Review of 083: finishing an enrolment whose token was spent takes proof of the key's private half, a live lease and a first delivery — a public key alone cannot replay a spent token; shutdown leaves held messages for the broker; identical builds supersede; what is held leaves room in the prefetch

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2026-09-22 14:33:13 +02:00
parent a3b7e830c8
commit 4567fa666c
7 changed files with 214 additions and 25 deletions
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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package link_test
import (
"crypto/ed25519"
"crypto/rand"
"crypto/sha256"
"encoding/hex"
"errors"
"testing"
"time"
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ func TestAnEnrolmentMetByAHeldTokenIsAskedToTryAgain(t *testing.T) {
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if _, err := inv.Claim(ctx, issued.Secret, "another enrolment's key"); err != nil {
if _, err := inv.Claim(ctx, issued.Secret, "another enrolment's key", false); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
public, _, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(rand.Reader)
@@ -42,3 +44,70 @@ func TestAnEnrolmentMetByAHeldTokenIsAskedToTryAgain(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("a token that cannot be used was not refused outright: %v", err)
}
}
// **A spent token cannot be replayed with a node's public key** (novox/hq issue 083, on review). A
// public key is no secret: finishing an enrolment whose token that key spent takes proof the
// presenter holds its private half, and a proof made with another key — or for another request —
// is refused outright.
func TestASpentTokenCannotBeReplayedWithAPublicKeyAlone(t *testing.T) {
inv := inventory.ForTest(t)
ctx := t.Context()
if _, err := inv.AddNode(ctx, "laptop"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
issued, err := inv.IssueToken(ctx, "laptop", time.Hour)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
victim, victimPrivate, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(rand.Reader)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
// The victim's enrolment spent the token.
by := claimantOf(victim)
if _, err := inv.Claim(ctx, issued.Secret, by, false); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := inv.Spend(ctx, issued.Secret, by); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
// Someone with the leaked token and the victim's public key, and no proof.
_, err = link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}.Enrol(ctx, link.EnrolRequest{
Node: "laptop", Secret: issued.Secret, PublicKey: victim, SealingKey: "the attacker's"})
if err == nil || errors.Is(err, link.ErrTryAgain) {
t.Fatalf("a spent token was taken again with a public key alone: %v", err)
}
// With a proof made by another key.
_, forger, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(rand.Reader)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
forged := ed25519.Sign(forger, link.EnrolProof(issued.Secret, victim, "", "the attacker's", ""))
_, err = link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}.Enrol(ctx, link.EnrolRequest{
Node: "laptop", Secret: issued.Secret, PublicKey: victim, SealingKey: "the attacker's", Proof: forged})
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a spent token was taken again with a proof made by another key")
}
// With the victim's own proof, but for another request — keys swapped in.
theirs := ed25519.Sign(victimPrivate, link.EnrolProof(issued.Secret, victim, "", "the victim's", ""))
_, err = link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}.Enrol(ctx, link.EnrolRequest{
Node: "laptop", Secret: issued.Secret, PublicKey: victim, SealingKey: "the attacker's", Proof: theirs})
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a spent token was taken again with a proof made for another request")
}
// And the victim's own, proven request is not honoured when the broker redelivered it: the
// first delivery may already have been answered.
_, err = link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}.Enrol(ctx, link.EnrolRequest{
Node: "laptop", Secret: issued.Secret, PublicKey: victim, SealingKey: "the victim's",
Proof: theirs, Redelivered: true})
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a redelivered request finished an enrolment already spent")
}
}
// claimantOf is the claimant the enrolment derives from a key, recomputed here.
func claimantOf(public ed25519.PublicKey) string {
sum := sha256.Sum256(public)
return hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
}