feat(membership): forbid cleartext rooms on public deployments (H4 min defense)

Audit H4 (Alto). The embedded NATS has a single account with no per-subject
permissions, so any registered peer can subscribe to any subject — a cleartext
(ModeNATS) room's payload is readable by anyone who knows the subject.

A complete per-subject ACL derived from membership does not fit here: NATS
evaluates a connection's permissions once at connect time and never re-evaluates
them, but unibus clients connect-then-create/join-then-publish on one connection
(TestSecureBusEndToEnd). Static permissions would forbid the owner from
publishing to a room it just created; the dynamic reconnection model belongs to
the 0003 decentralization redesign. See dev/0004d-dataplane-acl.md.

Minimum defense implemented: Server.RequireEncryptedRooms (set by membershipd on
any non-loopback bind) refuses to create cleartext rooms, so every room on a
public deployment is end-to-end encrypted. Message CONTENT stays confidential
even with no subject isolation; residual traffic-metadata exposure is documented
and tracked for 0003.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -118,6 +118,14 @@ func main() {
}
srv := membership.NewServer(store, blobs, authMode)
// On a public (non-loopback) bind, disable cleartext rooms: the embedded NATS
// has no per-subject ACL, so cleartext content would be readable by any
// registered peer. Forcing E2E keeps message content confidential regardless
// (audit H4 minimum defense; see dev/0004d-dataplane-acl.md).
if !isLoopbackBind(*bind) {
srv.RequireEncryptedRooms = true
log.Printf("cleartext rooms: DISABLED (public bind requires end-to-end encryption)")
}
log.Printf("control-plane auth: %s", authMode)
addr := *bind + ":" + *httpPort
httpSrv := &http.Server{