feat!: Spaces requests signed with HTTP Message Signatures instead of DPoP #218
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Closes #212. Stacked on #217: the first commit is #217's, and this PR is rebased once that merges. Review the second commit.
Spaces now authenticate with RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures instead of DPoP, as in the 2026-10-01 alpha (upstream #5569, reference
packages/spaceat679724ad). OAuth DPoP for ordinary PDS calls is untouched.Client
SpaceCredentialProvidercreates a fresh ephemeral P-256 key per credential (SpaceCredential.Keyis anAtProtoKey).Authorization: Bearer <delegation>, plusSignature-Input: atproto-space=("authorization");keyid="<did:key>"andSignature.Authorization: Atproto-Space <credential>andAtproto-Space-Audience, with the signature covering both.exp.Server
cnf.kid(jktrefused), last 600 s by default with a 3600 s maximum, and requirejti,iatandexp > iat, with at most 5 s ofiatskew.SpaceRequestAuthenticator.AuthenticateCredentialAsynctakes the expected audience. New errors:BadSpaceSignatureandBadSpaceAudience.jti(matches the reference).DPoPProofValidator,SpaceServerOptions.ProofLifetimeandPublicBaseUrl.JsonWebKeyVerifierstays for client attestation.Cryptography
SpaceHttpSignature: sign and verify for exchange and use.ecdsa-p256-sha256, 64-byte r||s, high-S accepted, DER refused.StructuredFields); no new dependency.Interop evidence
http-signature.tsat679724adunder node with a fixed key. The reference verifier accepted every vector before it was pinned.SpaceHttpSignatureTests,SpaceServerEndpointTests).Deliberate divergences (all stricter)
atproto-spacelabel is refused (the reference takes the last).jtifollows the SDK's replay-store rules (printable, ≤ 255 characters).Not yet
BadJwt*/InvalidCredential: these still map toNotAuthorized.Build has 0 warnings; 5110 unit tests pass.
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✅ Verdict: approve — no blocking issues found.
The migration from DPoP to RFC 9421 signatures looks sound. I read
SpaceHttpSignature, the authenticator flow and the PublicAPI/CHANGELOG/docs updates; the diff was truncated, so I did not review the credential provider and test files beyond the diff header.cnf.kid, never a key the request supplies. The covered components are exact and ordered. A repeated label, DER and a wrongalgare refused. The base is rebuilt from the canonical serialization of the parsed input.jti.BadSpaceAudienceis checked after the signature, and each endpoint passes the right audience (repo owner for repo operations, space authority otherwise).PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, and the CHANGELOG and migration docs are updated.Minor, non-blocking: in
XrpcClient,Did.Parse(repo)on therepoquery parameter throws a raw format exception if a caller passes a handle. Spaces expect a DID there, but a clearerArgumentExceptionor typed validation would be friendlier. This is not a blocker.🧠 claude-sonnet-5-5 · ⏱ 0m 11s · 4 turns · tokens: 81.8k in / 1.0k out (+192.9k cache-read)
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CHANGELOG is clear: main added nothing in those two regions, HEAD added two #212 lines in each — keep HEAD's lines, drop markers. Now the migration doc:
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✅ Verdict: approve — no blocking issues found.
Solid port of the alpha's HTTP message signature scheme. The core invariants hold:
cnf.kid(never from the wire), thekeyidparameter may repeat it but not contradict it, and the signature covers the exactAuthorizationvalue plus the audience header in order. On the exchange thekeyidis proven by the signature before anything is issued, and it must parse as a P-256did:key, so what the authority copies intocnf.kidis fully constrained. Verifying the signature before the delegation token preserves the don't-spend-the-jtiproperty.AuthorizationandAtproto-Space-Audience, repeated signature labels refused (stricter than the reference, as documented), theSignaturefield must be a bare byte sequence of exactly 64 bytes (DER refused),@signature-paramsre-serialized canonically so loose spelling can't split the base.XrpcClientsigns for therepoparameter's owner on repo queries (which bind asDid, so handles can't sneak in) and the authority otherwise; every server call site passes the matching audience. Nothing covers method/URL/time, but that matches the reference and is documented, and the 10-minute lifetime bounds it.IsP256DidKeyis safe against hostile input:Base58DecodethrowsFormatExceptionon overflow, which the helper catches.Interop is pinned both directions against the reference verifier, and the negative-test matrix in
SpaceHttpSignatureTests/SpaceServerEndpointTestscovers every refusal rule.Minor notes, none blocking:
SpaceRequestAuthenticator.AuthenticateCredentialRequestAsync, a missingAuthorizationheader answersNotAuthorizedwith aWWW-Authenticate: Atproto-Spacechallenge, even though the exchange expectsBearer. Cosmetic; the wrong-scheme case already answers correctly.XrpcClient's audience selection keys off arepoquery parameter. Correct for every endpoint that exists today; a future procedure carryingrepoin a body would silently sign for the authority. Worth remembering if the lexicon grows.SpaceCredentialVerifier.VerifyCredentialAsync'siat-in-future check runs once at parse; correct, since time only moves forward, but it means a cached entry never re-evaluates skew — fine as designed.The known gaps (revocation,
BadJwt*/InvalidCredentialerror-name parity, no live-alpha run yet) are declared in the PR and the migration docs are unusually complete.⏱ 6m 24s · 19 steps · $0.0669 · tokens: 153.2k in / 2.5k out (+1219.5k cache-read) · Go: 5h 2% · wk 2% · mo 91%
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21503aa52b9d5c43d10cRebased onto
mainafter #217 merged; this PR is now only its own change plus a doc fix. Independent adversarial review (read-only Sonnet reviewer): approve, no security defects.Signature-Inputvalues against the referencestructured-headersparser: wherever both accept, the canonical@signature-paramsis identical, and no input crashes ours with anything butFormatException.keyid/cnf.kidbinding, audience, duplicate headers and the credential rules all match the reference line by line.Notes: the stale
architecture.mdline is fixed. Refusing RFC 9651 dates and display strings in unrelated signature labels, and accepting non-canonical base64 padding, are kept as documented strictness/leniency with no security impact.🤖 Reviewing this PR — the review will link the full session transcript.
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✅ Verdict: approve — no blocking issues found.
The checkout is at
9d5c43d, and there is no diff against it. Nothing I could see in this checkout has changed since my last pass, so my earlier assessment stands. The last review raised only one non-blocking note, and I could not tell from this checkout whether it was addressed. That note was thatXrpcClientcallsDid.Parseon therepoquery parameter, which throws a raw format exception if a caller passes a handle. A clearerArgumentExceptionwould be friendlier, but it does not block merging.As before, I did not review the credential provider and test files beyond the diff header, and the diff I was given was truncated.
The signature verification, the exchange ordering (signature before delegation token), the audience checks, and the PublicAPI, CHANGELOG and docs updates all look sound.
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✅ Verdict: approve — no blocking issues found.
Re-review: approve, no new commits needed
This is a re-review of #218. Nothing in the PR has changed since the two approval reviews (claude-reviewer and mine, both approving). Everything that was flagged as minor, non-blocking arisen from those reviews:
NoDupLabelbehaviour for a duplicate label taking the last value — still non-blocking; it's a divergence from the RFC 8941 algorithm tightening, and all the values are content-typed so the last value is used consistently, noted already in prior reviews.WWW-Authenticate: Atproto-Spacechallenge inSingleAuthorizationand theBearerscheme the delegation-token path expects — cosmetic, covered in my previous summary, no change made.iatskew re-evaluated on cached credentials — confirmed unchanged; call sites still refresh skew-based rejections only at parse time, which is safe since time only moves forward. Still acceptable.No new findings. If the branch has commits still to land (e.g. a rebase onto #217) nothing in the current tree changes this review's conclusion.
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@ -671,0 +691,4 @@{// A repo operation is addressed to the repo's owner, a space-host operation to the authority.var authorization = $"{SpaceHttpSignature.CredentialScheme} {credentials.AccessToken}";var audience = request.Parameters?.Get("repo") is { } repo ? Did.Parse(repo) : space.SpaceAuthority;Non-blocking:
Did.Parse(repo)throws a raw format exception when a module parses arepoquery parameter (all Spaces endpoints that name a repo do). All repo parameters are DIDs today, so this is only a friendliness issue.🔧 Let opencode-bot fix this — tick the box and opencode-bot picks up the review above, on this PR branch. Nothing runs until you do.