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# OQ-35: ~~API Key Identity vs Peer Identity~~ (Dissolved)
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- **Origin**: ADR-030 §"API keys" (the asymmetry between the two auth paths)
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- **Status**: **dissolved** (2026-06-27 — the framing was wrong)
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- **Door type**: ~~One-way~~
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- **Priority**: ~~medium~~
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- **Resolution**: **Dissolved.** The original framing ("the fingerprint
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path gets `PeerEntry` id-decoupling, the API-key path doesn't — the
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asymmetry is deliberate") was based on a false distinction between "peer
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bearer" and "auth bearer" tokens. The correct framing is the three
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credential types (Ed25519, X.509, bearer token) and whether the token
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needs a stable logical id across rotation:
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- `PeerEntry` supports multiple credential paths: `fingerprints: Vec<String>`
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(Ed25519 and/or X.509) + `auth_token_hash: Option<String>` (bearer
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token). All resolve to the same `peer_id`.
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- `ApiKeyEntry` is for bearer tokens that ARE the identity (rotation =
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new identity, no stable logical id needed).
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A bearer token that is one credential path among several for a stable
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peer goes in `PeerEntry.auth_token_hash`. A bearer token that IS the
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identity stays in `ApiKeyEntry`. The distinction is whether the token
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needs a stable logical id across rotation, not "peer bearer vs auth
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bearer." See ADR-030 §"Bearer tokens."
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- **Cross-references**: ADR-030, [auth.md](crates/core/auth.md),
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[config.md](crates/core/config.md)
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