S6 of the roadmap. An inbox POST is refused unless its signature covers
(request-target) and host, as well as the digest and a date or (created).
The Date or (created) may be at most an hour old and fifteen minutes ahead
(it was twelve hours either way), and an (expires) in the past is refused.
The request target is read raw from the server, so a percent-encoded path
verifies as the sender signed it.
Tests cover a Mastodon-shaped delivery and each way of tampering with it,
plus a round trip of our own outbound signature.
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S1 and S2 of the roadmap. RemoteActorService:
- FetchObject accepts a document only when its id is the address it was
served from; a same-origin document naming another address is asked for
at that address once (how GoToSocial serves its key URIs), anything else
is dropped;
- GetActorByKeyId accepts a key only when the actor lists it, its owner is
the actor and it lives on the actor's origin, whether the keyId points at
the actor or at a key document;
- a refetch for a key or an actor happens at most once per five minutes,
so a bad signature cannot make us hammer a host;
- the cache row is written by one atomic upsert on ActorURI;
- every fetch is signed by the instance actor, never by the persona that
happened to receive the activity.
The inbox refuses an activity whose id is not on its actor's origin, and
an Undo of someone else's activity; a Create's object, an Update and a
Delete must be on the actor's origin too, and a cross-origin object is
refetched from its own origin before it is trusted.
Tests: a fake peer on two origins serves forged actors, foreign-owned keys,
cross-origin key documents, aliases and a GoToSocial-style key address
(integration, PRIVAPUB_TEST_MONGOD=1).
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Infrastructure/Http adds the client the roadmap's S3 and S4 ask for:
- the connect callback resolves the name itself and refuses loopback,
private, link-local, CGNAT, documentation, multicast, ULA, NAT64, 6to4,
Teredo and IPv4-mapped/compatible forms, then connects to the vetted
address, so DNS rebinding cannot swap it afterwards;
- redirects are followed by hand, at most three, each one re-checked;
- bodies are capped at 1 MB after decompression, only JSON media types are
read, every request has a 15 s budget, and a refused URL is not asked
again for five minutes.
Actor and WebFinger fetches and inbox deliveries all use it. Test networks
can switch on Federation:AllowPrivateNetworks/AllowPlainHttp; startup
refuses both in Production.
PrivaPub.Tests (xUnit v3) starts with the address table and the fetcher's
limits against an in-process peer; build.yml and deploy.yml run it.
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