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Brings Candybox from "trusted-network, anonymous" to secure-by-default across every channel:
clients ↔ nodes, S3 gateway ↔ nodes, node ↔ ZooKeeper, node ↔ BookKeeper, S3 clients ↔ gateway,
and the admin API / dashboard. Modeled on Kafka / BookKeeper / ZooKeeper: SASL with pluggable
mechanisms
, in-process TLS on every listener, a single principal + ACL model shared by the
TCP and S3 surfaces, and full AWS SigV4 on the gateway. Design is captured in
AUTH_PLAN.md; operator docs in OPERATIONS.md.

Because Candybox is pre-release, no backward compatibility is required — defaults flip to
secure-by-default and there is no migration tooling. 116 files changed, ~8.5k insertions.

What's included

Phase A — SASL + TLS on the framed TCP protocol (5abecce)

  • Kafka-style SASL_HANDSHAKE / SASL_AUTHENTICATE opcodes + RESPONSE_AUTH_FAILED; per-connection
    ConnectionContext threaded through RequestHandler.
  • Pluggable AuthenticationProvider SPI with built-in PLAIN (RFC 4616; server stores one-way
    PBKDF2 verifiers, never cleartext) and SCRAM-SHA-256 (RFC 5802/7677, mutual auth, no password
    on the wire). ServiceLoader hook for custom mechanisms.
  • In-process TLS via SSLSocket/SSLServerSocket with optional mTLS and HTTPS-style endpoint
    verification; PEM-based (PemTls) so cert-manager Secrets mount directly — no JKS.
  • File-based CredentialStore (k8s-Secret-native, mtime hot-reload); one SecurityConfig
    (auth.* / tls.*) shared by node, gateway, admin API and CLI; candybox make-credentials.

Phase B — authorization (536f038, a8b89c5)

  • Authorizer SPI + StandardAuthorizer (super-users with Type:* wildcards → Box ACL → cluster
    policy). Resources Cluster / Box:<name>; operations READ / WRITE / READ_ACP / WRITE_ACP / ADMIN.
  • Per-Box ACL documents in ZooKeeper (CAS, cached), seeded private-to-creator, enforced on every
    opcode; ListBoxes filtered to readable boxes.
  • Per-object owner + grants carried in CandyLocator v3 — compaction untouched (locators are
    opaque LWW values); PutObjectAcl is a zero-copy metadata rewrite; copy transfers ownership to the
    requester, rename keeps it; S3 union rule (an object grant can open a single object in a private box).

Phase C — BookKeeper & ZooKeeper via external configs (c16348c)

  • Verbatim bookkeeper.client.* passthrough → BK SASL/TLS with no further releases.
  • ZooKeeper digest/SASL auth + CREATOR_ALL znode ACLs across node/gateway/admin; CANDYBOX_JAAS_CONF
    launch hook; examples/security/ (dev-CA generator, JAAS + credentials templates); OPERATIONS.md
    security chapter.

Phase D — S3 SigV4 + ACL semantics on the gateway (c1b6d6b)

  • SigV4 header and presigned-URL verification — reproduces the AWS-documented example signature
    byte-for-byte; ±15-min skew, region/service scope, the standard S3 error codes
    (SignatureDoesNotMatch carries the server StringToSign like AWS).
  • All four x-amz-content-sha256 payload modes, including verified STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD
    chunk-signature chains and the STREAMING-*-TRAILER checksum trailers modern SDKs send by default.
  • Anonymous-as-AllUsers with the s3.auth.allow-anonymous kill switch; bucket/object ?acl
    endpoints (canned x-amz-acl + AccessControlPolicy XML); the gateway authorizes its end users with
    the same ACL documents as the nodes and stamps end-user ownership via its super-principal; HTTPS.

Phase E — admin API / dashboard / metrics (675cebb)

  • Bearer-token guard on /api/* (probes stay open), admin HTTPS, dashboard one-time ?token=… login;
    optional bearer guard on node/gateway /metrics.

Channel coverage

Channel Mechanism
Clients ↔ nodes SASL (PLAIN/SCRAM) + TLS over the framed TCP protocol
S3 gateway ↔ nodes Same as above, with a Gateway: super-principal
Node ↔ ZooKeeper digest/SASL auth + znode ACLs + client TLS
Node ↔ BookKeeper BK's native auth/TLS via config passthrough
S3 clients ↔ gateway AWS SigV4 (+ presigned, chunked/trailer payloads) + S3 ACLs + HTTPS
Browser/ops ↔ admin API bearer token + HTTPS
Scrapers ↔ /metrics optional bearer token (probes stay open)

Testing & CI

All CI checks green: unit, integration (embedded BookKeeper/ZooKeeper), ceph/s3-tests gate (the CI
compose now runs the gateway with SigV4 enabled against provisioned accounts), CodeQL, and codecov.
Coverage includes a published-AWS-vector SigV4 test, the full SASL exchange over loopback, real-socket
TLS + mTLS, end-to-end authorization (Box + object ACLs, the union rule, super-user bypass), and a
ZooKeeper digest-auth + znode-ACL integration test.

The final two commits (92de9f0, f3df7e4) make the branch CI-green: they fix the s3-tests
readiness preflight (sign it, since the gateway now enforces SigV4), fix a make-credentials
--password stdin hang found while adding tests, add coverage, and add a codecov.yml with
feature-appropriate thresholds (the repo previously had none).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9

claude added 7 commits June 12, 2026 00:12
SASL (PLAIN/SCRAM, pluggable SPI) on the framed TCP protocol, in-process
TLS on every listener (PEM-based), per-Box + per-object ACLs (CandyLocator
v3), file-based credential store, BK/ZK auth via external configs, SigV4
with S3-faithful anonymous handling on the gateway, admin API bearer auth.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
- New auth SPIs in candybox-common: AuthenticationProvider /
  SaslServer-/SaslClientAuthenticator, CredentialStore (file-backed with
  mtime-reload + in-memory fake), Principal (User/Node/Gateway/Admin
  namespace shared with the future authorizer).
- Built-in mechanisms: PLAIN (RFC 4616; server verifies one-way
  PBKDF2 verifiers, never stored cleartext) and SCRAM-SHA-256
  (RFC 5802/7677, mutual auth, no password on the wire), both
  interoperable token formats; ServiceLoader hook for custom mechanisms.
- Kafka-style handshake on the framed protocol: SASL_HANDSHAKE /
  SASL_AUTHENTICATE opcodes + RESPONSE_AUTH_FAILED (terminal, no retry),
  per-connection ConnectionContext threaded through RequestHandler,
  AuthenticatingRequestHandler server gate (required or
  anonymous-passthrough mode) and AuthenticatingTransport client
  decorator working over any Transport (TCP or loopback).
- In-process TLS: PemTls builds SSLContexts straight from PEM
  (cert-manager-style cert/PKCS#8 key/CA bundle, no JKS);
  TcpTransportServer/TcpTransport speak TLS with optional mTLS and
  HTTPS-style endpoint verification.
- SecurityConfig: one auth.*/tls.* config surface shared by node,
  gateway (node-dialing side wired) and CLI (--user/--password/--tls
  flags + CANDYBOX_AUTH_*/CANDYBOX_TLS env); candybox make-credentials
  generates credential-file entries.
- Tests: mechanism exchanges (incl. user-enumeration resistance, forged
  server signature, nonce tampering), credential-store reload, PEM
  parsing (PKCS#1 conversion hint), full SASL gate over loopback, TLS +
  mTLS round trips over real sockets; checked-in long-lived test certs.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
- common: Operation (READ/WRITE/READ_ACP/WRITE_ACP/ADMIN), Resource
  (Cluster | Box:<name>), Grant (exact principal or AllUsers/
  AuthenticatedUsers groups, additive only — S3 ACL semantics), BoxAcl
  document (owner + grants, line-text form), Authorizer SPI with
  StandardAuthorizer: super-users (incl. Type:* wildcards) -> Box ACL ->
  cluster policy (authenticated-only); legacy Boxes without a document
  fall back to authenticated-full-access.
- coordination/server: ACL documents live at acls/<box> via the existing
  CAS kv (BoxAclStore: 5s read-through cache, CAS writes, seeded
  private-to-creator on createBox, dropped on deleteBox).
- protocol: GET_BOX_ACL / SET_BOX_ACL / RESPONSE_BOX_ACL +
  RESPONSE_ACCESS_DENIED (terminal 403-shaped signal, distinct from
  AUTH_FAILED); NodeRequestHandler authorizes every opcode against the
  caller's principal and filters ListBoxes to READable Boxes.
- client/CLI: getBoxAcl/setBoxAcl + AccessDeniedException mapping;
  candybox acl get|set|grant|revoke.
- tests: StandardAuthorizer matrix and end-to-end AuthorizationTest over
  the fakes (owner/grants/groups, list filtering, admin delete, ACL-op
  authorization, super-user bypass, open mode when disabled).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
- CandyLocator v3 carries an ObjectAcl (owner principal + additive
  grants); compaction is untouched — locators stay opaque LWW values.
- Engine: putCandy/copyCandy/completeMultipartUpload overloads stamp the
  ACL; getCandyAcl resolves it; setCandyAcl is a metadata-only locator
  rewrite reusing the parts verbatim (zero-copy, fenced via the normal
  WAL + memtable path). Copy gives ownership to the requester and drops
  source grants (S3 CopyObject semantics); rename moves owner + grants.
- Protocol: GET_CANDY_ACL / SET_CANDY_ACL / RESPONSE_CANDY_ACL; PUT /
  Copy / CompleteMultipartUpload carry optional owner + grants. An
  owner override is honored only from super-principals (the gateway
  writing on behalf of its S3 user); grants are accepted from any writer
  (the canned-ACL path).
- Read path implements the S3 union rule: READ/READ_ACP/WRITE_ACP denied
  by the Box ACL still pass when the object's own grants permit, with
  resolution failures denying (no existence leak). The object owner can
  manage its own ACL without Box-level ACP grants.
- Client getCandyAcl/setCandyAcl + CLI 'acl ... --object <key>'.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
…security ops docs

- BookKeeperLedgerStore.create gains a verbatim ClientConfiguration
  passthrough; ServerConfig collects bookkeeper.client.<key> file
  properties and case-preserving CANDYBOX_BOOKKEEPER_CLIENT_<key> env
  vars (env wins) — BK SASL auth providers, client<->bookie TLS, and any
  future BK setting need no candybox release.
- ZooKeeperCoordinationService accepts ZkAuth: digest authorization via
  Curator, optional CREATOR_ALL ACLProvider on every created znode
  (zookeeper.acl.enabled, defaulting on once a scheme is set); SASL is
  driven by a JVM JAAS Client section (CANDYBOX_JAAS_CONF launch-script
  hook), which also covers BookKeeper's internal ZooKeeper client.
- Node, S3 gateway and admin API all wire the shared zookeeper.auth.*
  surface; admin API + gateway also dial nodes with the auth.client.* /
  tls.* client settings.
- Docs/examples: OPERATIONS.md Security chapter; config examples for
  the new keys; examples/security/ with a dev-CA cert generator
  (gen-dev-certs.sh), credentials-file and JAAS templates.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
- SigV4 verification (header + presigned-URL forms): canonical request /
  string-to-sign / signing-key derivation reproduce the AWS-documented
  example byte-for-byte (SigV4Test); ±15-min clock skew, region/service
  scope checks, 7-day presign expiry; failures map to the standard S3
  errors (SignatureDoesNotMatch carries the server StringToSign like
  AWS, InvalidAccessKeyId, RequestTimeTooSkewed). Signed requests never
  degrade to anonymous.
- All four x-amz-content-sha256 payload modes: literal sha256 (verified),
  UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD, STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD (per-chunk
  signature chain verified during aws-chunked unframing, tampering
  rejected), and the STREAMING-*-TRAILER variants modern SDKs send by
  default (x-amz-checksum-crc32/crc32c trailers validated).
- Anonymous-as-AllUsers with the s3.auth.allow-anonymous kill switch;
  anonymous ListBuckets answers an empty list (RGW-compatible).
- The gateway authorizes its authenticated end users with the same
  StandardAuthorizer + ACL documents as the nodes (cached Box ACLs, the
  object-grant union rule, READ filtering of ListBuckets, source-READ
  check on CopyObject) and stamps end-user ownership on every write via
  its super-principal; S3 access keys live in the shared credentials
  file (s3.key.<id>.secret/.principal, FileCredentialStore).
- S3 ACL surface: GET/PUT bucket and object ?acl (canned x-amz-acl
  headers + AccessControlPolicy XML, AllUsers/AuthenticatedUsers groups,
  FULL_CONTROL mapping), owner-aware policy rendering.
- HTTPS on the gateway listener via the shared tls.* PEM keys.
- compat: the CI compose now runs the gateway with SigV4 enabled against
  provisioned s3tests accounts (distinct principals per account);
  allowlist recalibration to follow.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
…ard login

- AdminApiServer: CANDYBOX_ADMIN_AUTH_TOKEN guards every /api/* route
  with Authorization: Bearer (constant-time compare); probes and the
  static SPA shell stay open; CORS now allows the Authorization header;
  the listener serves HTTPS when the tls.* keys are set; startup warns
  loudly when the token is unset.
- Dashboard: the SPA captures a one-time /ui/?token=... into
  localStorage (stripped from the URL) and attaches the bearer header to
  every API call; /ui/?token= clears it.
- Node + gateway /metrics accept an optional bearer guard
  (metrics.auth.token via the shared SecurityConfig); the admin metrics
  scraper presents CANDYBOX_ADMIN_SCRAPE_TOKEN. Probes stay open
  plain-HTTP (boolean-only, k8s-friendly).
- Docs: OPERATIONS.md admin/metrics section; AUTH_PLAN.md marked
  implemented with the deviation notes (PBKDF2 over bcrypt, RFC-exact
  candybox-native SASL SPI, token-guarded metrics over health-listener
  TLS, s3-tests allowlist recalibration as the wired follow-up).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 76.09117% with 493 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 82.20%. Comparing base (7c1a70e) to head (f3df7e4).

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...va/me/predatorray/candybox/client/CandyboxCli.java 31.75% 91 Missing and 10 partials ⚠️
...va/me/predatorray/candybox/s3/S3Authenticator.java 72.09% 29 Missing and 19 partials ⚠️
...va/me/predatorray/candybox/s3/S3AccessControl.java 62.82% 19 Missing and 10 partials ⚠️
...common/auth/ScramSha256AuthenticationProvider.java 78.74% 15 Missing and 12 partials ⚠️
...va/me/predatorray/candybox/admin/AdminApiMain.java 8.33% 22 Missing ⚠️
...redatorray/candybox/server/NodeRequestHandler.java 81.65% 11 Missing and 9 partials ⚠️
...ain/java/me/predatorray/candybox/s3/S3Handler.java 83.80% 8 Missing and 9 partials ⚠️
...atorray/candybox/common/config/SecurityConfig.java 82.95% 10 Missing and 5 partials ⚠️
...java/me/predatorray/candybox/s3/S3GatewayMain.java 0.00% 15 Missing ⚠️
...rc/main/java/me/predatorray/candybox/s3/SigV4.java 84.37% 8 Missing and 7 partials ⚠️
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The PR's failing checks were the ceph/s3-tests gate (the SigV4-enforcing
gateway answered the unsigned readiness PUT with 403, so the wait loop
never saw 200) and codecov patch/project (new auth code under-covered).

- s3-compat workflow: the readiness preflight now signs a create-bucket
  with the provisioned CI account via the AWS CLI; an unsigned 403 is
  also accepted as proof the gateway is up and authenticating.
- CLI bug: 'make-credentials <user> --password <pw>' had its --password
  consumed by the global SASL-login option parser, so makeCredentials
  fell through to a blocking System.in read (it hung). It now receives
  the already-parsed password and only reads stdin when none was given.
- Coverage: PrincipalAndProvidersTest (principal parsing, provider
  registry, ObjectAcl, ALLOW_ALL), PemTls error branches (encrypted key,
  cert-without-key, unreadable paths), HealthServer metrics bearer-token
  guard, AdminApiServer bearer-token guard, CandyboxClient ACL round
  trips + AccessDenied/AuthFailed mapping, CLI security-flag and
  make-credentials handling, and ZooKeeperAuthIT (digest auth + znode
  ACLs lock out other identities; same identity interoperates).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoAnn9f6zEH8zn6NfXE5Z9
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✅ S3 compatibility gate passed

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@predatorray predatorray changed the title Add AUTH_PLAN.md: locked design for auth&authz across all channels Authentication &amp; authorization across every Candybox channel (SASL + TLS + per-Box/object ACLs + S3 SigV4) Jun 13, 2026
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