This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.
A Brief History of AUTHORS files
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The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.
The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".
This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.
Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:
> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.
It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.
In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.
Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.
The source file changes were purely mechanical with:
git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'
Updates #cleanup
Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
This exports a number of things from the derp (generic + client) package
to be used by the new derpserver package, as now used by cmd/derper.
And then enough other misc changes to lock in that cmd/tailscaled can
be configured to not bring in tailscale.com/client/local. (The webclient
in particular, even when disabled, was bringing it in, so that's now fixed)
Fixes#17257
Change-Id: I88b6c7958643fb54f386dd900bddf73d2d4d96d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
To authenticate mesh keys, the DERP servers used a simple == comparison,
which is susceptible to a side channel timing attack.
By extracting the mesh key for a DERP server, an attacker could DoS it
by forcing disconnects using derp.Client.ClosePeer. They could also
enumerate the public Wireguard keys, IP addresses and ports for nodes
connected to that DERP server.
DERP servers configured without mesh keys deny all such requests.
This patch also extracts the mesh key logic into key.DERPMesh, to
prevent this from happening again.
Security bulletin: https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins#ts-2025-003Fixestailscale/corp#28720
Signed-off-by: Simon Law <sfllaw@tailscale.com>
Add setec secret support for derper.
Support dev mode via env var, and setec via secrets URL.
For backwards compatibility use setec load from file also.
Updates tailscale/corp#25756
Signed-off-by: Mike O'Driscoll <mikeo@tailscale.com>
So we can locate them in logs more easily.
Updates tailscale/corp#24721
Change-Id: Ia766c75608050dde7edc99835979a6e9bb328df2
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
- Basic description of DERP
If configured to do so, also show
- Mailto link to security@tailscale.com
- Link to Tailscale Security Policies
- Link to Tailscale Acceptable Use Policy
Updates tailscale/corp#24092
Signed-off-by: Percy Wegmann <percy@tailscale.com>
This moves NewContainsIPFunc from tsaddr to new ipset package.
And wgengine/filter types gets split into wgengine/filter/filtertype,
so netmap (and thus the CLI, etc) doesn't need to bring in ipset,
bart, etc.
Then add a test making sure the CLI deps don't regress.
Updates #1278
Change-Id: Ia246d6d9502bbefbdeacc4aef1bed9c8b24f54d5
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Add a standalone server for STUN that can be hosted independently of the
derper, and factor that back into the derper.
Fixes#8434Closes#8435Closes#10745
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
The current structure meant that we were embedding netstack in
the tailscale CLI and in the GUIs. This removes that by isolating
the checksum munging to a different pkg which is only called from
`net/tstun`.
Fixes#9756
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
This updates all source files to use a new standard header for copyright
and license declaration. Notably, copyright no longer includes a date,
and we now use the standard SPDX-License-Identifier header.
This commit was done almost entirely mechanically with perl, and then
some minimal manual fixes.
Updates #6865
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
The derpers don't allow whitespace in the challenge.
Change-Id: I93a8b073b846b87854fba127b5c1d80db205f658
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@tailscale.com>
The Lufthansa in-flight wifi generates a synthetic 204 response to the
DERP server's /generate_204 endpoint. This PR adds a basic
challenge/response to the endpoint; something sufficiently complicated
that it's unlikely to be implemented by a captive portal. We can then
check for the expected response to verify whether we're being MITM'd.
Follow-up to #5601
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: I94a68c9a16a7be7290200eea6a549b64f02ff48f
Real goal is to eliminate some allocs in the STUN path, but that requires
work in the standard library.
See comments in #2783.
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This lets a trusted DERP client that knows a pre-shared key subscribe
to the connection list. Upon subscribing, they get the current set
of connected public keys, and then all changes over time.
This lets a set of DERP server peers within a region all stay connected to
each other and know which clients are connected to which nodes.
Updates #388
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
