feat(core+host): negotiate ChaCha20-Poly1305 as the session cipher for soft-AES clients
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Lifts the ~100 Mbps decrypt ceiling on clients without hardware AES — the
armv7 soft-AES targets (webOS TVs), where AES-128-GCM resolves to fixsliced
software AES + software GHASH (~50-100 cpb) while ChaCha20-Poly1305's ARX
construction runs ~10-17 cpb portable, a 4-7x lift that PyroWave-on-TV needs
(design/chacha20-session-cipher.md).

Phase 1 (core crypto, no wire change): SessionKey merges cipher choice and
key material (invalid combinations unrepresentable, zeroize + redacted-Debug
discipline kept); SessionCrypto dispatches both aead-0.5 ciphers per call —
the salt||seq nonce scheme, per-direction salts, seq-as-AAD and replay
window carry over verbatim (same 96-bit nonce / 16-byte tag, const-asserted).
Config.key becomes SessionKey; validate's zero-key rejection follows the
active variant. The C ABI keeps its fixed 16-byte key mapped to AES — no
ABI_VERSION bump.

Phase 2 (negotiation): VIDEO_CAP_CHACHA20 (0x40) — support-plus-request in
one bit, the VIDEO_CAP_444 precedent. Welcome grows cipher@68 +
key_chacha@69..101, emitted only when non-zero so an AES session's Welcome
stays byte-identical to the pre-cipher form; decode is fail-closed (short
key or unknown id -> Err, never a silent AES fallback). No WIRE_VERSION
bump; downgrade resistance inherited from the pinned-TLS control channel.

Phase 3 (host): grant only when the client advertised the bit and the
PUNKTFUNK_CHACHA20 kill-switch (default on, documented) allows; fresh
32-byte per-session key from the same RNG discipline, legacy key field
stays independently random; resolved cipher logged at session start.

Verification: seal/open suites parameterized over both ciphers + a
cross-cipher tamper case; Welcome roundtrip/truncation/fail-closed tests;
ChaCha lossy-loopback soak (loss/replay is cipher-independent); bench
gains _chacha20 series (AES ids unchanged for CI history) — host-side
sealing line-rate-trivial on both x86 (~640 MiB/s) and Apple Silicon
(~535 MiB/s). punktfunk-probe drives the interop matrix via
PUNKTFUNK_CLIENT_CHACHA20=1 and logs the negotiated cipher.

Phase 4 (pf-webos pin bump + unconditional cap bit) follows the next
core release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-21 21:58:26 +02:00
parent abc54a7d13
commit d36bec6e9d
17 changed files with 663 additions and 160 deletions
@@ -354,6 +354,28 @@ pub(super) async fn negotiate(
// just follow.
let mut salt = [0u8; 4];
rand::thread_rng().fill_bytes(&mut salt);
// Session AEAD: ChaCha20-Poly1305 when the client asked for it (VIDEO_CAP_CHACHA20 — the
// soft-AES armv7 targets, whose GCM decrypt caps at ~100 Mbps) and the operator
// kill-switch allows (PUNKTFUNK_CHACHA20, default on — pure rollout safety; perf-only,
// both AEADs are full-strength). The fresh-per-session discipline above applies to this
// key identically; the legacy 16-byte `key` stays independently random so nothing
// downstream ever observes an all-zero key.
let client_wants_chacha = hello.video_caps & punktfunk_core::quic::VIDEO_CAP_CHACHA20 != 0;
let chacha = client_wants_chacha && pf_host_config::config().chacha20;
let key_chacha = chacha.then(|| {
let mut k = [0u8; 32];
rand::thread_rng().fill_bytes(&mut k);
k
});
tracing::info!(
cipher = if chacha {
"chacha20-poly1305"
} else {
"aes-128-gcm"
},
client_wants_chacha,
"session cipher"
);
let welcome = Welcome {
abi_version: punktfunk_core::WIRE_VERSION,
udp_port,
@@ -423,6 +445,16 @@ pub(super) async fn negotiate(
} else {
0
},
// The negotiated session AEAD (resolved above) + its 32-byte key toward a ChaCha
// client; toward everyone else cipher 0 keeps the Welcome byte-identical to the
// pre-cipher wire form. The host's own data plane picks the cipher up via
// `welcome.session_config` — no other host change.
cipher: if chacha {
punktfunk_core::quic::CIPHER_CHACHA20_POLY1305
} else {
punktfunk_core::quic::CIPHER_AES_128_GCM
},
key_chacha,
};
io::write_msg(send, &welcome.encode()).await?;
bringup.mark("welcome");