Juan Leni f7f034a8be privval: refactor Remote signers (#3370)
This PR is related to #3107 and a continuation of #3351

It is important to emphasise that in the privval original design, client/server and listening/dialing roles are inverted and do not follow a conventional interaction.

Given two hosts A and B:

    Host A is listener/client
    Host B is dialer/server (contains the secret key)
    When A requires a signature, it needs to wait for B to dial in before it can issue a request.
    A only accepts a single connection and any failure leads to dropping the connection and waiting for B to reconnect.

The original rationale behind this design was based on security.

    Host B only allows outbound connections to a list of whitelisted hosts.
    It is not possible to reach B unless B dials in. There are no listening/open ports in B.

This PR results in the following changes:

    Refactors ping/heartbeat to avoid previously existing race conditions.
    Separates transport (dialer/listener) from signing (client/server) concerns to simplify workflow.
    Unifies and abstracts away the differences between unix and tcp sockets.
    A single signer endpoint implementation unifies connection handling code (read/write/close/connection obj)
    The signer request handler (server side) is customizable to increase testability.
    Updates and extends unit tests

A high level overview of the classes is as follows:

Transport (endpoints): The following classes take care of establishing a connection

    SignerDialerEndpoint
    SignerListeningEndpoint
    SignerEndpoint groups common functionality (read/write/timeouts/etc.)

Signing (client/server): The following classes take care of exchanging request/responses

    SignerClient
    SignerServer

This PR also closes #3601

Commits:

* refactoring - work in progress

* reworking unit tests

* Encapsulating and fixing unit tests

* Improve tests

* Clean up

* Fix/improve unit tests

* clean up tests

* Improving service endpoint

* fixing unit test

* fix linter issues

* avoid invalid cache values (improve later?)

* complete implementation

* wip

* improved connection loop

* Improve reconnections + fixing unit tests

* addressing comments

* small formatting changes

* clean up

* Update node/node.go

Co-Authored-By: jleni <juan.leni@zondax.ch>

* Update privval/signer_client.go

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* Update privval/signer_client_test.go

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* check during initialization

* dropping connecting when writing fails

* removing break

* use t.log instead

* unifying and using cmn.GetFreePort()

* review fixes

* reordering and unifying drop connection

* closing instead of signalling

* refactored service loop

* removed superfluous brackets

* GetPubKey can return errors

* Revert "GetPubKey can return errors"

This reverts commit 68c06f19b4650389d7e5ab1659b318889028202c.

* adding entry to changelog

* Update CHANGELOG_PENDING.md

Co-Authored-By: jleni <juan.leni@zondax.ch>

* Update privval/signer_client.go

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* Update privval/signer_dialer_endpoint.go

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* Update privval/signer_dialer_endpoint.go

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* Update privval/signer_dialer_endpoint.go

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* Update privval/signer_dialer_endpoint.go

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* Update privval/signer_listener_endpoint_test.go

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* updating node.go

* review fixes

* fixes linter

* fixing unit test

* small fixes in comments

* addressing review comments

* addressing review comments 2

* reverting suggestion

* Update privval/signer_client_test.go

Co-Authored-By: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>

* Update privval/signer_client_test.go

Co-Authored-By: Anton Kaliaev <anton.kalyaev@gmail.com>

* Update privval/signer_listener_endpoint_test.go

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* do not expose brokenSignerDialerEndpoint

* clean up logging

* unifying methods

shorten test time
signer also drops

* reenabling pings

* improving testability + unit test

* fixing go fmt + unit test

* remove unused code

* Addressing review comments

* simplifying connection workflow

* fix linter/go import issue

* using base service quit

* updating comment

* Simplifying design + adjusting names

* fixing linter issues

* refactoring test harness + fixes

* Addressing review comments

* cleaning up

* adding additional error check
2019-08-05 19:09:10 +04:00

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/*
Package privval provides different implementations of the types.PrivValidator.
FilePV
FilePV is the simplest implementation and developer default. It uses one file for the private key and another to store state.
SignerListenerEndpoint
SignerListenerEndpoint establishes a connection to an external process, like a Key Management Server (KMS), using a socket.
SignerListenerEndpoint listens for the external KMS process to dial in.
SignerListenerEndpoint takes a listener, which determines the type of connection
(ie. encrypted over tcp, or unencrypted over unix).
SignerDialerEndpoint
SignerDialerEndpoint is a simple wrapper around a net.Conn. It's used by both IPCVal and TCPVal.
*/
package privval