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Some TDF files record their spec version as tdf_spec_version instead of schemaVersion, either at the manifest root or under payload. This SDK only reads schemaVersion, so those files are read as legacy (hex digests) and fail to decrypt.

Change: read the version from schemaVersion, then root tdf_spec_version, then payload.tdf_spec_version. Non-string values like null are skipped. The writer still emits schemaVersion only.

Reader-only, backwards compatible. Counterparts: opentdf/java-sdk#411, opentdf/web-sdk#1054.

Testing: unit tests for each placement and precedence; end-to-end decrypt with the version under each name. go test -race ./... in sdk/ passes.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Manifests using the alternate tdf_spec_version field can be read, including when it appears inside the payload. A root-level value takes precedence, while a non-empty schemaVersion remains authoritative.
    • Containers using the alternate field can be loaded and decrypted successfully.
    • Saving a manifest writes the version as schemaVersion only.

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When schemaVersion is empty, manifest decoding reads a string-valued tdf_spec_version from the root or payload. Tests cover precedence, serialization, schema validation, container loading, and decryption.

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Manifest version compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manifest decoding and serialization
sdk/manifest.go, sdk/manifest_test.go
Manifest.UnmarshalJSON falls back to tdf_spec_version at the root or under payload when schemaVersion is empty. Tests cover precedence, ignored values, other manifest fields, escaped key spellings, and canonical schemaVersion serialization.
Container loading and schema validation
sdk/tdf_spec_version_test.go, sdk/tdf_test.go
Container tests verify that root and payload placements load as TDFVersion and decrypt the original plaintext. Schema-validation coverage checks a manifest with root tdf_spec_version.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dmihalcik-virtru

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3182e

The SDK accepts legacy version fields while retaining canonical output. The identified compatibility concerns are resolved; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3182e

The reader accepts additional historical manifest formats while retaining existing cryptographic checks and canonical output. No introduced verification bypass was identified, but compatibility guarantees for external decoder reuse are only partially established.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is SDK consumers loading attacker-supplied TDF manifests, including archives with deprecated-only version fields. The inspected change does not grant credentials or modify service authorization; deployed consumer and tenant scope is not established by the available evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An attacker can use the newly accepted keys to change the effective digest representation. That path still encounters keyed root-signature verification and segment authentication before plaintext is exposed. No introduced verification bypass was established in the inspected flow.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Schema validation precedes manifest decoding in LoadTDF. Reader key construction performs root and configured assertion checks before publishing the payload key, AES-GCM state, and decrypted metadata. Deprecated version normalization does not remove these controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — For sequential use, failed initialization leaves the payload-key sentinel unset, allowing later retry; successful initialization is reused. This lifecycle predates the PR. Concurrent initialization or receiver mutation remains outside the established guarantees because no synchronization contract was found.
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🟡 Minor · Decode tdf_spec_version without raw-byte key matching. · manifest.go:190

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Decode tdf_spec_version without raw-byte key matching.

A JSON escape can represent the same member name as tdf_spec_version. The bytes.Contains gates reject that valid representation before encoding/json can decode it. Decode the fallback structure whenever TDFVersion is empty, then update both escaped-key cases to expect "4.3.0". (pkg.go.dev)

  • sdk/manifest.go#L190-L190: remove the raw-byte key condition before the fallback decode.
  • sdk/experimental/tdf/manifest.go#L141-L141: remove the equivalent raw-byte key condition.
  • sdk/manifest_test.go#L167-L168: expect the recovered version for the escaped key.
  • sdk/experimental/tdf/manifest_test.go#L125-L125: expect the recovered version for the escaped key.

The PR objective requires decoding tdf_spec_version when schemaVersion is absent.

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In `@sdk/manifest.go` at line 190, Remove the raw-byte key condition from the
fallback decode when TDFVersion is empty, allowing encoding/json to decode
escaped tdf_spec_version names; apply this in sdk/manifest.go:190-190 and
sdk/experimental/tdf/manifest.go:141-141. Update sdk/manifest_test.go:167-168
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In `@sdk/schema_sync_test.go`:
- Line 38: Update flattenSchema to track the parent schema keyword and
distinguish schema objects from properties maps, skipping description, title,
and $id only as schema annotations so properties with those names are preserved.
In the leaf-array branch, sort only keywords with unordered-array semantics and
preserve order for const and other ordered values; serialize leaf values with
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In `@sdk/manifest.go`:
- Line 190: Remove the raw-byte key condition from the fallback decode when
TDFVersion is empty, allowing encoding/json to decode escaped tdf_spec_version
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@pflynn-virtru pflynn-virtru changed the title feat(sdk): read the off-spec tdf_spec_version manifest field fix(sdk): read the TDF spec version at the manifest root, and stop trusting it Sep 17, 2026
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Manifest.UnmarshalJSON now resolves the spec version in precedence
order: schemaVersion, then tdf_spec_version at the manifest root, then
tdf_spec_version under payload. Only non-empty strings count; other
values (null is known in the wild) are skipped without failing the
decode. The writer still emits schemaVersion only.

experimental/tdf aliases sdk.Manifest, so it picks this up too.

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- Line 191: Update the fallback gate in the manifest parsing flow so escaped
spellings of the TDF version key are recognized after JSON decoding; remove or
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when m.TDFVersion is already set. Update the escaped-key case in the manifest
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Drop the substring-scan gate on the second decode pass: JSON allows the
key to be spelled with escapes, and encoding/json matches it after
unescaping, so the gate skipped a key the decoder would have read.

Decode both candidates as json.RawMessage and only unmarshal string
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Some TDF files record their spec version as `tdf_spec_version` instead
of `schemaVersion`, either at the manifest root or under `payload`. This
SDK only reads `schemaVersion`, so those files are read as legacy (hex
digests) and fail to decrypt.

**Change:** read the version from `schemaVersion`, then root
`tdf_spec_version`, then `payload.tdf_spec_version`. Non-string values
like `null` are skipped. The writer still emits `schemaVersion` only.

Reader-only, backwards compatible. Counterparts: opentdf/platform#4060
(Go), opentdf/web-sdk#1054.

**Testing:** unit tests for each placement and precedence; end-to-end
decrypt with the version under each name. `mvn verify` passes.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* The SDK now recognizes manifest versions stored in either the root or
payload, while preserving an existing `schemaVersion` when present.
* Manifests with missing or null segment sizes now use the corresponding
integrity-information defaults; explicit values, including zero, are
retained.
* Reading alternate version fields and serializing a manifest retains
the version under the canonical `schemaVersion` field.

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* fix(sdk): read the TDF spec version from all three places, and stop trusting it

Read the manifest's spec version in precedence order: schemaVersion at
the root, then the non-aligned tdf_spec_version at the root, then
tdf_spec_version under payload. Only non-empty strings count; null and
other non-string values are skipped without throwing. The resolution
lives in resolveSpecVersion. The writer is unchanged and emits
schemaVersion only.

Stop using that field to choose the integrity-digest encoding. The
reader now recomputes the raw digest and accepts the recorded value if
it is base64 of the raw bytes or base64 of their hex, for segment
hashes and the root signature (digestMatchesRecorded). The assertion
signature is checked against both spellings of the assertion hash. The
field is unauthenticated and only tracked the encoding because this
SDK's writer sets both from one setting; hex is an invertible encoding
of the same MAC, so accepting both weakens nothing.

Previously a raw-digest file whose version sat only under payload (or
was absent) was treated as legacy and failed integrity, as did a
hex-digest file that carried a 4.3.0 label.

Counterpart of opentdf/platform#4060.

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* fix(sdk): scope to reading the spec version; keep the digest encoding as-is

Drop the change that accepted either digest encoding regardless of the
recorded version. This PR now only widens where the version is read from:
root schemaVersion, then root tdf_spec_version, then
payload.tdf_spec_version. The resolved version still selects hex vs raw
digests, as before.

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Signed-off-by: Paul Flynn <pflynn-virtru@users.noreply.github.com>

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