refactor(ocap-kernel): neutral remote identity (netlayer phase 2)

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Phase 2 of the pluggable-netlayer effort (issue #968), stacked on #970 (base rekm/netlayer-1).

Makes the kernel's peer identity netlayer-neutral and removes libp2p-specific crypto from the identity/URL/error layer. Compatibility breaks by design (no migration); verified against fresh storage.

What changed

• New remotes/kernel/identity.ts (libp2p-free; @noble/curves/ed25519 + multiformats only): deriveNeutralPeerId(seed), neutralPeerIdToPublicKey(peerId), publicKeyToNeutralPeerId(publicKey), exported from the ocap-kernel barrel. The neutral peerId is multibase base58btc (z…) of the raw 32-byte Ed25519 public key.
• remote-comms.ts: derives the peerId via deriveNeutralPeerId (replacing @libp2p/crypto/keys + @libp2p/peer-id); encrypts ocap-URL oids with WebCrypto AES-256-GCM (crypto.subtle, 32-byte key used directly, fresh 12-byte IV) instead of @libp2p/crypto AES_GCM. The "amateur cryptography" warning is retained.
• connection-factory.ts: converts neutral ↔ libp2p peerIds at the libp2p boundary only — #toLibp2pPeerId for dialing, publicKeyToNeutralPeerId(connection.remotePeer.publicKey.raw) for the inbound handler and peer:disconnect. The transport layer only ever sees neutral ids; #inflightDials and #relayPeerIds guards keep their existing keyspaces.
• @metamask/kernel-errors: drops the @libp2p/interface import — isRetryableNetworkError classifies ChannelResetError and matches MuxerClosedError by error.name (behavior-preserving; the libp2p name/message sniffing is annotated to move to @metamask/netlayer-libp2p in Phase 4).
• ocap: URL: host is now the neutral z… id; oid = base58btc(iv ‖ ciphertext ‖ tag). String shape unchanged; hints stay opaque libp2p multiaddrs.

ocap-kernel still depends on libp2p

connection-factory.ts still constructs libp2p and now also uses @libp2p/crypto/keys publicKeyFromRaw + @libp2p/peer-id peerIdFromPublicKey for the boundary conversion, so no @libp2p dep is removable this phase (that's Phase 4). Added @noble/curves.

Crypto review flag

The WebCrypto AES-GCM swap is security-sensitive. It reduces surface (drops PBKDF2/salt on an already-random 32-byte key): non-extractable 256-bit key, fresh random 12-byte IV per encryption, auth-tag failure surfaced as ocapURL has bad object reference with no oracle detail.

Verification

• yarn lint:fix, yarn build, per-package test:dev:quiet --coverage=true for @metamask/ocap-kernel and @metamask/kernel-errors, and @ocap/kernel-test integration (two-kernel remote-comms end-to-end with neutral ids). Coverage held at/above baseline (the changed files are 100% covered).
• Grep audits: remote-comms.ts and kernel-errors/src are @libp2p-free; connection-factory.ts still uses libp2p; ocap-kernel/package.json retains its libp2p deps.

Plan docs updated: docs/plans/netlayer/master.md (Phase 2 marked done + landed decisions) and docs/plans/netlayer/phase-3.md (reconciled against landed Phases 1–2).

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Coverage Report

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🔵	Functions	72.74% ⬆️ +0.17%	2157 / 2965
🔵	Branches	65.03% ⬆️ +0.17%	3599 / 5534

File Coverage

File	Stmts	Branches	Functions	Lines	Uncovered Lines
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packages/kernel-errors/src/utils/isRetryableNetworkError.ts	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%
packages/ocap-kernel/src/index.ts	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%
packages/ocap-kernel/src/remotes/kernel/identity.ts	100%	100%	100%	100%
packages/ocap-kernel/src/remotes/kernel/remote-comms.ts	99.32% ⬆️ +0.05%	96.96% 🟰 ±0%	100% 🟰 ±0%	99.31% ⬆️ +0.06%	353
packages/ocap-kernel/src/remotes/platform/connection-factory.ts	96.53% ⬆️ +1.77%	92.59% ⬆️ +3.31%	97.91% ⬆️ +0.55%	96.5% ⬆️ +1.80%	544, 746-747, 752-756, 815, 828

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