LSX gate: FIFA reaches "connecting to EA Servers" via bridge

Implement the LSX (EA App bootstrap, TCP :3216→:3217) server in the bridge and clear the loading-screen crash gate. FIFA 23 now completes the full LSX handshake + session against OpenFUT and advances to the online/Blaze phase ("<persona> is connecting to the EA Servers…") — verified live, not a cached session (the displayed persona "fun" comes from our GetProfile). Root cause of the invariant loading-screen crash: get_config() omitted the PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION and PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION_EVENT services (Name="PI"). FIFA builds its service registry from GetConfig and resolves that handle during online-init; the missing service left a null handle it dereferenced at FIFA23.exe+0x133dfc5 (mov rax,[r13+0x18], r13=NULL) ~2s after LSX — identical across every prior run. Found via FIFA's own CrashReport_*.json (stable RIP) + diffing anadius64.dll's service-registration table against ours. Also in this change: - process_frame(): handle FIFA's pipelined (batched) LSX messages per read, eliminating the ~15s handshake hang. - Real anadius values (RE'd from anadius64.dll + anadius.cfg): PersonaId/UserId/ persona, locale list, GetGameInfo fixed `GameInfo="<value>"` attribute, GetAllGameInfo 14-attr schema, GetSetting `Setting=` attribute. - IsProgressiveInstallationAvailable served from sender="PI". - docs/connection-gate-findings.md: full RE trail; relocate stale openfut-hook copy under docs/ (canonical hook lives in openfut-launcher). Next gate: Blaze/online (M2), ridden over ProtoSSL in-process. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -260,3 +260,341 @@ The clean-room spec (this document) is the finished, valuable artifact.
 - `TODO/CONFIRM`: exact text of the offline/connected value strings
  (`+0xADE64` / `+0xAF530`); whether any secondary check gates the attempt after
  the state flips.
+
+---
+
+## LSX delivery channel — 2026-06-30
+
+**Question:** does FIFA's port-3216 connection reach the bridge LSX server, or is it
+serviced inside anadius before the TCP stack (making the bridge irrelevant)?
+
+### Evidence from `openfut_hook.log` (6 consecutive sessions, no bridge running)
+
+```
+connect_hook: call 1.0.0.127:3216 sock_type=1
+connect_hook: result=0 wsa_err=0
+```
+
+- `1.0.0.127:3216` — FIFA's EbisuSDK connects to `127.0.0.1:3216` (address in the log
+  is little-endian u32; port is big-endian u16 → both decode to `127.0.0.1:3216`).
+- `sock_type=1` — `SOCK_STREAM` (TCP), not a pipe or named-object.
+- `result=0 wsa_err=0` — the OS `connect()` syscall returned success.
+- This line appears exactly once per game session, at early startup (DLL load phase),
+  before the game reaches any menu. No other external `connect()` calls are logged.
+
+### Implication: anadius is NOT in-process-only for LSX
+
+Our hook is an **inline detour on the real `ws2_32.dll!connect`** function (not an IAT
+patch). It fires regardless of who calls `connect()`. Because it fires for the 3216
+call and `result=0`, the connection goes through the real TCP stack — it is NOT
+intercepted inside anadius before the socket layer.
+
+In the sessions above, anadius was the answering server (bridge not running); it binds
+`127.0.0.1:3216` as a real Wine/Proton TCP socket. **Anadius is a true TCP server on
+port 3216, not an in-process detour.**
+
+### Bridge delivery test (native Linux process)
+
+Bridge binary confirmed bindable: `./target/release/openfut-bridge` starts and logs
+`LSX server listening on 127.0.0.1:3216` immediately. Port 3216 is free before FIFA
+launches (anadius only binds it when FIFA/anadius64.dll loads).
+
+**Pending live test:** start the bridge (native Linux process → real Linux socket on
+3216), THEN launch FIFA. When EbisuSDK calls `connect(127.0.0.1:3216)`:
+- If bridge receives it → bridge logs `DEBUG openfut_bridge::lsx: LSX: connection from 127.0.0.1:xxxxx`
+- If anadius somehow wins (or game crashes because anadius can't bind) → bridge logs nothing
+
+**Run once to confirm:**
+```bash
+cd /home/alex/Documents/OpenFUT/openfut-bridge
+RUST_LOG=openfut_bridge=debug ./target/release/openfut-bridge 2>&1 | tee /tmp/bridge-lsx-test.log &
+# then launch FIFA normally, reach any menu, check log:
+grep "LSX:" /tmp/bridge-lsx-test.log
+```
+
+### Pre-test concern: LSX challenge-response AES key
+
+The bridge `lsx.rs` uses a placeholder `AES_KEY = [0,1,2,...,15]`. The real key was
+RE'd from anadius but not yet substituted. If FIFA validates the `ChallengeAccepted`
+response the bridge sends, the handshake fails and FIFA may not reach the main menu.
+This does **not** affect the delivery classification — `LSX: connection from ...` fires
+at TCP `accept()`, before any protocol. But it may cause the game to stall/crash after
+the first connection, which would be a separate issue to fix.
+
+### Classification — CONFIRMED 2026-07-02 (supersedes the 2026-06-30 prediction)
+
+**CONFIRMED NEGATIVE — a host-side bridge on 3216 does NOT receive FIFA's LSX
+traffic. Cause: anadius handles LSX *in-process*, inside FIFA23.exe, before the
+connect reaches the host TCP stack. This is NOT a network/loopback problem — the
+network namespace is shared and the bridge is reachable.**
+
+The 2026-06-30 prediction that this subsection replaced was wrong on both counts
+(it guessed `"anadius intercepts in-process" = RULED OUT` and `"bridge receives
+LSX" = EXPECTED`); the live test showed the exact opposite.
+
+**Evidence (live test, bridge holding host 127.0.0.1:3216 throughout):**
+- **Namespace is shared, not isolated.** `readlink /proc/<FIFA23.exe>/ns/net`
+  equals the host's `/proc/self/ns/net` (both `net:[4026531833]`). Pressure-vessel
+  /umu does not unshare the network — Wine's `127.0.0.1` *is* the host's.
+- **The bridge is reachable and logs correctly.** A host-side
+  `connect(127.0.0.1:3216)` was accepted, logged `DEBUG openfut_bridge::lsx: LSX:
+  connection from 127.0.0.1:34730`, and returned the 157-byte LSX greeting. So
+  "bridge logged nothing during FIFA" is a real absence, not a logging/filter
+  artefact.
+- **FIFA's connect succeeds but never reaches the bridge.** `openfut_hook.log`
+  shows 8× `connect_hook: call 1.0.0.127:3216 ... result=0 wsa_err=0` (real,
+  successful connects) while the bridge log stayed at its 8-line startup baseline
+  (zero `LSX: connection from`). FIFA then advanced to "connecting to FUT" — anadius
+  satisfied LSX in-process; the hook log stopped growing once it did.
+- **Our hook does not fake the 3216 result — it passes it through.** In
+  `openfut-launcher/openfut-hook/src/connect_hook.rs`, `redirect_if_ea` rewrites
+  only 443/10041/42127; port 3216 falls through to the real `ws2_32!connect` and its
+  genuine return is logged. The comment there ("3216 ... handled by the native
+  openfut-bridge LSX server — just let connect() go through") encodes the disproven
+  premise: "going through" reaches anadius in-process, not the host bridge.
+
+**Conclusion:** the "native Linux bridge binds 3216 first and wins the race"
+strategy cannot work as designed — there is no host-stack connect to win; anadius
+answers inside the process. A host-side LSX server is architecturally off the path.
+
+> **OVERTURNED 2026-07-02** — see the next section. This conclusion was correct only
+> for *port 3216*. anadius keys its in-process interception on port 3216 specifically;
+> a hook-side redirect of FIFA's connect to a *different* host port (3217) slips past
+> it and lands on the host bridge over the shared loopback. A host-side LSX server
+> **does** work once the redirect is in place. The "fix direction" below is now done.
+
+**Consequences / open items:**
+- `TODO/CONFIRM`: the exact interception layer anadius uses (IAT hook on FIFA's
+  `connect` import / Winsock LSP / inline hook on a lower function) is undetermined.
+  Our inline hook on `ws2_32!connect` *does* fire, so FIFA reaches `ws2_32!connect`;
+  yet the real call returns 0 without touching the host socket — naming the layer
+  that absorbs it requires inspecting anadius.
+- The placeholder `AES_KEY` was **never exercised** — delivery fails upstream of any
+  handshake, so the challenge-response never ran. The earlier "supply the real AES
+  key" follow-up is moot unless/until FIFA is actually routed to our LSX server.
+- **Fix direction (not yet implemented):** the viable lever is our own hook, not
+  anadius (which is closed, load-bearing, and binds no host port to free). Candidate:
+  have the hook redirect the 3216 connect to a distinct host port the bridge listens
+  on, to slip past anadius's port-specific in-process interception — routing LSX to
+  our bridge on the shared host stack (this revives the real-AES-key requirement
+  above). Scoped to `openfut-hook`, not this repo.
+
+---
+
+## LSX SOLVED via hook redirect + session-seed fix — 2026-07-02
+
+**RESULT: FIFA now completes the LSX handshake AND a sustained encrypted session
+against our own bridge, live.** The "fix direction" from the previous section was
+implemented and works. This is the first EA-side gate serviced end-to-end by our code.
+
+### 1. Hook redirect gets FIFA onto the bridge (delivery achieved)
+
+Added one arm to `redirect_if_ea` in `openfut-launcher/openfut-hook/src/connect_hook.rs`:
+FIFA's connect to `127.0.0.1:3216` is rewritten to `127.0.0.1:3217`, where the bridge
+runs its LSX server (`LSX_ADDR=127.0.0.1:3217`). anadius's in-process interception is
+keyed on port **3216 specifically**, so the redirected connect slips past it and lands
+on the host bridge over the shared loopback.
+
+- Hook log: `connect_hook: 1.0.0.127:3216 → 127.0.0.1:3217` then `redirect result=0`.
+- Bridge log: `LSX: connection from 127.0.0.1:…` — **FIFA reached the bridge.** Overturns
+  the "off the path" conclusion above.
+
+### 2. AES key was never a placeholder — it is `000102…0f`
+
+The `AES_KEY = [0,1,2,…,15]` in `src/lsx.rs` (and the hook's `lsx.rs`) is the **real,
+correct** key, confirmed two ways:
+- **Oracle:** a captured FIFA `ChallengeResponse` gives a known plaintext→ciphertext
+  pair under the real key — our greeting `cacf897a20b6d612ad0c05e011df52bb` (ASCII) →
+  FIFA's `5c52e8ca…`. `AES-ECB-PKCS7([0..15], greeting)` reproduces it byte-for-byte.
+- **Static:** that same 16-byte value is embedded literally in `anadius64.dll` at
+  offsets `0xa1710`, `0xa1890`, `0xa3c0f`.
+
+The earlier "supply the real AES key" TODO is therefore **closed — no key extraction
+was needed.** The handshake auth was always correct; FIFA accepted our `ChallengeAccepted`.
+
+### 3. The real bug: session-seed derivation (now fixed)
+
+After a *correct* handshake, the first encrypted session message still decrypted to
+garbage. Cause: `compute_seed()` derived the session-key seed by **parsing** the first
+hex pair of our response (`"0f"` → `0x0F`), when the client uses the **raw ASCII byte
+values of the first two characters** (`'0','f'` → `0x30,0x66`).
+
+Confirmed by capturing the raw session ciphertext (bridge patched to log wire bytes)
+and brute-forcing all 65,536 u16 seeds offline through `get_lsx_key(seed)`:
+- Exactly **one** seed, `0x3066` (12390), decrypted the message to valid XML:
+  `<LSX><Request recipient="EbisuSDK" id="…"><GetConfig version="3"/></Request></LSX>`.
+- `0x3066` = ASCII `'0','f'` = the first two characters of our response hex `0f73…`,
+  **not** the parsed value `0x0F73` (3955) we were using.
+
+Fix in `src/lsx.rs` `compute_seed()`: take `hex.as_bytes()[0..2]` directly instead of
+`u8::from_str_radix` on the hex pairs. (Capture preserved at
+`captures/lsx-handshake-capture-2026-07-02.log`; brute-forcer in scratchpad.)
+
+### 4. Live confirmation
+
+With the redirect deployed and the seed-fixed bridge on 3217, FIFA relaunched and:
+- Held a **single sustained LSX connection** (`ss` shows `ESTAB FIFA23.exe ↔
+  openfut-bridge:3217`) instead of the previous connect-once-then-crash.
+- Drove **20 real EbisuSDK requests** in one conversation: `GetConfig`, `GetProfile`
+  (×5), `GetSetting`, `GetGameInfo` (×8), `SetPresence`, `GetInternetConnectedState`.
+- **Did not crash** at the LSX phase.
+
+### 5. Remaining gap (next step, not a blocker to this result)
+
+`GetGameInfo GameInfoId=…` had no handler in the bridge dispatcher → fell to the
+generic `<Ok/>` and logged `unknown request type`. FIFA tolerated it (session stayed
+up), but real `GetGameInfo` responses may be needed to progress toward the next gate
+(Blaze/online).
+
+**Update 2026-07-02 (later):** a `get_game_info` handler was added to `dispatch()` in
+`src/lsx.rs`. It routes `GetGameInfo GameInfoId=…`, **logs the requested `GameInfoId`**
+(so the next live run reveals which keys FIFA asks for — we still have no captured real
+response to model), and replies with a well-formed `<GetGameInfoResponse GameInfoId="…"
+Value="" />` echo. A dispatcher routing test (`dispatch_routes_get_game_info_and_echoes_id`)
+pins the fragile positional `split('"')` parsing. `TODO/CONFIRM` remains: the real
+response schema and whether FIFA needs non-empty values — resolve by launching FIFA
+with this build, reading the logged `GameInfoId`s, and observing how far FIFA advances.
+
+### Provenance note
+
+Clean-room intact: the AES key was recovered by validating candidate byte windows from
+the shipping `anadius64.dll` against the client's own observed output, and the seed rule
+was recovered by brute-forcing against a live capture — nothing derived from EA source.
+
+---
+
+## LSX fully satisfied — FIFA reaches the Blaze/online gate — 2026-07-02 (later)
+
+**RESULT (unconfirmed — read the caveat): FIFA reached the "connecting to EA servers"
+screen alive, but the launch that did so used a CACHED EA session and did NOT re-hit our
+bridge (no new `3216` connect, empty bridge log). The last launch that actually ran a
+fresh LSX session through our bridge still CRASHED. So it is NOT yet established that the
+fixed bridge carries a fresh FIFA launch past the crash — the crash-clear is confounded
+by session caching.** The fixes below are believed-correct and unit-tested, but need the
+clean re-test in the "Confirmation caveat" section before LSX can be called solved.
+Earlier in the day FIFA crashed ~15–17s into LSX, "right before the loading screen."
+Root-causing that crash took several live runs and disproved two wrong theories.
+
+### The real root cause: dropped pipelined LSX messages (session-loop framing bug)
+
+FIFA batches multiple LSX messages into a single TCP segment — e.g. `SetPresence`
+immediately followed by a `GetGameInfo GameInfoId="LANGUAGES"` query, two
+null-terminated ciphertext-hex blocks in one read. The old session loop decrypted the
+whole read as one blob and dispatched only the **first** message, silently dropping the
+rest. The dropped request left FIFA waiting on a response that never came; it timed out
+after ~15s (the mysterious silent gap in every crash log) and then crashed.
+
+Fix: `src/lsx.rs` `process_frame()` splits each read on the null terminators and
+answers **every** sub-message, returning the concatenated null-terminated responses.
+Regression test: `process_frame_answers_every_pipelined_message`. After the fix, FIFA
+flowed through the entire LSX sequence in ~1.3s instead of hanging 15s.
+
+### Two theories the live runs DISPROVED first (recorded so we don't repeat them)
+
+1. **"Empty/incorrect INSTALLED_LANGUAGE value crashes it."** Changing the value
+   (`""` → `en_US`) changed nothing — same 3× re-query, same crash. Because…
+2. **"Wrong attribute name only."** Switching `Value=""` → `InstalledLanguage="en_US"`
+   also changed nothing *on its own* — because the crash-relevant request (the
+   pipelined `LANGUAGES`) was never being dispatched at all (see root cause). The
+   attribute name *did* matter, but only became observable once pipelining was fixed:
+   FIFA reads a lowercase `value` attribute (case-sensitive), so the response now emits
+   the value under BOTH `value` and the per-key CamelCase name (`InstalledLanguage` /
+   `Languages`).
+
+### anadius.cfg is the response oracle
+
+`/mnt/games/FIFA 23/anadius.cfg` is the config anadius's in-process LSX emu reads to
+build its responses — the clean, correct values to mirror (same provenance basis as the
+AES-key recovery; it is anadius's own config, not EA source):
+
+| Field | Value |
+|---|---|
+| `Language` (INSTALLED_LANGUAGE) | `en_US` |
+| `Languages` (LANGUAGES) | `pt_PT,tr_TR,ko_KR,cs_CZ,zh_CN,zh_HK,da_DK,no_NO,sv_SE,en_US,pt_BR,de_DE,es_ES,fr_FR,it_IT,ja_JP,es_MX,nl_NL,pl_PL,ru_RU,ar_SA` |
+| `PersonaId` | `1144668899` |
+| `UserId` | `1000200030000` |
+| `Username` (Persona) | `fun` |
+
+`src/lsx.rs` now returns these real values (GetProfile IDs, GetGameInfo language keys)
+instead of fabricated ones; fabricated persona/user IDs flow into FIFA's online state
+and are a likely downstream break. Also added a real `IsProgressiveInstallationAvailable`
+(`Available="false"`, attribute recovered from `anadius64.dll`).
+
+### Confirmation caveat + how to verify cleanly
+
+The launch that first reached the online gate did **not** re-hit our bridge — FIFA
+presented a cached EA session (no new `3216` connect; empty bridge log) and jumped
+straight to "connecting to EA servers." So that specific run didn't exercise the final
+`value`-attribute change. To confirm on a clean boot, clear FIFA's cached EA/Origin
+session token in the Wine prefix so it re-runs LSX through the bridge, and verify: one
+sustained LSX session, `INSTALLED_LANGUAGE` queried **once** (not 3×), no crash, and
+FIFA arriving at "connecting to EA servers".
+
+### GetGameInfo response shape (RE'd from the anadius64.dll builder, 2026-07-02)
+
+Populating `GetAllGameInfo` did **not** fix the crash — FIFA still ran the full LSX
+session (~2.6s, 17 dispatches) then crashed at the same point, ending with the 3×
+`INSTALLED_LANGUAGE` re-query. So `GetAllGameInfo` was never the trigger.
+
+Disassembling the **individual** `GetGameInfo` response builder in `anadius64.dll`
+(around `0x18002a076`) settled the actual wire shape. It emits, in order:
+`<` + `GetGameInfoResponse` + ` ` + `GameInfo` + `="` + <value> + `"` + ` />`. The
+attribute name is the **fixed 8-byte literal `GameInfo`** (string constant at
+`.rdata` VA `0x1800af818`), *independent of the requested `GameInfoId`* — the value
+is looked up per key but the attribute is always `GameInfo`. So the correct reply to
+`GetGameInfo GameInfoId=INSTALLED_LANGUAGE` is:
+
+```
+<GetGameInfoResponse GameInfo="en_US" />
+```
+
+Our bridge had been sending the key as the attribute name
+(`<GetGameInfoResponse InstalledLanguage="en_US" />`), an attribute FIFA never reads.
+That is why FIFA always saw a null installed-language, re-queried `INSTALLED_LANGUAGE`
+three times, and crashed — and why *every* prior value change (empty → `en_US`,
+per-key naming) had no effect: FIFA wasn't reading our attribute at all. `src/lsx.rs`
+`get_game_info()` now emits the fixed `GameInfo="<value>"` attribute.
+
+### ROOT CAUSE of the loading-screen crash: GetConfig missing PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION (2026-07-02)
+
+FIFA's own crash reports (`FIFA 23/Logs/CrashReport_*.json`) pinned it. **Every** run
+through our bridge — all 11 today, both the pre-pipelining (`Up Seconds: 17`) and
+post-pipelining (`Up Seconds: 2`) runs — crashed at the **identical** address:
+
+```
+EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, reading 0x18
+RIP = FIFA23.exe+0x133dfc5   →   mov rax, QWORD PTR [r13+0x18]   with r13 = NULL
+Is Online: False,  Blaze State: {}    (crash is pre-Blaze, ~2s after LSX)
+```
+
+So none of the earlier LSX-response fixes (pipelining, account IDs, GetGameInfo
+attribute, GetAllGameInfo population) ever touched the crash — it was **invariant**,
+i.e. caused by a response that had been wrong the *whole time*. Disassembling the
+faulting function showed r13 is its 3rd argument (a Frostbite ref-counted service
+*handle*) — a null handle deref, i.e. a **failed service lookup**.
+
+That pointed straight at `GetConfig` (request #1, the fabricated service list, never
+verified). Extracting anadius's real service-registration table from `anadius64.dll`
+(the `lea rdx=Name / lea r8=Facility` sequence at `0x180026d40`) and diffing it
+against our `get_config()` showed our list was correct on all 32 entries **except it
+omitted two services**:
+
+```
+Facility="PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION"        Name="PI"
+Facility="PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION_EVENT"  Name="PI"
+```
+
+FIFA queries `IsProgressiveInstallationAvailable` in every LSX session; it builds its
+service registry from `GetConfig` and resolves the `PROGRESSIVE_INSTALLATION` handle
+from it during online-init. With the service absent, the handle was null → the
+0x133dfc5 deref. Fix: `get_config()` now declares both services, and
+`is_progressive_installation_available()` responds from `sender="PI"` (the service's
+registry Name). This is the first change that targets the *actual* crash address, so
+it is the real test of the loading-screen gate.
+
+### Next gate: Blaze/online (M2)
+
+"connecting to EA servers" is the Blaze layer. The hook log shows FIFA has made **no**
+Blaze connect yet (nothing on 443/10041/42127) while spinning, so it is stalled at
+pre-auth. Per the architecture, Blaze rides ProtoSSL in-process (a different transport
+than LSX), so serving it is separate, larger work — the M2 effort, now actually reached.