- strict-kem vs strict-rp said "Connected + Quantum resistance: true" but it is actually blocked
- perm-kem vs perm-rp "Connected + Quantum resistance: true" but it's a classic WG link, without PQ safety
Reduce Listen's cognitive complexity (SonarCloud S3776, 30 -> under 25) by
extracting the offer and answer cases into handleRemoteOffer/handleRemoteAnswer,
with shared onSignalReceived/notifyListeners helpers and a pqControllerReoffer
helper for the controller re-offer branch. No functional change.
The responder configures WireGuard with endpoint=nil first, then a delayed
update (scheduleDelayedUpdate) applies the real endpoint after fallbackDelay.
It captured the preshared key at schedule time and re-applied it. With the
post-quantum exchange the PSK can change within that window (a fresher PSK
derived and applied via SetPresharedKey), so re-applying the captured one
reverted WireGuard to a key the remote peer no longer used — a mismatch that
stalled the handshake until the WGWatcher timeout forced a retry (~30s).
Pass a nil PSK in the delayed update so it only sets the endpoint and leaves
the current PSK in place; the latest SetPresharedKey wins.
When the controller receives the responder's (KEM-less) offer it replies with
its own KEM offer instead of answering, so the only transaction that brings the
tunnel up is the one that also carries the PSK. Guard that reply with
ShouldSendBootstrapOffer so it fires only when no exchange is in flight: without
it, every responder offer triggered another offer (an offer-per-offer runaway).
The whole behaviour is isolated to the KEM path (config.PQ != nil); non-PQ
connections answer as before.
The controller sends its KEM offer both on its own guard event and in reply
to the responder's offer. SignalOffer was idempotent only while awaiting the
answer; once the answer arrived (awaitingRekey) a repeat call started a fresh
exchange with a different PSK, desyncing the two peers (one on the old PSK,
one on the new) so WireGuard derived misaligned transport keys and dropped all
data. Treat awaitingRekey as in-flight too and return the same offer.
To ensure two peers agree on a key, we need asymmetry. one peer is
the controller ("initiator") the other is the "responder".
Otherwise imagine two offers in parallel driving two answers at the same time
A B
| <----B-OFFER----- |
| -----A-OFFER----> |
| |
| |
---------------------------------
|****** ICE + WG Handshake ****** |
---------------------------------
| |
| <----B-ANSWER---- |
| -----A-ANSWER---> |
PSK is derived on receive of offer, so A and B derive different PSKs.
When WG handshake takes place it picks misaligned PSKs.
So we impair the two nodes and only the offer of one of the two (the controller/initiator)
is allowed to progress and drive the answer (and carry the KEM material).
If a responder initiates an offer, we redo the offer towards it. This is oK
since the ICEworker don't treat offer/answers differently.
To ensure two peers agree on a key, we need asymmetry. one peer is
the controller ("initiator") the other is the "responder".
Otherwise imagine two offers in parallel driving two answers at the same time
A B
| <----B-OFFER----- |
| -----A-OFFER----> |
| |
| |
---------------------------------
|****** ICE + WG Handshake ****** |
---------------------------------
| |
| <----B-ANSWER---- |
| -----A-ANSWER---> |
PSK is derived on receive of offer, so A and B derive different PSKs.
When WG handshake takes place it picks misaligned PSKs.
So we impair the two nodes and only the offer of one of the two (the controller/initiator)
carries the KEM material.
This means that if the responder OFFER/ANSWER comes first, when the controller/initiator's one
completes (and the genuine PSK is shared between A and B, we need to force a new WG handshake with
the proper keys.
- RecoversViaResignalAfterDataPathBreak: a data-path rotation that can no longer
converge raises OnRekeyFailed, and re-bootstrapping over signalling resyncs both
peers on a fresh PSK even while the data path stays broken.
- ConcurrentRekeysNoRace: hammers the single-lock state machine with concurrent
rotation clocks from many goroutines (run with -race) and asserts no split-brain
via a final deterministic bootstrap.
OnRekeyFailed now re-runs the KEM bootstrap over Signal (conn.RequestReoffer ->
handshaker.SendOffer) instead of only logging: a fresh signalling offer starts a new
exchange that overwrites the stalled PSK on both sides, resyncing after a persistent
data-path desync. Chosen over a responder-side awaitingAck revert (which fights the
confirm-less ack timing) and a full tunnel teardown (heavier). The tunnel stays up on
the previous PSK meanwhile since Signal is independent of the broken data path.
Strict mode (NB_PQ_MLKEM_STRICT, default off) closes the initial PQ-vulnerable
window (NET-1408): when enabled, conn.presharedKey programs a per-conn random
sentinel PSK until the ML-KEM exchange derives the real one, so no session can form
on a non-PQ key (the real PSK is pushed via SetPresharedKey once it converges).
Default stays opportunistic.
Also surface PQ status: the peer 'Quantum resistance' flag (RosenpassEnabled) is now
true when an ML-KEM PSK has been derived for the peer, not only for Rosenpass.
The idle-gate reads LastActivities, which only tracks per-peer data in userspace;
in kernel mode it is empty, so the gate treated every kernel peer as idle and
disabled data-path rotation entirely. Detect the bind via IsUserspaceBind and, in
kernel mode, report zero activity age (always 'active') so rotation runs on every
rekey. Lazy back-to-idle is already limited in kernel; the eBPF WG-activity
detection will later supply a real signal that excludes handshake/pqkem traffic.
Replace the raw SHA-256 concat combiner with HKDF-SHA256 (crypto/hkdf, Go 1.24):
IKM = ML-KEM_ss || X25519_ss (draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem order), salt = the
domain-separation label, info = full transcript (offer || answer) || canonicalised
peer identities. Keeps the transcript + identity binding while using a proper KDF.
- Add a trace slog level (NB_PQ_MLKEM_LOG_LEVEL=trace) and move the verbose
per-exchange lifecycle logs (offer/answer/PSK/ack/rotation) to it, so debug
stays quiet and troubleshooting is opt-in.
- Stop logging the raw preshared key; drop the temporary pqkem-dbg OnRemoteOffer/
OnRemoteAnswer probes.
- Demote the per-handshake conn log to trace.
Source OnDataPathRekeyed from the WGWatcher's per-handshake callback
(onWGCheckSuccess), which fires only on a fresh handshake, and OnDataPathDown
from the handshake-timeout path. A fresh handshake clocks the next chained
KEM exchange pushed over the data-path UDP transport.
Learn the peer's data-path endpoint from the signalling offer/answer: its WG
overlay IP combined with the advertised pq UDP port (SetRemotePort -> AddPeer).
Registering here is safe before the tunnel is up because sends only ever fire
once it is (clocked by OnDataPathRekeyed). RemovePeer is wired at peer teardown
(engine.removePeer), not on transient disconnect.
