We ensure that a `rad/root` ref is included in the signed refs file
under `rad/sigrefs` for all remotes. This prevents a certain kind of
"grafting" attack where signed refs can be copied between repositories,
by having the peer sign over the identity root together with the data refs.
When verifying signed refs, we ensure that the ref is present and points
to an identity branch root that matches the repository identity containing
the signed refs.
Alternatives: lots of alternatives were considered, but this one doesn't
introduce any changes to the signing. The `rad/id/root` name was
considered but is invalid due to `rad/id`.
If a peer had created any references but was also missing the
canonical branch, the `rad id update` command will fail when adding
that peer as a delegate.
Instead, missing delegates and missing default branches are tracked
during verification. If the number of missing delegates means the
`threshold` cannot be met, then the errors are returned.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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* Remove `rad sync --force` flag
* Remove `rad clone --private` flag
These flags are no longer necessary. Simplify specifying which seed
to fetch from with `--seed` is enough.
There are two areas where we can be more tolerant of delegate namespaces
being missing or not validating:
1. Calculating the canonical HEAD
2. Fetching from a remote
In 1. the protocol is tolerant in that if the local node does not have
the default branch for a delegate, it will still attempt to use any of
the delegates it does have to reach the threshold.
This is made safe by ensuring that if the threshold is being updated
then the node performing the update must have a threshold of delegates
locally in their storage. It also made safe by 2.
In 2. the protocol is tolerant by allowing delegates to be missing
from the serving side, as long as they can still meet a threshold of
delegates. This is further tolerant, when validating the received
data, a threshold of delegates are valid to consider the fetch
successful -- otherwise it will fail.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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cloudhead
Fintan Halpenny