tailscale/tka/key.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
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
---

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>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package tka
import (
"crypto/ed25519"
"errors"
"fmt"
"tailscale.com/types/tkatype"
)
// KeyKind describes the different varieties of a Key.
type KeyKind uint8
// Valid KeyKind values.
const (
KeyInvalid KeyKind = iota
Key25519
)
func (k KeyKind) String() string {
switch k {
case KeyInvalid:
return "invalid"
case Key25519:
return "25519"
default:
return fmt.Sprintf("Key?<%d>", int(k))
}
}
// Key describes the public components of a key known to network-lock.
type Key struct {
Kind KeyKind `cbor:"1,keyasint"`
// Votes describes the weight applied to signatures using this key.
// Weighting is used to deterministically resolve branches in the AUM
// chain (i.e. forks, where two AUMs exist with the same parent).
Votes uint `cbor:"2,keyasint"`
// Public encodes the public key of the key. For 25519 keys,
// this is simply the point on the curve representing the public
// key.
Public []byte `cbor:"3,keyasint"`
// Meta describes arbitrary metadata about the key. This could be
// used to store the name of the key, for instance.
Meta map[string]string `cbor:"12,keyasint,omitempty"`
}
// Clone makes an independent copy of Key.
//
// NOTE: There is a difference between a nil slice and an empty slice for encoding purposes,
// so an implementation of Clone() must take care to preserve this.
func (k Key) Clone() Key {
out := k
if k.Public != nil {
out.Public = make([]byte, len(k.Public))
copy(out.Public, k.Public)
}
if k.Meta != nil {
out.Meta = make(map[string]string, len(k.Meta))
for k, v := range k.Meta {
out.Meta[k] = v
}
}
return out
}
// MustID returns the KeyID of the key, panicking if an error is
// encountered. This must only be used for tests.
func (k Key) MustID() tkatype.KeyID {
id, err := k.ID()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return id
}
// ID returns the KeyID of the key.
func (k Key) ID() (tkatype.KeyID, error) {
switch k.Kind {
// Because 25519 public keys are so short, we just use the 32-byte
// public as their 'key ID'.
case Key25519:
return tkatype.KeyID(k.Public), nil
default:
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown key kind: %v", k.Kind)
}
}
// Ed25519 returns the ed25519 public key encoded by Key. An error is
// returned for keys which do not represent ed25519 public keys.
func (k Key) Ed25519() (ed25519.PublicKey, error) {
switch k.Kind {
case Key25519:
return ed25519.PublicKey(k.Public), nil
default:
return nil, fmt.Errorf("key is of type %v, not ed25519", k.Kind)
}
}
const maxMetaBytes = 512
func (k Key) StaticValidate() error {
if k.Votes > 4096 {
return fmt.Errorf("excessive key weight: %d > 4096", k.Votes)
}
if k.Votes == 0 {
return errors.New("key votes must be non-zero")
}
// We have an arbitrary upper limit on the amount
// of metadata that can be associated with a key, so
// people don't start using it as a key-value store and
// causing pathological cases due to the number + size of
// AUMs.
var metaBytes uint
for k, v := range k.Meta {
metaBytes += uint(len(k) + len(v))
}
if metaBytes > maxMetaBytes {
return fmt.Errorf("key metadata too big (%d > %d)", metaBytes, maxMetaBytes)
}
switch k.Kind {
case Key25519:
default:
return fmt.Errorf("unrecognized key kind: %v", k.Kind)
}
return nil
}