secrets-engine/tests/test_decision_replay.py
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feat: bind the destroy gate to approval_binding_digest and pdp_path
The vocabulary mapping this path was waiting on is not coming: gate-house
rejected it in GH-DEC-2026-008, because a translation can be confidently
wrong and fails open by accepting a claim approved for a different action.
The stronger option arrived instead, and both halves are enforced here.

flex-auth published binding.approval_binding_digest (FLEX-DEC-2026-007) to
fix the circularity this repo reported: a pdp_digest recorded at issue time
can never equal the request_digest of the request that carries the claim in
its hashed context, so with GH-DEC-2026-008 requiring that equality, destroy
would have failed closed forever on a check no correct record could pass.

- authorization.approval_binding_digest implements the published exclusion
  rule, including Go's context,omitempty behaviour when stripping empties
  the context; digest_material drops an empty context for the same reason.
- validate_decision_envelope recomputes the field rather than trusting it,
  refuses a claim-bearing request whose decision records none, and compares
  the claim's digest from step 1 against it -- never against request_digest,
  which still covers the claim so it stays a sound replay identity.
- validate_approval_claim requires binding.pdp_path true before using
  pdp_digest at all. Path intent is never inferred from a digest that
  happens to be present; pre-schema-v3 approvals carry pdp_path false
  regardless of any digest they hold.

Replay fixtures re-vendored from dd3ce4c. The destroy pins moved a second
and final time; approval_binding_digest did not, which is the point. The
fixture now demonstrates the property instead of asserting it: we rederive
fa07becf... from its own request through our canonical implementation,
proving we hash the same material flex-auth does rather than pinning a
constant we cannot reproduce.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E4tNMAYcSQmZWUE4wqP4ij

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"""Digest join verified against real flex-auth DecisionEnvelopes (FLEX-WP-0021-T03).
These replace a hand-maintained pin that was computed *including* the request
`id`. docs/canonical-request-digest.md excludes `id`, `policy_version` and
`caring_context` from the hashed material, and both real envelopes confirm it:
a digest computed over the old material matches no issued decision, which would
have failed closed against every correct allow.
Both fixtures are required. `provenance.input_claim_digests.context` appears
only when the request carries a non-empty context, so a validator asserting it
is always present passes `destroy` and fails `rotate`.
"""
import json
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from secrets_engine.authorization import (
approval_binding_digest,
digest_material,
request_digest,
validate_decision_envelope,
)
from secrets_engine.errors import DecisionError
FIXTURES = Path(__file__).parent / "fixtures" / "flex-auth-replay"
PACKAGE_DIGEST = "sha256:fe0070b79f66442ae6c218697a49c470c6c8f670aa57a30c078a5284d097bd8c"
SNAPSHOT_DIGEST = "sha256:f5a309bc0b36721fd6d9ad7f53eb21222162bc2eac62a0ab0802a9a1d51340bb"
CASES = {
"rotate": {
"file": "decision_rotate.json",
"digest": "sha256:de67324f54187055307a833235f83ced9fcd3a20952a27b3d19493ed39734345",
"action": "rotate",
"context_claim_digest": None,
},
"destroy": {
"file": "decision_destroy_dual_control.json",
"digest": "sha256:c749ee2dc3cdf927a70a3e5b27cff4d97a438d3264153b4b2e3bcacbaf82091a",
"action": "destroy",
"context_claim_digest": "sha256:8b73d29ecef286d42e03d2420531d6c45219f325a7ae004c1ecfc781203a2800",
},
}
def _envelope(name):
return json.loads((FIXTURES / CASES[name]["file"]).read_text())
def _request_from(envelope):
"""Rebuild the normalized tuple the binding carries.
Per the contract, a consumer re-hashing the *original unenriched* request
will not match a decision that turned on registry attributes; the binding is
the evaluator's statement of what it hashed.
"""
binding = envelope["binding"]
request = {"id": envelope["request_id"]}
for key in ("tenant", "subject", "action", "resource"):
if binding.get(key) is not None:
request[key] = binding[key]
if binding.get("context") is not None:
request["context"] = binding["context"]
return request
def _refresh_lifetime(envelope):
"""Lifetime moves with the clock and must never be pinned."""
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
envelope["lifetime"]["not_before"] = (now - timedelta(minutes=1)).strftime(
"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
)
envelope["lifetime"]["expires_at"] = (now + timedelta(minutes=14)).strftime(
"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
)
return envelope
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_request_digest_matches_the_issued_decision(name):
envelope = _envelope(name)
expected = CASES[name]["digest"]
assert envelope["binding"]["request_digest"] == expected, "fixture drifted"
assert request_digest(_request_from(envelope)) == expected
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_correlation_fields_are_not_hashed(name):
"""id, policy_version and caring_context must not move the digest."""
request = _request_from(envelope := _envelope(name))
baseline = request_digest(request)
assert baseline == envelope["binding"]["request_digest"]
for field, value in (
("id", "check:some-other-correlation-id"),
("policy_version", "v99"),
("caring_context", {"anything": "here"}),
):
assert request_digest({**request, field: value}) == baseline, field
stripped = {k: v for k, v in request.items() if k != "id"}
assert request_digest(stripped) == baseline
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_digest_material_is_exactly_the_published_tuple(name):
material = digest_material(_request_from(_envelope(name)))
assert set(material) <= {"tenant", "subject", "action", "resource", "context"}
assert "id" not in material
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_real_envelope_validates_against_the_published_package(name):
envelope = _refresh_lifetime(_envelope(name))
result = validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
_request_from(envelope),
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
)
assert result.action == CASES[name]["action"]
assert result.subject_id == "secrets-engine"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_provenance_digests_are_pinned(name):
provenance = _envelope(name)["provenance"]
assert provenance["policy_package_digest"] == PACKAGE_DIGEST
assert provenance["registry_snapshot_digest"] == SNAPSHOT_DIGEST
assert provenance["evaluator"] == "flex-auth/local"
assert provenance["mode"] == "standalone"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_input_claim_digest_is_present_only_with_a_context(name):
"""The reason two fixtures exist: this field is conditional."""
provenance = _envelope(name)["provenance"]
expected = CASES[name]["context_claim_digest"]
actual = (provenance.get("input_claim_digests") or {}).get("context")
assert actual == expected
@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", list(CASES))
def test_a_tampered_binding_field_breaks_the_digest(name):
envelope = _envelope(name)
request = _request_from(envelope)
request["action"] = "handoff"
assert request_digest(request) != envelope["binding"]["request_digest"]
def test_expired_real_envelope_fails_closed():
"""The shipped lifetime is 15m from allow_ttl and has long since passed."""
with pytest.raises(DecisionError, match="lifetime has expired"):
envelope = _envelope("rotate")
validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
_request_from(envelope),
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
)
def test_embedded_claim_uses_approval_engine_vocabulary_not_ours():
"""The published vocabulary gap, asserted rather than described.
The dual-control request carries a complete approval-claim in
context.approval. Its binding speaks approval-engine's language while the
decision speaks ours, and no mapping between them is published -- which is
why this engine compares pdp_digest and refuses to derive a native digest
from its own vocabulary.
"""
envelope = _envelope("destroy")
claim = envelope["binding"]["context"]["approval"]
assert claim["kind"] == "approval-claim"
assert claim["issuer"] == "approval-engine"
assert claim["valid_now"] is True
assert claim["binding"]["action"] == "secrets.kv.destroy"
assert envelope["binding"]["action"] == "destroy"
assert claim["binding"]["action"] != envelope["binding"]["action"]
assert set(claim["binding"]["target"]) == {"id", "stage"}
assert claim["binding"]["target"]["id"] != envelope["resource"]["id"]
APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST = (
"sha256:fa07becfaa471394d06aee5fa3cd66352bf0cc69ef24900240489684cda8cd56"
)
def test_embedded_claim_pdp_digest_cannot_equal_the_carrying_request_digest():
"""Carrying the claim inside a hashed context makes the two unequal.
context is part of the digest material, so embedding an approval-claim
changes the request digest of the very request that carries it. A
pdp_digest recorded at issue time therefore cannot equal the final digest
of the dual-control request. This is why comparing pdp_digest against
request_digest can never pass and would fail destroy closed forever.
"""
envelope = _envelope("destroy")
binding = envelope["binding"]
pdp = binding["context"]["approval"]["binding"]["pdp_digest"]
request = _request_from(envelope)
assert request_digest(request) == binding["request_digest"]
assert pdp != binding["request_digest"]
def test_pdp_digest_equals_the_published_approval_binding_digest():
"""FLEX-DEC-2026-007 closed the circularity, and we reproduce the value.
``approval_binding_digest`` is the canonical digest with context.approval
removed. Recomputing it here from our own canonical implementation is the
hermetic proof that this engine hashes the same material flex-auth does --
a pin alone would only assert the constant, not that we can derive it.
"""
envelope = _envelope("destroy")
binding = envelope["binding"]
pdp = binding["context"]["approval"]["binding"]["pdp_digest"]
assert binding["approval_binding_digest"] == APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST
assert pdp == APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST
assert approval_binding_digest(_request_from(envelope)) == APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST
def test_approval_binding_digest_is_not_a_replay_identity():
"""It must not collapse into request_digest, or an allow becomes replayable.
Two requests differing only in which approval was presented share an
approval_binding_digest while their decisions differ -- one allows, one
denies dual_control_required. The fixture asserts the two digests disagree
on a claim-bearing request so the distinction stays real.
"""
envelope = _envelope("destroy")
binding = envelope["binding"]
assert binding["approval_binding_digest"] != binding["request_digest"]
def test_ordinary_decision_carries_no_approval_binding_digest():
"""The field is omitted, not duplicated, on a claim-free decision."""
binding = _envelope("rotate")["binding"]
assert "approval" not in binding.get("context", {})
assert "approval_binding_digest" not in binding
def test_embedded_claim_declares_the_pdp_path():
"""pdp_path is the issuer's declaration, and it is what our PEP requires.
Path intent is never inferred from a pdp_digest that happens to be present;
approvals issued before approval-engine schema v3 carry pdp_path false
regardless of any digest they hold.
"""
claim = _envelope("destroy")["binding"]["context"]["approval"]
assert claim["binding"]["pdp_path"] is True
def test_decision_validation_ties_the_claim_to_the_approval_binding_digest():
"""Step 2 checks the identity against the real envelope, not a local guess.
The PEP knows the claim's pdp_digest from step 1. When the request it sent
carried that claim, the decision must name the same claim-free envelope, or
the approval was issued against some other request.
"""
envelope = _refresh_lifetime(_envelope("destroy"))
request = _request_from(envelope)
result = validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
request,
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
expected_approval_binding_digest=APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST,
)
assert result.action == "destroy"
with pytest.raises(DecisionError, match="approval binding digest"):
validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
request,
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
expected_approval_binding_digest="sha256:" + "c" * 64,
)
def test_claim_bearing_request_without_a_binding_digest_fails_closed():
"""A decision that records no binding digest cannot tie the claim to itself.
Comparing against request_digest instead would be the fail-open direction
the whole field exists to prevent, so the absence is refused outright.
"""
envelope = _refresh_lifetime(_envelope("destroy"))
request = _request_from(envelope)
del envelope["binding"]["approval_binding_digest"]
with pytest.raises(DecisionError, match="records no approval_binding_digest"):
validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
request,
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
expected_approval_binding_digest=APPROVAL_BINDING_DIGEST,
)
def test_a_forged_binding_digest_is_recomputed_not_trusted():
"""The field is verified against our own canonical digest, never taken on faith."""
envelope = _refresh_lifetime(_envelope("destroy"))
request = _request_from(envelope)
envelope["binding"]["approval_binding_digest"] = "sha256:" + "d" * 64
with pytest.raises(DecisionError, match="does not match this request"):
validate_decision_envelope(
envelope,
request,
accepted_policy_packages={"secrets-engine.catalog-lane.lifecycle"},
accepted_policy_versions={"v1"},
)