remove new DHT record author check

We're going to just fix this a future commit. *This* change breaks publishing
IPNS records using alternative IPNS keys (because the author signature (peer ID)
differs from the record signature).

We're going to fix it by validating the IPNS signature and ditching the
author/signature fields.

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Steven Allen <[email protected]>

namesys/ipns_validate_test.go

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 func TestValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	// Create a record validator
 	validator := make(record.Validator)
-	validator["ipns"] = &record.ValidChecker{ValidateIpnsRecord, true}
+	validator["ipns"] = &record.ValidChecker{Func: ValidateIpnsRecord, Sign: true}
 
 	// Generate a key for signing the records
 	r := u.NewSeededRand(15) // generate deterministic keypair
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ func TestValidation(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
+	/* TODO(#4613)
 	// Create IPNS record path with a different private key
 	_, ipnsWrongAuthor := genKeys(t, r)
 	wrongAuthorRec, err := record.MakePutRecord(priv, ipnsWrongAuthor, val, true)
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ func TestValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != ErrInvalidAuthor {
 		t.Fatal("ValidateIpnsRecord should have returned ErrInvalidAuthor")
 	}
+	*/
 
 	// Create expired entry
 	expiredEntry, err := CreateRoutingEntryData(priv, path.Path("foo"), 1, ts.Add(-1*time.Hour))

namesys/publisher.go

@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ var ErrExpiredRecord = errors.New("expired record")
 // unknown validity type.
 var ErrUnrecognizedValidity = errors.New("unrecognized validity type")
 
-// ErrInvalidAuthor is returned when an IpnsRecord has an
-// author that does not match the IPNS path
-var ErrInvalidAuthor = errors.New("author does not match path")
-
 // ErrInvalidPath should be returned when an ipns record path
 // is not in a valid format
 var ErrInvalidPath = errors.New("record path invalid")
@@ -314,17 +310,24 @@ func ValidateIpnsRecord(r *record.ValidationRecord) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// Note: The DHT will actually check the signature so we don't
-	// need to do that here
-
-	// Author in key must match author in record
-	pid, err := peer.IDFromString(r.Key)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ErrInvalidAuthor
-	}
-	if pid != r.Author {
-		return ErrInvalidAuthor
-	}
+	// NOTE/FIXME(#4613): We're not checking the DHT signature/author here.
+	// We're going to remove them in a followup commit and then check the
+	// *IPNS* signature. However, to do that, we need to ensure we *have*
+	// the public key and:
+	//
+	// 1. Don't want to fetch it from the network when handling PUTs.
+	// 2. Do want to fetch it from the network when handling GETs.
+	//
+	// Therefore, we'll need to either:
+	//
+	// 1. Pass some for of offline hint to the validator (e.g., using a context).
+	// 2. Ensure we pre-fetch the key when performing gets.
+	//
+	// This PR is already *way* too large so we're punting that fix to a new
+	// PR.
+	//
+	// This is not a regression, it just restores the current (bad)
+	// behavior.
 
 	// Check that record has not expired
 	switch entry.GetValidityType() {