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>
It's an unnecessary nuisance having it. We go out of our way to redact
it in so many places when we don't even need it there anyway.
Updates #12639
Change-Id: I5fc72e19e9cf36caeb42cf80ba430873f67167c3
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
We will need this for unmarshaling node prefs: use the zero
HardwareAttestationKey implementation when parsing and later check
`IsZero` to see if anything was loaded.
Updates #15830
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
Sidestep cmd/viewer incompatibility hiccups with
HardwareAttestationPublic type due to its *ecdsa.PublicKey inner member
by serializing the key to a byte slice instead.
Updates tailscale/corp#31269
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Extend the client state management to generate a hardware attestation
key if none exists.
Extend MapRequest with HardwareAttestationKey{,Signature} fields that
optionally contain the public component of the hardware attestation key
and a signature of the node's node key using it. This will be used by
control to associate hardware attesation keys with node identities on a
TOFU basis.
Updates tailscale/corp#31269
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Define the HardwareAttestionKey interface describing a platform-specific
hardware backed node identity attestation key. Clients will register the
key type implementations for their platform.
Updates tailscale/corp#31269
Signed-off-by: Patrick O'Doherty <patrick@tailscale.com>
Add mesh key support to derpprobe for
probing derpers with verify set to true.
Move MeshKey checking to central point for code reuse.
Fix a bad error fmt msg.
Fixestailscale/corp#27294Fixestailscale/corp#25756
Signed-off-by: Mike O'Driscoll <mikeo@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>
It's unnecessary. Returning an array value is already a copy.
Updates #cleanup
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: If7f350b61003ea08f16a531b7b4e8ae483617939
This commit implements probing of UDP path lifetime on the tail end of
an active direct connection. Probing configuration has two parts -
Cliffs, which are various timeout cliffs of interest, and
CycleCanStartEvery, which limits how often a probing cycle can start,
per-endpoint. Initially a statically defined default configuration will
be used. The default configuration has cliffs of 10s, 30s, and 60s,
with a CycleCanStartEvery of 24h. Probing results are communicated via
clientmetric counters. Probing is off by default, and can be enabled
via control knob. Probing is purely informational and does not yet
drive any magicsock behaviors.
Updates #540
Signed-off-by: Jordan Whited <jordan@tailscale.com>
This eventually allows encoding packages that may respect
the proposed encoding.TextAppender interface.
The performance gains from this is between 10-30%.
Updates tailscale/corp#14379
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Updates #7123
Updates #6257 (more to do in other repos)
Change-Id: I073e2a6d81a5d7fbecc29caddb7e057ff65239d0
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@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>
Nodes that are expired, taking into account the time delta calculated
from MapResponse.ControlTime have the newly-added Expired boolean set.
For additional defense-in-depth, also replicate what control does and
clear the Endpoints and DERP fields, and additionally set the node key
to a bogus value.
Updates #6932
Signed-off-by: Andrew Dunham <andrew@du.nham.ca>
Change-Id: Ia2bd6b56064416feee28aef5699ca7090940662a
This moves the NetworkLock key from a dedicated StateKey to be part of the persist.Persist struct.
This struct is stored as part for ipn.Prefs and is also the place where we store the NodeKey.
It also moves the ChonkDir from "/tka" to "/tka-profile/<profile-id>". The rename was intentional
to be able to delete the "/tka" dir if it exists.
This means that we will have a unique key per profile, and a unique directory per profile.
Note: `tailscale logout` will delete the entire profile, including any keys. It currently does not
delete the ChonkDir.
Signed-off-by: Maisem Ali <maisem@tailscale.com>
Forgot it when adding the Challenge types earlier.
Change-Id: Ie0872c4e6dc25e5d832aa58c7b3f66d450bf6b71
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
This allows direct use of NLPublic with tka.Authority.KeyTrusted() and
similar without using tricks like converting the return value of Verifier.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
Following the pattern elsewhere, we create a new tka-specific types package for the types
that need to couple between the serialized structure types, and tka.
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
- A network-lock key is generated if it doesn't already exist, and stored in the StateStore. The public component is communicated to control during registration.
- If TKA state exists on the filesystem, a tailnet key authority is initialized (but nothing is done with it for now).
Signed-off-by: Tom DNetto <tom@tailscale.com>
This leaves behind a type alias and associated constructor, to allow
for gradual switchover.
Updates #3206.
Signed-off-by: David Anderson <danderson@tailscale.com>
