R-196 / R-204 item 2: a re-issue no longer marks a healthy escrow stale (hub v0.95.0)

ReissueCredentials marked the escrow stale on every re-issue, on precautionary
grounds — the box's re-apply MIGHT mint a fresh repository password. It usually
does not. A stale flag withholds restic_pw_sha256 from the ACK, which stops the
controller's auto-confirm, which leaves EscrowState pending, which makes
OffboxRunnable false: every off-site backup refused on a box whose key was never
in doubt — and the customer told to re-run the one ceremony that would have
superseded the key just recovered.

The case it guessed at is measured elsewhere: the controller's Scenario-F
re-check compares the sealed hash against the live repo password on every ACK
(and the mark was BLINDING it by emptying that hash), and R-197's
offsite_repo_key_changed fires on a proven difference across a supersession.

offsite_reissued is unchanged. MarkEscrowStale is kept without a caller so a
future EVIDENTIAL writer has the mechanism, with a test pinning it live.
TestReissue_InvalidatesEscrow is replaced by its exact inverse.
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@@ -204,43 +204,51 @@ func (p *Provisioner) ReissueCredentials(ctx context.Context, customerID, typ st
// nobody checked the CAUSE — and it sent two separate investigations the wrong way in one day
// (audits/SPIKE-offsite-credential-recovery-2026-08-04.md Q4).
//
// WHY THE MARK IS STILL MADE, on honest grounds: a re-issue is the operator's response to a
// broken delivery, and the box's re-apply may mint a fresh repository password (it does exactly
// that whenever `<DataDir>/offbox/repo_password` is absent — the guest-rebuild shape). The mark is
// therefore PRECAUTIONARY, not evidential. The evidential signal is R-197's
// `offsite_repo_key_changed`, which fires on a measured hash difference at the next ceremony.
// KNOWN CONSEQUENCE, left in place deliberately: on the ordinary re-issue shape — a box that still
// holds its repo_password file — the password does NOT change, so this marks a healthy escrow
// stale and asks the customer for an unnecessary ceremony. R-196 stays OPEN for that; it is a
// behaviour change, not a comment fix, and it must not ride a comment-correction commit.
// THE MARK IS GONE (R-196 / R-204 item 2, hub v0.95.0, 2026-08-05). What used to stand here —
// a `MarkEscrowStale` on every re-issue that found an escrow row, plus an `escrow_stale` customer
// event — was PRECAUTIONARY, not evidential: it guessed that the box's re-apply MIGHT mint a fresh
// repository password. On the ordinary re-issue shape (a box that still holds its
// `<DataDir>/offbox/repo_password`) the password does not change, so it marked a HEALTHY escrow
// stale. The 2026-08-04 recovery drill (R-201) is what promoted this from a nit to a blocker.
//
// Mark the escrow stale so the hub stops advertising "ceremony done" and the customer's escrow
// wizard is offered again; a fresh ceremony seals the current password and clears the flag. Every
// credential change also emits a visible customer event (offsite_reissued always; escrow_stale
// only when a blob was invalidated). Best-effort: the password reset already succeeded — a
// bookkeeping failure here must not fail it.
escrowStaled := false
if host, herr := p.Store.GetHostByCustomer(customerID); herr == nil && host != nil {
if esc, eerr := p.Store.GetHostEscrow(host.HostID); eerr == nil && esc != nil {
if serr := p.Store.MarkEscrowStale(host.HostID); serr != nil {
p.logf("[offsite] WARN mark-escrow-stale for %s: %v", customerID, serr)
} else {
escrowStaled = true
}
}
}
// WHAT THE MARK ACTUALLY DID, mechanically, because "it asked for an unnecessary ceremony"
// understates it by a lot:
// 1. `stale_at` set → `GetEscrowStatusForCustomer` WITHHOLDS `restic_pw_sha256` from the report
// ACK (store.go, the v0.57.0 rule).
// 2. With no hash, the controller's SLICE-3 auto-confirm cannot flip pending→escrowed
// (report.EscrowAutoConfirmer.Reconcile returns early on an empty hash).
// 3. `OffboxRunnable() = OffboxConfigured() && EscrowState=="escrowed"` → EVERY off-site backup
// is refused, indefinitely, on a box whose key was never in doubt.
// 4. The customer is told to re-run the recovery ceremony — which mints a NEW recovery code and
// supersedes the sealed blob. During a recovery that is the one act that would have destroyed
// the key just recovered.
// A precautionary flag that stops the data-protection it is guarding is not conservative.
//
// WHY REMOVING IT LEAVES NO GAP — the case it guessed at is MEASURED elsewhere, and better:
// • Continuous, box-side: the controller compares the ACK's sealed hash against its CURRENT
// local repo password on EVERY report ACK (`reconcileEscrowed`, the Scenario-F re-check). In
// the guest-rebuild shape — the only shape where a re-issue is followed by a fresh repository
// password — that comparison mismatches within one report cycle and raises the stale card plus
// the „create a new recovery code" CTA. It is a measurement, not a guess.
// AND THE MARK WAS BLINDING IT: by emptying the hash (step 1 above) it removed the very value
// that comparison needs, so the box could only report the hash-LESS reason, which is false.
// • Edge-triggered, hub-side: R-197's `offsite_repo_key_changed` fires on a proven hash
// difference across a supersession (api.maybeEmitRepoKeyChanged) and pages the operator.
//
// DISAGREEMENT RECORDED, per the R-96 standing rule: the task's Scenario D asks that a real key
// change "marks the escrow stale". It must NOT, and nothing here was changed to make it: the hub
// learns of a real change at the moment a supersession SEALS THE NEW PASSWORD, i.e. when the escrow
// is freshest. Marking it stale there would ask for a ceremony to fix the ceremony that just ran.
// The correct consequence at that instant is the operator alarm, which is what R-197 does.
//
// `offsite_reissued` is UNCHANGED and still always fires — the customer must still learn that the
// credential moved. Best-effort: the password reset already succeeded, so a bookkeeping failure
// here must not fail it.
if _, serr := p.Store.SaveEvent(customerID, "offsite_reissued", "info",
"Az offsite (házon kívüli) mentési hozzáférést újra kiadtuk — az új egyszeri jelszót a vezérlő a következő frissítéskor átveszi.",
"", "hub"); serr != nil {
p.logf("[offsite] WARN save offsite_reissued event for %s: %v", customerID, serr)
}
if escrowStaled {
if _, serr := p.Store.SaveEvent(customerID, "escrow_stale", "warning",
"A helyreállítási kulcs-letét elavult az offsite jelszó cseréje miatt — futtasd le újra a helyreállítási szertartást (Biztonsági mentés → Helyreállítás).",
"", "hub"); serr != nil {
p.logf("[offsite] WARN save escrow_stale event for %s: %v", customerID, serr)
}
}
return nil
}
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@@ -211,12 +211,27 @@ func TestReissue_RefusesAmbiguousLookup(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// v0.57.0 (2.3, escrow honesty) — re-issuing offsite credentials INVALIDATES the key-escrow blob:
// the blob sealed the OLD repo password, so a recovery code minted against it would decrypt a
// password that no longer opens the repo. RED-PROOF (Scenario C): on pre-fix code (no MarkEscrowStale
// in ReissueCredentials + no stale plumbing) the hub keeps advertising the escrow as current after a
// re-issue and keeps serving its restic-hash for auto-confirm — this test asserts it does NEITHER.
func TestReissue_InvalidatesEscrow(t *testing.T) {
// SCENARIO C (R-196 / R-204 item 2, hub v0.95.0) — re-issuing the offsite PROVIDER credential must
// LEAVE A HEALTHY ESCROW ALONE.
//
// THIS TEST REPLACES `TestReissue_InvalidatesEscrow`, which asserted the opposite and was wrong on a
// false premise: a re-issue resets the storage-provider account password and cannot touch the restic
// REPOSITORY password, which is generated on the box and never leaves it except sealed under R. The
// old assertion looked right because the EFFECT it checked (a stale escrow) was real — nobody checked
// the CAUSE. Kept as one test rather than deleted so the inversion is visible in `git log -L`.
//
// WHAT IT ASSERTS IS THE CONSEQUENCE, not the mechanism: not "MarkEscrowStale was not called" but
// "the ACK still carries the hash", because the hash is what the controller's auto-confirm needs and
// its absence is what blocked every off-site backup during the 2026-08-04 drill.
//
// RED-PROOF: restore the marking — put back
//
// if host, _ := p.Store.GetHostByCustomer(customerID); host != nil {
// if esc, _ := p.Store.GetHostEscrow(host.HostID); esc != nil { p.Store.MarkEscrowStale(host.HostID) }
// }
//
// in ReissueCredentials → es.Stale becomes true, the hash is withheld, and this test fails on both.
func TestReissue_DoesNotMarkAHealthyEscrowStale(t *testing.T) {
p, _, st := newTestProvisioner(t)
const cust = "cust-esc"
if _, err := p.ProvisionOffsite(context.Background(), cust, Input{Enabled: true, Type: "shared", QuotaGB: 10}); err != nil {
@@ -229,7 +244,6 @@ func TestReissue_InvalidatesEscrow(t *testing.T) {
if _, _, err := st.SaveHostEscrow(cust+"-01", []byte("opaque-blob"), "SHA256:fp", "zero_knowledge", "2026-07-16T00:00:00Z", "OLDHASH"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
// Before re-issue: current escrow — the hub serves the sealed hash and is NOT stale.
es, err := st.GetEscrowStatusForCustomer(cust)
if err != nil || es == nil {
t.Fatalf("escrow status (before): %v", err)
@@ -238,25 +252,56 @@ func TestReissue_InvalidatesEscrow(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("pre-reissue escrow must be current: stale=%v hash=%q", es.Stale, es.ResticPwSHA256)
}
// Re-issue the offsite credential — the repo password just changed under the sealed blob.
// Re-issue the offsite PROVIDER credential. The box still holds its repo_password file, so the
// repository password does NOT change — this is the ordinary re-issue shape.
if err := p.ReissueCredentials(context.Background(), cust, "shared"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("reissue: %v", err)
}
// After: the escrow is STALE and the restic-hash is WITHHELD (no auto-confirm against a dead key).
es, err = st.GetEscrowStatusForCustomer(cust)
if err != nil || es == nil {
t.Fatalf("escrow status (after): %v", err)
}
if !es.Stale {
t.Fatal("RED-PROOF: escrow must be STALE after an offsite re-issue (the hub was advertising ceremony-done against a key the repo no longer accepts)")
if es.Stale {
t.Fatal("a re-issue marked a HEALTHY escrow stale — this blocks every off-site backup and asks the customer for a ceremony that would supersede a good key (R-196)")
}
if es.ResticPwSHA256 != "" {
t.Fatalf("a stale escrow must WITHHOLD the restic hash to inhibit auto-confirm, got %q", es.ResticPwSHA256)
if es.ResticPwSHA256 != "OLDHASH" {
t.Fatalf("the sealed hash must keep flowing to the ACK so the controller can auto-confirm; got %q", es.ResticPwSHA256)
}
// The customer is still TOLD the credential moved — removing the false alarm must not remove the
// true notice. `offsite_reissued` is untouched by this change.
ev, eerr := st.GetLatestEventByType(cust, "offsite_reissued")
if eerr != nil || ev == nil {
t.Fatalf("offsite_reissued must still fire on every re-issue (err=%v ev=%+v)", eerr, ev)
}
// …and the false alarm is gone.
if bad, _ := st.GetLatestEventByType(cust, "escrow_stale"); bad != nil {
t.Fatalf("a re-issue must not raise escrow_stale on a healthy escrow: %+v", bad)
}
}
// The other half of Scenario C: the stale MECHANISM is intact and still does its job when something
// legitimately sets it. Without this, "nothing marks stale any more" could decay into "stale no longer
// works", and the next evidential caller would ship inert (the seam-built-but-never-wired shape).
func TestEscrowStaleMechanism_StillWithholdsAndClears(t *testing.T) {
_, _, st := newTestProvisioner(t)
const cust = "cust-stale-mech"
if err := st.UpsertHost(&store.Host{HostID: cust + "-01", CustomerID: cust, APIKey: "k"}); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if _, _, err := st.SaveHostEscrow(cust+"-01", []byte("blob"), "SHA256:fp", "zero_knowledge", "2026-07-16T00:00:00Z", "OLDHASH"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := st.MarkEscrowStale(cust + "-01"); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("MarkEscrowStale: %v", err)
}
es, _ := st.GetEscrowStatusForCustomer(cust)
if es == nil || !es.Stale || es.ResticPwSHA256 != "" {
t.Fatalf("a marked escrow must read stale AND withhold the hash: %+v", es)
}
// A fresh ceremony (new blob sealing the new password) clears stale + serves the new hash.
if _, _, err := st.SaveHostEscrow(cust+"-01", []byte("opaque-blob-2"), "SHA256:fp", "zero_knowledge", "2026-07-16T01:00:00Z", "NEWHASH"); err != nil {
if _, _, err := st.SaveHostEscrow(cust+"-01", []byte("blob-2"), "SHA256:fp", "zero_knowledge", "2026-07-16T01:00:00Z", "NEWHASH"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
es, _ = st.GetEscrowStatusForCustomer(cust)
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@@ -445,14 +445,14 @@ func (s *Store) migrate() error {
// instead of trusting blob-presence. NULL/'' = a legacy or password-less blob (never auto-confirms).
s.db.Exec(`ALTER TABLE host_escrow ADD COLUMN restic_pw_sha256 TEXT`)
// v0.57.0 (2.3, escrow honesty on offsite re-issue) — stale_at is set when the offsite PROVIDER
// credentials are re-issued. ⚠ CORRECTED 2026-08-04 (R-196): it used to say "when the offsite repo
// password is re-issued", which nothing in the hub does — the repository password is generated on
// the box and never leaves it except sealed under R. The flag is PRECAUTIONARY (the box's re-apply
// MAY mint a fresh repository password), not evidence that it changed; the evidential signal is
// R-197's offsite_repo_key_changed. While set, the hub stops advertising "ceremony done" and
// withholds the possibly-non-matching restic_pw_sha256 from the auto-confirm ACK. NULL = current;
// a fresh ceremony (SaveHostEscrow) clears it.
// v0.57.0 (2.3, escrow honesty on offsite re-issue) — stale_at marks an escrow blob that may no
// longer cover the box's live repository password. While set, the hub stops advertising "ceremony
// done" and withholds restic_pw_sha256 from the auto-confirm ACK. NULL = current; a fresh ceremony
// (SaveHostEscrow) clears it.
// ⚠ NOTHING SETS IT as of v0.95.0 (R-196 / R-204 item 2). The only writer was the PRECAUTIONARY
// mark on offsite re-issue, which guessed rather than measured and so blocked off-site backups on
// boxes whose key had not changed. The column and its readers stay; see MarkEscrowStale for what a
// legitimate future writer would have to prove first.
s.db.Exec(`ALTER TABLE host_escrow ADD COLUMN stale_at DATETIME`)
// dr_recipe (SPIKE-dr-recipe-2026-06-16): the secret-free DR reconstruction recipe, stored
@@ -2699,12 +2699,24 @@ func (s *Store) CountCurrentEscrowWithIdentity() (total, withIdentity int, err e
return total, withIdentity, err
}
// MarkEscrowStale flags a host's escrow blob as stale (v0.57.0, 2.3) — called when the offsite
// PROVIDER credentials are re-issued. ⚠ CORRECTED 2026-08-04 (R-196): it used to say "when the offsite
// repo password is re-issued", which no hub path does; see the reasoning at offsite.ReissueCredentials.
// The flag is precautionary — the box's re-apply may mint a fresh repository password — not a
// measurement that one did. No-op when no escrow row exists; idempotent (only stamps the first
// re-issue since the last ceremony; a fresh ceremony clears stale_at via SaveHostEscrow's ON CONFLICT).
// MarkEscrowStale flags a host's escrow blob as stale (v0.57.0, 2.3).
//
// ⚠ IT HAS NO CALLER as of hub v0.95.0 (R-196 / R-204 item 2), and that is deliberate, not an
// oversight. Its ONE caller was `offsite.ReissueCredentials`, which called it on every re-issue on
// the PRECAUTIONARY grounds that the box's re-apply might mint a fresh repository password. It
// usually does not, so the call marked healthy escrows stale — and because a stale flag WITHHOLDS
// restic_pw_sha256 from the ACK (GetEscrowStatusForCustomer, below), it blocked every off-site backup
// on those boxes and asked the customer for a ceremony that would supersede a perfectly good key. The
// full reasoning, and the two measured signals that cover the real case, are at
// offsite.ReissueCredentials.
//
// KEPT, not deleted, because the FLAG is still live and correct — `stale_at` is read by the ACK, the
// operator card and the PBS-DR view, and a future EVIDENTIAL caller (one that has measured a key
// change rather than guessed at one) is the right way to set it. Pinned by
// TestReissue_DoesNotMarkAHealthyEscrowStale: if a caller reappears without that evidence, it fails.
//
// No-op when no escrow row exists; idempotent (only stamps the first mark since the last ceremony; a
// fresh ceremony clears stale_at via SaveHostEscrow's ON CONFLICT).
func (s *Store) MarkEscrowStale(hostID string) error {
_, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE host_escrow SET stale_at = datetime('now') WHERE host_id = ? AND stale_at IS NULL`, hostID)
return err
@@ -2733,11 +2745,13 @@ type EscrowStatus struct {
IdentityBlobPresent bool `json:"identity_blob_present"`
ResticPwSHA256 string `json:"restic_pw_sha256,omitempty"`
CreatedAt string `json:"created_at,omitempty"`
// Stale (v0.57.0, 2.3) — true when the offsite PROVIDER credentials were re-issued after the blob
// was sealed. ⚠ CORRECTED 2026-08-04 (R-196): it used to say "the offsite password was re-issued",
// which reads as the repository password and is not what happens; see MarkEscrowStale.
// Stale (v0.57.0, 2.3) — true when `stale_at` is stamped on the host's escrow row. ⚠ SINCE hub
// v0.95.0 (R-196 / R-204 item 2) NOTHING STAMPS IT: the one caller was the precautionary
// re-issue mark, and it was removed for marking healthy escrows stale. See MarkEscrowStale.
// When stale the ResticPwSHA256 is WITHHELD (emptied) so the controller cannot auto-confirm against
// a hash that may no longer match the live repo password — the ceremony must run again.
// a hash that may no longer match the live repo password — the ceremony must run again. That
// withholding is exactly why the precautionary caller had to go: it BLINDED the controller's own
// hash comparison, which is the measurement that actually detects a changed repository password.
Stale bool `json:"escrow_stale,omitempty"`
}