro that referenced this pull request Aug 24, 2026
The gate blanked string-literal contents before scanning for suspicious
identifiers, which hid captured args living inside the format string itself
(`info!("pubkey {pubkey}")`) — a style used throughout the tree, so the gate
green-lit exactly what it exists to stop. Capture names are now pulled out
before blanking and checked alongside the call's other arguments.

Also, per review on MostroP2P#842:
- scrub the solver pubkey leaking out of admin_add_solver_action on the
  success path (it was scrubbed going in via the RPC entrypoint, logged
  going out here)
- stop dumping full Nostr events with {event:#?} (pubkey/tags/content/sig
  in clear) across six call sites; log a scoped identifier instead
- move the is_assigned_solver log after the query it was asserting
  unconditionally before
- give send_dm's log a request_id for correlation now that logging moved
  past the point where message is already parsed
- cite "AGENTS.md, Security & Configuration Tips" instead of a line number
  that drifts under edits
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Rebased onto main @ 848ee3b. No behaviour change and no new scope — the diffstat is byte-identical to the pre-rebase branch (16 files, +326/−94), and all 21 redaction sites survive.

Two files conflicted, both structural rather than semantic. In each case I kept upstream's structure and reapplied only the redaction on top:

src/app.rs#892 reworked accept_event: the spam gate now arrives as gate: Option<&SpamGate> instead of is_v2 + SpamGate::global(), which removed a nesting level and expanded the surrounding comments. Kept that shape verbatim; the only thing carried over is dropping event.pubkey from the pow_first_contact line:

// No key in the log line — sender pubkey (AGENTS.md, Security & Configuration Tips).
tracing::info!(
    "Dropping first-contact kind-14 event below pow_first_contact ({} bits)",
    pow_first_contact
);

src/app/admin_take_dispute.rs#899 hoisted new_dispute_event above the DM sends (monotonic created_at), so the block this branch used to rewrite no longer exists there. Kept upstream's construction and redacted only the dump that followed it: info!("Dispute event to be published: {dispute_event:#?}")info!("Dispute event to be published for dispute {}", dispute.id).

src/util.rs, src/db.rs, src/scheduler.rs and src/app/bond/payout.rs auto-merged cleanly.

Verification on the rebased head:

  • cargo test — 1233 passed, 0 failed, 3 ignored
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features — clean
  • cargo fmt --check — clean
  • python3 scripts/check_log_redaction.py — clean, i.e. none of the 15 commits main gained since the last rebase introduced a new leak
  • python3 scripts/check_log_redaction_test.py — 13/13

The CI wiring still holds against #905: test gates on [fmt, clippy, log-redaction], and the new msrv job is independent.

@AndreaDiazCorreia the review scope is unchanged — your round-1 findings are still addressed in the same commits, just replayed onto current main. Ready for round 2 whenever you have a moment.

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Request changes. The analysis work here is real — you found 9 sites manual
review had missed — but I don't think the premise holds for most of them, so
the diff should end up an order of magnitude smaller.

The criterion isn't "a pubkey appears in the line", it's "what linkage does
the line reveal".
By that measure the 14 sites split into three groups:

Already public. The three {event:#?} dumps are of events Mostro is about to
broadcast to relays (finalize_order_publication, update_order_event_stamped,
the dispute events) — public a millisecond later. In send_dm the "sender key"
was Mostro's own key, which it publishes in its info event. Nothing is disclosed
by logging any of it.

Not public, but not linking. The taker's trade key, the assigned solver, the
solver identity in admin_take_dispute. Mostro-only data, but it pairs a key
with an order id, not with another key.

Actually sensitive. One line:

warn!("Missing inner signature: identity {} differs from trade key {}",
      unwrapped.identity, unwrapped.sender);

Identity key and trade key in the same record is exactly the linkage the two-key
design exists to keep to Mostro alone. And the identity isn't even useful here:
to chase a non-conforming client you want the event (event.id, public on the
relay) and, to tell one client from many, sender alone. The identity buys
nothing you can act on.

What I'd keep: that line, rewritten around event.id, and the
println!("Edited order: {:?}", edited_order) in scheduler.rs, which is
leftover debug litter and goes regardless. That's it.

What I'd revert: the rest, and particularly the sites that dropped a key and
put nothing back. info!("Received add solver request") has req.request_id
right there. info!("Checking whether the dispute event was sent by the mostro admin") fires on every dispute event and says neither which dispute nor the
outcome. last_trade_index is the clearest: that line is the pubkey — "who
asked, what we answered" — and without it you get "someone asked, the answer was
7", worthless the moment two users ask in the same minute. You applied the right
pattern in send_dm (swap the key for request_id); the rest just delete.

Separately, is_assigned_solver doesn't only lose the key: it moves the log
after the query and makes it conditional on result == true. That's a behaviour
change inside a redaction PR, and it drops the branch you actually want when
debugging a rejected solver.

The CI script I'd drop entirely. I probed it with a file under src/; all
of these pass check_log_redaction: clean:

info!("Order event to be published: {event:#?}");      // the line this PR deletes
info!("Sending message with payload: {:#?}", payload); // ditto
println!("Edited order: {:?}", edited_order);          // ditto
println!("nsec {}", nsec);
let pk = order.buyer_pubkey; info!("buyer {pk}");      // renaming the variable is enough

println! isn't in MACRO_RE, and whole-struct Debug dumps don't match
SUSPICIOUS_RE — so the two classes this PR had to find by hand are the two the gate cannot see. A check that stays green while the leak comes back is worse than no check: it turns a known gap into false confidence. It also
false-positives on an mpsc Sender and on tracing calls inside doc comments,
where the only escape is to write // pubkey-log-allow: on something that has
nothing to do with pubkeys.

One process note, no hard feelings intended: #836 is your own issue, so nobody
on the project had agreed the threat model before this was built. For structural
work — a new CI gate, a new repo-wide convention — it's worth settling that
first; it would have saved you most of these 326 lines.

Whether you strip this branch down or open a fresh one is up to you, but the
result should be a couple of lines, not a subsystem.

`println!("Edited order: {:?}", edited_order)` is debug output that
bypasses tracing entirely — no level, no target, no filtering. Unrelated
to the redaction that follows; it goes regardless.
Closes MostroP2P#836.

The criterion is not "a pubkey appears in the line" but "what linkage does
the line reveal". A key beside an order id is Mostro-only data; two keys in
one record is the association the two-key design exists to keep to Mostro
alone. Four lines meet the second test:

- `accept_event`'s missing-inner-signature warning wrote the identity and
  the trade key together. Rewritten around `event.id`, which is public on
  the relay and is what you need to chase a non-conforming client anyway.
- `notify_users_canceled_order` wrote the maker's and the taker's trade
  keys in one line. The published order event carries neither, so that
  pairing is not otherwise derivable — it links the two counterparties of
  a trade to each other. The order id is kept.
- `send_dm` wrote sender and receiver. The sender was Mostro's own key,
  which it publishes anyway; the receiver is not — `admin_take_dispute`
  calls it with `event.identity`. This is also the daemon's
  highest-frequency send path. Swapped for the already-parsed `request_id`.
- the send path's second line wrote the receiver alongside the whole
  payload, and `admin_take_dispute` sends `Payload::Peer { pubkey:
  event.identity }` to both counterparties — a receiver's trade key beside
  a solver's identity key. Reduced to the event id.

Everything else stays. Whole-event dumps are of events published to relays
a moment later; a key next to an order or dispute id links nothing; and
several of those log lines are the only handle an operator has on which
user a request came from.
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Thanks @Catrya — you're right about the criterion and about the gate. Rewritten
around both: 16 files / +326-94 → 3 files / +27-18, and the CI script is
gone entirely.

On the script, I probed it as you did rather than take it on report. Your
five cases pass clean, and two more are false positives — a tracing call inside
a doc comment, and an mpsc::Sender named sender. Wrong in both directions.
The false positives are fixable; the false negatives are not: deciding whether
{event:#?} prints a key needs to know what event is, and a regex has no
types. That is the shape that produced #834. Written up on
#836 as a negative result so
nobody rebuilds it.

On the criterion — "what linkage does the line reveal" — I agree, and ran it
over the six sites your groups didn't reach. It comes to four lines, not one:

Line Linkage
Missing inner signature identity ↔ trade key yours
notify_users_canceled_order maker ↔ taker ↔ order new
send_dm sender/receiver identity key on the hot path new
Sending message … payload receiver ↔ Payload::Peer{pubkey} new

The middle one is the strongest. It wrote both counterparties' trade keys in
one record, and the published order event carries neither — order_to_tags
emits kind, fiat, status, amount, payment method, premium, expiry and the
source tag, no party pubkeys. So that pairing is not otherwise derivable, and
unlike the others it links two different people.

On send_dm you addressed the sender half — Mostro's own key, agreed, public.
The line also wrote the receiver, and admin_take_dispute calls it with
event.identity (admin_take_dispute.rs:249). So on that path it wrote an
identity key, on the daemon's highest-frequency send path. Your "swap the key
for request_id" is what it does now.

And the fourth: payload carries a key of its own —
Payload::Peer { pubkey: event.identity } is sent to both counterparties — so
that line paired a receiver's trade key with a solver's identity key.

Everything else is reverted, on your classification: the four whole-event
dumps are published to relays a moment later; a key beside an order or dispute
id links nothing; and the sites that dropped a key and put nothing back are
back as they were — add solver request, pubkey_event_can_solve,
last_trade_index, is_assigned_solver. You were right that the last one was
worse than a redaction: it moved the log after the query and made it
conditional on result == true, which drops the rejected-solver case, and that
is a behaviour change with no business being in this PR.

I did not take the request_id improvements those reverted lines invite. That
would be the same scope mistake in the other direction.

The println! is a separate commit — unrelated to redaction, goes regardless.

Your process note is taken, and it is the part that generalises: #836 was my
own issue, so nobody had agreed the threat model before a CI gate and a
repo-wide convention were built on it. The narrow fix here needed none of that.

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This is the right PR now. 16 files → 3, the CI gate gone, and the four lines you
kept are the four that meet the criterion — I checked each one rather than take
it on report.

Verified before commenting:

  • Merges clean onto current main (7e6b600, 17 commits ahead). On the merged
    tree: cargo clippy --all-targets clean, cargo fmt --check clean, no unused
    params left behind, no test asserts on any of the four strings.
  • The reverts are real — no script, no CI job, no .gitignore change, and
    add solver request, pubkey_event_can_solve, last_trade_index and
    is_assigned_solver are back exactly as they were.
  • I scanned the resulting tree for tracing calls interpolating two key-shaped
    identifiers (paren-balanced, string contents blanked): none left.
  • The surviving {event:#?} dumps (util.rs:481/873/1378, dispute.rs:45/293,
    admin_settle.rs:154, admin_cancel.rs:155, admin_take_dispute.rs:288) are
    all NIP-33 replaceable events published tistent.
  • Your notify_users_canceled_order claim
    (src/nip33.rs:473) emits k/f/s/amt/fa/pes_at/
    expiration/y/z plus source, and no party pubkey. That pairing really isn't
    derivable elsewhere.

Four things before merge, one of which is t


1. send_dm now emits two lines that canand it
is the only log on the entire outbound path.

The first line fires before wrapping and carries only request_id; the second
fires after and carries only event.id. Th
concurrent sends there is no way to tell which request_id produced which event
id. Before, both lines carried receiver_pubkey and joined on it.

Worse, request_id is a client-supplied Option<u64>, and **23 of the 66
enqueue_order_msg call sites pass None*ut path,
including notify_users_canceled_order in are of
the daemon's highest-frequency send path wid: None`,
which is no information at all.

That matters more than it looks, because ththrough
here: job_flush_messages_queue (scheduler.rs:109) sends everything via
send_dm, and its only failure log is err{}", e)
— no order id, no action, no destination. Between the two, "user X never got
their Canceled message" stops being diagnos

This is the same shape you flagged on the rut and
what went back in doesn't carry the weight.ields
that are already parsed and link nothing — andaction` right there:

let inner = message.get_inner_message_kind(
info!(
    "Sending DM: event {} action {} id {:?}
    event.id, inner.action, inner.id, inner
);

One call, after the event is built. Compile
cargo clippy --all-targets on the merged tree.

2. app.rs dropped sender as well, which the review asked to keep.

The ask was event.id and sender alone — the second is what tells one
misbehaving client from many. On the gift-whrowaway
and the rumor is decryptable only by Mostro, so event.id on its own gives an
operator nothing actionable. On the kind-14 path sender == event.pubkey, which
is already public on the relay — and which acted
40 lines above, at app.rs:380
("Dropping first-contact kind-14 event from unknown key {}"). sender alone is
an unpaired trade key, so it sits inside th put it
back or say in the PR why you went stricter than the review asked.

3. The comments narrate the diff rather than the code.

"The sender half was Mostro's own key… so oity
key" explains a line that no longer exists.lready
in the commit message almost verbatim. In nere
are now seven lines of comment stacked in f State
the forward invariant instead — e.g. "no party keys on this path: payload can
carry Payload::Peer { pubkey }" — and let t

4. Closes #836.

#836 asks for a structural fix, and this PR build
one. Merging as-is closes the issue with it
Refs #836 and let the negative-result closecision
is visible as a decision.

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One thing the PR undersells. The payload-line justification cites only
admin_take_dispute. The stronger case is fi
Peer { pubkey: event.sender } (the buyer's and
Peer { pubkey: seller_pubkey } to the buyerer plus
payload, so it wrote the seller's trade key next to the buyer's — a direct
maker↔taker pairing between two different pvery
single trade, not just an admin path. Worth citing; it makes that one
unarguable.

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