The gRPC auth failure limiter partitioned on the key id parsed out of the
*unauthenticated* token and rejected with ResourceExhausted before VerifyAsync
ran. Key ids are not secret — they ride in every token and are listed on the
dashboard — so any network peer could send 10 garbage-secret requests per minute
and deny that key indefinitely: the legitimate holder's correct secret was
refused before it was ever checked, and the success-path Reset that would clear
the block sat behind the verification the block prevented (SEC-31). The tracked
map was also flushable — any `a_b_c`-shaped junk minted a fresh partition (the
`mxgw` literal was never compared), so ~4096 throwaway tokens evicted a blocked
entry and reset the window (SEC-32).
ApiKeyFailureLimiter moves from IsBlocked/RecordFailure/Reset(string peer) to a
partition-pair API: Check/RecordFailure/Reset(ApiKeyThrottlePartition) with an
ApiKeyThrottleDecision result. Two layers share one sliding window — a composite
(transport peer, key id) partition at ApiKeyFailureLimit, and a per-key-id
aggregate across all peers at the new ApiKeyFailureAggregateLimit (default 30)
that bounds a source-rotating sprayer. An over-limit state is now a valve rather
than a wall: one request per the new ApiKeyFailureProbeIntervalSeconds (default
5) is admitted through to the real verifier, so the correct secret always reaches
the constant-time compare and resets both layers. Guarantees preserved: guessing
stays bounded per window, and the failure path still spends no store read per
attempt.
SEC-32 rides the same change set: the interceptor validates token shape (literal
`mxgw` prefix, >= 3 non-empty `_` segments, key id <= 64 chars) before minting a
key-id partition, each transport peer may mint at most 32 of them before the
overflow collapses onto its fallback partition, and eviction prefers fully
expired windows and never drops an over-limit partition below a 2x transient
overshoot ceiling. Throttled attempts increment mxgateway.auth.throttled, tagged
stage=peer|aggregate only — /metrics is unauthenticated (open SEC-14), so no key
material may appear there.
Docs in the same commit: GatewayConfiguration limiter rows plus the two new keys,
the Authentication hot-path paragraph, the Authorization SEC-11 section, and the
limiter / SecurityOptions XML remarks (the old NAT rationale described the
defective keying). Tracking rows flipped to Done with a change-log entry.
Tests: new ApiKeyFailureLimiterTests (11) covering window pruning, composite vs
aggregate trip points, probe cadence, absolute-block mode, reset across both
layers, junk-spray eviction resistance, the per-peer cap, and expired-window
eviction preference; GatewayGrpcAuthorizationInterceptorTests gains the four
SEC-31 contract tests plus NonMxgwToken_FallsBackToTransportPeerPartition (20
total); GatewayOptionsValidatorTests covers both new keys including 0 as a
supported disable value (66 total).
Behavior-preserving allocation cuts on the per-event/per-command path:
- GWC-06: StreamEvents send-timing uses Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() +
GetElapsedTime() instead of a per-event Stopwatch allocation (same measured
span).
- GWC-07/IPC-05 (event): MapEvent transfers ownership of the inner MxEvent
instead of .Clone()-ing it. Safe: WorkerEvent is parsed fresh per pipe frame
with the distributor pump as its single consumer (GWC-01), MapEvent runs once
before fan-out, and every downstream consumer (subscribers, replay ring)
only READS the event (WorkerSequence is stamped upstream; verified no
post-mapping mutation). Comment documents the invariant + restore-clone
caveat if a second consumer is added.
- IPC-05 (command): CreateCommandEnvelope no longer re-clones; MapCommand
already isolated the graph from the caller-owned gRPC message.
- GWC-15: grpc_stream_queue.depth converts from a per-event push counter to an
ObservableGauge summing registered channel sources at scrape time only
(name/semantics unchanged); removes all per-event .Count/lock work.
Kept every load-bearing isolation clone (MapCommand, Invoke, bulk filters,
MapCommandReply). Server build clean (0 warnings); EventStream/Metrics/
Distributor/Mapper tests 62/62 (incl. formerly-flaky queue-depth tests, now
green under the lazy gauge, + 2 new MapEvent ownership tests). Docs: Metrics.md,
Grpc.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DMXXvNuPekkkrTEyPNxEkW
- SEC-02: DashboardAuthorizationHandler restricts the loopback and
Authentication:Mode=Disabled bypasses to read-only. They now satisfy only a
Viewer-bearing requirement (AnyDashboardRole), never AdminOnly, so anonymous
localhost can view the dashboard but cannot reach API-key CRUD or session
Close/Kill at the policy layer (previously guarded only by service re-checks).
- SEC-12: DashboardSessionAdminService emits canonical AuditEvents through
IAuditWriter (actions dashboard-close-session / dashboard-kill-worker, category
SessionAdmin) on Success/Failure/Denied, mirroring the API-key audit path so
destructive session actions leave durable, queryable rows.
- SEC-20: drop the unbounded session_id tag from the exported
mxgateway.heartbeats.failed counter (per-session detail stays in the snapshot/log).
Docs updated same-change: CLAUDE.md (read-only loopback + 5-min bearer),
GatewayDashboardDesign.md (bypass scoping + session-admin audit), Metrics.md.
Server build clean; 30/30 targeted + 295/295 Dashboard/Security/App/Metrics sweep.
B1: add AlarmProviderSwitchCount to GatewayMetricsSnapshot so the switch total is
readable without scraping the OTEL counter.
B2: replace the free-text reason tag on mxgateway.alarms.provider_switches with a
bounded AlarmProviderSwitchReason enum (failover/failback/unknown); the human-readable
reason stays in the structured log.
Tests-027 GatewayMetrics exposes its internal Meter; the
StreamEvents_WhenEventIsWritten_RecordsSendDuration listener
now filters by ReferenceEquals(instrument.Meter, metrics.Meter)
instead of Meter.Name, so parallel tests with their own
GatewayMetrics no longer cross-contaminate the families list.
Tests-028 FakeWorkerClient.Kill now captures LastKillReason;
SessionManager.KillWorkerAsync tests pin the reason
propagation end-to-end and cover the blank/null guard. The
DashboardSessionAdminService kill test pins the literal
dashboard-admin-kill reason.
Tests-029 Added CloseSessionAsync_BlankSessionId_ReturnsFailure to mirror
the existing KillWorkerAsync blank-id coverage.
Tests-030 DeleteAsync_WhenStoreRefuses_ReportsFriendlyError renamed and
extended to assert the dashboard-delete-key audit row with
Details = not-found-or-active. Added
DeleteAsync_BlankKeyId_ReturnsFailure.
Tests-031 DashboardSnapshotPublisher reconnect test now measures the
gap from the first throw inside the fake (firstThrowAt) to
secondSubscribeAt, isolating Task.Delay from StartAsync /
scheduling overhead.
All resolved at 2026-05-24; 512/512 gateway tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Apply the ZB.MOM.WW. prefix to all gateway-side projects, folders,
.csproj/.sln contents, C# namespaces, using directives, generated proto
C# (csharp_namespace + checked-in generated files), InternalsVisibleTo
attributes, project-name string literals (LoadProject, .sln lookups,
worker exe paths, staticwebassets manifest), and the install/script/doc
references that point at any of the above. Migrate the solution from
.sln to .slnx via `dotnet sln migrate` and delete the old file.
External-runtime identifiers are intentionally NOT prefixed so external
configuration keeps working:
- GatewayMetrics.cs MeterName ("MxGateway.Server")
- DashboardAuthenticationDefaults Scheme/Policy ("MxGateway.Dashboard")
- GatewayRequestLoggingMiddleware logger category ("MxGateway.Request")
- StaRuntime thread name ("MxGateway.Worker.STA")
- appsettings.json root section "MxGateway" + env-var prefix
MxGateway__... and secret-name MxGateway:ApiKeyPepper
- C:\ProgramData\MxGateway\ data dir paths
Also fixes two tests that were not rename-related but became visible
while validating the rename:
- WorkerLiveMxAccessSmokeTests.ShutDownAsync: cancellation that the
gateway service correctly maps to RpcException(Cancelled) per gRPC
convention was being misclassified as a stream fault. Added a sibling
catch on RpcException with StatusCode.Cancelled.
- IntegrationTestEnvironment.ResolveRepositoryRoot: extracted IsRepositoryRoot
and made it accept either a .git marker OR a .sln/.slnx next to src/
so the worker-exe walker works in non-git working copies.
clients/proto/proto-inputs.json's protoRoot updated to point at
src/ZB.MOM.WW.MxGateway.Contracts/Protos.
Verified by `dotnet build` and a full `dotnet test` of the .slnx with
MXGATEWAY_RUN_LIVE_{MXACCESS,LDAP,GALAXY}_TESTS=1:
Tests: 472/472 pass
Worker.Tests: 280/280 pass (4 dev-rig [Fact(Skip=...)] skipped)
IntegrationTests: 18/18 pass
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Joseph Doherty