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Spawned from encryption4all/dobby#102 (security-audit follow-up encryption4all/dobby#88). Four small hardening fixes, no functional change to the timestamping flow.

Closes encryption4all/dobby#102

Changes

  1. Bound request bodyrequestHandler wraps r.Body in http.MaxBytesReader(w, r.Body, 4*1024) before io.ReadAll. Legitimate requests are a JSON wrapper around a MaxNonceSize-bounded nonce (default 128 B), so 4 KiB leaves comfortable headroom. On overflow we return 413 Request Entity Too Large.
  2. HTTP server timeouts — replace bare http.ListenAndServe[TLS] with an explicit &http.Server{} carrying ReadHeaderTimeout: 5s, ReadTimeout: 30s, WriteTimeout: 30s, IdleTimeout: 60s. Handler stays nil so the existing http.Handle(...) registrations still apply.
  3. taml typoXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNos struct tag was `taml:"xmssmtBorrowedSeqNos"`, so the xmssmtBorrowedSeqNos key in config.yaml was silently ignored. Fixed to yaml:.
  4. healthCheckHandler ordering — move w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain") above w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK); headers set after WriteHeader are dropped.

Tests

  • TestRequestBodyLimit — POSTs an 8 KiB body, asserts 413 (rejection path for the new MaxBytesReader).
  • TestHealthCheckContentType — asserts Content-Type: text/plain on /healthcheck (regression for the header-ordering fix).
  • TestXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNosYAMLTagyaml.Unmarshals a config snippet and asserts the field is populated (regression for the taml typo).
  • TestSignSmoke (pre-existing) — happy-path for the body-handling code.

Verification

  • go build ./... clean
  • go vet ./... clean
  • go test ./... passes
  • gofmt -l . clean

Deps untouched on purpose; the golang.org/x/crypto v0.51.0 → v0.52.0 bump rides the next dep sweep.

- Cap request body via http.MaxBytesReader (4 KiB) and return 413 on overflow.
- Replace bare http.ListenAndServe with explicit http.Server carrying
  ReadHeaderTimeout / ReadTimeout / WriteTimeout / IdleTimeout.
- Fix XMSSMTBorrowedSeqNos struct tag: taml -> yaml. The config setting was
  silently ignored before.
- healthCheckHandler: set Content-Type before WriteHeader so the header
  actually applies.
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- TestRequestBodyLimit: posts an 8 KiB body and asserts 413 — exercises
  the new MaxBytesReader rejection path.
- TestHealthCheckContentType: asserts Content-Type is text/plain — regresses
  the WriteHeader/Header ordering bug fixed in the same PR.
- TestXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNosYAMLTag: yaml.Unmarshals a config snippet and
  asserts the field is populated — regresses the taml -> yaml struct tag
  typo that silently dropped this config key.
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Self-rule-check follow-up — three fixes applied:

  • tests-required-on-fixes — pushed 424b249 adding rejection-path and regression tests:
    • TestRequestBodyLimit exercises the new MaxBytesReader (8 KiB body → 413).
    • TestHealthCheckContentType asserts Content-Type: text/plain on /healthcheck (regresses the WriteHeader ordering fix).
    • TestXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNosYAMLTag decodes a config snippet and verifies the field is populated (regresses the tamlyaml typo).
  • pr-close-issue-keywords — added Closes encryption4all/dobby#102 to the PR body.
  • flip-drafts-after-ci — flipped to ready-for-review now that the test check is green.

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/dobby fix conflicts

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Dobby is on it! Dobby will fix the merge conflicts right away, yes! 🧦

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Resolved conflicts by merging master (PR #15: x/crypto v0.52.0 bump, serverInfo data-race fix, XMSSMT nil-deref fix, -race CI) into chore/http-hardening.

The only content conflict was in main_test.go — both branches appended new tests after TestSignSmoke. Kept all four (TestRequestBodyLimit, TestHealthCheckContentType, TestXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNosYAMLTag from this branch + TestServerInfoConcurrentAccess from master). main.go and go.mod/go.sum auto-merged cleanly (x/crypto v0.52.0, toolchain go1.25.11).

Verified: go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt -l . clean; go test -race ./... passes.

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Rules + review gate — sign-off (treat as APPROVE). ✅

Comment-not-approval only because GitHub blocks self-approval on a dobby-coder[bot]-authored PR — this is a clean sign-off, not withheld approval.

Triggered by /dobby fix conflicts, but PR #14 is already MERGEABLE against master — there were no conflicts to resolve.

Ran a per-rule compliance sweep (Haiku sub-agents) over the memory rules plus the atumd repo notes, merged with the prior review pass:

  • Conventional title ✅ (chore: prefix)
  • Tests on fixes ✅ — TestRequestBodyLimit (413 rejection path), TestHealthCheckContentType, TestXMSSMTBorrowedSeqNosYAMLTag, plus pre-existing happy-path TestSignSmoke
  • Docs ✅ — config.yaml.example already documents xmssmtBorrowedSeqNos; the tamlyaml fix makes the code match the existing docs. No new config surface.
  • Not a draft / no conflict no-op / no design surface
  • Handler: nil is intentional — nil falls through to DefaultServeMux, preserving the existing http.Handle(...) registrations.

The four hardening changes (body cap, server timeouts, struct-tag typo, header ordering) are correct and go build/vet/test/gofmt are reported clean. One non-blocking nit noted inline; signing off rather than looping on it.

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