cross-signing: persist the bot's identity instead of reminting it every start

Both session paths called GenerateAndUploadCrossSigningKeys unconditionally on
every start. That published a fresh cross-signing identity each time the bot
restarted, so every user's client saw the bot's verification break and had to
re-verify it. The freshly-minted recovery key was only ever logged, never kept,
so the identity couldn't be recovered either.

bootstrapCrossSigning now mints once, persists the recovery key to
DATA_DIR/cross_signing.json (0600), and on later starts reuses the stored
identity untouched. Two escape hatches, both normally unset:
CROSS_SIGNING_REGENERATE=1 forces exactly one remint (every user must then
re-verify), and CROSS_SIGNING_RECOVERY_KEY imports an identity created before
the bot persisted its own key.

Shared by the appservice and masdevice paths, which had drifted into two copies
of the same block.
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prosolis
2026-07-09 18:53:23 -07:00
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@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@ AS_LISTEN_HOST= # bind address for the transaction listener (e.g. 0.
AS_LISTEN_PORT= # bind port; Synapse's registration url must reach host:port
HOMESERVER_DOMAIN= # server_name, e.g. example.com (derives the bot MXID from sender_localpart)
# ---- Cross-signing (optional; both auth modes) ----
# Controls only whether the bot shows as VERIFIED in clients — E2EE works without it.
# Normally you set NEITHER of these. On its first start the bot mints a cross-signing
# identity and persists the recovery key itself to DATA_DIR/cross_signing.json (0600);
# every later start reuses that identity untouched, so users verify the bot once, ever.
#
# Set to 1 for exactly ONE start to throw away the published identity and mint a fresh
# one (the bot stores the new key itself). Every user must then verify the bot again.
# Needed only if the identity was lost, or to adopt one the bot can't re-sign.
CROSS_SIGNING_REGENERATE=
#
# Imports an existing recovery key into DATA_DIR/cross_signing.json on next start.
# Only useful to adopt an identity created before the bot persisted its own key.
CROSS_SIGNING_RECOVERY_KEY=
# Which rooms the bot posts scheduled content to (comma-separated room IDs)
BROADCAST_ROOMS=!roomid:example.com