Fix bridge initiate miner source validation

[JONASXZB]

Summary

Refs #305.

Fixes a bridge-initiate regression where deposit requests treated the RustChain source_address as a strict RTC + 40-hex wallet address before checking operator authorization. Deposit locks are keyed by balances.miner_id, so valid miner IDs such as RTC_test_miner were rejected with 400 and unauthenticated requests were masked as validation errors instead of returning 401/503.

Changes:

• Check the deposit operator/admin key before address-format validation so auth state is not masked by source-address validation.
• Add route-specific address validation that uses validate_miner_id_format() only for the RustChain deposit source miner ID.
• Keep validate_chain_address_format("rustchain", ...) strict for canonical RTC + 40-hex wallet/address checks and all non-deposit route address validation.
• Align the direct RustChain address test fixture with the strict faucet-format validator.

Validation

Focused passing checks:

• .venv/bin/python -m pytest node/test_bridge_address_validation_6193_6195.py tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py::TestAddressValidation tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py::TestBridgeInitiateAuth -q -> 42 passed

Broader bridge-file check:

• .venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py -q -> 58 passed, 4 failed
• The remaining 4 failures are existing lock_ledger read-route admin-auth expectations. I did not change those routes because node/lock_ledger.py explicitly documents that they expose miner lock balances / pending unlocks and require an admin key.

No private keys, wallet secrets, production mutation, proxy/profile changes, or payout operations were used.

[JONASXZB]

CI note for reviewers:

• PR head 662ca2b9 fixes the bridge-initiate miner-source/auth cluster. The targeted hosted/local-repro coverage no longer shows the previous TestBridgeInitiateAuth failures.
• Focused local validation remains: .venv/bin/python -m pytest node/test_bridge_address_validation_6193_6195.py tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py::TestAddressValidation tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py::TestBridgeInitiateAuth -q -> 42 passed.
• Hosted CI / test still fails from unrelated base-suite failures outside this PR's touched files, including Beacon Atlas read-route 401 expectations, lock-ledger read-route admin-auth expectations, governance auth/validation expectations, GPU render protocol, OTC bridge, server proxy, signed transfer, tx-handler redaction, and tests/test_rustchain_monitor.py failures. The monitor failures are the separate scope already addressed in PR Fix monitor miners envelope normalization #6786.
• I intentionally did not weaken node/lock_ledger.py read-route admin auth in this PR because that file explicitly documents those routes as exposing miner lock balances / pending unlocks and requiring an admin key.

Touched files here are limited to node/bridge_api.py and tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py.

[zqleslie]

Code Review Bounty Claim — RustChain PR #6787

Bounty: #73 Code Review Bounty Program
Reviewer: zqleslie
RTC wallet: XKO212dF8324b9b61F294D26A6Dc68e3f81e4BE451D

Reviewed PR

• PR: #6787
• Review state: APPROVED

Review performed

Reviewed the bridge initiate miner source validation fix:

1. Auth-before-validation ordering — The key fix moves RC_ADMIN_KEY checks ahead of address-format validation for deposits. Previously, a valid miner ID like RTC_test_miner would hit validate_chain_address_format() first and fail with 400, masking whether the request was actually authorized. Now auth errors surface correctly as 401/503.

2. Route-specific address validation — The new validate_bridge_route_address() helper correctly uses validate_miner_id_format() for RustChain deposit source miner IDs, while keeping strict RTC + 40-hex validation for all other cases. The rustchain_source_is_miner boolean gate is clean and scoped to deposits where the source is RustChain.

3. No auth bypass — RC_ADMIN_KEY comparison uses hmac.compare_digest() (timing-safe). Admin key is still required for deposits. The fix only changes error ordering, not authorization logic.

4. Test fixture update — test_valid_rustchain_address now uses RTC + 40 a's instead of RTC_test123abc, aligning with the strict faucet-format validator. Good.

5. Diff size — +31/-14 across 2 files. Focused, no unrelated changes.

No blocking issues found. Safe to merge.

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[jaxint]

Great contribution! 🔍 Reviewed and looks solid.

[jaxint]

LGTM! Thanks for contributing to RustChain. Approved.

[Scottcjn]

⏸️ Tri-brain review — good idea, one blocking edge case

Separating miner_id from wallet on bridge routes is the right fix (anti-IDOR). But Grok caught a logic bug:

[BLOCKING] source/dest distinction is value-based, not position-based. rustchain_source_is_miner keys on chain == "rustchain", but in the loop for chain, addr in [(source_chain, source_addr), (dest_chain, dest_addr)], a rustchain→rustchain deposit makes the dest iteration ALSO pass rustchain_source_is_miner=True → it validates the destination as a miner_id, when the dest should be a normal wallet address. That turns previously-accepted rustchain→rustchain dest addresses into post-auth 400s. Only the source side locks by miner_id — distinguish source vs dest by position in the loop, not by chain value.

[SHOULD-FIX] Add tests (Codex): a RustChain deposit accepts a valid miner_id source, rejects a wallet address as source, still requires a wallet-form destination, and the rustchain→rustchain case keeps the dest as a wallet.

Fix the position-vs-value bug + add those tests and I'll merge — the validation itself is sound.

[JesusMP22]

Code Review for PR #6787

Files reviewed: 2 files (+31/-14)

Files examined:

• node/bridge_api.py
• tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py

General observations:

• PR changes 2 files with 31 additions and 14 deletions
• Title: Fix bridge initiate miner source validation

Assessment:

• Code structure appears consistent with repo patterns
• Changes are focused and well-scoped
• No obvious security concerns from file names and scope

Recommendation: Looks good to merge. Wallet for bounty: jesusmp

Claiming code review bounty. Review completed on all 2 changed files.

[jaxint]

Well done! This contribution adds real value to the project.

[jaxint]

LGTM! Thanks for contributing to RustChain. Approved.

[jaxint]

LGTM

[BossChaos]

Code Review — PR #6787: Fix bridge initiate miner source validation

Reviewer: BossChaos (subagent)
Files changed: node/bridge_api.py (+30/-13), tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py (+1/-1)

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Summary

Two bugs are fixed in a single PR:

1. Auth masked by validation — The original initiate_bridge() route checked address-format validity before operator authorization. An unauthenticated deposit request from a miner with an unconventional source address (e.g., RTC_test_miner) would get a 400 from the strict ^RTC[0-9a-fA-F]{40}$ regex before ever reaching the 401/503 auth check. This leaks miner-ID enumeration and confuses callers about the actual failure mode.

2. Wrong validator used for miner IDs — validate_chain_address_format("rustchain", addr) enforces canonical wallet-address format (40 hex chars), but balances.miner_id values include non-canonical identifiers (e.g., RTC_test_miner). Applying the wallet-address regex to miner IDs caused valid miners to be rejected at the address-validation step, long before any business-logic check.

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Changes — node/bridge_api.py

Line	Change	Assessment
+1	New validate_bridge_route_address() dispatcher — delegates to validate_miner_id_format() when the address is a RustChain deposit source (miner ID), otherwise falls through to validate_chain_address_format()	Correct. Preserves strict wallet-address validation for all non-miner-ID RustChain addresses and for all other chains.
+2-5	Moved admin-key check before address-format validation in initiate_bridge()	Correct. Ensures auth errors are returned first, preventing validation-behavior leakage to unauthenticated callers. The expected_admin_key check still yields 503 when unconfigured and 401 when present but mismatched, in both cases before any address validation runs.
+6-16	Replaced the hardcoded validate_chain_address_format() loop with a call to validate_bridge_route_address(), passing rustchain_source_is_miner=True only when the address is the RustChain source in a deposit direction	Correct. The boolean condition is precise: it fires only for the one address in the one direction where source_address == miner_id.
-7	Removed the old validate_chain_address_format() loop from the pre-auth position	N/A (removed code)

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Changes — tests/test_bridge_lock_ledger.py

Line	Change	Assessment
+1	Changed the unit-test input for test_valid_rustchain_address from "RTC_test123abc" (invalid hex) to "RTC" + "a" * 40 (valid canonical wallet address)	Correct. This test exercises validate_chain_address_format() directly — the strict wallet-address validator — so it should use a valid wallet-address fixture. The old fixture (RTC_test123abc) contained non-hex characters (t, _) and was never a valid wallet address, making the test misleading about what it was actually checking.

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Remaining notes

1. validate_miner_id_format() fallback — The import at the top of bridge_api.py uses a try/except ImportError fallback that defines validate_miner_id_format() to accept IDs >=3 chars starting with "RTC". If the production rustchain_v2_integrated_v2_2_1_rip200 module defines different validation rules, production vs. standalone-test behavior could diverge. Worth confirming the production module's criteria match the fallback assumptions.

2. No test for auth-before-validation ordering — There is no test asserting that an unauthenticated deposit with an invalid-format miner ID returns 401/503 before any address-validation error. The existing TestBridgeInitiateAuth class tests auth rejection but uses the default test miner ID. A targeted test case with a short/invalid miner ID and no admin key would guard against regression of the auth-masking bug.

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Verdict

Approve. The two bugs are real, the fix is surgical and correct, the auth ordering change is a clear improvement, and the test-fixture correction eliminates a misleading assertion. The notes above are minor observations, not blockers.

[jaxint]

LGTM

[jaxint]

Thanks for this PR! The changes look good. 🎉

[jaxint]

Great work!

[jaxint]

Thanks for this contribution! The code looks good.

[jaxint]

Great PR! This adds real value to the project. Thanks for your work! ⚡

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