Protocol v2: X25519 handshake, sequence-number nonces, hardened transport

Red-team review of the (byte-exact) v1 port found replay, cross-session
frame portability, pre-auth allocation amplification, and a symmetric
key that let either peer forge as itself — flaws inherent to the v1
wire format. v2 closes them:

- fixed 69-byte OVX2 hello; server validates before replying; v1 and
  wrong-version peers see an immediate close
- HKDF(ephemeral X25519 DH, PSK, transcript) -> direction-separated
  session keys; forward secrecy per connection
- strictly increasing u64 sequence nonces: any replay or reorder drops
  the connection (regression tests in tests/protocol_v2.rs)
- Config: message-size cap (64 KiB default), connection semaphore,
  idle/body-stall/handshake/send timeouts on both roles (client-side
  timers retire the old no-client-timeouts quirk)
- message processing inline per connection; user callbacks panic-
  isolated; poison-tolerant mutexes; demo key refused in release builds
- PROTOCOL-V2.md supersedes PARITY-CONTRACT.md (retired, kept as port
  history); Cereal payload encoding is unchanged

Payload serialization remains byte-exact with the original C++ (the
golden scrypt/cereal vectors still govern). Zero unsafe. Verified live:
server<->client handshake, encrypted echo, clean teardown.

Cuts over from the C++ implementation, which is deleted (phase 5 of the
port contract); it remains in the original gitea repository.
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commit c614d8345f
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
mod common;
use common::{DatagramPayload, PASSWORD, SALT, SERVER_PORT};
use omnivox::{ConnectionContext, Decision, OmniVox, derive_encrypt_key};
use omnivox::{Config, ConnectionContext, Decision, OmniVox, derive_encrypt_key};
use std::{
collections::HashMap,
sync::{Arc, Mutex},
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
.without_time()
.init();
tracing::info!("Starting server on port {SERVER_PORT} with 2 threads");
tracing::info!("Starting server on port {SERVER_PORT}");
let server = Arc::new(OmniVox::<DatagramPayload>::new());
let key = derive_encrypt_key(PASSWORD.as_bytes(), SALT, 17, 8, 1)?;
@@ -78,7 +78,13 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
});
server
.start_server(SERVER_PORT, 2, 15000, received, disconnect, connect)
.start_server(
SERVER_PORT,
Config::default(),
received,
disconnect,
connect,
)
.await?;
tracing::info!("Server started successfully");