a2a_protocol_server/auth/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Server-side authentication interceptors.
//!
//! These implement [`ServerInterceptor`] and reject unauthenticated requests
//! before the handler runs. They read the request's HTTP headers from the
//! [`CallContext`] — which the JSON-RPC, REST, gRPC, and WebSocket bindings all
//! populate — so a single interceptor guards every transport.
//!
//! | Interceptor | Validates | Feature |
//! |---|---|---|
//! | [`ApiKeyAuthInterceptor`] | A configurable header against allowed keys (constant-time) | always |
//! | [`BearerTokenAuthInterceptor`] | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` against allowed tokens (constant-time) | always |
//! | `JwtAuthInterceptor` (`auth-jwt` feature) | A signed JWT (HS256/RS256/ES256), with static or remote (JWKS) keys | `auth-jwt` |
//!
//! # Error mapping
//!
//! An interceptor rejects a request by returning an
//! [`A2aError`]. The A2A protocol has no
//! dedicated "unauthenticated" error code (the spec models authentication at
//! the transport/security-scheme layer, e.g. an HTTP `401` with
//! `WWW-Authenticate`), so a rejection surfaces as
//! [`InvalidRequest`](a2a_protocol_types::error::ErrorCode::InvalidRequest)
//! (HTTP 400 / gRPC `INVALID_ARGUMENT`). When you need true `401` semantics
//! with a challenge header, terminate authentication at a gateway in front of
//! the agent; these interceptors are the self-contained, defense-in-depth
//! option and never reveal *why* a credential was rejected to the caller.
//!
//! # Example
//!
//! ```rust,no_run
//! use a2a_protocol_server::auth::BearerTokenAuthInterceptor;
//! use a2a_protocol_server::RequestHandlerBuilder;
//! # struct Exec;
//! # a2a_protocol_server::agent_executor!(Exec, |_ctx, _q| async { Ok(()) });
//!
//! let handler = RequestHandlerBuilder::new(Exec)
//!     .with_interceptor(BearerTokenAuthInterceptor::new(["secret-token-1", "secret-token-2"]))
//!     .build()
//!     .unwrap();
//! ```

use std::future::Future;
use std::pin::Pin;
use std::sync::Arc;

use a2a_protocol_types::error::{A2aError, A2aResult, ErrorCode};

use crate::call_context::CallContext;
use crate::interceptor::ServerInterceptor;

#[cfg(feature = "auth-jwt")]
pub mod jwt;

#[cfg(feature = "auth-jwt")]
pub use jwt::{Jwks, JwtAuthInterceptor, JwtValidator};

/// Builds the generic "unauthenticated" rejection.
///
/// The message is intentionally generic — it never says whether the header was
/// absent, malformed, or simply wrong, so it cannot be used as an oracle.
pub(crate) fn auth_rejected() -> A2aError {
    A2aError::new(ErrorCode::InvalidRequest, "authentication required")
}

/// Compares two byte slices in constant time (with respect to their content).
///
/// The length is compared first and short-circuits — token *length* is not
/// considered secret — but for equal-length inputs the comparison examines
/// every byte regardless of where the first difference is, so a network
/// attacker cannot recover a secret byte-by-byte from response timing.
#[must_use]
pub(crate) fn constant_time_eq(a: &[u8], b: &[u8]) -> bool {
    if a.len() != b.len() {
        return false;
    }
    let mut diff = 0u8;
    for (x, y) in a.iter().zip(b.iter()) {
        diff |= x ^ y;
    }
    diff == 0
}

/// A credential the server accepts, and the identity it belongs to.
///
/// The label is what reaches [`CallContext::set_caller_identity`]. It is
/// separate from the credential on purpose: the credential is a secret, and a
/// caller key can end up in a shared rate-limit table, a log line or a metric.
/// Using the credential itself as the identity would put it in all three.
type LabelledCredential = (Vec<u8>, Option<String>);

/// What a presented credential turned out to be.
///
/// Three outcomes, not two: "no credential matched" and "a credential matched
/// but nobody named it" lead to different behaviour — the first is a rejection,
/// the second is a successful authentication that establishes no identity.
/// A named enum rather than `Option<Option<&str>>`, which said the same thing
/// and read as a puzzle.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
enum CredentialMatch<'a> {
    /// Nothing in the allow list matched.
    NoMatch,
    /// Matched, but that credential carries no label — the caller is
    /// authenticated and anonymous.
    Unnamed,
    /// Matched, and this is the caller it belongs to.
    Named(&'a str),
}

/// Finds which allowed credential `candidate` matches, and who it belongs to.
///
/// Every entry is examined — no early return on the first match — so the number
/// of comparisons does not depend on which credential matched. The index is
/// then selected with arithmetic rather than an `if` for the same reason: a
/// plain `if hit { label = .. }` would reintroduce the data-dependent branch
/// that examining every entry exists to avoid. This replaced a boolean-only
/// matcher with the same posture.
fn labelled_constant_time_match<'a>(
    candidate: &[u8],
    allowed: &'a [LabelledCredential],
) -> CredentialMatch<'a> {
    let mut selected = usize::MAX;
    for (index, (value, _)) in allowed.iter().enumerate() {
        let hit = constant_time_eq(candidate, value);
        // All ones when this entry matched, all zeros otherwise.
        let mask = 0_usize.wrapping_sub(usize::from(hit));
        // Branchless select: flip exactly the bits in which `selected` and
        // `index` differ, and only under an all-ones mask. This replaced
        // `(selected & !mask) | (index & mask)`, which computes the same
        // value but whose `|` could be swapped for `^` with no change in
        // behaviour — the two operands never share a set bit — leaving an
        // equivalent mutant nothing could kill. Every operator here has an
        // observable job: a match must select its own index, and only its own.
        selected ^= (selected ^ index) & mask;
    }
    match allowed.get(selected) {
        None => CredentialMatch::NoMatch,
        Some((_, None)) => CredentialMatch::Unnamed,
        Some((_, Some(label))) => CredentialMatch::Named(label),
    }
}

// ── ApiKeyAuthInterceptor ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Rejects requests whose API-key header is absent or not in the allowed set.
///
/// The header name defaults to `x-api-key` (matched case-insensitively, as all
/// header keys in [`CallContext`] are lowercased) and is configurable via
/// [`with_header`](Self::with_header).
pub struct ApiKeyAuthInterceptor {
    header_name: String,
    allowed: Vec<LabelledCredential>,
}

impl ApiKeyAuthInterceptor {
    /// Creates an interceptor accepting any of the given keys on the default
    /// `x-api-key` header.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn new<I, S>(keys: I) -> Self
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = S>,
        S: Into<String>,
    {
        Self {
            header_name: "x-api-key".to_owned(),
            allowed: keys
                .into_iter()
                .map(|k| (k.into().into_bytes(), None))
                .collect(),
        }
    }

    /// Creates an interceptor whose keys each name the caller they belong to.
    ///
    /// The label becomes [`CallContext::caller_identity`], which is what
    /// [`RateLimitInterceptor`](crate::RateLimitInterceptor) keys a budget on.
    /// Without labels every holder of a valid key shares the `"anonymous"`
    /// bucket, so one noisy client spends everyone's budget — per-caller rate
    /// limiting that is not per-caller.
    ///
    /// The label is deliberately *not* derived from the key. A caller key is
    /// written to a rate-limit table that may be shared across replicas, and
    /// can reach logs and metrics; a credential should be in none of those.
    /// Naming the callers keeps the secret out of all of them.
    ///
    /// # Example
    ///
    /// ```rust
    /// use a2a_protocol_server::ApiKeyAuthInterceptor;
    ///
    /// let auth = ApiKeyAuthInterceptor::with_labelled_keys([
    ///     ("key-for-acme", "acme"),
    ///     ("key-for-globex", "globex"),
    /// ]);
    /// # let _ = auth;
    /// ```
    #[must_use]
    pub fn with_labelled_keys<I, K, L>(entries: I) -> Self
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = (K, L)>,
        K: Into<String>,
        L: Into<String>,
    {
        Self {
            header_name: "x-api-key".to_owned(),
            allowed: entries
                .into_iter()
                .map(|(k, label)| (k.into().into_bytes(), Some(label.into())))
                .collect(),
        }
    }

    /// Sets the header name to read the key from (lowercased automatically).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn with_header(mut self, header_name: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
        self.header_name = header_name.into().to_ascii_lowercase();
        self
    }
}

impl std::fmt::Debug for ApiKeyAuthInterceptor {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("ApiKeyAuthInterceptor")
            .field("header_name", &self.header_name)
            .field("allowed_keys", &self.allowed.len())
            .finish()
    }
}

impl ServerInterceptor for ApiKeyAuthInterceptor {
    fn before<'a>(
        &'a self,
        ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let key = ctx
                .http_headers()
                .get(&self.header_name)
                .ok_or_else(auth_rejected)?;
            match labelled_constant_time_match(key.as_bytes(), &self.allowed) {
                CredentialMatch::NoMatch => Err(auth_rejected()),
                CredentialMatch::Unnamed => Ok(()),
                CredentialMatch::Named(identity) => {
                    ctx.set_caller_identity(identity);
                    Ok(())
                }
            }
        })
    }

    fn after<'a>(
        &'a self,
        _ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move { Ok(()) })
    }

    fn authenticates(&self) -> bool {
        true
    }
}

// ── BearerTokenAuthInterceptor ────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Rejects requests whose `Authorization: Bearer <token>` is absent or whose
/// token is not in the allowed set.
///
/// For tokens that are *validated* rather than *enumerated* (signed JWTs), use
/// `JwtAuthInterceptor` (the `auth-jwt` feature).
pub struct BearerTokenAuthInterceptor {
    allowed: Vec<LabelledCredential>,
}

impl BearerTokenAuthInterceptor {
    /// Creates an interceptor accepting any of the given bearer tokens.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn new<I, S>(tokens: I) -> Self
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = S>,
        S: Into<String>,
    {
        Self {
            allowed: tokens
                .into_iter()
                .map(|t| (t.into().into_bytes(), None))
                .collect(),
        }
    }

    /// Creates an interceptor whose tokens each name the caller they belong to.
    ///
    /// See [`ApiKeyAuthInterceptor::with_labelled_keys`] for why the label is
    /// separate from the credential rather than derived from it.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn with_labelled_tokens<I, T, L>(entries: I) -> Self
    where
        I: IntoIterator<Item = (T, L)>,
        T: Into<String>,
        L: Into<String>,
    {
        Self {
            allowed: entries
                .into_iter()
                .map(|(t, label)| (t.into().into_bytes(), Some(label.into())))
                .collect(),
        }
    }
}

impl std::fmt::Debug for BearerTokenAuthInterceptor {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        f.debug_struct("BearerTokenAuthInterceptor")
            .field("allowed_tokens", &self.allowed.len())
            .finish()
    }
}

/// Extracts the token from an `Authorization: Bearer <token>` header value.
///
/// The scheme is matched case-insensitively (RFC 7235 §2.1), and surrounding
/// whitespace on the token is trimmed. Returns `None` when the header is not a
/// non-empty bearer credential.
pub(crate) fn extract_bearer(auth_header: &str) -> Option<&str> {
    let rest = auth_header.strip_prefix("Bearer ").or_else(|| {
        // Case-insensitive scheme match without allocating.
        let (scheme, rest) = auth_header.split_once(' ')?;
        scheme.eq_ignore_ascii_case("bearer").then_some(rest)
    })?;
    let token = rest.trim();
    (!token.is_empty()).then_some(token)
}

impl ServerInterceptor for BearerTokenAuthInterceptor {
    fn before<'a>(
        &'a self,
        ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let header = ctx
                .http_headers()
                .get("authorization")
                .ok_or_else(auth_rejected)?;
            let token = extract_bearer(header).ok_or_else(auth_rejected)?;
            match labelled_constant_time_match(token.as_bytes(), &self.allowed) {
                CredentialMatch::NoMatch => Err(auth_rejected()),
                CredentialMatch::Unnamed => Ok(()),
                CredentialMatch::Named(identity) => {
                    ctx.set_caller_identity(identity);
                    Ok(())
                }
            }
        })
    }

    fn after<'a>(
        &'a self,
        _ctx: &'a CallContext,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move { Ok(()) })
    }

    fn authenticates(&self) -> bool {
        true
    }
}

// ── Shared plumbing for JWT (also used dep-free above) ─────────────────────────

/// A resolved authenticated principal, stashed for downstream interceptors.
///
/// `JwtAuthInterceptor` records the validated `sub` (and issuer) here; wrap it
/// in an `Arc` so it is cheap to clone into request-scoped state.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct AuthenticatedPrincipal {
    /// The token subject (`sub` claim), when present.
    pub subject: Option<String>,
    /// The token issuer (`iss` claim), when present.
    pub issuer: Option<String>,
}

/// Convenience alias for a shared principal.
pub type SharedPrincipal = Arc<AuthenticatedPrincipal>;

// ── Tests ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

#[cfg(test)]
mod identity_tests;
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests;