Bound the lifetime of public-key and signature-spec caches - #1027
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`KvKeyCache` stored successfully resolved keys without a TTL, and `KvSpecDeterminer.rememberSpec()` stored remembered specs without one, so a persistent `KvStore` grew with every remote key and origin the server had ever encountered. Both values are soft state, so this adds a TTL at the two write sites: 30 days for cached keys via `KvKeyCacheOptions.keyTtl`, and 90 days for remembered specs via a new optional fourth `KvSpecDeterminerOptions` argument. `KvSpecDeterminer`'s existing three positional arguments are unchanged. No sweep or migration code is included. Entries written by earlier versions carry no expiry and are left alone; the key-value store guide now documents how to clear them, naming both default prefixes with concrete Redis and PostgreSQL examples. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFedify now applies configurable TTLs to cached actor public keys and remembered HTTP Message Signatures specifications. Defaults are 30 days and 90 days. Tests cover expiration, refetching, relearning, and TTL propagation. Documentation describes configuration and cleanup of legacy entries. ChangesCache TTL controls
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The cache TTL behavior is covered, but short real-time test TTLs can intermittently expire during verification on slow runners and cause CI failures. Increase the timing margins before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FederationImpl
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FederationImpl->>Cache: configure cache TTL
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KvStore-->>Cache: return cached value or expiration
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In `@docs/manual/kv.md`:
- Around line 552-553: Update both cleanup examples in docs/manual/kv.md at
lines 552-553 and 592-593 to materialize all matching keys before deletion:
first collect the complete Redis scan or KvStore.list() result, then delete the
collected keys so iteration cannot skip entries. Keep the existing key patterns
and cleanup behavior unchanged.
In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.test.ts`:
- Around line 146-163: Extend the test “KvKeyCache cached keys expire after
keyTtl” to call KvKeyCache.get() after the TTL and assert a cache miss, then
call KvKeyCache.set() again and verify KvKeyCache.get() returns the key,
covering expiration and repopulation rather than only inspecting MemoryKvStore
directly.
In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.ts`:
- Around line 93-95: Update RedisKvStore.set() to normalize ttl.total("second")
to a positive integer before passing it to Redis SETEX, including subsecond
durations without producing zero or fractional values. Add adapter coverage for
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In Fedify, the KvKeyCache class (located in packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.ts) manages cached cryptographic keys using a KvStore [1][2]. To optimize performance and prevent repeated lookups for keys that do not exist or are unavailable, Fedify implements a persistent "negative cache" mechanism [2][3]. When a key lookup fails (i.e., the key is unavailable), Fedify stores a small sentinel object, NULL_KEY_CACHE_VALUE ({ _fedify: "key-unavailable" }), in the underlying KvStore [2][3]. This sentinel entry is configured with a Time-to-Live (TTL) defined by NULL_KEY_CACHE_TTL, which is set to 5 minutes [2][3]. Key technical details regarding this mechanism include: - Persistence: By using kv.set with a TTL instead of kv.delete, Fedify ensures that negative lookup results persist across different cache instances, allowing new instances to immediately recognize the unavailability of a key without needing to re-fetch it [2][3]. - Temporal Integration: The system uses Temporal.Duration to manage these TTLs [1][2]. - Internal Handling: The KvKeyCache class includes helper methods like isNullKeyCacheValue to identify these sentinel objects when retrieving data from the KvStore, effectively treating them as a null result [2][3]. This persistent negative caching is a specific optimization to reduce network overhead and latency when dealing with unavailable remote keys [2].
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- 1: https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api/write-key-value-pairs/
- 2: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/blob/production/src/content/docs/kv/api/write-key-value-pairs.mdx
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The Temporal.Duration.prototype.total method calculates the total duration of a Temporal.Duration instance in a specific unit [1]. When calling total, the unit is a required parameter, and the relativeTo option is used to resolve ambiguity for calendar-based durations or to account for time zone variations [1][2]. 1. Method Signature and Behavior: The total method takes either a string specifying the unit or an options object [1]. - unit: Specifies the unit for the result (e.g., "days", "hours", "milliseconds"). - relativeTo: An optional zoned or plain date/time that provides necessary calendar and time zone information [1][2]. 2. Role of relativeTo: - Without relativeTo: The duration is converted to nanoseconds and divided by the number of nanoseconds per unit [1]. For time units, 24-hour days are assumed [1][2]. - With relativeTo: The duration is added to the starting point, the difference between the resulting time and the starting point is calculated (in nanoseconds), and then converted to the requested unit [1]. This allows for accurate handling of daylight saving time (DST) and varying month/year lengths when using a zoned date-time or calendar-aware reference point [1][2]. 3. Examples: - Simple unit conversion: const d = Temporal.Duration.from({ hours: 1, minutes: 30 }); console.log(d.total("minutes")); // 90 console.log(d.total("hours")); // 1.5 [1] - Using relativeTo for calendar-aware units: const d = Temporal.Duration.from({ months: 1 }); console.log(d.total({ unit: "days", relativeTo: Temporal.PlainDate.from("2021-01-01") })); // 31 [1] For "days", "hours", and "milliseconds", the method provides the total value based on these rules, allowing precision when calendar or time zone contexts are provided [1].
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The total() method of Temporal.Duration instances returns a number representing the duration in a specified unit [1][2]. When calculating this total, the relativeTo option serves as a reference point, which is essential for resolving ambiguous or variable-length units [1][3]. Key details regarding relativeTo and unit types include: Required usage: relativeTo is required if the duration involves calendar units (years, months, weeks) or if you are requesting a total in a calendar unit [1][2][4]. Because the length of these units can vary (e.g., months having different numbers of days, years being leap or common), they cannot be converted to a fixed amount of time without a specific starting date [5][3]. Time units vs. calendar units: - Time units (e.g., hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds) are generally fixed in length, but even days can be ambiguous when considering Daylight Saving Time (DST) [1][5][3]. - If relativeTo is provided, the calculation adds the duration to the reference point, measures the nanosecond difference, and then converts that to the requested unit [1][2]. - If you provide a Temporal.ZonedDateTime as the relativeTo option, time zone offset changes (like DST) are accounted for [1][6]. If you omit relativeTo or use a Temporal.PlainDate, days are assumed to be exactly 24 hours long [1][6]. Example: const d = Temporal.Duration.from({ months: 1 }); // Returns 31, as it uses the specified date to determine the length of that month console.log(d.total({ unit: "days", relativeTo: Temporal.PlainDate.from("2021-01-01") })); [1][2]
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- 3: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74536828/why-does-arithmetic-on-temporal-duration-instances-require-a-relativeto-refe
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Normalize subsecond TTLs in RedisKvStore.
keyTtl accepts any Temporal.Duration, but RedisKvStore.set() passes ttl.total("second") directly to Redis SETEX. A subsecond duration produces a non-integer or zero value, which Redis rejects. Normalize the value to a positive integer before calling setex, and add adapter coverage.
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In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.ts` around lines 93 - 95, Update
RedisKvStore.set() to normalize ttl.total("second") to a positive integer before
passing it to Redis SETEX, including subsecond durations without producing zero
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The finding is valid, and I reproduced it against Redis 7 before filing: RedisKvStore.set() passes ttl.total("second") straight to SETEX, which rejects the argument unless it is a whole number of seconds. It is slightly broader than sub-second durations — 1500 milliseconds fails the same way, and a zero duration fails with a different message.
I am not fixing it in this pull request. It is in a different package with different owners, it is unrelated to the review this branch is answering, and per CONTRIBUTING.md a non-trivial change should have an accepted issue first. There is also a verification problem: packages/redis/src/kv.test.ts is gated on REDIS_URL and skips entirely without a live server, so adding a test here would mean shipping one I had not actually run.
Filed separately as #1028, with the reproduction and the full table of failing durations.
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@heeoneie, thanks for the detailed reproduction and for filing #1028.
The Redis TTL issue is valid. It is outside the scope of this pull request. The separate issue provides the required follow-up path, including live Redis verification.
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Thanks for taking this on! I've left a few comments on TTL configuration, test coverage, and the documentation and changelog. Please address those before we merge.
fedify-dev#1017 agreed that both cache lifetimes should be configurable, but the previous commit only exposed them on the internal `KvKeyCache` and `KvSpecDeterminer` classes, which an application never constructs itself. This wires both through the public federation configuration. `FederationOptions` gains `publicKeyTtl` and `httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl`, named after the `kvPrefixes` entries they bound, the same way `taskDeduplicationTtl` is named after `kvPrefixes.taskDeduplication`. Both take a `Temporal.DurationLike` and default to the existing 30 and 90 days, so behavior is unchanged when they are omitted. `FederationImpl` normalizes them and passes them to every cache construction site: four `KvSpecDeterminer` sites and two `KvKeyCache` sites. The second key cache site is the inbox handler, which is where the cache is actually written during signature verification, so `InboxHandlerParameters` gains `publicKeyTtl` to carry the value there. The internal `keyTtl` and `specTtl` options and the existing constructor arguments are left as they are. Both `KvKeyCache` sites used to pass the surrounding context object as the options bag, which implicitly supplied `tracerProvider` to `CryptographicKey.fromJsonLd()`. Passing an explicit options literal instead would have dropped that span linkage silently, so `KvKeyCacheOptions` now declares `tracerProvider` and both sites pass it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
The previous tests only asserted that the TTL fields held the right values and that an entry disappeared from the underlying store. They never showed that an expired entry is relearned, or that signature verification and delivery keep working across that boundary. `KvKeyCache` now covers a cache miss followed by refetching and caching the key, including that the miss surfaces as `undefined` rather than `null`. The distinction matters: `null` means the key is known to be unavailable, so a caller that saw it would treat the actor as keyless instead of refetching. `KvSpecDeterminer` covers a remembered spec expiring, falling back to the default, and being remembered again. Two end-to-end tests drive the same paths through `createFederation()` with overridden TTLs, which also demonstrates that an application can override them. The delivery test sends to a peer that rejects RFC 9421 and accepts draft-cavage, so the first delivery double-knocks and remembers the spec, the second skips the extra knock, and the delivery after expiry double-knocks again; the mock inbox verifies the HTTP signature on every request it accepts. The verification test posts signed activities to an inbox and asserts the key is fetched, reused while cached, and refetched after expiry, with every delivery accepted. Both use a `KvStore` wrapper that records the TTL of each write, so the assertions hold even after the entries themselves have expired. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
The key-value store guide called the two cache prefixes fixed, which is wrong: applications can override both through `kvPrefixes`, and the adapters add their own namespacing on top of that. The guide also framed clearing the caches as essentially free, mentioning only a few extra fetches afterwards. There is now a section on bounding cache lifetimes that documents the new options and states the tradeoff fedify-dev#1017 asked for: a shorter TTL increases remote requests, and refetching an expired key can fail while the peer is unavailable, so verification that would have succeeded from cache fails instead. The cleanup section describes the prefixes as defaults, says what to substitute when they are overridden, and does the same for the adapter level (`RedisKvStore.keyPrefix`, `PostgresKvStore.tableName`). The cleanup examples now collect the keys before deleting any of them. Deleting while `redis-cli --scan` is still iterating can make the cursor skip entries, and iterating `KvStore.list()` has the same hazard. The federation options reference documents both new options. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
The fragment was named after the issue number and described internal class options and constructor shapes, none of which a user of the release sees. It now has a topic-based name and describes the cache lifetimes themselves, the public options that configure them, the retention tradeoff, and how entries written by earlier versions are handled. The entry starts with a past-tense verb, and the credit uses the repository's `[[fedify-dev#1017], [fedify-dev#1027] by Heewon Chae]` form. `CHANGES.md` was previously edited by hand on this branch. It is now regenerated with `sacho sync`, which leaves every other unreleased entry untouched. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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149-149: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse a larger TTL for the immediate cache-hit assertion.
KvKeyCachestores successful keys only in the underlyingKvStore. With a 1 ms TTL, the entry can expire betweenawait cache.set()and the immediate assertions. Use a larger TTL, then wait longer than that TTL before checking expiry.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/middleware.test.ts`:
- Line 11397: Wrap both affected test bodies, including “createFederation()
applies publicKeyTtl to cached public keys,” in try/finally blocks so
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In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.test.ts`:
- Line 149: Increase the keyTtl used by the KvKeyCache test to a value that
safely survives the immediate cache-hit assertions, then delay the expiry
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The two `createFederation()` TTL tests called `fetchMock.hardReset()` as their last statement, so an assertion failure anywhere earlier left the global fetch spy installed and leaked it into the tests that run after them in this file. Both bodies are now wrapped in `try` / `finally` with the reset in the `finally` block, matching the pattern the file already uses elsewhere. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 Changelog: none
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In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/middleware.test.ts`:
- Line 11493: Increase the publicKeyTtl and httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl values
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Increase the TTL to remove a wall-clock race in the warm-cache assertion.
The test sets publicKeyTtl to 250 ms and then asserts keyFetches === 0 on the second delivery. The elapsed time between the first cache write and the second verification includes JSON-LD compaction, RSA signing, signature verification, and document loading. On a slow or loaded CI runner that work can exceed 250 ms. The cached key then expires before the second delivery, the key is refetched, and assertEquals(keyFetches, 0) fails.
Use a longer TTL and scale the expiry sleep accordingly. The same margin concern applies to httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl at Line 11422 and its 400 ms sleep.
♻️ Proposed timing margin
- publicKeyTtl: { milliseconds: 250 },
+ publicKeyTtl: { milliseconds: 2_000 },- await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 400));
+ await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 2_500));Also applies to: 11540-11543
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In `@packages/fedify/src/federation/middleware.test.ts` at line 11493, Increase
the publicKeyTtl and httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl values used by the warm-cache
test, and scale their corresponding expiry sleeps to match. Preserve the
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Please address the timing races in both the unit and integration tests. The Node.js CI job now provides evidence for the earlier 1 ms TTL finding: KvKeyCache cached keys expire after keyTtl failed with Expected object to be an instance of "CryptographicKey" but was "undefined". The two 250 ms integration tests discussed here passed in that run, so this does not demonstrate a failure in those tests. Controlling the clock would let all three tests check cache hits and expiry without depending on runner speed.
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Please address the timing races in both the unit and integration tests. The Node.js CI job now provides evidence for the earlier 1 ms TTL finding: KvKeyCache cached keys expire after keyTtl failed with Expected object to be an instance of "CryptographicKey" but was "undefined". The two 250 ms integration tests discussed here passed in that run, so this does not demonstrate a failure in those tests. Controlling the clock would let all three tests check cache hits and expiry without depending on runner speed.
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Fixes #1017.
KvKeyCache.set()stored successfully resolved keys without a TTL, andKvSpecDeterminer.rememberSpec()stored remembered specs without one, so a persistentKvStoregrew with every remote key and origin the server had ever encountered.What this implements
This follows the direction settled in #1017:
FederationImplcoordination option (A) and the exported cleanup function (B) I had sketched are dropped. Both caches are soft state, so an operator can delete everything under the two prefixes and Fedify relearns it.FederationOptionsgainspublicKeyTtlandhttpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl, named after thekvPrefixesentries they bound, the same waytaskDeduplicationTtlis named afterkvPrefixes.taskDeduplication. Both take aTemporal.DurationLikeand fall back to the defaults above, so behavior is unchanged when they are omitted.KvSpecDeterminer's constructor is not broken. The three existing positional arguments are untouched; the TTL arrives as an optional fourthKvSpecDeterminerOptionsargument.main(2.4), not a maintenance branch.How the options reach the caches
FederationImplnormalizes both options and passes them to every cache construction site: fourKvSpecDeterminersites and twoKvKeyCachesites. The second key cache site is not in middleware.ts —handleInbox()in handler.ts constructs its ownKvKeyCache, and that is the site that actually writes the cache during inbox signature verification. It receives the value through a newInboxHandlerParameters.publicKeyTtl. The internalkeyTtlandspecTtloptions and the existing constructor arguments are unchanged.One incidental change comes with that wiring. Both
KvKeyCachesites used to pass the surrounding context object as the options bag, which implicitly suppliedtracerProvidertoCryptographicKey.fromJsonLd(). Passing an explicit options literal instead would have dropped that span linkage silently, soKvKeyCacheOptionsnow declarestracerProviderand both sites pass it.Why existing entries are left alone
Applying a TTL only to future writes does leave every pre-2.4 entry in place, and that is deliberate here. Touching them would require exactly the sweep machinery this issue decided against: either coordination state on
FederationImplplus a marker read in the request path, or an exported function that becomes supported public API. Neither pays for itself for a one-time cleanup of values that are already soft state.So the KV guide gains a Clearing legacy cache entries section instead. It describes both prefixes as defaults rather than fixed values, says what to substitute when
kvPrefixesor the adapter-level namespacing is overridden, states plainly that leaving old entries alone is a valid choice, and gives concrete commands for Redis and PostgreSQL plus a genericKvStore.list()loop for everything else. A companion section, Bounding how long cache entries live, documents the two new options and the retention tradeoff: a shorter TTL increases remote requests, and refetching an expired key can fail while the peer is unavailable. The changelog entry says the same thing about pre-2.4 entries carrying no expiry.Tests
Three new end-to-end cases plus two extended unit cases, all passing locally:
createFederation()defaults both TTLs to 30 and 90 days and applies an application-supplied override instead when one is given.httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl: the federation sends to a peer that rejects RFC 9421 and accepts draft-cavage, so the first delivery double-knocks and remembers the spec, the second skips the extra knock, and the delivery after expiry double-knocks and relearns it. The mock inbox runsverifyRequest()on every request it accepts.publicKeyTtl: signed activities are posted to an inbox, and the key is fetched, reused while the cache is warm, and refetched after expiry, with all three deliveries returning 202.KvKeyCachecovers a cache miss followed by refetching and caching the key. The miss is asserted to beundefinedrather thannull, sincenullmeans the key is known to be unavailable and would make a caller treat the actor as keyless instead of refetching.KvSpecDeterminercovers a remembered spec expiring, falling back to the default, and being remembered again.The two end-to-end tests use a
KvStorewrapper that records the TTL of every write, so the TTL assertions still hold after the entries themselves have expired.The full
packages/fedify/src/federation/suite passes (235 tests, 390 steps, up from 232 tests before this round), so the added TTL on the success path does not disturb the existing key-cache, spec-determiner, or middleware tests.mise run checkis clean, which coverscheck:types,check:fmt,check:lint,check:md,check-versions,check:workspace-protocol,check:fixture-usageandsacho check.mise run docs:buildcompletes, which is what compiles the new Twoslash snippets in the manual.CHANGES.md was edited by hand earlier on this branch; it is now regenerated with
sacho syncinstead, and the resulting diff is additions only.What I could not verify
I have no production instance, so the 30/90-day defaults are reasoned rather than measured, as discussed on the issue. The Redis and PostgreSQL cleanup commands in the guide were written against the current
RedisKvStore(keyPrefixdefault"fedify::", parts joined with"::") andPostgresKvStore(tableNamedefaultfedify_kv_v2,key text[]) implementations, but I have not run them against a populated instance of either.Not included here
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RedisKvStore.set()passesttl.total("second")straight toSETEX, which rejects any TTL that is not a whole number of seconds. The finding is valid and I reproduced it against Redis 7, but it is a different package, unrelated to this issue, and its adapter tests are gated onREDIS_URL. It is filed separately as #1028.AI usage disclosure
Per AI_POLICY.md: this change was AI-assisted. Claude Code drafted the implementation, the tests, and the first version of the documentation and this description; every commit carries an
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5trailer. I reviewed and edited the result, and the repository's own check tasks (mise run check, the standarddeno testinvocation over the federation suite, andmise run docs:build) were run on my machine and their output checked before pushing.