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authoreunhhu <[email protected]>2026-09-29 07:06:27 +0100
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Put the links and the crypto they use in link/, a part of their own
libpure-link.a holds them; pure-serve and the M5 harness link it instead of naming its source files.
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+#ifndef PURE_LINK_H
+#define PURE_LINK_H
+#include "module.h"
+#include "seal.h"
+
+/* Links without connections (docs/design/011-pure-transport.md): one node's
+ * saved sends to another node's input over UDP, sealed with a key the two
+ * nodes' keys share, with no handshake: the first packet carries records.
+ * A link's lasting state is the apps' own: the sender's outbox (what to send
+ * and send again) and the receiver's heard numbers (what it applied, saved
+ * with the events). What either side keeps in memory is a cache, so either
+ * may restart and the other goes on with the next packet.
+ *
+ * A packet is a header in the clear, then frames sealed with AES-128-GCM
+ * (the header as associated data):
+ * u8 0x70 (version 0), u32le the key id of the node that sent it (FNV-1a
+ * of its public key; two keys may share an id, and a receiver tries the
+ * keys it allows with it), u64le that node's run (random, new each time it
+ * starts, so no nonce repeats under a key across restarts), u64le the
+ * packet's number in its run.
+ * Keys come from the secret the two nodes' keys share (X25519) by
+ * HKDF-SHA256, with both public keys and the sending node's run: a sender's
+ * packets use its own run; a receiver's answers add the run they answer,
+ * so an answer opens only in that run. The nonce is the key's base with the
+ * packet's number in its last eight bytes (XOR, big-endian, as QUIC does).
+ *
+ * Frames (numbers little-endian):
+ * 0x01 STREAM source (u8 length, bytes), input (u8 length, bytes), u32 the
+ * shape of the messages (the sender's output and the
+ * receiver's input must have the same): the stream the
+ * records after it are of
+ * 0x02 RECORD u64 number, u32 size, u32 offset, u16 length, bytes: a piece
+ * of a saved send (pieces are 1000 bytes, the last shorter)
+ * 0x03 ACK u64 largest number, u32 delay (µs), u8 ranges, each as u64
+ * first and u64 last, newest first
+ * 0x04 STORED source, input (as STREAM), u64 the last number heard
+ * (applied and saved), u8 flags (1: a record after a gap was
+ * not taken: send what follows it again), u32 credit (records
+ * it takes past that)
+ * 0x05 PING to be acknowledged
+ * 0x06 RECORDS u64 the first one's number, u8 count, then whole records one
+ * after another (numbers following on), each its size (a
+ * varint: LEB128) and its bytes: a send that fits the packet
+ * whole, with 1 to 3 bytes of framing, not the 19 of RECORD
+ * 0x00 PADDING to the end of the packet: a full packet sent in a burst is
+ * a whole datagram
+ * Losses are detected as RFC 9002 says; congestion control is its NewReno
+ * (RFC 9002 §7). */
+
+/* The sending side: one output's saved sends to url, pure://host:port/INPUT,
+ * as source (a Pure receiver's name for it), from own (this node's key,
+ * whose public half is own_public) to the receiver's public key, given by
+ * pure_link_peer before pure_link_start. The owner queues and trims as it
+ * does a wire's (serve/deliver.h): a send counts as delivered once the
+ * receiver says it saved it. */
+typedef struct PureLink PureLink;
+PureLink *pure_link_open(const PureModule *m, const char *output, const char *url, const char *source,
+ const PureSealKey *own, const unsigned char own_public[PURE_SEAL_KEY], char *error,
+ size_t size);
+void pure_link_peer(PureLink *, const unsigned char peer[PURE_SEAL_KEY]);
+uint32_t pure_link_output(const PureLink *);
+bool pure_link_queue(PureLink *, uint64_t seq, PureSpan payload);
+uint64_t pure_link_queued(PureLink *);
+/* The last number the receiver saved; any thread. */
+uint64_t pure_link_delivered(PureLink *);
+/* Send on a thread of the link's own, calling notify when more was saved. */
+bool pure_link_start(PureLink *, void (*notify)(void *), void *context, char *error, size_t size);
+void pure_link_close(PureLink *);
+
+/* The receiving side: packets on a UDP port, from the senders allowed (a
+ * source name and the key it seals with, a few bytes each however many
+ * there are: see pure_link_idle). Whole records of a stream, in
+ * order, go to deliver (on the listener's thread) as one delivery; the host
+ * applies them from the one after the source's last heard number, stops at
+ * a gap, saves, and then calls pure_link_done (any thread) with the last
+ * number heard. Records wait here until then, and only the saved ones are
+ * acknowledged as stored. */
+typedef struct {
+ uint32_t input;
+ const char *source;
+ uint64_t first;
+ unsigned count;
+ const unsigned char *records; /* count of: u32le size, bytes */
+ size_t size;
+ void *token; /* for pure_link_done */
+} PureLinkDelivery;
+typedef struct PureLinkListener PureLinkListener;
+PureLinkListener *pure_link_listen(const PureModule *m, unsigned port, const PureSealKey *own,
+ const unsigned char own_public[PURE_SEAL_KEY],
+ bool (*deliver)(void *, const PureLinkDelivery *), void *context, char *error,
+ size_t size);
+bool pure_link_allow(PureLinkListener *, const char *source, const unsigned char key[PURE_SEAL_KEY], char *error,
+ size_t size);
+/* A sender quiet for ms (30 s at first) with nothing of it waiting lets its
+ * keys, addresses and streams go: an idle link costs the listener only its
+ * allowing, and the sender's next packet makes them again (one X25519). */
+void pure_link_idle(PureLinkListener *, uint64_t ms);
+/* Remember the secret each sender's key shares with the node's in a file
+ * (path, 0600; begun again for another node's key): a place a sender in
+ * the order allowed, mapped, so a sender at rest takes no memory for it.
+ * A node that starts again then makes no X25519 for a sender it heard from
+ * before. After the senders are allowed, before serving. */
+bool pure_link_remember(PureLinkListener *, const char *path, char *error, size_t size);
+bool pure_link_serve(PureLinkListener *, char *error, size_t size);
+/* stored: the delivery's save succeeded; gap: it stopped at a gap. */
+void pure_link_done(PureLinkListener *, void *token, uint64_t heard, bool stored, bool gap);
+
+/* Counts for a host's report: packets and records sent, records sent again,
+ * packets lost and acknowledged, packets received, deliveries handed over,
+ * the last number stored; a listener's senders woken (their active state
+ * made), of them with a secret remembered (no X25519), let go when idle,
+ * and active when it closed. A listener's are given when it closes. */
+typedef struct {
+ uint64_t packets, records, resent, lost, acknowledged, received, deliveries, stored, woken, remembered, swept, active;
+} PureLinkCounts;
+void pure_link_counts(PureLink *, PureLinkCounts *);
+void pure_link_listener_close(PureLinkListener *, PureLinkCounts *counts);
+#endif