[Pki-devel] [PATCH] 0084..0086 Lightweight CA replication support

[Ade Lee]

ACK on latest 96 and 99.

I will ask  cfu or jmagne to look at the KeyRetrieveRunner logic today.

Ade

On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 14:58 +1000, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> Thanks Ade.  Updated patch 0096 attached.  Comments inline.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:30:52AM -0400, Ade Lee wrote:
> > Comments:
> > 
> > 95 - ack
> > 
> > 96 -
> > 
> > 1. You have made the return type of initSigUnit() to be boolean. 
> >  Should you be checking the return value in init()?
> > 
> It is not needed to check it here; only when re-entering init from
> the KeyReplicatorRunner thread.
> 
> > 2. In addInstanceToAuthorityKeyHosts(), you are still using only
> > the
> > hostname.  Should be host:port
> > 
> Good pickup.  Fixed in latest patch.
> 
> > 3. The logic in the KeyRetrieverRunner class looks OK to me, but
> > I'd
> > like cfu and/or jmagne to check it and make sure we are calling the
> > right primitives to wrap/unwrap inside the cryptographic token.
> > 
> > Also I'd like them to confirm that this would wor for an HSM.
> > Statements like the following make me question that:
> >    CryptoToken token = manager.getInternalKeyStorageToken()
> > 
> It won't work on HSM.  Can I get an HSM to test with? ;) I've filed
> a ticket for HSM support[1].  FreeIPA does not yet support HSM[2] so
> I think we can put it in 10.4 milestone (I've put it there for now).
> 
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/2292
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5608
> 
> > 4. Can you explain what happens if for some reason the script fails
> > to
> > retrieve the key?  Do we end up retrying later and if so, when?
> > 
> If the script fails to retrieve the key, it does not retry
> automatically.  I filed a ticket[3] to implement retry with
> backoff (this patchset is big enough already!) and put it in
> 10.3.1 milestone (that's up for discussion).
> 
> [3] https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/2293
> 
> Right now, the following events cause authority reinitialisation,
> entailing key retrieval if necessary:
> 
> - Dogtag is restarted
> - LDAP disconnect-reconnect
> - LDAP modification of authority replicated from another clone
> 
> > 97- ACK
> > 
> > 98 - ACK
> >  
> Thanks.  Any feedback on patch 0099?