Introduces a new COB type to store repository identity documents.
The reason for this change is to:
1. Simplify the code, as the identity document logic resembled a COB,
yet it had custom logic. This allows existing COB code to be used for
identities.
2. Make identity document update logic more flexible, since COB actions
can be added in the future.
3. Re-purpose existing tools around COBs to work on identities, eg. `rad
cob`.
4. Unify the concept of an identity change proposal, with regular identity
changes. This means we can remove the `id.proposal` COB in favor of
using the `id` COB itself.
Notes
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* Each repository has one Identity COB.
* The `Proposal` COB has been repurposed into the `Identity` COB.
* Identity documents are stored as *embeds* inside the Identity COB
actions.
* The action that contains new document versions is called `revision`,
just like the Patches COB.
* The namespaced `rad/id` ref is a symbolic reference to that Identity
COB.
* The canonical `rad/id` ref is a direct reference to the commit in the
Identity COB that contains the latest *accepted* revision of the
document.
* All commands for managing identities have been folded into `rad id`.
Hence `rad delegate` and `rad edit` are removed.
* The concept of "rebasing" an identity document is gone.
* The `rad id` output has been updated to match the style of other
commands.
* When a revision has enough signatures, it is automatically adopted as
the current identity, there is no longer the need for a "commit"
action.
* When an identity revision is proposed, and the current identity has a
threshold of `1`, that identity is automatically accepted due to the
above point.
* The idea of "verifying a peer's identity branch" no longer applies, as
COBs cannot be verified one history at a time.
* Since the root commit of the Identity COB does not have a "Resource"
to point to (it would have to point to itself, which is impossible),
we've made the resource id optional for COBs.
When a fetch is user-requested, a timeout can be supplied that is passed
down to the worker.
When a fetch is service-requested, a default timeout is used.
Private repos are implemented by extending the identity document with a
`visibility` attribute, that can either be `"public"` (default) or
`"private"`.
In case of `private` visibility, only the delegates are allowed to view
the repo, as well as any DIDs added to the allow list.
To implement repo visibility, we simply block fetches from and
announcements to peers for whom the repo should remain invisible.
Private repos are also not announced in the `inventory` message, since
the full list of peers that *may* have the repo is retrievable from the
repo identity. This could cause errors if eg. a peer who is allowed to
view the repo doesn't actually have it. However this is an ok trade-off
for now to keep the complexity low. For repos to truly be private, it's
important that the RIDs don't leak either.
Finally, we modify `radicle-httpd` for now to only list public repos.
Eventually, we would want to change this depending on whether an allowed
peer is authenticated with the service or not.
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It's also worth mentioning why this approach was taken, vs. end-to-end
encryption. The reasons are as follows:
1. Nodes that do not have access to a private repo will generally not want to
replicate encrypted data that they cannot examine or use.
2. The chosen solution is trivial, while encrypting git objects isn't.
3. Performance of the chosen solution is much better, there is no
overhead.
4. Privacy of the chosen solution is better: RIDs are never leaked, and
neither is the existence of a private repo, nor who has access to it.
There is one downside: Paying for storage of private repos is no better
in terms of privacy than what GitHub offers. Hosting providers will have
access to your private repos, if this solution is used.
Only return once the connection is established or failed.
It's still not perfect, as several failure scenarios are not handled,
but it's an improvement.
This is a fairly substantial change, which adds a new configuration file
to the user's `$RAD_HOME` that includes node configuration, including
the alias, and also makes node aliases required.
When running `rad auth`, the user is now prompted for an alias, which
defaults to `$USER`.
When running `rad self`, the alias is now shown.
If the user runs radicle without a config file, the defaults are loaded,
and `$USER` is used as the alias.
When attempting to connect to a peer, and when succeeding, write the timestamp
to the database.
This will allow us to better select addresses and not retry peers to
soon.
We were allowing remotes to be constructed via a function that didn't
check its inputs.
This is now fixed by moving the public key into the `SignedRefs` struct.
Instead of returning the namespaces that we fetched with,
we return the remotes that were actually fetched from.
This can differ if some trusted peers were not available
on the remote node.
Previously, if that was the case, it would cause errors
since the remotes were looked up and that lookup failed.
To improve the reliability and flexibility of the protocol, we introduce
multiplexing over peer connections. This involves a new `Frame` type
that carries a stream-id and payload.
Three stream types are made available:
1. Control
2. Gossip
3. Git
This change brings the following improvements:
* Removed need to queue fetch requests
* Removed need to queue gossip messages
* Removed need for `Fetch` and `FetchOk` messages
* Service doesn't need to know about inbound fetches
* Removed one round-trip for fetch negotiation
* Removed special `done` git packet
* Removed session logic and state around Git/Fetch protocols
* Removed code around upgrading/downgrading transport
* Worker in responder mode is able to process any number of fetches
* Connections support any number of concurrent fetches
We had to introduce a few extra things however to make it all work:
* A `VarInt` type for variable-length integers, since we want the frames
to be lightweight.
* A custom "tunnel" implementation, since we couldn't use the existing
one anymore.
Overall the change removes more complexity than it adds, while improving
the protocol along the way.
The tracked nodes include nodes marked tracked in the db, and
the delegates and `Namespaces::All` if it is a new repo.
Signed-off-by: Han Xu <keepsimple@gmail.com>
First, we make sure to always attempt reconnection to persistent peers,
no matter the reason.
Second, we don't re-attempt connections when an inbound peer
disconnects. This minimizes the chance of connections crossing.
Third, we clean up `session::Error`, and don't use it to signal a
missing session, since it doesn't really belong there.
This change ensures that on `Subscribe`, we only relay the latest
announcement of each node, per announcement category.
Previously, we would relay all announcement, while only the last one
was relevant.
It was possible to trigger multiple connection attempts to the same
peer, since we didn't track connection attempts that hadn't yet
returned to the service via `Service::attempted`.
With this change, we add an extra `Initial` state to sessions, so
that redundant connections are not attempted when one is already under
way.
Periodically, make sure we try to fetch inventory that is tracked
but missing from local storage.
We decide not to fetch immediately on `TrackRepo`, as this limits
the command's flexibility. For example, when `rad clone` is used,
we want to be able to fetch manually after tracking.
The method `track_repo` only accepted the RID as the argument for
tracking.
Instead, allow passing Scope as an argument for tracking a
repository.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
The MockStorage holds an inventory of repositories and their
identities but when asking for a MockRepository, none of this
information is transferred.
Add `id` and `doc` fields to MockRepository for defining some of its
functionality.
In addition, add a generator for a nonempty MockStorage to use in
tests that will expect the storage to be populated.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
A fetch is a client-server interaction and so there are two sides to
this interaction. These sides are generally referred to as receive --
the client side -- and upload -- the server side.
The `Fetch` type indicated whether it was doing a receive or upload by
using a field `initiated: bool`. However, this can be confusing when
you pair it with the `namespaces: Namespaces` field, since only the
receive side should be sending what refspecs it wants and the upload
side responds with those matching refspecs.
A better way to represent this is using an enum for which direction
the fetch is being considered, where the receive side contains the
Namespaces. To borrow from Noise, the variant names are 'Initiator'
for the client and 'Responder' for the server.
The resulting code then makes decisions based on what variant of the
enum was passed.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
We weren't updating the sessions map when a persistent peer
was re-attempted. It would then panic when `connected` was called,
because the state would be `Disconnected`.
There are few unrelated changes in this commit that I wasn't able to
split out, mostly due to laziness, so I'll list them here:
* The node startup logic is moved out of the main function, and into a
dedicated functionin `client.rs`.
* There is a tentative worker implementation that is untested, and
handles git replication both ways. It's likely lacking in various ways
but I wanted to get it in there anyway.
* `Address` was moved from `radicle-node` to `radicle`, because it's
needed to send `Connect` commands from the node handle.
* The `netservices` dependency was updated.
* Finally, there is a first end-to-end node test, which currently
doesn't use NoiseXK, but uses the new reactor in `netservices`.
Signed-off-by: Alexis Sellier <self@cloudhead.io>
This is a large change that introduces transport encryption via
a Noise_XK handshake. The inner `Service` now works directly
with `NodeId` and doesn't need to interact with socket addresses.
The transport logic takes place in `wire::transport`, and the
established sessions are passed down to `Service`.
Note that the i/o implementation in the `poll-reactor` crate still
needs testing, and there is still work to be done to integrate the
Git transport as part of this architecture.
Signed-off-by: Alexis Sellier <alexis@radicle.xyz>
Allow setting a test peer's local time to avoid slight race conditions in
tests. The race condition's happen because peers created within a test may
unexpectedly have slightly different local times.
To support this, a struct is used as argument to peer::config(..). The
linter 'cargo clippy' will complain if instead of using a struct, the local
time is passed as an additional parameter in config()'s function call.
Signed-off-by: Slack Coder <slackcoder@server.ky>
The tracking command was tracking a project when it should
have been tracking peers.
We also add the ability to pass an alias when tracking from
the CLI.
Signed-off-by: Alexis Sellier <alexis@radicle.xyz>
The latter is a fork of the former, which adds const generics
and a bunch of other quality of life improvements that aren't
in the original crate due to it being unmaintained.
Signed-off-by: Alexis Sellier <alexis@radicle.xyz>
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