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Foundation PR-EIPC-4 (S5+S6+S7): session & secrets hygiene in eIPC.
Legacy no-secret auth gated (S5).Authenticator.Authenticate() issued a full session token on a service ID alone, with no proof of the shared secret. It is now refused by default and available only as an explicit per-authenticator opt-in (SetAllowLegacyAuth) for migration. All in-repo tests move onto the challenge-response flow.
Challenge expiry (S5).VerifyResponse now rejects a challenge older than the challenge TTL (default 5m, SetChallengeTTL), reusing the existing Challenge.CreatedAt. Expired challenges are still consumed one-shot.
Log redaction leak fixed (S6). The server ACCEPTED line and the client Authenticated! lines printed session-token material into the log — the first and last eight hex characters (server, client long-token branch) and the whole token (client short-token branch). Both now log only the service and its granted capabilities, never any part of the token.
Post-auth read deadlines (S7).transport.Connection gains SetReadDeadline (delegated to the underlying net.Conn; the in-process SHM connection accepts and ignores it), ServerEndpoint passes it through, and the server message loop re-arms a 5-minute read deadline before every Receive, so an authenticated peer that goes silent is dropped instead of holding a connection slot under the cap indefinitely.
Seam 5, integrating/shipping (JUDGMENT)
Contract-change: yes (auth/session contract — legacy Authenticate now refused by default; new SetChallengeTTL / SetAllowLegacyAuth / SetReadDeadline surface)
Architecture-impact: yes (auth surface is the API-layer trust story — the eos docs/architecture.md delta follows in the next main run per plan, since the doc lives in eos)
CI status: local go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt -l . and go test -race -count=1 ./... all green on Linux (Go 1.26.10); CI runs on this PR will confirm the other platforms. Note: pre-auth challenge clobbering / CreateChallenge rate limiting (S5 detail) is intentionally out of scope for this slice and remains a follow-up.
Tests: legacy refused by default, legacy works when opted in, expired challenge rejected and consumed, in-TTL challenge accepted; read deadline enforced at transport level (live deadline delivers, expired deadline fails fast with a timeout) and at ServerEndpoint level.
Refs: foundation-eipc PR-EIPC-4 (S5+S6+S7)
Summary by Sourcery
Harden eIPC authentication and session handling by requiring secret-backed authentication, redacting credentials from logs, and dropping idle authenticated connections.
New Features:
Add configurable challenge-response expiry with one-shot consumption of expired challenges.
Add transport and endpoint read-deadline support, including server-side post-auth idle connection timeouts.
Bug Fixes:
Disable insecure legacy no-secret authentication by default while retaining explicit opt-in for migration.
Prevent session-token material from being written to client and server logs.
Enhancements:
Update authentication tests and integrations to use challenge-response sessions by default, with coverage for legacy-auth gating and challenge expiry.
Tests:
Add coverage for challenge expiry, legacy authentication behavior, and transport/server endpoint read-deadline enforcement.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Security
Authentication now uses challenge-response verification, and challenges expire after five minutes by default.
Legacy service-ID-only authentication is disabled by default and can be enabled explicitly.
Session tokens are no longer included in authentication logs; successful authentication logs show granted capabilities instead.
Reliability
Authenticated connections that remain idle for five minutes are closed.
Read deadlines are supported for receiving messages, with timeout errors when deadlines expire.
Tests
Added coverage for authentication, challenge expiry, and read-deadline behavior.
- Authenticate() is now refused by default: issuing a session on a
service ID alone, with no proof of the shared secret, let anyone who
knew a service ID impersonate it. It stays available only as an
explicit per-authenticator opt-in (SetAllowLegacyAuth) for migration.
- Challenges now expire: VerifyResponse rejects a challenge older than
the challenge TTL (default 5m, SetChallengeTTL), reusing the existing
Challenge.CreatedAt. Expired challenges are still consumed one-shot.
- Tests move off the legacy path onto challenge-response (shared
challengeAuth helper) and prove: legacy refused by default, legacy
works when opted in, expired challenge rejected and consumed,
in-TTL challenge accepted.
Refs: foundation-eipc PR-EIPC-4 (S5)
- transport.Connection gains SetReadDeadline: ConnWrapper delegates to
the underlying net.Conn (covers TCP, Unix and the Windows TCP shim),
while the in-process SHM connection accepts and ignores it.
- ServerEndpoint.SetReadDeadline passes the deadline through, so the
server can bound how long an authenticated peer may stay silent.
- Tests prove the deadline is enforced: a live deadline still delivers
a frame, an expired deadline fails Receive fast with a timeout error
(transport-level over net.Pipe and endpoint-level over a TCP pair).
Refs: foundation-eipc PR-EIPC-4 (S7)
- The server ACCEPTED line and the client "Authenticated!" lines
printed session-token material into the log: the first and last
eight hex characters (server, client long-token branch) and the whole
token (client short-token branch). Both now log only the service and
its granted capabilities, never any part of the token.
- The server post-auth message loop re-arms a 5-minute read deadline
before every Receive (via the new ServerEndpoint.SetReadDeadline),
so an authenticated peer that goes silent is dropped instead of
holding a connection slot under the cap indefinitely. This also
makes true the loop's existing "idle timeout" comment.
Refs: foundation-eipc PR-EIPC-4 (S6+S7)
Extend the transport connection and server endpoint APIs with read deadlines, including the SHM no-op implementation needed to satisfy the interface.
core/endpoint.go L316-323
transport/shm/shm.go L11, L204-210
transport/transport.go L11, L36-40, L103-109
Add challenge-expiry and legacy-auth opt-in controls, and refuse no-secret authentication by default.
security/auth/identity.go L50-58, L85-103, L177-184 (+3 small edits)
Uses of the API
Apply the new read-deadline API to authenticated server connections by re-arming a five-minute deadline before each receive.
cmd/eipc-server/main.go L27-31, L595-604
Remove session-token material from client and server authentication-success logs.
cmd/eipc-client/main.go L161-166
cmd/eipc-server/main.go L545-549
Tests
Update auth tests and helpers to use challenge-response, and cover default legacy refusal, opt-in behavior, and challenge expiry.
security/auth/identity_binding_test.go L13-18
security/auth/identity_test.go L7-33, L73-158, L190-196 (+8 small edits)
Add a shared integration-test helper for obtaining sessions through challenge-response.
tests/auth_helper_test.go L1-30
Move integration and security tests onto challenge-response and verify legacy authentication is refused by default.
tests/integration_test.go L120
tests/security_test.go L44-49, L120-132 (+2 small edits)
Verify read deadlines deliver frames before expiry and fail promptly with timeout errors after expiry.
core/endpoint_deadline_test.go L1-40
transport/conn_wrapper_test.go L1-63
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The changes add challenge TTL enforcement and disable legacy authentication by default. They add read-deadline support to transports and apply a five-minute idle timeout to authenticated server connections. Client and server authentication logs no longer include session tokens.
Changes: Authentication and Token Handling
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Summary
Challenge policy and token logging security/auth/identity.go, cmd/eipc-client/main.go, cmd/eipc-server/main.go
The authenticator applies a configurable challenge TTL and rejects legacy authentication unless enabled. Authentication logs no longer include session tokens.
Challenge-authentication test coverage security/auth/identity_test.go, security/auth/identity_binding_test.go, tests/auth_helper_test.go, tests/integration_test.go, tests/security_test.go
Tests use challenge-response authentication for peer identities and cover legacy-auth opt-in, challenge expiry, and session operations.
Authenticated Connection Idle Timeout
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Read-deadline transport contract and implementation transport/transport.go, transport/shm/shm.go, core/endpoint.go, transport/conn_wrapper_test.go, core/endpoint_deadline_test.go
The transport interface adds SetReadDeadline. ConnWrapper forwards deadlines, and shared-memory connections accept them without changing connection state. Tests check timeout behavior.
Authenticated server read loop cmd/eipc-server/main.go
The server sets a five-minute read deadline before each authenticated message receive and returns if setting the deadline fails.
embeddedos-org/eIPC#56: It adds peer identity binding, and this pull request updates its shared test to use challenge-response authentication after changing the legacy Authenticate behavior.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fc042
The change disables legacy service-ID-only authentication by default, enforces a challenge TTL, removes session-token fragments from logs, and adds idle timeouts for authenticated connections. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. The one open comment concerns a test fixture key.
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Prompt for AI Agents
Please address the comments from this code review:
## Individual Comments### Comment 1
<locationpath="cmd/eipc-server/main.go"line_range="549" />
<code_context>
+ // and which capabilities were granted, never any part of the token
+ // itself. The old line printed the token's first and last eight
+ // hex characters into the log.
+ log.Printf("[AUTH] ACCEPTED: service=%s caps=%v", peer.ServiceID, peer.Capabilities)
if err := auditLogger.Log(audit.Entry{
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Session tokens appear in server logs**
When an authenticated peer sends an intent, chat, or completion request, the intent, chat, and completion handlers log session IDs that carry the session token, so server logs expose credential material during ordinary requests.
Remove session IDs from these logs and log only non-sensitive identifiers or metadata.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 2
<locationpath="security/auth/identity.go"line_range="143" />
<code_context>
+ // Challenges are one-shot (deleted above before verifying) and
+ // time-bound: an old challenge is rejected even with a correct
+ // response, so a captured nonce cannot be answered later.
+ if a.challengeTTL > 0 && time.Since(challenge.CreatedAt) > a.challengeTTL {
+return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: challenge expired for %q", core.ErrAuth, serviceID)+ }
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Expired challenges remain valid**
When the system clock moves backward after a challenge is created, `CreateChallenge` stores `time.Now().UTC()` without its monotonic reading, so `time.Since(challenge.CreatedAt)` uses wall-clock time and accepts an over-TTL response; the expiry test also becomes nondeterministic under a clock adjustment.
Preserve and use a monotonic time source for challenge expiry, and ensure the expiry test does not depend on wall-clock time.
Also at `security/auth/identity_test.go:116`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 3
<locationpath="security/auth/identity.go"line_range="48" />
<code_context>
activeSessions map[string]*PeerIdentity
pendingChallenges map[string]*Challenge // serviceID → pending challenge
sessionTTL time.Duration
+ challengeTTL time.Duration
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Concurrent handshakes overwrite challenges**
When two connections for the same service ID request challenges before either response is verified, `CreateChallenge` stores only one challenge per service ID, so the second request overwrites the first nonce and `VerifyResponse` checks against and consumes the newer challenge; the handshakes fail intermittently.
Track pending challenges separately for concurrent connections instead of overwriting one challenge per service ID.
Also at `security/auth/identity.go:143`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 4
<locationpath="transport/shm/shm.go"line_range="204-209" />
<code_context>
return nil
}
+// SetReadDeadline is a no-op: the ring buffer is in-process memory with
+// no socket to arm a deadline on. It exists so *Connection satisfies the
+// transport.Connection interface.
+func (c *Connection) SetReadDeadline(deadline time.Time) error {
+ return nil
+}
+
func (c *Connection) RemoteAddr() string {
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**SHM idle connections never expire**
When an SHM connection is passed through the server’s authenticated message loop and its peer stops sending frames, `SetReadDeadline` is a no-op for SHM, while `Connection.Receive` keeps polling the ring buffer until a frame arrives. The server’s re-armed deadline therefore never drops a silent authenticated SHM connection, leaving its handler and connection slot occupied indefinitely.
Make SHM receive interruptible by a deadline, or otherwise arrange for the server’s idle timeout to cancel its receive loop.
Also at `cmd/eipc-server/main.go:601-604`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 5
<locationpath="transport/transport.go"line_range="40" />
<code_context>
+ // a receive running past it fails with a timeout error. A zero time
+ // clears the deadline. Transports without a socket (in-process
+ // shared memory) accept the call and ignore it.
+ SetReadDeadline(deadline time.Time) error
// Close shuts down the connection.
Close() error
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Custom transports stop compiling**
When a consumer supplies its own `transport.Connection` implementation, an external transport that implements the previous `transport.Connection` methods no longer satisfies the interface until it adds `SetReadDeadline`; callers using that transport fail to build when upgrading.
Preserve the existing interface and expose deadline support through an optional interface, or treat this as a documented breaking release.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 6
<locationpath="security/auth/identity.go"line_range="189-191" />
<code_context>
a.mu.Lock()
defer a.mu.Unlock()
+ if !a.allowLegacyAuth {
+return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: legacy no-secret authentication is disabled for %q; use CreateChallenge/VerifyResponse", core.ErrAuth, serviceID)+ }
+
capsSrc, ok := a.knownServices[serviceID]
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**API reference gives stale guidance**
When a caller follows the API reference to authenticate or use the new controls, the reference describes `Authenticate` as direct trusted-context authentication but omits its default refusal and opt-in, as well as the expiry and read-deadline APIs, so callers get authentication errors and cannot discover the new controls.
Update the API reference to describe the default `Authenticate` behavior and opt-in, challenge expiry, and read-deadline APIs.
Also at `transport/transport.go:36-40`, `core/endpoint.go:316-322`, `security/auth/identity.go:85-102`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 7
<locationpath="tests/security_test.go"line_range="105" />
<code_context>
- if err != nil {
-t.Fatalf("Authenticate: %v", err)- }
+ peer := challengeAuth(t, authenticator, secret, "test.client")
-_, err = authenticator.ValidateSession(peer.SessionToken)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Short TTL checks can flake**
When the test goroutine is descheduled for at least the configured TTL after `challengeAuth` creates the session and before the immediate assertion, `TestSessionTTLExpiry` immediately validates the session and `TestSessionTTL` immediately checks `IsExpired`; a correct session can expire before those assertions run, causing the tests to fail under a scheduling pause.
Use a controllable clock for expiry assertions or avoid relying on a very short wall-clock TTL for the immediate-validity check.
Also at `tests/integration_test.go:120`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 8
<locationpath="security/auth/identity.go"line_range="85-92" />
<code_context>
a.sessionTTL = ttl
}
+// SetChallengeTTL configures how long a challenge stays valid for
+// VerifyResponse. A zero or negative TTL disables expiry checking; the
+// default is DefaultChallengeTTL.
+func (a *Authenticator) SetChallengeTTL(ttl time.Duration) {
+ a.mu.Lock()
+ defer a.mu.Unlock()
+ a.challengeTTL = ttl
+}
+
+// SetAllowLegacyAuth opts in to the legacy no-secret Authenticate path.
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Public method docs omit examples**
The new exported setters and deadline methods have comments describing behavior, but do not document their parameters and return values or provide examples. Callers lack the API details and examples required by the repository guidance.
Add parameter and return-value documentation plus runnable examples for each newly exported method.
Also at `security/auth/identity.go:94-102`, `core/endpoint.go:316-322`, `transport/transport.go:36-40`, `transport/transport.go:103-108`, `transport/shm/shm.go:204-209`.
</issue_to_address>
Sourcery assessment
Needs a human reviewer. 7 findings to address first, and services still using Authenticate without a secret will now be refused a session by default, so an unplanned rollout could block those clients from connecting. No data or access is exposed or persisted by that refusal, and reverting the change or explicitly opting in restores the legacy path.
Blocking findings: cmd/eipc-server/main.go:549, security/auth/identity.go:143, security/auth/identity.go:48, transport/shm/shm.go:209, transport/transport.go:40, and 2 more
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🟠 High · Session tokens appear in server logs
When an authenticated peer sends an intent, chat, or completion request, the intent, chat, and completion handlers log session IDs that carry the session token, so server logs expose credential material during ordinary requests.
Remove session IDs from these logs and log only non-sensitive identifiers or metadata.
Prompt for AI agents
In `cmd/eipc-server/main.go` at line 549:
**Session tokens appear in server logs**
When an authenticated peer sends an intent, chat, or completion request, the intent, chat, and completion handlers log session IDs that carry the session token, so server logs expose credential material during ordinary requests.
Remove session IDs from these logs and log only non-sensitive identifiers or metadata.
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🟡 Medium · Expired challenges remain valid
When the system clock moves backward after a challenge is created, CreateChallenge stores time.Now().UTC() without its monotonic reading, so time.Since(challenge.CreatedAt) uses wall-clock time and accepts an over-TTL response; the expiry test also becomes nondeterministic under a clock adjustment.
Preserve and use a monotonic time source for challenge expiry, and ensure the expiry test does not depend on wall-clock time.
Also at security/auth/identity_test.go:116.
Prompt for AI agents
In `security/auth/identity.go` at line 143:
**Expired challenges remain valid**
When the system clock moves backward after a challenge is created, `CreateChallenge` stores `time.Now().UTC()` without its monotonic reading, so `time.Since(challenge.CreatedAt)` uses wall-clock time and accepts an over-TTL response; the expiry test also becomes nondeterministic under a clock adjustment.
Preserve and use a monotonic time source for challenge expiry, and ensure the expiry test does not depend on wall-clock time.
Also at `security/auth/identity_test.go:116`.
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🟡 Medium · Concurrent handshakes overwrite challenges
When two connections for the same service ID request challenges before either response is verified, CreateChallenge stores only one challenge per service ID, so the second request overwrites the first nonce and VerifyResponse checks against and consumes the newer challenge; the handshakes fail intermittently.
Track pending challenges separately for concurrent connections instead of overwriting one challenge per service ID.
Also at security/auth/identity.go:143.
Prompt for AI agents
In `security/auth/identity.go` at line 48:
**Concurrent handshakes overwrite challenges**
When two connections for the same service ID request challenges before either response is verified, `CreateChallenge` stores only one challenge per service ID, so the second request overwrites the first nonce and `VerifyResponse` checks against and consumes the newer challenge; the handshakes fail intermittently.
Track pending challenges separately for concurrent connections instead of overwriting one challenge per service ID.
Also at `security/auth/identity.go:143`.
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🟡 Medium · SHM idle connections never expire
When an SHM connection is passed through the server’s authenticated message loop and its peer stops sending frames, SetReadDeadline is a no-op for SHM, while Connection.Receive keeps polling the ring buffer until a frame arrives. The server’s re-armed deadline therefore never drops a silent authenticated SHM connection, leaving its handler and connection slot occupied indefinitely.
Make SHM receive interruptible by a deadline, or otherwise arrange for the server’s idle timeout to cancel its receive loop.
Also at cmd/eipc-server/main.go:601-604.
Prompt for AI agents
In `transport/shm/shm.go` at lines 204-209:
**SHM idle connections never expire**
When an SHM connection is passed through the server’s authenticated message loop and its peer stops sending frames, `SetReadDeadline` is a no-op for SHM, while `Connection.Receive` keeps polling the ring buffer until a frame arrives. The server’s re-armed deadline therefore never drops a silent authenticated SHM connection, leaving its handler and connection slot occupied indefinitely.
Make SHM receive interruptible by a deadline, or otherwise arrange for the server’s idle timeout to cancel its receive loop.
Also at `cmd/eipc-server/main.go:601-604`.
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🟡 Medium · Custom transports stop compiling
When a consumer supplies its own transport.Connection implementation, an external transport that implements the previous transport.Connection methods no longer satisfies the interface until it adds SetReadDeadline; callers using that transport fail to build when upgrading.
Preserve the existing interface and expose deadline support through an optional interface, or treat this as a documented breaking release.
Prompt for AI agents
In `transport/transport.go` at line 40:
**Custom transports stop compiling**
When a consumer supplies its own `transport.Connection` implementation, an external transport that implements the previous `transport.Connection` methods no longer satisfies the interface until it adds `SetReadDeadline`; callers using that transport fail to build when upgrading.
Preserve the existing interface and expose deadline support through an optional interface, or treat this as a documented breaking release.
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🟡 Medium · API reference gives stale guidance
When a caller follows the API reference to authenticate or use the new controls, the reference describes Authenticate as direct trusted-context authentication but omits its default refusal and opt-in, as well as the expiry and read-deadline APIs, so callers get authentication errors and cannot discover the new controls.
Update the API reference to describe the default Authenticate behavior and opt-in, challenge expiry, and read-deadline APIs.
Also at transport/transport.go:36-40, core/endpoint.go:316-322, security/auth/identity.go:85-102.
Prompt for AI agents
In `security/auth/identity.go` at lines 189-191:
**API reference gives stale guidance**
When a caller follows the API reference to authenticate or use the new controls, the reference describes `Authenticate` as direct trusted-context authentication but omits its default refusal and opt-in, as well as the expiry and read-deadline APIs, so callers get authentication errors and cannot discover the new controls.
Update the API reference to describe the default `Authenticate` behavior and opt-in, challenge expiry, and read-deadline APIs.
Also at `transport/transport.go:36-40`, `core/endpoint.go:316-322`, `security/auth/identity.go:85-102`.
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🟡 Medium · Short TTL checks can flake
When the test goroutine is descheduled for at least the configured TTL after challengeAuth creates the session and before the immediate assertion, TestSessionTTLExpiry immediately validates the session and TestSessionTTL immediately checks IsExpired; a correct session can expire before those assertions run, causing the tests to fail under a scheduling pause.
Use a controllable clock for expiry assertions or avoid relying on a very short wall-clock TTL for the immediate-validity check.
Also at tests/integration_test.go:120.
Prompt for AI agents
In `tests/security_test.go` at line 105:
**Short TTL checks can flake**
When the test goroutine is descheduled for at least the configured TTL after `challengeAuth` creates the session and before the immediate assertion, `TestSessionTTLExpiry` immediately validates the session and `TestSessionTTL` immediately checks `IsExpired`; a correct session can expire before those assertions run, causing the tests to fail under a scheduling pause.
Use a controllable clock for expiry assertions or avoid relying on a very short wall-clock TTL for the immediate-validity check.
Also at `tests/integration_test.go:120`.
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⚪ Low · Public method docs omit examples
The new exported setters and deadline methods have comments describing behavior, but do not document their parameters and return values or provide examples. Callers lack the API details and examples required by the repository guidance.
Add parameter and return-value documentation plus runnable examples for each newly exported method.
Also at security/auth/identity.go:94-102, core/endpoint.go:316-322, transport/transport.go:36-40, transport/transport.go:103-108, transport/shm/shm.go:204-209.
Prompt for AI agents
In `security/auth/identity.go` at lines 85-92:
**Public method docs omit examples**
The new exported setters and deadline methods have comments describing behavior, but do not document their parameters and return values or provide examples. Callers lack the API details and examples required by the repository guidance.
Add parameter and return-value documentation plus runnable examples for each newly exported method.
Also at `security/auth/identity.go:94-102`, `core/endpoint.go:316-322`, `transport/transport.go:36-40`, `transport/transport.go:103-108`, `transport/shm/shm.go:204-209`.
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cmd/eipc-client/main.go
cmd/eipc-server/main.go
core/endpoint.go
core/endpoint_deadline_test.go
security/auth/identity.go
security/auth/identity_binding_test.go
security/auth/identity_test.go
tests/auth_helper_test.go
tests/integration_test.go
tests/security_test.go
transport/conn_wrapper_test.go
transport/shm/shm.go
transport/transport.go
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Minor · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Generate the test HMAC key at runtime.
This fixture embeds an HMAC key in source code. Generate an ephemeral key for the test and check the generation error.
Based on learnings, the backend rule requires “No secret, token or credential in code, logs or fixtures.”
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Review comment at @core/endpoint_deadline_test.go at line 20:
Update the test setup around NewServerEndpoint to generate an ephemeral HMAC key at runtime instead of embedding the key in source, and check and handle any key-generation error before constructing the endpoint.
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Review pass look 1 — PASS (loop run 2026-11-12, merge-train review of the loop's own PR).
Premise verified vs live master 741690e: Authenticate() issued sessions on service-ID alone (:144, 'Legacy simple auth'); VerifyResponse never checked Challenge.CreatedAt; zero SetReadDeadline hits on master.
Diff read in full (13 files, +378/−58): legacy auth gated off by default with opt-in SetAllowLegacyAuth; challenge expiry via DefaultChallengeTTL 5m reusing CreatedAt, one-shot delete before verify; token material removed from both log lines (server :540, client :162/165 — old lines printed first/last 8 hex chars and the whole token); read deadlines on the Connection interface + ConnWrapper + ServerEndpoint, SHM no-op documented, server loop re-arms before every Receive.
Tests: legacy refused by default / works opted-in; expired challenge rejected and consumed; deadline enforced at transport and endpoint level.
CI green @fc04219c (Build & Test all 3 OSes, CodeQL, cross-compile; policy red structural only — no Closes line, expected for a foundation item, not a required check).
Advisories: SetChallengeTTL(0) disables expiry (documented opt-out); pre-auth challenge clobbering / CreateChallenge rate limiting remains a follow-up (noted in the body). Architecture-impact: yes — the eos docs/architecture.md delta follows in the next main run per plan (doc lives in eos).
Returns to the 2026-11-13 train for the clean-context second look + merge decision.
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What / why
Foundation PR-EIPC-4 (S5+S6+S7): session & secrets hygiene in eIPC.
Authenticator.Authenticate()issued a full session token on a service ID alone, with no proof of the shared secret. It is now refused by default and available only as an explicit per-authenticator opt-in (SetAllowLegacyAuth) for migration. All in-repo tests move onto the challenge-response flow.VerifyResponsenow rejects a challenge older than the challenge TTL (default 5m,SetChallengeTTL), reusing the existingChallenge.CreatedAt. Expired challenges are still consumed one-shot.ACCEPTEDline and the clientAuthenticated!lines printed session-token material into the log — the first and last eight hex characters (server, client long-token branch) and the whole token (client short-token branch). Both now log only the service and its granted capabilities, never any part of the token.transport.ConnectiongainsSetReadDeadline(delegated to the underlyingnet.Conn; the in-process SHM connection accepts and ignores it),ServerEndpointpasses it through, and the server message loop re-arms a 5-minute read deadline before everyReceive, so an authenticated peer that goes silent is dropped instead of holding a connection slot under the cap indefinitely.Seam 5, integrating/shipping (JUDGMENT)
Contract-change: yes (auth/session contract — legacy
Authenticatenow refused by default; newSetChallengeTTL/SetAllowLegacyAuth/SetReadDeadlinesurface)Architecture-impact: yes (auth surface is the API-layer trust story — the eos
docs/architecture.mddelta follows in the next main run per plan, since the doc lives in eos)CI status: local
go build ./...,go vet ./...,gofmt -l .andgo test -race -count=1 ./...all green on Linux (Go 1.26.10); CI runs on this PR will confirm the other platforms. Note: pre-auth challenge clobbering /CreateChallengerate limiting (S5 detail) is intentionally out of scope for this slice and remains a follow-up.Tests: legacy refused by default, legacy works when opted in, expired challenge rejected and consumed, in-TTL challenge accepted; read deadline enforced at transport level (live deadline delivers, expired deadline fails fast with a timeout) and at
ServerEndpointlevel.Refs: foundation-eipc PR-EIPC-4 (S5+S6+S7)
Summary by Sourcery
Harden eIPC authentication and session handling by requiring secret-backed authentication, redacting credentials from logs, and dropping idle authenticated connections.
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