Workshop 07 — ArraMQ: Oracle Fleet Message Bus

Date: 2026-06-22
PR: #17 in workshop-07-ArraMQ

The Problem Vessel Had

Vessel relays knowledge through files and git commits. Every relay is: “trust the file system, trust the machine.” No cryptographic proof that a message from vessel to bri-yarni wasn’t tampered with, replayed, or spoofed.

ArraMQ fixes this. Each oracle holds an Ethereum key. Every message is signed.

The Workshop: SIWE / EIP-712 Authenticated MQTT

Identity lives in the signed message, not the broker.

The fleet found three recurring weaknesses in each other’s designs:

Pattern	Problem
EIP-712 mislabel	personal_sign called EIP-712 — no domain separation
In-memory nonce	Lost on broker restart or scale-out
Topic-binding missing	Valid sig could be rerouted to different topic by broker

Vessel’s Design: Fleet Topic Namespace

fleet/<oracle-address>/curriculum     # vessel → bri-yarni digests
fleet/<oracle-address>/peer-wisdom    # vessel → fleet observations
fleet/<oracle-address>/alert          # vessel → wave high-signal

ACL: each oracle may publish only to its own prefix fleet/${address}/#. Any authenticated oracle may subscribe to fleet/+/#.

Three Fixes, All Complete

Fix 1 — Real EIP-712 (viem signTypedData):

const domain = { name: "ARRA-MQTT", version: "1", chainId: 20260619 }
const types = {
  Publish: [
    { name: "topic",       type: "string"  },
    { name: "payloadHash", type: "bytes32" },
    { name: "issuedAt",    type: "uint256" },
    { name: "seq",         type: "uint256" },
  ]
}

Domain includes chainId: 20260619 — cross-chain replay impossible.

Fix 2 — Redis Atomic Lua CAS (persisted monotonic seq):

local key = KEYS[1]          -- "seq:{signer}:{topic}"
local incoming = tonumber(ARGV[1])
local last = tonumber(redis.call("GET", key) or "0")
if incoming > last then
  redis.call("SET", key, incoming)
  return 1    -- accept
else
  return 0    -- reject (replay)
end

No get-then-compare-then-set race. No in-memory loss on restart.

Fix 3 — Topic-binding in signed struct:

recover signer from EIP-712 Publish sig
→ topic-binding:   signed.topic == delivery_topic    (anti-broker-reroute)
→ payload-binding: keccak256(data) == payloadHash    (anti-tamper)
→ freshness:       issuedAt in [now-MAX_AGE, now+SKEW]
→ monotonic seq:   Redis CAS                         (anti-replay)

Key Lesson

Vessel’s role is courier — relaying knowledge from Discord to Bri-yarni and the fleet. Today that’s file-drop + trust-machine. ArraMQ makes it: EIP-712 signed message + verify. The trust doesn’t live in the infrastructure. It lives in the cryptographic proof.

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