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docs(specs): hold the BEP keys in the TPM on Linux, with Secret Service as the fallback - #3314
Resolves spec 24's open question on Linux key custody, using the experiment on #2436. Owner decision, 2026-11-12: use the TPM where it works, and fall back to Secret Service.
Changes
BEP-014, BEP-059: these now apply when the proxy holds its keys in a hardware key store (the Secure Enclave, or a TPM 2.0). "Write it to no file" becomes "write no copy another machine can load", because a TPM key is a blob on disk that only that TPM can load.
BEP-088 (new): on Linux, the proxy generates each key in the TPM if the TPM creates and loads it. Otherwise it uses Secret Service.
TPM keys are fixedTPM|fixedParent and noDA. Using a key needs an authorization value from a file that only the proxy's user can read.
If the host has neither a usable TPM nor an unlocked Secret Service, the proxy refuses to start. A headless host with no TPM is in this case.
BEP-089 (new): the proxy loads a key from the store that holds it, and never moves it to another store. A locked Secret Service is a refusal to start, never a regeneration.
BEP-090 (new):min auth status reports when the proxy's keys are software keys in Secret Service.
Design reasoning: two new paragraphs, on the TPM-first choice and on process identity on Linux. On Linux, process identity is the OS user, which is weaker than the code-signature binding the architecture describes.
Security considerations: the T31 residual on a Linux host without a TPM, and the custody invariant's enforcement on Linux.
Open question: the MEDIUM question on Linux key custody is removed.
The architecture text is unchanged: Gatehouse §6.10 makes hardware custody a SHOULD, "where the host offers it". The user-level reading of "process identity" on Linux is recorded here only.
Checks
spec-lint: 0 findings, the same as main.
just lint-prose: the lines this PR changes carry no new prose alerts, apart from EARS statements, verify: lines, and sentences that were already there.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
Clarified Linux proxy key storage: TPM 2.0 is used when available; otherwise, keys use Secret Service. Restarts continue using the store selected at key generation.
Documented TPM authorization and failure handling, Secret Service lock and availability behavior, and replacement of missing keys.
Clarified software-key reporting in min auth status, Linux process-identity limits, and that Secret Service is not a min secret backend.
Removed the open question about Linux key storage.
The specification defines Linux proxy key storage with TPM 2.0 when usable and Secret Service otherwise. It records store-specific startup requirements, persistent store selection, key status reporting, and Linux key access and export limits.
Changes: Linux proxy key custody
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Summary
Linux key-store requirements docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md
BEP-088 through BEP-090 define TPM-first key generation, Secret Service fallback conditions, and loading keys from the store selected at generation. They specify startup errors and require key status and published metadata to identify the store. The release-build custody requirement and non-goals distinguish Linux proxy keys from min secret storage.
Custody model and security boundary docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md
The design and security text describes Linux process identity, TPM authorization-file custody, and Secret Service key exportability. The invariant limits Linux key access to the proxy’s OS user. The open question about Linux key-store selection is removed.
gominimal/minimal#2590 — The change updates the release-build custody rule also discussed in task #2785. It does not implement the task or add macOS lane proofs.
Possibly related PRs
gominimal/minimal#2768 — Both changes edit the key-custody invariant and describe process identity.
Suggested reviewers:jtnkminimal, mitodrummer
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 314a8
The Linux key-custody spec still has three gaps. It tells operators to replace a key that may only be unreadable. Its missing-role rule can refuse to start on a host with keys in different stores. It treats total key loss as a fresh start and would generate new identities. Fix or explicitly decide these before the spec becomes binding.
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A rabbit checks the key-store door, TPM holds keys when it is sound. Secret Service keeps the spare, Startup seeks the chosen ground. “Status shows where keys reside!” The rabbit hops with specs in stride.
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:123: P004 BEP-003 names test 'bep_second_box_needs_no_sign_in', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:180: P004 BEP-007 names test 'bep_box_env_holds_sealed_value_only', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:228: P004 BEP-011 names test 'bep_root_ca_present_in_box_trust_store', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:244: P004 BEP-012 names test 'bep_proxy_env_and_no_proxy_are_set', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:302: P004 BEP-088 names test 'linux_key_store_is_the_tpm_where_usable_else_secret_service', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:315: P004 BEP-089 names test 'a_held_key_is_never_moved_to_another_store', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:348: P004 BEP-090 names test 'auth_status_reports_software_key_custody', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:357: P004 BEP-015 names test 'bep_git_and_gh_against_private_repo', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:477: P004 BEP-087 names test 'bep_host_ip_git_and_gh_under_dns_steering', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:793: P004 BEP-043 names test 'bep_destroyed_box_values_refused_within_60s', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/24-spec-box-egress-proxy/24-spec-box-egress-proxy.md:802: P004 BEP-044 names test 'bep_logout_refuses_every_reference_at_next_request', which was not found in the repository
Advisory. None of this blocks the merge; the review decides.
Advisory, and never a merge gate. Linter: gominimal/foundry@eb50055e, spec format: How Minimal Writes Specs.
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- Line 311: Update the Secret Service startup requirement to distinguish a
locked keyring from an unreachable Secret Service, and require the reported
condition and recovery action to match the actual failure rather than telling
users to unlock the keyring in both cases.
- Line 256: Clarify BEP-014 and BEP-059 by explicitly deciding whether macOS
release builds without Secure Enclave must be refused or may use exportable
login-keychain keys; make both requirements consistent with that outcome.
Reconcile the design note and rationale with the decision, or record the
behavior as a non-goal and identify its destination.
- Line 298: Update the TPM key requirement near the key-generation clause to
require that the authorization value be generated using the OS CSPRNG and have
at least 256 bits of entropy, while preserving the existing TPM binding, lockout
exemption, and file-access constraints.
- Line 316: Update BEP-090 to report custody per key: when the proxy holds a key
in Secret Service, `min auth status` must identify that key as a software key
that an operator-user program can copy. Do not describe all proxy keys as
software keys or omit Secret Service keys when other keys use a different store.
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Spec review of the delta at 555529c (BEP-014, BEP-059, BEP-088, BEP-089, BEP-090 and the two new Design reasoning paragraphs), scored against the spec rubric; the unchanged requirements are not re-scored. The 4e8e2cc and 555529c commits (per-key custody in BEP-090, the 128-bit authorization value, locked and unreachable keyrings as two refusals with the session remedy named, a TPM that cannot load its key refusing and naming bep --replace-key <role>) change none of the findings below; the authorization value's bound is now measurable, which is the right direction for that line.
Verdict. The decision reads as decided: TPM where it creates and loads the key, Secret Service after, the store fixed at generation and never at a start, and the reduced custody reported where it stays. The two Design reasoning paragraphs are reasoning, not restatement: each names the alternative (refuse to start without a TPM; persistent handles) and says why it was not taken. What keeps the delta short of ready is one pattern: the facts the normative lines depend on live in <!-- --> comments while the lines themselves read broader. The invariant still says "the proxy's process identity alone" and the comment under it says Linux holds only up to the operator's user; "hardware key store" is defined only in BEP-014's comment; the three requirements' source (an architecture SHOULD and the owner's decision, not the epic) is in BEP-088's comment. Each is one sentence moved into the body.
Lint state.spec-lint at this head: 89 findings, all P004 (a named test not yet in the repository), which is the normal state of requirements written before the code. Nothing else; not repeated here.
Matrix (O U T F D):
requirement
O
U
T
F
D
BEP-014 (edited)
✓
✓
✕
✓
~
BEP-059 (edited)
✓
✓
✕
✓
~
BEP-088
✓
✓
✕
~
✓
BEP-088 · WHERE a TPM
~
✓
✓
~
✓
BEP-088 · IF no TPM and no Secret Service
✓
✓
✓
~
✓
BEP-089
✓
✓
✕
~
✓
BEP-089 · IF the keyring is locked
✓
✓
✓
~
✓
BEP-089 · IF Secret Service cannot be reached
✓
✓
✓
~
✓
BEP-089 · IF the TPM cannot load the key
✓
✓
✓
~
✓
BEP-090
✓
✓
✓
~
✓
Document criteria: S — not re-scored (stories unchanged). R ✓ (both new paragraphs name the alternative and the reason). N ✓ (the Secret Service non-goal now says what this document does and does not use it for, with the follow-on epics as the destination). L — unchanged. C ~ (the sixth invariant).
Findings.
O — Observable. BEP-088's first sub-requirement: "make the key fixed to that TPM, exempt from dictionary-attack lockout, and usable only with an authorization value held in a file that only the proxy's user reads". The first two are observable to an operator who reads the key's attributes, and the comment says what the experiment found; the third names the mechanism (a file) where the outcome is that only the proxy's user can use the key. If the file is part of the contract (inbox#1184 will make it readable by the proxy alone, so something outside this spec does depend on it), say who reads it; otherwise the bound is "usable by the proxy's user alone".
T — Tier. BEP-088 and BEP-089 join the sixth invariant's covered by: line at T0 with no property:, which is the rubric's collision; so do BEP-014, BEP-059, BEP-060 and BEP-072 already on that line, so the delta keeps the line's existing shape rather than worsening it. Either way the invariant is backed by example tests only. One sentence in Design reasoning saying why custody stays at T0 (what a property would range over, and why it is not worth it now) settles all six at once; a property on one of them would be the stronger answer.
F — Faithful. inbox#625 asks for "one host store (macOS Keychain), one host"; BEP-088, BEP-089 and BEP-090 come from Gatehouse §6.10 ("hardware-backed custody ... where the host offers it", TPM 2.0 named) and the owner's decision of 2026-11-12 on #2436, as BEP-088's comment says. That is a defensible source, and it is unstated outside a comment: the epic's reader sees three Linux custody requirements the epic never asked for. One sentence in Context (the Linux host's custody is the architecture's SHOULD, decided on #2436) settles it.
D — Defined. "the host's hardware key store" bounds BEP-014 and BEP-059 and is defined in BEP-014's comment only ("the Secure Enclave on macOS and TPM 2.0 on Linux"). A rendered spec hides comments. One sentence in the body, where BEP-014 sits or in Design reasoning, defines it for both. BEP-088's "where the TPM creates and loads the key" defines "usable" in the line itself, which is the house style to copy.
C — Consistent scope. The sixth invariant: "THE SYSTEM SHALL grant unattended access to the signing key, the sealing key and store items to the proxy's process identity alone", enforced by: "a TPM key's authorization value in a file only the proxy's user reads on Linux". The comment under it says "on a Linux host this invariant holds only up to the operator's user", and the threat paragraph records the Secret Service export. The invariant's own line still claims the process. Since the Design reasoning already says Linux has no binding finer than the user, the invariant line should carry that bound (or the macOS/Linux split) rather than its comment.
Fixes, by what each unblocks.
State the Linux bound in the sixth invariant's line, not its comment (C, and the D reading of "process identity").
Define "hardware key store" once in the body (BEP-014, BEP-059, and BEP-088 all lean on it).
One Context sentence on where the Linux custody requirements come from (F on five lines).
Say in Design reasoning why custody stays at T0, or write one property (T on six lines of the invariant).
BEP-088's first sub-requirement: name who reads the authorization file, or state the bound as the outcome (O).
The sixth invariant's line now carries the Linux bound: "...to the proxy's process identity alone, which on a Linux host is the proxy's OS user."
"Hardware key store" is defined in the body. The first sentence of the "Linux keys" paragraph in Design reasoning says it is the Secure Enclave on macOS and a TPM 2.0 on Linux, in BEP-014 and BEP-059.
Context says where the Linux requirements come from. A new paragraph says the epic asks for the macOS Keychain only, and that BEP-088 to BEP-090 come from Gatehouse §6.10's SHOULD (TPM 2.0 named for Linux) and the owner's decision of 2026-11-12 on Prove non-exportable key custody on a real keychain (BEP, Gatehouse §6.10) #2436.
Design reasoning says why custody stays at T0. The TPM's key attributes and the authorization value are the store's contract, as the keychain's are. The one decision the code owns is the store choice. Its inputs are whether the TPM works, the keyring's state, and whether a key is already held. Example tests enumerate those few states in full.
BEP-088's TPM sub-requirement now states the outcome and who reads the file: the key is "usable only by the proxy's user, through an authorization value of at least 128 bits from the OS CSPRNG that the proxy reads from a file only its user can read." The file stays in the line because inbox#1184's dedicated proxy user depends on it.
The same commit also covers two minimal-review findings: each key's store is published for min auth status, and BEP-060's refusal is narrowed to the macOS keychain.
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- Line 269: Update BEP-059 so the Linux Secret Service exception applies
independently to each key held there, rather than exempting the proxy as a
whole. Keep the hardware-key-store requirement for any key not held in Secret
Service, consistent with BEP-088, BEP-089, and BEP-090.
- Line 325: Update the TPM key-load requirement and its accompanying rationale
to distinguish a temporarily missing or disabled TPM, which may return with its
key intact, from a cleared or replaced TPM whose key is confirmed lost. For a
recoverable TPM, direct the operator to restore it and retry before replacement;
name `bep --replace-key <role>` only when the key is confirmed lost.
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a retry or recovery path for temporary refusals, including TPM_RC_OBJECT_MEMORY,
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Re-read at 314a8bd against the five fixes, and the two commits after them.
All five are in the body now, where the lines depend on them. The sixth invariant's own line carries the Linux bound ("which on a Linux host is the proxy's OS user"), so the invariant and its enforcement agree without the comment. "The host's hardware key store" is defined in the Design reasoning paragraph the requirements point at. Context says the Linux custody comes from Gatehouse §6.10's SHOULD and the owner's decision on #2436, not the epic, so a reader of inbox#625 is not surprised by BEP-088 to BEP-090. The T0 reasoning is a real argument (the store's contract is the store's; the one decision the code owns is the choice, over a few enumerable inputs), which is the answer the rubric asks for rather than a property. And BEP-088's TPM line now states the bound as the outcome, with the file kept because inbox#1184 reads it.
The later commits hold up. Splitting a TPM that cannot answer now (keep the key, no --replace-key) from a lost key (the file, the authorization value, or a TPM that refuses the file as not its own, each named) is the right line: the first would have thrown away a working key. The role rule for a partial first start (one role held, another missing, is a lost key and never a first start) closes the gap minimal-review raised. Publishing each key's store beside BEP-072's material is what lets BEP-090 report per key without opening the store.
spec-lint at this head: only P004, the tests not yet written.
One note, not blocking, that minimal-review also has: BEP-014's "hold the signing CA private key, unless a Linux proxy holds that key in Secret Service, in the host's hardware key store" puts the exception mid-sentence, and reads better with the exception as a trailing clause; the meaning is right as it stands.
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- Line 329: Update the TPM key startup requirement to distinguish missing files
or keys from files that exist but are unreadable. For unreadable key or
authorization files, require reporting the access problem and instructing the
operator to restore access and retry before recommending `bep --replace-key`;
preserve the replacement guidance for genuinely missing or rejected keys.
- Line 333: Update the startup-refusal requirement to check each role’s recorded
store for that role’s key, rather than checking another role’s store. Preserve
the refusal and role-specific `bep --replace-key <role>` guidance only when that
role’s own store lacks its key.
- Line 336: Resolve the contract for total key loss when the identity file is
absent or omits roles: establish whether this is a first start or a lost-key
refusal, then make `load`’s `holds_any` behavior and BEP-060’s specification
consistent. If total loss must be refused after initialization, define and use a
durable initialization record; if it remains a first start, amend the spec to
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…ce as the fallback
Resolve spec 24's open question on Linux key custody from the experiment
on #2436. Add BEP-088 to BEP-090, scope BEP-014 and BEP-059 to a hardware
key store, and record that process identity on Linux is the OS user.
@bryan-minimal thanks. The mid-sentence exception is gone as of 6ca2786, which minimal-review also asked for. It is now a leading condition: BEP-014 reads "WHILE the proxy is a release build and the signing CA key is not in Secret Service THE SYSTEM SHALL hold the signing CA private key in the host's hardware key store…", and BEP-059 reads "…each of the sealing key and the root CA key that it does not generate in Secret Service…".
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Resolves spec 24's open question on Linux key custody, using the experiment on #2436. Owner decision, 2026-11-12: use the TPM where it works, and fall back to Secret Service.
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fixedTPM|fixedParentandnoDA. Using a key needs an authorization value from a file that only the proxy's user can read.min auth statusreports when the proxy's keys are software keys in Secret Service.The architecture text is unchanged: Gatehouse §6.10 makes hardware custody a SHOULD, "where the host offers it". The user-level reading of "process identity" on Linux is recorded here only.
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spec-lint: 0 findings, the same as main.just lint-prose: the lines this PR changes carry no new prose alerts, apart from EARS statements,verify:lines, and sentences that were already there.Summary by CodeRabbit
min auth status, Linux process-identity limits, and that Secret Service is not amin secretbackend.