Package net.i2p.router.crypto

Class TransientSessionKeyManager

  • public class TransientSessionKeyManager
extends SessionKeyManager
    Implement the session key management, but keep everything in memory (don't write to disk). However, this being java, we cannot guarantee that the keys aren't swapped out to disk so this should not be considered secure in that sense. The outbound and inbound sides are completely independent, each with their own keys and tags. For a new session, outbound tags are not considered delivered until an ack is received. Otherwise, the loss of the first message would render all subsequent messages undecryptable. True? For an existing session, outbound tags are immediately considered delivered, and are later revoked if the ack times out. This prevents massive stream slowdown caused by repeated tag delivery after the minimum tag threshold is reached. Included tags pushes messages above the ideal 1956 size by ~2KB and causes excessive fragmentation and padding. As the tags are not seen by the streaming lib, they aren't accounted for in the window size, and one or more of a series of large messages is likely to be dropped, either due to high fragmentation or drop priorites at the tunnel OBEP. For this to work, the minimum tag threshold and tag delivery quanitity defined in GarlicMessageBuilder must be chosen with streaming lib windows sizes in mind. If a single TagSet is not delivered, there will be no stall as long as the current window size is smaller than the minimum tag threshold. Additional TagSets will be sent before the acked tags completely run out. See below. all subsequent messages will fail to decrypt. See ConnectionOptions in streaming for more information. There are large inefficiencies caused by the repeated delivery of tags in a new session. With an initial streaming window size of 6 and 40 tags per delivery, a web server would deliver up to 240 tags (7680 bytes, not including bundled leaseset, etc.) in the first volley of the response. Could the two directions be linked somehow, such that the initial request could contain a key or tags for the response? Should the tag threshold and quantity be adaptive? Todo: Switch to ConcurrentHashMaps and ReadWriteLocks, only get write lock during cleanup

    • Field Detail

      • MAX_INBOUND_SESSION_TAGS

        public static final int MAX_INBOUND_SESSION_TAGS
        a few MB? how about 24 MB! This is the max size of _inboundTagSets.
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values

      • DEFAULT_TAGS

        public static final int DEFAULT_TAGS
        This was 100 since 0.6.1.10 (50 before that). It's important because: 
          - Tags are 32 bytes. So it previously added 3200 bytes to an initial message.
  - Too many tags adds a huge overhead to short-duration connections
    (like http, datagrams, etc.)
  - Large messages have a much higher chance of being dropped due to
    one of their 1KB fragments being discarded by a tunnel participant.
  - This reduces the effective maximum datagram size because the client
    doesn't know when tags will be bundled, so the tag size must be
    subtracted from the maximum I2NP size or transport limit.
        Issues with too small a value: 
          - When tags are sent, a reply leaseset (~1KB) is always bundled.
    Maybe don't need to bundle more than every minute or so
    rather than every time?
  - Does the number of tags (and the threshold of 20) limit the effective
    streaming lib window size? Should the threshold and the number of
    sent tags be variable based on the message rate?
        We have to be very careful if we implement an adaptive scheme, since the key manager is per-router, not per-local-dest. Or maybe that's a bad idea, and we need to move to a per-dest manager. This needs further investigation. So a value somewhat higher than the low threshold seems appropriate. Use care when adjusting these values. See ConnectionOptions in streaming, and TransientSessionKeyManager in crypto, for more information.
        Since:
        0.9.2 moved from GarlicMessageBuilder to per-SKM config
        See Also:
        Constant Field Values

    • Constructor Detail

      • TransientSessionKeyManager

        public TransientSessionKeyManager​(I2PAppContext context)
        The session key manager should only be constructed and accessed through the application context. This constructor should only be used by the appropriate application context itself.

      • TransientSessionKeyManager

        public TransientSessionKeyManager​(I2PAppContext context,
                                  int tagsToSend,
                                  int lowThreshold)
        Parameters:
        tagsToSend - how many to send at a time, may be lower or higher than lowThreshold. 1-128
        lowThreshold - below this, send more. 1-128
        Since:
        0.9.2

    • Method Detail

      • shutdown

        public void shutdown()
        Description copied from class: SessionKeyManager
        Called when the system is closing down, instructing the session key manager to take whatever precautions are necessary (saving state, etc)
        Overrides:
        shutdown in class SessionKeyManager

      • getCurrentKey

        public SessionKey getCurrentKey​(PublicKey target)
        Retrieve the session key currently associated with encryption to the target, or null if a new session key should be generated. Warning - don't generate a new session if this returns null, it's racy, use getCurrentOrNewKey()
        Overrides:
        getCurrentKey in class SessionKeyManager

      • getCurrentOrNewKey

        public SessionKey getCurrentOrNewKey​(PublicKey target)
        Retrieve the session key currently associated with encryption to the target. Generates a new session and session key if not previously exising.
        Overrides:
        getCurrentOrNewKey in class SessionKeyManager
        Parameters:
        target - public key to which the data should be encrypted, must be ELGAMAL_2048.
        Returns:
        non-null
        Throws:
        IllegalArgumentException - on bad target EncType
        Since:
        0.9

      • createSession

        public void createSession​(PublicKey target,
                          SessionKey key)
        Associate a new session key with the specified target. Metrics to determine when to expire that key begin with this call. Racy if called after getCurrentKey() to check for a current session; use getCurrentOrNewKey() in that case.
        Overrides:
        createSession in class SessionKeyManager
        Parameters:
        target - public key to which the data should be encrypted, must be ELGAMAL_2048.
        Throws:
        IllegalArgumentException - on bad target EncType

      • consumeNextAvailableTag

        public SessionTag consumeNextAvailableTag​(PublicKey target,
                                          SessionKey key)
        Retrieve the next available session tag for identifying the use of the given key when communicating with the target. If this returns null, no tags are available so ElG should be used with the given key (a new sessionKey should NOT be used)
        Overrides:
        consumeNextAvailableTag in class SessionKeyManager

      • getTagsToSend

        public int getTagsToSend()
        How many to send, IF we need to.
        Overrides:
        getTagsToSend in class SessionKeyManager
        Returns:
        the configured value (not adjusted for current available)
        Since:
        0.9.2

      • shouldSendTags

        public boolean shouldSendTags​(PublicKey target,
                              SessionKey key,
                              int lowThreshold)
        Overrides:
        shouldSendTags in class SessionKeyManager
        Returns:
        true if we have less than the threshold or what we have is about to expire
        Since:
        0.9.2

      • getAvailableTags

        public int getAvailableTags​(PublicKey target,
                            SessionKey key)
        Determine (approximately) how many available session tags for the current target have been confirmed and are available
        Overrides:
        getAvailableTags in class SessionKeyManager

      • tagsDelivered

        public TagSetHandle tagsDelivered​(PublicKey target,
                                  SessionKey key,
                                  Set<SessionTag> sessionTags)
        Take note of the fact that the given sessionTags associated with the key for encryption to the target have been sent. Whether to use the tags immediately (i.e. assume they will be received) or to wait until an ack, is implementation dependent. Here, we wait for the ack if the session is new, otherwise we use right away. Will this work??? If the tags are pipelined sufficiently, it will.
        Overrides:
        tagsDelivered in class SessionKeyManager
        Returns:
        the TagSetHandle. Caller MUST subsequently call failTags() or tagsAcked() with this handle.

      • failTags

        @Deprecated
public void failTags​(PublicKey target)
        Deprecated.
        unused and rather drastic
        Mark all of the tags delivered to the target up to this point as invalid, since the peer has failed to respond when they should have. This call essentially lets the system recover from corrupted tag sets and crashes
        Overrides:
        failTags in class SessionKeyManager

      • tagsReceived

        public void tagsReceived​(SessionKey key,
                         Set<SessionTag> sessionTags)
        Accept the given tags and associate them with the given key for decryption
        Overrides:
        tagsReceived in class SessionKeyManager
        Parameters:
        sessionTags - modifiable; NOT copied

      • tagsReceived

        public void tagsReceived​(SessionKey key,
                         Set<SessionTag> sessionTags,
                         long expire)
        Accept the given tags and associate them with the given key for decryption
        Overrides:
        tagsReceived in class SessionKeyManager
        Parameters:
        sessionTags - modifiable; NOT copied. Non-null, non-empty.
        expire - time from now
        Since:
        0.9.7

      • consumeTag

        public SessionKey consumeTag​(SessionTag tag)
        Determine if we have received a session key associated with the given session tag, and if so, discard it (but keep track for frequent dups) and return the decryption key it was received with (via tagsReceived(...)). returns null if no session key matches
        Overrides:
        consumeTag in class SessionKeyManager