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Thomas Eizinger 56db250e2c feat(connlib): validate integrity of all relay responses (#7378)
In order to avoid processing of responses of relays that somehow got
altered on the network path, we now use the client's `password` as a
shared secret for the relay to also authenticate its responses. This
means that not all message can be authenticated. In particular, BINDING
requests will still be unauthenticated.

Performing this validation now requires every component that crafts
input to the `Allocation` to include a valid `MessageIntegrity`
attribute. This is somewhat problematic for the regression tests of the
relay and the unit tests of `Allocation`. In both cases, we implement
workarounds so we don't have to actually compute a valid
`MessageIntegrity`. This is deemed acceptable because:

- Both of these are just tests.
- We do test the validation path using `tunnel_test` because there we
run an actual relay.
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the bench profile.
  2. sudo perf perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.