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mesh-host/internal/identity/identity_test.go
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jschoubben a752fc514b A file the mesh can deliver and cannot read
Everything else in a declaration is visible to whatever carried it. The
message is signed so it cannot be forged, and signing does not make it
unreadable — a password in `content` is a password the broker sees, which
is the transitive trust this design refuses everywhere else.

So a node generates a third key at enrolment and reports the public half,
exactly as it does for its identity and its overlay key. A file may
arrive `sealed` instead of `content`; the host opens it with that key and
writes the result. The control plane can then store a credential it
cannot use, and the broker relays a blob it cannot read.

A third key rather than reusing one of the two. The identity key signs
and is Ed25519; the overlay key is WireGuard's and is tied to being on
the private network, which a machine may not be. A key used for two
purposes is one rotation away from breaking the other.

Details that are not incidental:

- sealed and content together is refused, so "was this the secret or the
  placeholder" is answerable by looking
- a sealed file defaults to 0600 rather than 0644, because the
  consequence differs; an explicit mode still wins
- a node with no sealing key refuses the file rather than skipping it. A
  machine that quietly omits the one resource carrying a credential looks
  configured and cannot connect
- what is recorded is a digest of what was written, so drift on a
  credential is still detected without the node keeping the value, and
  the report that goes back over the broker carries neither

The key is made at enrolment rather than on first use. One made later is
one the mesh was never told about, so nothing could ever be sealed to it,
and the node would look fine and receive nothing.

This is why sealing was borrowed from another mesh's mistakes rather than
its design: there, credentials sit encrypted in the control plane's
database — which guards the database file and nothing else, since the
same value is also in each node's environment file in plain text and
inside every connection string composed from it. Its own tooling has to
search by value rather than by name to find the copies, and says the ones
inside composed URLs are usually the only copies in use.
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package identity
import (
"crypto/ed25519"
"encoding/base64"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
)
func TestAMachineThatHasNotJoinedHasNoIdentityAndThatIsNotAFault(t *testing.T) {
// A hosted machine has a host running and no identity. That is a real state, and confusing
// it with a fault would have every fresh install look broken.
_, err := Load(Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json")))
if !errors.Is(err, ErrNoIdentity) {
t.Fatalf("a machine that never joined gave %v", err)
}
}
func TestAnUnreadableIdentityIsNotTheSameAsHavingNone(t *testing.T) {
// The distinction that matters most here. "None" leads to enrolling; if an unreadable
// identity took that path, a node would discard the identity the mesh still believes and
// need a person with a new token to get back.
dir := t.TempDir()
path := Path(filepath.Join(dir, "state.json"))
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("{"), 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
_, err := Load(path)
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a corrupt identity loaded")
}
if errors.Is(err, ErrNoIdentity) {
t.Fatal("a corrupt identity was reported as having none; this node would re-enrol and " +
"throw away the identity the mesh believes")
}
}
// joined is an identity as it exists after enrolment, which is the only kind ever saved:
// Generate makes the keypair, and the mesh supplies everything under Membership.
func joined(t *testing.T, name string) Identity {
t.Helper()
made, err := Generate(name)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
signer, _, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
made.Membership = Membership{
Broker: "192.0.2.10:5671",
Fingerprint: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("ab", 32),
Signer: signer,
Password: "this node's own",
}
return made
}
func TestSaveRefusesWhatLoadWouldRefuse(t *testing.T) {
// The two must agree, or a caller can write a file that cannot be read back — and it would
// be read back on the next start, on a machine nobody is watching, by which time the token
// that could have fixed it is spent.
path := Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json"))
unenrolled, err := Generate("workstation")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := Save(path, unenrolled); err == nil {
t.Fatal("an identity with no membership was saved; Load will not accept it")
}
if _, err := os.Stat(path); err == nil {
t.Error("the refused identity was written anyway")
}
}
func TestWhatIsSavedIsWhatIsLoaded(t *testing.T) {
path := Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json"))
made := joined(t, "workstation")
if err := Save(path, made); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
back, err := Load(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if back.Node != made.Node || string(back.Public) != string(made.Public) ||
string(back.Private) != string(made.Private) {
t.Error("the identity changed across a save and load")
}
if back.Membership.Broker != made.Membership.Broker ||
back.Membership.Fingerprint != made.Membership.Fingerprint ||
back.Membership.Password != made.Membership.Password ||
string(back.Membership.Signer) != string(made.Membership.Signer) {
t.Error("the membership changed across a save and load; this node could not come back")
}
}
func TestTheIdentityIsNotReadableByAnybodyElse(t *testing.T) {
// It is the only secret on the machine that identifies it. A mode that let another user on
// this machine read it would make "compromise of a node is compromise of that node" false in
// the other direction — any local user could become the node.
path := Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json"))
if err := Save(path, joined(t, "workstation")); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
info, err := os.Stat(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if info.Mode().Perm()&0o077 != 0 {
t.Errorf("the identity is mode %04o; anything but 0600 lets another local user become "+
"this node", info.Mode().Perm())
}
}
func TestSavingLeavesNoHalfWrittenIdentity(t *testing.T) {
// Written and renamed, so power lost mid-write keeps the old identity rather than producing
// half of one. A node cannot regenerate its way out of a broken identity — the mesh believes
// the old public key, and a new one needs a person with a new token.
dir := t.TempDir()
path := Path(filepath.Join(dir, "state.json"))
made := joined(t, "workstation")
for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
if err := Save(path, made); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
}
entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, e := range entries {
if strings.HasPrefix(e.Name(), ".identity-") {
t.Errorf("a temporary file survived: %s", e.Name())
}
}
}
func TestAnIdentityOfTheWrongShapeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
// The one that would load happily and fail at the moment it signs, which is during enrolment
// against a mesh, far from here.
path := Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json"))
raw, err := json.Marshal(Identity{Node: "workstation", Public: []byte("short"), Private: []byte("also short")})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := os.WriteFile(path, raw, 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if _, err := Load(path); err == nil {
t.Fatal("an identity with a truncated key loaded")
}
}
func TestSigningProvesTheNodeIsThatNode(t *testing.T) {
made, err := Generate("workstation")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
challenge := []byte("prove it")
if !ed25519.Verify(ed25519.PublicKey(made.Public), challenge, made.Sign(challenge)) {
t.Fatal("a node's own signature did not verify against the half it publishes")
}
}
// --- the token, which the control plane writes and this parses ---
func encodeToken(t *testing.T, body string) string {
t.Helper()
return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(body))
}
func completeToken(t *testing.T) string {
t.Helper()
public, _, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
raw, err := json.Marshal(Token{
Version: 1, Broker: "192.0.2.10:5671",
Fingerprint: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("ab", 32),
Signer: public, Secret: "one-time",
})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
return base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(raw)
}
func TestTheWireFormatIsExactlyTheseFieldNames(t *testing.T) {
// The contract with the control plane, which defines this format separately because the host
// requires nothing present and does not import it (novox/hq ADR 0005). There is a matching
// test on the other side. Rename a field on either and both fail, which is the point — the
// alternative is a rename that only breaks at enrolment, on a real machine.
public, _, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
raw, err := json.Marshal(Token{Version: 1, Broker: "b", Fingerprint: "f", Signer: public, Secret: "s"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var fields map[string]any
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &fields); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, want := range []string{"v", "broker", "fingerprint", "signer", "secret"} {
if _, ok := fields[want]; !ok {
t.Errorf("the token has no %q field; the control plane writes that name", want)
}
}
if len(fields) != 5 {
t.Errorf("the token has %d fields, expected 5: %v", len(fields), fields)
}
}
func TestACompleteTokenParses(t *testing.T) {
got, err := ParseToken(completeToken(t))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if got.Broker != "192.0.2.10:5671" || len(got.SignerKey()) != ed25519.PublicKeySize {
t.Errorf("parsed %+v", got)
}
}
func TestAPastedTokenTolerantOfWhitespace(t *testing.T) {
if _, err := ParseToken(" " + completeToken(t) + "\n"); err != nil {
t.Errorf("a pasted token was refused: %v", err)
}
}
func TestAnIncompleteTokenIsRefusedWholeAndSaysWhatIsMissing(t *testing.T) {
// Not a reduced capability — an unsafe one. Without the fingerprint this node would connect
// to whatever answers; without the signing key it could not tell a declaration from a
// forgery, and it applies whatever the link delivers.
for _, c := range []struct{ body, expect string }{
{`{"v":1,"fingerprint":"f","signer":"` + base64Key(t) + `","secret":"s"}`, "broker's address"},
{`{"v":1,"broker":"b","signer":"` + base64Key(t) + `","secret":"s"}`, "fingerprint"},
{`{"v":1,"broker":"b","fingerprint":"f","secret":"s"}`, "signing key"},
{`{"v":1,"broker":"b","fingerprint":"f","signer":"` + base64Key(t) + `"}`, "one-time secret"},
} {
_, err := ParseToken(encodeToken(t, c.body))
if err == nil {
t.Errorf("a token missing %s was accepted", c.expect)
continue
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.expect) {
t.Errorf("the refusal does not name %s: %v", c.expect, err)
}
}
}
func TestATokenFromAnotherVersionIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
if _, err := ParseToken(encodeToken(t, `{"v":99,"broker":"b","fingerprint":"f","secret":"s"}`)); err == nil {
t.Fatal("a token from an unknown version was accepted")
}
}
func TestGarbageIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
for _, bad := range []string{"", "!!!not base64!!!", "aGVsbG8"} {
if _, err := ParseToken(bad); err == nil {
t.Errorf("%q parsed as a token", bad)
}
}
}
func base64Key(t *testing.T) string {
t.Helper()
public, _, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
return base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(public)
}
func TestAnIdentityThatCannotBeReadIsNotReportedAsAbsent(t *testing.T) {
// The other half of the distinction above, and the one that was untested: a file that exists
// and cannot be read. The corrupt case is caught when it fails to parse; this one never gets
// that far, so it needs its own check — and without it a permissions accident would look
// exactly like a machine that has never joined, and the node would enrol again and discard
// the identity the mesh still believes.
if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
t.Skip("running as root, which can read anything")
}
path := Path(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "state.json"))
if err := Save(path, joined(t, "workstation")); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := os.Chmod(path, 0o000); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
_, err := Load(path)
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("an unreadable identity loaded")
}
if errors.Is(err, ErrNoIdentity) {
t.Fatal("an unreadable identity was reported as having none; this node would re-enrol " +
"and throw away the identity the mesh believes")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not the same as") {
t.Errorf("the error does not say why this is different from having none: %v", err)
}
}
func TestASealingKeyOpensOnlyWhatWasSealedToIt(t *testing.T) {
mine, err := GenerateSealingKey()
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
theirs, err := GenerateSealingKey()
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
sealed, err := Seal(mine.Public, []byte("hunter2"))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
got, err := mine.Unseal(sealed)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if string(got) != "hunter2" {
t.Fatalf("got %q", got)
}
if _, err := theirs.Unseal(sealed); err == nil {
t.Fatal("another node opened it")
}
}
func TestSealingTheSameValueTwiceLooksDifferent(t *testing.T) {
// Sealed boxes are randomised, so an observer cannot tell that two nodes were given the same
// password, nor that a rotation changed nothing. Worth asserting because the alternative is
// a subtle leak nobody would look for.
key, _ := GenerateSealingKey()
first, _ := Seal(key.Public, []byte("same"))
second, _ := Seal(key.Public, []byte("same"))
if first == second {
t.Fatal("sealing is deterministic, so equal secrets are visible as equal blobs")
}
}
func TestANodeWithNoSealingKeySaysWhatToDo(t *testing.T) {
// Rather than making one. A key the mesh was never told about is a key nothing can be sealed
// to, so a node that quietly created one would look fine and receive nothing for ever.
_, err := LoadSealingKey(t.TempDir() + "/absent.key")
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("a sealing key appeared out of nowhere")
}
if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "join again") {
t.Fatalf("the failure does not say what to do: %v", err)
}
}
func TestASealingKeyOnDiskSurvivesATrailingNewline(t *testing.T) {
// It is written with one, the way every other key file here is, and reading it back has to
// cope — otherwise the key works until the first restart.
key, _ := GenerateSealingKey()
path := t.TempDir() + "/sealing.key"
if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(key.Private+"\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
back, err := LoadSealingKey(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if back.Public != key.Public {
t.Fatalf("a round trip through the disk changed the key")
}
}