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Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package key
import (
"crypto/ed25519"
"crypto/subtle"
"go4.org/mem"
"tailscale.com/types/structs"
"tailscale.com/types/tkatype"
)
const (
// nlPrivateHexPrefix is the prefix used to identify a
// hex-encoded tailnet-lock key.
nlPrivateHexPrefix = "nlpriv:"
// nlPublicHexPrefix is the prefix used to identify the public
// side of a hex-encoded tailnet-lock key.
nlPublicHexPrefix = "nlpub:"
// nlPublicHexPrefixCLI is the prefix used for tailnet-lock keys
// when shown on the CLI.
// It's not practical for us to change the prefix everywhere due to
// compatibility with existing clients, but we can support both prefixes
// as well as use the CLI form when presenting to the user.
nlPublicHexPrefixCLI = "tlpub:"
)
// NLPrivate is a node-managed network-lock key, used for signing
// node-key signatures and authority update messages.
type NLPrivate struct {
_ structs.Incomparable // because == isn't constant-time
k [ed25519.PrivateKeySize]byte
}
// IsZero reports whether k is the zero value.
func (k NLPrivate) IsZero() bool {
empty := NLPrivate{}
return subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(k.k[:], empty.k[:]) == 1
}
// NewNLPrivate creates and returns a new network-lock key.
func NewNLPrivate() NLPrivate {
// ed25519.GenerateKey 'clamps' the key, not that it
// matters given we don't do Diffie-Hellman.
_, priv, err := ed25519.GenerateKey(nil) // nil == crypto/rand
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
var out NLPrivate
copy(out.k[:], priv)
return out
}
// MarshalText implements encoding.TextUnmarshaler.
func (k *NLPrivate) UnmarshalText(b []byte) error {
return parseHex(k.k[:], mem.B(b), mem.S(nlPrivateHexPrefix))
}
// AppendText implements encoding.TextAppender.
func (k NLPrivate) AppendText(b []byte) ([]byte, error) {
return appendHexKey(b, nlPrivateHexPrefix, k.k[:]), nil
}
// MarshalText implements encoding.TextMarshaler.
func (k NLPrivate) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) {
return k.AppendText(nil)
}
// Equal reports whether k and other are the same key.
func (k NLPrivate) Equal(other NLPrivate) bool {
return subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(k.k[:], other.k[:]) == 1
}
// Public returns the public component of this key.
func (k NLPrivate) Public() NLPublic {
var out NLPublic
copy(out.k[:], ed25519.PrivateKey(k.k[:]).Public().(ed25519.PublicKey))
return out
}
// KeyID returns an identifier for this key.
func (k NLPrivate) KeyID() tkatype.KeyID {
// The correct way to compute this is:
// return tka.Key{
// Kind: tka.Key25519,
// Public: pub.k[:],
// }.ID()
//
// However, under the hood the key id for a 25519
// key is just the public key, so we avoid the
// dependency on tka by just doing this ourselves.
pub := k.Public().k
return pub[:]
}
// SignAUM implements tka.Signer.
func (k NLPrivate) SignAUM(sigHash tkatype.AUMSigHash) ([]tkatype.Signature, error) {
return []tkatype.Signature{{
KeyID: k.KeyID(),
Signature: ed25519.Sign(ed25519.PrivateKey(k.k[:]), sigHash[:]),
}}, nil
}
// SignNKS signs the tka.NodeKeySignature identified by sigHash.
func (k NLPrivate) SignNKS(sigHash tkatype.NKSSigHash) ([]byte, error) {
return ed25519.Sign(ed25519.PrivateKey(k.k[:]), sigHash[:]), nil
}
// NLPublic is the public portion of a a NLPrivate.
type NLPublic struct {
k [ed25519.PublicKeySize]byte
}
// NLPublicFromEd25519Unsafe converts an ed25519 public key into
// a type of NLPublic.
//
// New uses of this function should be avoided, as its possible to
// accidentally construct an NLPublic from a non network-lock key.
func NLPublicFromEd25519Unsafe(public ed25519.PublicKey) NLPublic {
var out NLPublic
copy(out.k[:], public)
return out
}
// UnmarshalText implements encoding.TextUnmarshaler. This function
// is able to decode both the CLI form (tlpub:<hex>) & the
// regular form (nlpub:<hex>).
func (k *NLPublic) UnmarshalText(b []byte) error {
if mem.HasPrefix(mem.B(b), mem.S(nlPublicHexPrefix)) {
return parseHex(k.k[:], mem.B(b), mem.S(nlPublicHexPrefix))
}
return parseHex(k.k[:], mem.B(b), mem.S(nlPublicHexPrefixCLI))
}
// AppendText implements encoding.TextAppender.
func (k NLPublic) AppendText(b []byte) ([]byte, error) {
return appendHexKey(b, nlPublicHexPrefix, k.k[:]), nil
}
// MarshalText implements encoding.TextMarshaler, emitting a
// representation of the form nlpub:<hex>.
func (k NLPublic) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) {
return k.AppendText(nil)
}
// CLIString returns a marshalled representation suitable for use
// with tailnet lock commands, of the form tlpub:<hex> instead of
// the nlpub:<hex> form emitted by MarshalText. Both forms can
// be decoded by UnmarshalText.
func (k NLPublic) CLIString() string {
return string(appendHexKey(nil, nlPublicHexPrefixCLI, k.k[:]))
}
// Verifier returns a ed25519.PublicKey that can be used to
// verify signatures.
func (k NLPublic) Verifier() ed25519.PublicKey {
return ed25519.PublicKey(k.k[:])
}
// IsZero reports whether k is the zero value.
func (k NLPublic) IsZero() bool {
return k.Equal(NLPublic{})
}
// Equal reports whether k and other are the same key.
func (k NLPublic) Equal(other NLPublic) bool {
return subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(k.k[:], other.k[:]) == 1
}
// KeyID returns a tkatype.KeyID that can be used with a tka.Authority.
func (k NLPublic) KeyID() tkatype.KeyID {
return k.k[:]
}