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ADR-005: Auth Mapping: "Both," Split by the Door
Status
Accepted (2026-09-20, Phase 1; the posture settled 2026-09-13 (OQ-SK-02), and POC #1 validated the identity seam end to end)
Context
Two auth mechanisms are real: alkcall's identity seam (the per-call opener identity arrives on the open-op hooks; alkcall ledger CF-005/CF-006) and RFC 1929's in-band username/password. Phase 0 resolved the posture: both mechanisms are real, each on its own side of the door: the consumer's optional front door (where the vanilla world meets the ACL world). A producer-side password would add nothing the identity seam doesn't already do, and the ACL system is strictly better than a shared secret.
POC #1's wiring finding (the accept-side install hook must call
channel0_conn.set_identity(resolved); the transport identity does
not flow to channel-0 dispatch automatically) is a producer-harness
requirement worth surfacing in the spec, not a protocol-layer
concern.
Decision
- Producer side: identity only. The channels-native open is
authorized by the alkcall ACL/identity seam. The producer's
in-band RFC conversation runs NoAuth via the typestate's normal
path:
accept_no_auth(the greeting and method selection still happen; POC #2/#5's validated shape:accept_no_auth → read_command). The negotiation is real but the auth decision is vacuous in-band because authorization already happened at the open gate.skip_auth_this_is_not_rfc_compliantis excluded from the in-band path; it wraps a stream already marked authenticated, skipping the greeting entirely; feeding it a client that speaks the RFC greeting would misparse the greeting as command bytes. (At most it belongs to a raw-pipe door that never speaks RFC in-band; the crate's doors speak RFC.) - Consumer front door (component 2's optional shape): RFC 1929
where vanilla clients need it. The door owns credential
presentation: a vanilla client carrying
user:passgets a real RFC 1929 conversation at the door. The door then maps the accepted credential to local configuration (which channel identity/endpoint to open the producer channel with), and that identity reaches the producer via the CF-005/CF-006 seam. The SOCKS password never crosses the channel as a SOCKS password; the channel identity never reaches the vanilla client. - No fast-socks5
AuthMethodimpl is required. The door checks credentials itself before/around handing the stream to the typestate; the door is this crate's code; the trait was designed for embedders who don't own the accept loop. - The door's credential→identity mapping shape: static config.
The mapping is a caller-supplied configuration table
(
username/password → channel identity or endpoint selection), static, declarative, assembly-layer. A pluggable lookup (callback) remains possible as an additive extension if a deployment needs dynamic resolution; v1 ships the static shape because the front door's use cases (tun2proxy's fixeduser:pass@host, curl's--proxy-user) are single-credential or small-table shapes. - The NoAuth door remains valid for loopback-only or wrapper-aware use (POC #1's raw-pipe shape: zero protocol translation); the cred-bearing door is the same bridge plus the greeting half. Door variant selection is an assembly-layer choice.
Consequences
- Vanilla-client compatibility at the front door is real (RFC 1929), without polluting the channels-native path with shared secrets.
- The producer-side optional local backend (a front door in the other direction: vanilla clients → a locally-served SOCKS5 resource) offers the same door surface: door = vanilla↔ACL boundary, same code shape.
- The mapping is not wire-visible: no params, no reply fields, no ALPN changes; the door is entirely assembly-layer.
References
- OQ-SK-02 (the full reasoning: "replace or second-gate" dissolved; the mechanisms occupy different planes)
- POC #1
poc-connect-wasm-findings.md(the identity-seam wiring finding; the raw-pipe front door) - alkcall ledger CF-005/CF-006 (the identity seam); alkcall ADR-049 (the establisher sees the per-call opener identity)