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 jaap-jan
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4b706bc3c3 |
Say when a vault has moved, so nobody waits out the minute
The delta pull was cheap enough to run on a timer and the client did, once a minute. That is fine for a machine and wrong for two people: an edit a colleague makes is up to a minute stale, which is long enough for both of them to make it and produce a conflict neither needed to have. Shortening the interval is the obvious answer and the wrong one — it costs a request per client per interval whether or not anything happened, and it converges on a busier server that is still late. So the server now says so. A client holds a WebSocket open at GET /api/v1/events, subprotocol dodossh.events.v1, and gets a line down it when something it can read has changed. ADR 0012 has the reasoning; three parts of it are worth repeating here, because they are what everything else rests on. **What crosses the socket is a notice, never data.** A frame names a vault and how far its change log has got. No item, no ciphertext, not even which item it was. The client's answer is the delta pull it would have run anyway, so there is still exactly one code path that applies a change to a keychain, and it is not this one. Pushing the items themselves would save a round trip and fork that path in two, with the cursor, the merge and the tombstone rules duplicated across both — ADR 0003 put every mutation through one write path for that reason, and this keeps every read on one for the same one. It also makes a dropped notice harmless, which is what lets the fan-out below be as simple as it is. **Polling stays, and is what guarantees a pass.** The minute timer is unchanged. A network that eats WebSockets, a server with Events:Enabled off, an older server, a proxy that will not upgrade, a notice dropped under backpressure — every one of those leaves a client behaving exactly as it did before this commit. Nothing is reachable only over the socket and nothing is meant to become so; VaultViewModel's AutoSyncInterval remark now says that where somebody changing it will read it. **The bearer token authorises the upgrade, unlike the relay's ticket.** Not an inconsistency with ADR 0004: the relay's socket is a byte pipe whose whole authorization decision — which host, which IPs, which port — is made before it opens and never revisited, and it is the extraction seam for a process that must hold no ACL code. This one is a view of the caller's own vault list and has to keep answering "what may this account read" for as long as it is held. A ticket would carry that answer in a token and be wrong the moment the account's access changed. The two bounds that arrangement needs are met rather than waved at: the socket is closed at the token's exp with close code 4401 and the client comes straight back with a fresh one, and the vault set is re-resolved every few minutes as well as on the changes known to affect it. Both bound *metadata*, because a notice contains nothing else and reading a vault still needs a key this server has never held. **The fan-out.** VaultEventHub is a singleton holding the sockets this node accepted; publishing walks them and asks each whether it cares, rather than keeping a vault-to-subscriber index that every re-subscription would have to move entries between under a lock publishing also takes. At a few hundred sockets per node and an event rate bounded by how often people edit keychains, the walk is not measurable and its races are obvious. Per-connection queues are bounded and drop the *oldest*: a notice means "pull vault X, which is at least at sequence N", so the newest subsumes what it displaces and the client's answer is identical either way — which is what lets the publish path be void, never block, and never fail. Announced from the endpoint rather than from SyncService, and that placement is the point: by then the push has committed and released the per-vault advisory lock. From inside it would name a sequence no reader can see yet and would hold the lock that serialises writers across a socket write. Only the highest *applied* sequence, so a batch of pure conflicts announces nothing, and a duplicate — already announced when it first landed — announces nothing either. Grants and membership publish too, and those take the *recipient* rather than the actor. This is what AdmitNewVaultsAsync has been apologising for since sharing shipped — "the recipient is handed nothing, there is no push channel" — and the README with it. A vault shared with somebody now turns up as it is shared. The comment and the README paragraph both say what is true now, and both keep saying that the pass is what *discovers* the vault, because a client with no socket has to arrive at the same place. **On the client**, VaultEventStream is really a reconnection policy wrapped round a ClientWebSocket: a dropped socket is the ordinary case here — laptops sleep, proxies time out, tokens expire, servers are redeployed — so nothing in it treats a failure as exceptional, and every path ends in "wait, then dial again". A connection that lived long enough to say hello resets the backoff, so a laptop that woke, worked, and lost its network an hour later does not inherit a minute-long wait it has already proved it need not take. A 4401 close skips the backoff entirely and asks the token provider again, which is the whole reason that close code is distinct. A server that does not advertise the events feature gets IdleVaultEventStream, which never delivers — so IVaultServer.Events is never null and every caller stays on one shape, because the correct behaviour without a socket is the behaviour with a silent one. The shell's background loop now selects between the timer and a notice, and both waits are held across iterations. That is load-bearing rather than tidy: PeriodicTimer permits one outstanding WaitForNextTickAsync and throws on a second, and an abandoned channel read stays registered and consumes the next notice written. Either defect leaves the first notice working and every one after it silently lost, which is why NoticesKeepWakingTheLoop_NotJustTheFirst pushes three and not one. Notices are coalesced over a quarter of a second, so one person's save — a host and its log entry are two items — and a colleague clearing a folder each cost one pass rather than a dozen. **The kind is a string, not an enum**, and that is a compatibility decision. UseStringEnumConverter throws on a value it does not know, so a newer server sending a kind an older client had never heard of would not add an unreadable frame — it would break that client's socket outright. A string is ignored instead. ProblemCodes is the same shape for the same reason. **Tested on both sides, through the real pipeline.** The endpoint suite opens a genuine socket against TestServer and proves a push produces a notice, that another account's push does not reach it, that a ping is answered, and that a frame this server cannot parse does not end the connection. Two of those assert on *ordering* rather than on absence within a timeout — the stranger's write goes first, so a socket that leaked would have announced it before the one the test waits for — because "nothing arrived in two seconds" is a test that passes on a slow machine for the wrong reason. And ANoticeCarriesNoCiphertext asserts on the bytes that crossed the wire rather than on the record's fields, since the latter would only prove that this type has no payload member, which is a tautology; the former is what catches a field added later without anybody thinking about disclosure. The client suite drives VaultEventStream through an injected connector, because the one thing a test cannot do to a real network is make it fail on cue — and failure is the entire subject. The shell suite proves a notice produces a pull inside ten seconds against a sixty-second timer, so the timer cannot be what caused it. **Two limits, stated rather than left to be discovered.** Fan-out is in-process, so a deployment running more than one API replica only pushes for writes its own replica handled and the rest arrive on the timer. IVaultEventPublisher is the seam a PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY backplane implements and it is deliberately not implemented: an untested backplane is worse than a documented gap, and multiple replicas degrade to the behaviour before this commit rather than breaking. And a client is notified of its own writes; it pushed, so it already pulled, and the extra pass finds nothing. Suppressing that echo correctly needs a per-device identity on the socket, and the same user's other machines must still be told. Manual checks phase 15 covers what no test here can reach, which is the network in between: a proxy that will not upgrade, one that drops an idle socket without telling either end, a laptop lid, a token expiring. Every one of those is invisible inside a test host, and every check there passes only if the change arrives quickly *and* still arrives with the socket taken away. ADR 0012 also fixes one thing about the shared terminal session this is the transport for, so it need not be renegotiated later: session data will be binary frames on this same socket, because base64 in a JSON envelope is the wrong shape for the one payload here that is continuous rather than occasional. Two questions it explicitly does not answer by implication — whether those bytes go through the API at all, and what end-to-end encryption means when the second party watches a stream rather than holding a key — are ADR 0001 questions and get their own decision. 1512 tests pass. DodoSSH.SystemTests was not run — it needs the whole compose stack — so the end-to-end path is unverified for this change beyond what the manual checks describe. |
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jaap-jan
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9bc28f1c0f |
Move the API onto FastEndpoints, without moving the wire
Eight endpoints today, around sixty planned. The minimal-API shape — a static
class per area holding static local functions, route and policy and name
asserted in one fluent chain with the handler somewhere below it — has not hurt
yet, and would. A handler's dependencies are parameters rather than injected, a
group's RequireAuthorization sits far from the handler it governs, and there is
no type to hang an endpoint's own documentation on. FastEndpoints is one class
per endpoint, its route and authorization in Configure(), its handler a method
on the same type.
Nothing about the wire moves, and the evidence is that the 94 existing HTTP
tests pass with zero edits to any of them. Same routes, verbs, route
constraints, status codes, operation ids, and the same RFC 9457 bodies with the
same code values. Every place the idiomatic FastEndpoints answer would have
changed one of those, it was refused:
Endpoints are registered from an explicit List<Type>, not found by scanning.
ADR 0002 rejected reflection discovery by name, and the reason it gave is
sharper here than in general — under WebApplicationFactory the scan reaches the
test assembly, so an endpoint written in a test would be registered into the
host under test. The cost is a line per endpoint that can be forgotten, which is
what the endpoint-inventory test is for. That test is the one ADR 0002 promised
and never got.
Handlers still return Results<Ok<T>, NotFound, ProblemHttpResult> from
ExecuteAsync. The union executes as an ordinary IResult, which is what keeps
problem bodies going through the host's serialiser and IProblemDetailsService,
and what keeps the compile-time record of which statuses an endpoint can
produce. No Send.* call appears anywhere; the moment one does, a response has
left the host's serialiser.
Validation stays in the feature services. A Validator<T> short-circuits before
the handler and answers with FastEndpoints' own envelope, which carries no code
— and the code is the only part of an error the client branches on. Twenty-odd
tests assert a specific code on a 400. It is banned in BannedSymbols.txt rather
than merely avoided, because the framework's documentation leads straight to it
and it looks like an improvement.
Three defects arrived with the framework and were caught in review. All three
were green at the time, which is the part worth remembering. FastEndpoints maps
GET /_test_url_cache_ unconditionally, in every environment, with no policy and
no way to opt out; it answers with the whole endpoint-name-to-route table. It is
short-circuited to 404 — by asking routing which endpoint it selected, after the
first attempt compared the request path with Ordinal and was therefore bypassable
at /_TEST_URL_CACHE_, certified by a test that only ever tried one spelling. The
default request binder writes query-string values over the deserialised body,
which would have let ?identityProviderToken=... put an ID token in a URL and from
there into every proxy log on the path; every endpoint now binds from the body
alone. And a route value read with Route<T>() is invisible to ApiExplorer, so the
generated document named {vaultId} in a path template with nothing declaring it —
invalid OpenAPI, and unusable by the client generators the document exists for.
Two changes to the surface, both deliberate. A body that cannot be deserialised
now answers with a problem document carrying malformed-request, rather than an
empty 400: FastEndpoints' default announces application/problem+json while
sending something else, and names the failing .NET type on the wire, in a
codebase that sets IncludeErrorDetails = false to prevent exactly that. And the
route table above returns 404 where it would otherwise have answered any
authenticated caller.
Each of the three fixes has a regression test that was checked by reverting the
fix and watching it fail — four failures for the route table and the binder, four
for the document. That check is the whole reason to trust them, since all three
defects passed a full green suite on the way in.
950 tests green across 16 projects, 14 of them new and no existing test edited.
Zero warnings, format clean, locked restore clean. FluentValidation, JobQueues
and Messaging are in the graph now and none is used.
Not verified: the generated document's response schemas, which differ from
before — FastEndpoints contributes its own Produces metadata. Nothing consumes
the document yet, and MapOpenApi runs only in Development behind the fallback
policy. It needs pinning if ADR 0002's build-time artifacts/openapi/v1.json is
ever built.
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jaap-jan
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a628762cd1 |
Add /me and enrollment with the identity-provider key binding (M1)
The last backend piece of M1. A client can now log in, discover it must enroll, publish its identity key, and get a usable personal vault. Enrollment is one indivisible act. One transaction writes the key, its wraps, the device, the key log entry, the vault and the vault key grant, because none of them is useful alone: a key with no vault leaves a user unable to store anything, and a vault with no grant is a container nobody can ever open -- including its owner, since only the client can wrap the key and it has already moved on. Two independent checks run, and neither substitutes for the other. The Ed25519 self-signature proves possession of the private key. The identity-provider binding proves whose key it is: the client hashed its statement, used the hash as an OIDC nonce, and the resulting ID token is the provider's signature over exactly those public keys. This server cannot mint that signature, so it cannot invent a key for a user who never enrolled -- which is the attack that would otherwise let an operator read every vault by publishing its own key as yours. The binding token is stored verbatim, not just summarised. Clients must repeat the check against the provider's JWKS fetched directly, and storing only our conclusion would ask them to trust the server about the one question the design exists to avoid trusting it about. Key log appends take a deployment-wide advisory lock. The falsification matters more than the passing test: with the lock removed, Enroll_ConcurrentEnrollmentsByDifferentUsers_LeaveAnUnbrokenChain fails with entry 11 linked to the wrong predecessor. Different users trip no unique index, so without serialising they all read the same head and the chain forks -- indistinguishable from the key substitution the log exists to make detectable, and permanent, because the log is append-only. Enrollment is idempotent. Vault ids and keys are client-chosen, so a client whose response was lost re-sends the identical body and gets the identical result. Without that, a lost response leaves a user enrolled against a vault they never learned the id of. Contract change, breaking the v0.1 freeze deliberately. EnrollmentRequest had DevicePublicKey but no wrap to go with it, which is unsatisfiable: only the holder of the secret bundle can seal it, so the server could never fill the gap. Added DeviceWrappedPrivateKey, and PersonalVault so enrollment can be atomic rather than leaving an unopenable vault behind two endpoints that do not exist yet. No client exists and no package is published, which is exactly when PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt expects this. Sync now requires the Enrolled policy, which until now was a stub whose name promised a check it never made. The sync denial tests use enrolled intruders instead of unenrolled ones -- an unenrolled caller is stopped before the vault check runs, which would have left those tests passing without exercising the thing they exist to prove. Also fixed: omitting kdfParameters from the JSON body was a 500. A record's non-nullable parameters are a compile-time promise, not a runtime one. 268 tests pass, zero warnings on a clean rebuild, format clean. |
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jaap-jan
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3829217e8a |
Add sync engine: cursors, push/pull, and the advisory-lock ordering proof (M1)
The vault write path. Push is the only way items change — no per-entity POST/PUT/DELETE — so one place enforces revisions, the change log and access control. The concurrency hazard, now proven rather than asserted: bigserial assigns sequence values when the INSERT runs, not at commit, so transaction A can take sequence 5 while B takes 6 and commits first. A reader polling in between sees only 6, advances past 5, and never learns about it. AdvisoryLockOrderingTests reproduces that gap WITHOUT the lock first — otherwise the with-lock test proves nothing, since it would pass just as happily if the interleaving never occurred — then shows pg_advisory_xact_lock removes it, and that 12 concurrent writers produce no gaps. Cursors are opaque and HMAC-tagged, and carry their vault id. 29 unit tests cover the rejections, which are the point: an accepted-but-wrong cursor is silent data loss, strictly worse than an error a client can resync from. Rejected: tampered tag, tampered payload, foreign signing key, a legitimately-issued cursor from another vault, truncation, and hostile input (never throws — cursors come from clients). Push semantics: - 200 even on partial failure, with per-operation status, so one stale item cannot block everything a client queued while offline. - Conflict returns the server's current row for client-side three-way merge. The server cannot merge ciphertext, so never last-writer-wins. - opId receipts make retries exactly-once per operation, not per batch — a client retrying a partially-overlapping batch after a timeout would otherwise double-apply what landed. - A tombstone beats a late upsert, and delete clears hostname/port: leaving the address would keep the server able to resolve a host the user believes they deleted. - Relay field validation mirrors the DB CHECK so a bad request is a clear Invalid rather than a constraint violation surfacing as a 500. Authorization goes through IVaultAccessService, which returns the same answer for "absent" and "forbidden" — distinguishing them is an existence oracle for other tenants' vault ids. Team vaults are explicitly denied until M3 rather than falling through to a permissive default. JIT provisioning keys on (issuer, subject), never email, and handles the concurrent-first-request race via the unique index. Renamed two domain types: Host -> SshHost, because Host collides with Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Host in every file of a web project, and SyncChange -> VaultChange to stop it colliding with the Contracts DTO of the same name. Aliasing at every use site would have been permanent friction. Worth noting: `ef migrations has-pending-model-changes` reported clean after those renames even though the snapshot still said "DodoSSH.Domain.Host" — it diffs tables, not CLR type names. The snapshot was regenerated and the emitted DDL diffed against the previous artifacts/schema/v0.1.sql to confirm the rename produced no schema change. Also removed ConfigureAwait(false) from test methods: xUnit1030 flags it as bypassing parallelization limits, which is why MA0004 is suppressed in test projects. Verified: 0 warnings on a clean rebuild, 146 tests pass (up from 122), format clean. Endpoint-level tests are the immediate next step: they need a WireMock OIDC/JWKS stub and real JWT minting, so the "wrong user is denied" matrix does not exist yet for these two routes. The service-layer authorization and the concurrency property are covered. |