From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> To: galene@lists.galene.org Subject: [Galene] Protocol rework Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:22:54 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <871re0500x.wl-jch@irif.fr> (raw) Hi, I've just done some fairly major surgery to the protocol. The code lives in the branch "stable-id", I'll merge it into master later tonight. It's already deployed on galene.org, please let me know if I've broken anything. Some background. Galène's protocol is asynchronous: the state automata of distinct flows are not synchronised between each other, which allows us to perform multiple negotiations in parallel. Obviously, this means that we must take care not to mix up messages pertaining to distinct flows, so each flow is identified by an "id", which is supposed globally unique. Galène also performs flow stitching: when a user changes the parameter of their flow, Galène will sometimes not attempt to renegotiate the flow, it will simply replace the flow with a new one, negotiated from scratch. This avoids tricky edge-cases related to renegotation, but requires the protocol to carry information about which flow replaces which one. We used to signal stitching by reusing the same id. This made the code somewhat insecure (we couldn't reliably identify an id collision, which a malicious client could cause), and was racy — we'd sometimes mistake an old answer for a recent one. We now signal stiching explicitly, with a "replace" field in the "offer" message. This means that we can no longer use the flow id as the id of an HTML element, so the client library now has a new "localId" which remains stable across replacements. This completes my plans for 0.3 — no new features before 0.3 is out. -- Juliusz
reply other threads:[~2021-01-31 20:22 UTC|newest] Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions: You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email using any one of the following methods: * Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client, and reply-to-all from there: mbox Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style List information: https://lists.galene.org/postorius/lists/galene.lists.galene.org/ * Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to switches of git-send-email(1): git send-email \ --in-reply-to=871re0500x.wl-jch@irif.fr \ --to=jch@irif.fr \ --cc=galene@lists.galene.org \ --subject='Re: [Galene] Protocol rework' \ /path/to/YOUR_REPLY https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html * If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox