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feat(sdk): throw IvExhaustionError when IV collision risk exceeds 2^-32 (DSPX-4492) - #1077
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373-404: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftExercise the reservation through
writeStream.The new tests call
TDF.reservePayloadSegmentdirectly. They do not exercise payload encryption throughwriteStream. A regression that removes the reservation from_encryptAndCountSegmentcould therefore pass these tests. Add a stream-level test that reaches the budget boundary and assertsIvExhaustionErroroccurs before the encryption callback runs.This is a material coverage improvement, not evidence of a current production failure. The current caller reserves the segment before encryption.
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Review comments at @lib/tdf3/src/tdf.ts:
- Around line 653-659: Track payload segment encryption attempts across
writeStream calls that reuse the same DEK instead of resetting
segmentEncryptAttempts per call. Update the reservation logic near writeStream
to associate attempts with cfg.keyForEncryption.unwrappedKey and enforce
MAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEY across calls, while preserving the existing per-key
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Review comments at @lib/tests/mocha/unit/tdf.spec.ts:
- Around line 373-404: Add a stream-level test in the AES-GCM payload segment
budget suite that exercises payload encryption through writeStream at the
segment limit and verifies IvExhaustionError is raised before the encryption
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| * `keyMiddleware`). A `keyMiddleware` that reuses a key across writes gets a | ||
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| export const MAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEY = 2 ** 32 - 1; |
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This cap reserves only one AES-GCM invocation for key-access metadata, but manifest generation encrypts metadata once per key-access object (SplitKey.getKeyAccessObjects). Existing lookup logic also allows multiple KAOs for the same split id, and with the single-split case keySplit(..., 1) returns the data key itself. That means two KAOs sharing the default/same sid can still do 2^32 - 1 payload encryptions plus two metadata encryptions under the same key, exceeding the stated 2^32 invocation cap. Can we subtract/reserve the actual same-key metadata encryption count, or otherwise enforce the payload budget from the manifest KAO/split layout before streaming segments?
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No, encryptedMetadata is generated once per AES key with the same i.v. This results in identical ciphertexts. However, I don't really like that, since a) we are doing the same work multiple times, b) it is prone to error (e.g. if we somehow change the plaintext between calls we leak data that is very much likely to have a recognizable schema) and c) this allows several adversarial KASes to collude in interesting ways.
I'm following up #1085 to harden this by using different i.v.s for each metadata object, which will also mean we have to start the counter at a higher level.
…32 (DSPX-4492) The TDF writer encrypts each payload segment with AES-GCM under one DEK using a random 96-bit IV. By the birthday bound, k invocations collide with probability about k^2 / 2^97; NIST SP 800-38D section 8 caps this at 2^-32. Add MAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEY = 2^32 - 1 (invocation 0 is reserved for key access metadata) and have writeStream count every segment encryption attempt, throwing the new public IvExhaustionError before encrypting the segment that would exceed the cap. This applies to known- and unknown-length streams alike, since both share the same segment path. Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
…Stream wiring (DSPX-4492) - Rewrite the MAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEY and IvExhaustionError docs around the §8.3 2^32-invocation cap, which is the binding limit, rather than a derived ~2^32.5 birthday bound; note the budget is per writeStream call. - Replace the log2 test with MAX + 1 <= 2^32. - Add an @internal maxPayloadSegments test seam and writeStream tests that refuse the segment past the budget (full and short final segments) without encrypting it. Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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The unchecked test override can raise or disable the hard encryption limit.
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What changed in this PR
Adds an AES-GCM payload segment budget to the SDK writer, preparing for the planned IV-management changes without changing the wire format.
Changes:
- Adds and exports
IvExhaustionError. - Checks encryption attempts before processing each payload segment.
- Tests budget boundaries, stream enforcement, and error inheritance.
| File | Description |
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| lib/tests/mocha/unit/tdf.spec.ts | Tests segment limits and stream enforcement. |
| lib/tests/mocha/unit/errors.spec.ts | Tests the new error’s inheritance. |
| lib/tdf3/src/tdf.ts | Adds the budget and pre-encryption guard. |
| lib/src/index.ts | Exports the new error publicly. |
| lib/src/errors.ts | Defines and documents IvExhaustionError. |
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What
The TDF writer now refuses to encrypt more than
MAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEY = 2^32 - 1payload segments under one data encryption key (DEK). The segment that would go over the cap throws the new publicIvExhaustionError("AES-GCM IV space exhausted ...") before it is encrypted.lib/src/errors.ts: addsIvExhaustionError extends TdfError, exported from@opentdf/sdklike the other errors. It also shows up underErrorsintdf3.lib/tdf3/src/tdf.ts: adds theMAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEYconstant and areservePayloadSegment(attempted)check.writeStreamcalls the check at the top of_encryptAndCountSegment. That function is the only path for payload encryption, so the cap covers streams of known and unknown length alike. The writer counts attempts, so a failed encryption still uses up budget.The writer still draws a random IV for each segment, as it does today. This PR does not touch IV generation.
Why
Each segment is one AES-GCM invocation with a random 96-bit IV. For random IVs, NIST SP 800-38D §8.3 allows at most 2^32 invocations under one key. That limit is a normative "shall", so the writer treats it as hard and never raises it. At k = 2^32 invocations the chance of an IV collision is about k^2 / 2^97 = 2^-33, inside the 2^-32 requirement in §8. One invocation is set aside for the key access metadata (see the DSPX-4492 ADR), so the writer allows 2^32 - 1 payload segments. The count is kept per
writeStreamcall, which matches "per key" because the defaultkeyMiddlewarecreates a fresh key for each write.At the default segment size, real payloads are nowhere near this cap. Before this change the writer had no cap at all, which matters most for streams whose length isn't known up front.
Naming:
IvExhaustionErrorandMAX_PAYLOAD_SEGMENTS_PER_KEYmatch the names in the in-flight draft stack (#1063, #1018, #1022), so those PRs can rebase onto this one without renaming anything.Follow-ups
main) cancels the source stream when a write fails or is cancelled. Without it, anIvExhaustionErrorleaves the caller's input locked.How to test
cd lib && npm testtests/mocha/unit/tdf.spec.ts, under "AES-GCM payload segment budget":MAX + 1 <= 2^32, counting the metadata invocation).reservePayloadSegment.writeStreamtests that use the@internalmaxPayloadSegmentsoverride. A write of exactly the budget succeeds. The segment past the budget, whether full-size or the short final one, is refused withIvExhaustionErrorwithout being encrypted.tests/mocha/unit/errors.spec.ts: coversIvExhaustionErrorin the standard error-hierarchy checks.Risk
This PR touches crypto. It adds a guard to the payload encryption loop. Only writes of 2^32 or more segments under one key behave differently, and those now fail instead of silently going past the NIST collision bound. Nothing changes on the wire or on the read side.
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