feat(daemon): remote transport with mTLS caller authentication - #34
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Records the decision for #32: mTLS with a private CA and an explicit CN allowlist, rather than a pre-shared token. The deciding property is not strength but direction. Daytona's runner — the only surveyed system structurally equivalent to openbloxd — uses a static bearer token stored per-runner, so it identifies which runner is being dialled rather than who is dialling. openbloxd has already recorded per-caller quotas as wanted (#28), and a transport that discards the caller has to be reopened to add them. Also states plainly what the credential does not buy: a compromised caller is a valid caller, and the profile — not the credential — is what bounds it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nothing in the block defaults, and allowed_client_cns is mandatory: with certificate verification alone the CA would be the entire access control list. The socket becomes optional only when listen replaces it.
Fixes map-literal alignment in TestIsWildcardHost.
Both gates run in the handshake, so a caller failing either never reaches the router. The common-name allowlist is the gate that keeps a CA mis-issuance survivable, and it is asserted by a test using a certificate that verifies perfectly against the configured CA.
Review found two Minors on the TLS listener. VerifyPeerCertificate indexed chains[0][0] without checking chains was non-empty; that only holds under RequireAndVerifyClientCert, and net/http's conn.serve recovers panics silently, so a future downgrade to RequireAnyClientCert would weaken the boundary with tests staying green. Added an explicit guard that fails as a readable rejection instead. testpki.ServerTLS builds a one-gate server config with no common-name allowlist, for a later task's plain-TLS transport tests. Documented that it is not a substitute for ListenTLS, so nothing mistakes it for covering allowlist behaviour.
Nothing consumes it yet. A transport that discards who called has to be reopened to add per-caller quotas, so the identity is recorded where it is still available. Remote requests also get an audit log line; the unix path is unchanged.
Both feed one http.Server with one handler, so no route table can drift between transports. A wildcard bind is warned about at boot, since the difference between deliberate and careless is invisible in the config.
A failed ListenTLS left the socket listener open with nothing to close it, so its fd outlived the process without the unlink-on-close that Close() would have triggered -- a down daemon then answered ECONNREFUSED instead of ENOENT. Also fixes serve's doc comment, stale since the signature went variadic.
Every body in the hostile-field table now runs over a real authenticated TLS connection as well as against the handler directly, and an accepted remote request is asserted to land on exactly the profile's policy.
…setup Review fixes: transport.post now returns the response body alongside the status so a failing policy assertion still prints what the daemon said, fix a stale doc comment referencing a nonexistent postSandboxes name, extract newTLSPoster to share PKI/listener/server/client setup between the tls transport and TestRemoteAcceptedRequestGetsExactlyTheProfilePolicy, and drain the accepted-request response body for consistency with the transport path.
The credential takes file paths rather than a *tls.Config, so an unverified client is inexpressible rather than refused at runtime. New keeps its exact signature; both constructors now share one dial seam.
DialPort now goes through the same dial seam as the pooled client, so the two cannot diverge. CloseWrite is reached by type assertion and a transport change breaks it silently, so *tls.Conn's is pinned by test.
…wire target into dial/request errors The TLS CloseWrite test's io.ReadAll could hang instead of fail on a CloseWrite regression that silently no-ops; run it in a goroutine and select against a timeout, matching TestDialPortCloseWriteSignalsEndOfInput. Also wire Client.target into the two error paths that name no address today (dial failure, pooled request failure), so its "for error messages" doc comment is honest.
Says plainly that a compromised caller is a valid caller and that the profile, not the credential, is what bounds it; that a private network is not a sole control; and that revocation is a restart.
Says which file goes in cert_file/key_file/client_ca_file/allowed_client_cns, and calls out client.crt/client.key as the one pair that leaves the daemon's host, per review feedback on the remote threat model section.
Go skips VerifyPeerCertificate entirely on a resumed TLS session (peer certs are restored from cached session state, and the callback that carried the CN allowlist never runs), so a caller could keep connecting after its CN was removed from allowed_client_cns for as long as its session ticket stayed valid. Move the check into VerifyConnection, which Go calls on both fresh and resumed connections, and extract it into checkAllowedClientCN so there's one copy of the security check used by both paths. Also fixes the golangci-lint findings that surfaced this: config.go's non-wrapping %s verb (now %w), and two bodyclose false positives in policy_test.go where the linter can't trace the response through newTLSPoster's returned closure (bodies are closed via the deferred Close two lines below each flagged call) — suppressed with a written justification matching pkg/brokerclient/dial.go's existing pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier fix moved the allowlist check to VerifyConnection but nothing asserted ListenTLS actually wires it there instead of back onto VerifyPeerCertificate — the existing resumption tests pass identically under either callback, since they only observe accept/ reject outcomes, not which callback ran. Extract tlsConfigFor(cfg) from ListenTLS so a test can inspect the built tls.Config directly, and add TestTLSConfigWiresAllowlistIntoVerifyConnection asserting VerifyConnection != nil && VerifyPeerCertificate == nil. Confirmed by reverting to the vulnerable form in a scratch copy: only this new test goes red, everything else (including the two resumption tests) stays green. Also replace the revocation test's bare map + delete() with a mutex-guarded syncAllowlist — the map was read from the server's VerifyConnection goroutine and written from the test goroutine with no synchronization; -race didn't catch it in practice but it was a real race by the memory model. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blocking: - plans: replace the internal-service-name/deployment-name grep pattern in the pre-PR leak-audit step with a neutral IP-shaped pattern plus a manual scan instruction, and strip the absolute developer path from the same file - pkg/brokerclient: fix the package doc and Client doc to say the client reaches openbloxd over a Unix socket or a mutual-TLS network connection - specs: correct the design doc's callback name from VerifyPeerCertificate to VerifyConnection and explain why (VerifyPeerCertificate is skipped on TLS 1.3 PSK resumption) - CHANGELOG: add the Unreleased entries for the listen block, NewRemote/ TLSFiles, and caller identity; stop describing brokerclient as socket-only Also fixed: - assert MinVersion == tls.VersionTLS13 in TestTLSConfigWiresAllowlistIntoVerifyConnection - drop the dangling "fix report" reference in listener_tls_test.go - correct newPKI's ServerName comment: the test certificate's IPAddresses SAN already covers 127.0.0.1, so ServerName is set to exercise the documented override, not because verification would otherwise fail - main.go: log socket="off" (was socket="") for consistency with network="off" - rename serveOnce to serveHTTP (it serves until t.Cleanup, not once) - TestRemoteAcceptedRequestGetsExactlyTheProfilePolicy now also compares Lifetime, DefaultTimeout and MaxTimeout - config_test.go: add the "listen without tls" refusal case to the existing incomplete-listen-block table Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| slog.String("caller", c.Name), | ||
| slog.String("method", r.Method), | ||
| slog.String("path", r.URL.Path)) |
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In `@cmd/openbloxd/main.go`:
- Around line 154-158: Update serve to close httpSrv when any listener’s Serve
returns before handling the result, ensuring all remaining listeners—including
the Unix listener—are closed. Preserve the existing error filtering and wrapping
behavior, and keep the context-cancellation shutdown path unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@plans/2026-08-18-openbloxd-remote-transport.md` around
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In `@docs/security.md`:
- Around line 268-273: Update the certificate-generation example’s
subjectAltName in the daemon certificate recipe to use a clearly marked
server-address placeholder instead of IP:127.0.0.1, while preserving the
existing serverAuth extension and the surrounding guidance that the SAN must
match the address callers dial.
In `@internal/daemon/config.go`:
- Around line 172-173: Update the allowed-client-CN configuration validation
near checkAllowedClientCN to reject any empty string entries, preventing
certificates with an empty Subject.CommonName from matching the allowlist. Add a
configuration test covering an allowlist containing an empty CN while preserving
validation of non-empty entries.
- Around line 162-163: Update the listener address validation around
net.SplitHostPort to capture the parsed port and reject an empty port as
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| func serve(ctx context.Context, httpSrv *http.Server, lns ...net.Listener) error { | ||
| serveErr := make(chan error, len(lns)) | ||
| for _, ln := range lns { | ||
| go func() { serveErr <- httpSrv.Serve(ln) }() | ||
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Close the server when one Serve fails.
serve now starts one Serve per listener. If one fails on its own, the function returns through the first select case without calling httpSrv.Shutdown or httpSrv.Close. The other listeners stay open, and the Unix listener never runs its unlink-on-close. The socket file then survives the process exit, so a down daemon answers ECONNREFUSED instead of ENOENT — the exact property lines 103-107 protect on the ListenTLS failure path.
🛠️ Close the server on the failure path
select {
case err := <-serveErr:
// Close the remaining listeners: the unix listener's unlink-on-close
// is what keeps a down daemon answering ENOENT, not ECONNREFUSED.
_ = httpSrv.Close()
if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, http.ErrServerClosed) {
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In `@cmd/openbloxd/main.go` around lines 154 - 158, Update serve to close httpSrv
when any listener’s Serve returns before handling the result, ensuring all
remaining listeners—including the Unix listener—are closed. Preserve the
existing error filtering and wrapping behavior, and keep the
context-cancellation shutdown path unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@plans/2026-08-18-openbloxd-remote-transport.md` around
lines 789 - 807.
| # The daemon's certificate. The SAN must match the address callers dial. | ||
| openssl req -newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:P-256 -nodes \ | ||
| -keyout server.key -out server.csr -subj "/CN=openbloxd" | ||
| openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \ | ||
| -days 825 -out server.crt \ | ||
| -extfile <(printf "subjectAltName=IP:127.0.0.1\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth") |
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Make the server SAN a placeholder, not 127.0.0.1.
This section covers a daemon on a machine of its own. The recipe pins the SAN to IP:127.0.0.1, which cannot match the address a remote caller dials. A reader who copies the block gets a certificate that fails verification, and the comment one line above already states the rule the example breaks.
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-# The daemon's certificate. The SAN must match the address callers dial.
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+# use DNS:<daemon-hostname>, or IP:<daemon-address> when callers dial by IP.
openssl req -newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:P-256 -nodes \
-keyout server.key -out server.csr -subj "/CN=openbloxd"
openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \
-days 825 -out server.crt \
- -extfile <(printf "subjectAltName=IP:127.0.0.1\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth")
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| # The daemon's certificate. The SAN must match the address callers dial. | |
| openssl req -newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:P-256 -nodes \ | |
| -keyout server.key -out server.csr -subj "/CN=openbloxd" | |
| openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \ | |
| -days 825 -out server.crt \ | |
| -extfile <(printf "subjectAltName=IP:127.0.0.1\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth") | |
| # The daemon's certificate. The SAN must match the address callers dial: | |
| # use DNS:<daemon-hostname>, or IP:<daemon-address> when callers dial by IP. | |
| openssl req -newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:P-256 -nodes \ | |
| -keyout server.key -out server.csr -subj "/CN=openbloxd" | |
| openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial \ | |
| -days 825 -out server.crt \ | |
| -extfile <(printf "subjectAltName=DNS:openbloxd.internal.example\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth") |
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In `@docs/security.md` around lines 268 - 273, Update the certificate-generation
example’s subjectAltName in the daemon certificate recipe to use a clearly
marked server-address placeholder instead of IP:127.0.0.1, while preserving the
existing serverAuth extension and the surrounding guidance that the SAN must
match the address callers dial.
| if _, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(l.Address); err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("%w: listen.address %q is not host:port: %w", sandbox.ErrInvalid, l.Address, err) |
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Reject an empty listener port.
net.SplitHostPort accepts 127.0.0.1: with an empty port, and net.Listen selects a port automatically. Reject port == "" after parsing, and add a regression test for 127.0.0.1:.
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In `@internal/daemon/config.go` around lines 162 - 163, Update the listener
address validation around net.SplitHostPort to capture the parsed port and
reject an empty port as invalid, while preserving existing malformed-address
handling. Add a regression test covering 127.0.0.1: and verify it returns the
invalid-configuration error.
An empty entry is not an empty list, and a dangling YAML list item makes one easily. validate() refused len==0 but not a "" element, so allowed_client_cns: [""] admitted every certificate the CA signs that carries no common name — the second gate silently degraded back into the first, which is the exact failure the allowlist exists to prevent.
Closes #32.
openbloxdlistened on a Unix socket and only a Unix socket, so the daemon and its caller had to share a host. That is often the wrong arrangement — gVisor contains escape, not contention — but moving the sandboxes to their own machine was simply unsupported, because the caller could no longer reach the daemon.The listener was the small half. Socket group membership was the entire access control list: the filesystem performed the authentication, and the daemon had no notion of a caller at all. Binding the same handler to a port without adding authentication would have produced an unauthenticated remote sandbox-creation API — the inverse of the daemon's purpose.
What this adds
An optional
listenblock. Absent, nothing about an existing deployment changes; the Unix socket stays the default and stays unchanged.Every field is required once
listenis present and none has a default — a daemon that starts listening on a network interface because a key was omitted is the failure this exists to avoid.socketbecomes optional, but only whenlistenreplaces it; neither set is a refusal to start.Two gates, both in the handshake. The client certificate must chain to the configured CA, and its Common Name must be on an explicit allowlist. The second is not belt-and-braces: with verification alone the CA is the whole access control list, so a CA shared with anything else silently grants sandbox creation to whatever it signed. The allowlist is what makes a mis-issuance survivable and what lets an operator read the permitted callers in one place.
Caller identity is recorded on every request over every transport, and nothing consumes it yet. A transport that discards who called has to be reopened to add per-caller quotas (#28), so it is captured where it is still available.
Client half:
brokerclient.NewRemote(address, TLSFiles{...}).Newkeeps its exact signature — a same-host caller is untouched. The credential is a positional argument of file paths rather than a*tls.Config, which makes an unverified client inexpressible rather than rejected at runtime.Why policy still cannot be reached from a request
Both listeners feed one
http.Serverwith one handler. There is no second route table that could drift, so "policy is unreachable regardless of transport" is a property of the shape rather than a rule someone has to remember. It is asserted anyway:policy_test.gonow runs every hostile request body over both transports, plus a mirror test that an accepted remote request lands on exactly the profile's policy — a rejection table alone would pass against a transport that quietly widened an accepted Spec.One finding worth calling out
The allowlist was initially placed in
VerifyPeerCertificate. Go does not invoke that callback on a resumed TLS 1.3 session — the peer's certificates come back from cached session state and the callback is skipped. A caller could therefore have kept connecting after its CN was removed, for as long as its session ticket remained valid.The check now lives in
VerifyConnection, which runs on fresh and resumed connections alike. A test pins the wiring specifically, because every behavioural test still passed against the vulnerable form — reverting the callback choice turns exactly that one test red.Documentation
docs/security.mdgains a threat model that states the limits as plainly as the guarantees: mTLS authenticates the process holding the key, so a compromised caller is a valid caller, and the profile — not the credential — is what bounds it. A private network is a real mitigation and a poor sole control. Revocation is manual: remove the CN and restart, with no CRL or OCSP. There is also anopensslrecipe for a minimal private CA, which was run end to end and its certificates verified against a realListenTLSlistener.Out of scope
Per-caller quotas (this supplies the identity they need), multi-daemon fan-out, and replacing the Unix socket.
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