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Persist local actor signing keys - #114
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Store RSA and Ed25519 JWK pairs in local_actor_keys, with an enum key kind, a composite primary key and cascading local-actor ownership. Generate missing keys on first use outside transactions, then persist and reload the winning pairs under short locks. Publish canonical public key identities while keeping private material out of errors and query logs. Prewarm keys through a best-effort Fedify task after actor creation commits. Bound the ephemeral queue, clean up its listeners, and await requests and active tasks before closing the database. Preserve listen errors and force-close stalled requests during shutdown. The maintainer requested the implementation and chose lazy generation, optional background prewarming and an enum key type. Codex generated the implementation and tests; Claude Code reviewed the design. Codex and Claude Code reviews shaped canonical key identities, race coverage, startup diagnostics and shutdown cleanup. The final test timing and Windows signal exclusion were adjusted after the Claude review cap and received local validation rather than another independent review. Validation: mise run build, mise run check, mise run test, PostgreSQL client races and deletion during generation, isolated development startup, and npm tarball CLI, migration and shutdown smoke checks. The full suite also passed with four CPUs. Windows and macOS execution was not performed. Fixes fedify-dev#87 Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds persistent RSA and Ed25519 signing keys for local actors, exposes them through federation dispatch, and adds queued key generation after actor creation. It also changes DrFed query logging, request error handling, and server lifecycle cleanup. ChangesActor signing keys and prewarming
DrFed runtime handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GraphQL
participant enqueueActorKeyGeneration
participant KeyGenerationQueue
participant ActorKeyTask
participant ensureActorKeyPairs
participant local_actor_keys
GraphQL->>enqueueActorKeyGeneration: actor identifiers after transaction
enqueueActorKeyGeneration->>KeyGenerationQueue: enqueue identifiers
KeyGenerationQueue->>ActorKeyTask: process queued task
ActorKeyTask->>ensureActorKeyPairs: generate or load keys
ensureActorKeyPairs->>local_actor_keys: validate or persist key pairs
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Review comments at @packages/drfed/src/serving.ts:
- Around line 104-106: Update the catch block in the serving request handler to
capture the error and log the federation failure with the request method and
url.pathname before returning the existing generic 500 response; include only
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Record the request method, pathname and a coarse error type before returning the generic federation 500 response. Do not inspect error names, messages or causes, which can carry private signing key data. Extend the serving regression test to capture scoped LogTape records and exclude secret error values and URL query parameters. Successful requests still produce no failure record. The maintainer requested review fixes. Codex implemented the logging and regression assertions, preserving the agreed key secrecy boundary. Validation: mise run build, mise run check and mise run test. fedify-dev#114 (comment) Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol
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For the pre-merge warnings, the accepted plan for #87 explicitly moves key generation outside the creation transaction and includes the federation HTTP error boundary. The lazy/background generation and plain 500 response follow that plan. I am leaving the blanket docstring coverage warning unchanged. CONTRIBUTING.md calls for JSDoc where exported APIs need explanation; the repository checks do not require 80% coverage across private helpers and test callbacks. |
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packages/drfed/src/serving.test.ts (1)
300-355: LGTM!packages/drfed/src/serving.ts (1)
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33-33: LGTM!Also applies to: 57-57, 83-83
packages/drfed/src/query-logger.test.ts (1)
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packages/models/src/schema.ts (1)
342-370: LGTM!packages/models/drizzle/20261006122653_local_actor_keys/migration.sql (1)
1-11: LGTM!packages/federation/src/actor.ts (1)
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223-264: LGTM!packages/graphql/src/seed.test.ts (1)
268-309: LGTM!packages/federation/src/task-queue.ts (1)
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22-22: LGTM!Also applies to: 288-289, 351-351, 409-415
packages/graphql/src/actor.test.ts (1)
23-23: LGTM!Also applies to: 199-199, 233-290
packages/graphql/src/harness.test.ts (1)
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packages/graphql/src/activity-delivery.test.ts (1)
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packages/graphql/src/activity-delivery/inbound.test.ts (1)
132-132: LGTM!Also applies to: 523-535, 986-998, 1586-1587
packages/drfed/src/lifecycle.test.ts (1)
1-151: LGTM!packages/drfed/src/query-logger.ts-29-31 (1)
29-31: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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local_actor_keyscase-insensitively.The check uses a case-sensitive
includes("local_actor_keys"). Drizzle emits the table name in lowercase, quoted form, so the current queries match. A hand-written or differently cased statement, such asLOCAL_ACTOR_KEYS, skips the check. Its parameters, which can include private JWK values, then go to the delegate logger.Normalize the query before the check. This keeps the suppression guard robust.
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- if (query.includes("local_actor_keys")) { + if (query.toLowerCase().includes("local_actor_keys")) {Source: Learnings
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Review comments at @packages/drfed/src/index.ts:
- Around line 126-137: In the startup failure handler around `server.serve()`,
guard database and mailer cleanup so cleanup rejections cannot replace the
original startup error. Await `mailer.closeAllConnections()` inside that guard,
then perform the existing credentials client cleanup; log cleanup failures and
always rethrow the startup error with its cause.
Review comments at @packages/federation/src/actor-key.ts:
- Around line 132-134: Document the recovery procedure around readPairs and
ensure for invalid persisted actor key pairs: keep rejecting the invalid pair
and failing closed, and require operators to explicitly rotate and update the
actor’s published key material before retrying; do not automatically replace the
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Await SMTP cleanup and guard it separately from database cleanup so both are attempted without replacing the original listen error. Log fixed failure messages to keep cleanup details out of diagnostics. Exercise a rejecting database close through a preload in the built CLI regression test and retain the original EADDRINUSE cause. The maintainer requested review fixes. Codex implemented the cleanup guards and regression test. Build, checks, all 319 tests and isolated development startup were verified on Linux. fedify-dev#114 (comment) Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol
Explain how to restore a matching key pair from a known-good backup without changing the actor's published identity. If the original key cannot be recovered, require deliberate rotation and verification of the actor document, accounting for cached keys on remote servers. Keep corrupt pairs failing closed and link the API docs to recovery. The maintainer requested review fixes. Codex drafted the recovery procedure against the existing key loader; no rotation command is claimed. Markdown formatting and repository checks passed. fedify-dev#114 (comment) Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol
Normalize SQL casing before matching local_actor_keys so unquoted uppercase and mixed-case statements receive the same parameter suppression as Drizzle's lowercase queries. Cover both forms while preserving ordinary query logging. The maintainer requested review fixes. Codex implemented the guard and regression cases. Build, checks and all 319 tests passed. fedify-dev#114 (review) Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6.1-sol
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The case-insensitive query logging finding in this review is fixed in d68d50f. packages/drfed/src/query-logger.ts now normalizes SQL casing before matching |
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Store RSA and Ed25519 key pairs in
local_actor_keys, with an enum identifying the key type and one pair per actor/type. Generate missing keys outside transactions, then reload the persisted pairs after conflict-safe inserts so concurrent requests use the same keys. Public key identities use the actor's stored IRI.Actors start without keys. A Fedify background task generates their keys after the creation transaction commits; first use generates any missing pairs if the task fails or is dropped. Creation avoids key generation, and signing can proceed even if the background task fails. Shutdown drains active tasks before closing the database. Private key values stay out of query logs and errors.
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mise run build,mise run checkandmise run test, plus PostgreSQL race tests and installed CLI startup/shutdown checks.Fixes #87.
Codex implemented the changes and tests and drafted this description; Codex and Claude Code reviewed the implementation, and Claude Code reviewed the design.