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Summary

CLI and web now load cert-pins.json from the vault directory, probe wss relays, and enforce that pin on the live handshake. Strict pinning stays off unless the CLI config sets strict_cert_pinning or KEEP_STRICT_CERT_PINNING is 1 or true. The web co-signer reads only that environment variable. A missing file is a first run. A corrupt or unreadable store refuses to connect instead of trusting the next certificate.

keep-agent is unchanged and still CA-only. The web keep-state replication socket is also unpinned: that relay is an operator-set local or mesh address, and the pinning transport refuses a private address on wss, which would stop replication to the on-box relay. A cleartext relay still connects when strict mode is off, which is what local ws:// testing uses. Strict mode refuses it before dialing.

Test plan

• Pin store: missing file, round trip, corrupt JSON, malformed pin, and strict refusal of ws:// before any dial
• CLI config: strict_cert_pinning defaults off and parses on
• keep serve against a local relay completes a NIP-46 connect and a signature that verifies
• Software DKG ceremony over a local relay
• Wallet sign with a co-signer over a local relay
• Live public-relay check: a pin learned by the probe is enforced on the next handshake, a mismatched pin blocks the socket, and the handshake does not record a pin

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Security
  • Relay connections used by the CLI and web co-signer now support certificate pinning, with pins stored in the vault.
  • Strict certificate pinning can be enabled in the CLI configuration or with an environment variable; the web co-signer uses the environment variable.
• Bug Fixes
  • Duress alerts continue retrying relay connections until connected, helping ensure alerts are broadcast after temporary connection failures.
• Documentation
  • Updated security guidance to explain where pinning applies and how to enable strict mode.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a vault-backed relay certificate pin store and strict-pinning controls. CLI and web co-signer relay connections use pin-aware helpers. The CLI also retries duress relay setup until it connects. The security documentation describes the pinning coverage and exclusions.

Changes

Relay certificate pinning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pin store and transport behavior keep-frost-net/src/lib.rs, keep-frost-net/src/pin_store.rs, keep-frost-net/src/pinned_transport.rs, docs/SECURITY.md	Adds persistent relay pins, strict-mode handling, and TLS pinning integration. The security documentation describes covered and unpinned sockets.
CLI pinning configuration and helpers keep-cli/src/config.rs, keep-cli/src/pinning.rs, keep-cli/src/main.rs	Adds the CLI strict-pinning option and helpers for pin-aware client, node, signer, and server configuration setup.
CLI FROST network workflows keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/*, keep-cli/src/commands/secret.rs	Routes FROST relay connections through pinning helpers and passes vault paths into those flows. Duress relay setup retries connection attempts until successful.
CLI server and wallet connections keep-cli/src/commands/serve.rs, keep-cli/src/commands/wallet.rs	Pins bunker relays before server construction. Wallet FROST and NIP-46 signer connections use pin-aware helpers.
Web co-signer relay connections keep-web/src/bunker.rs, keep-web/src/main.rs	Probes FROST and bunker relays and supplies pinning configuration during network-FROST and single-key startup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLICommand
  participant RelayPinStore
  participant Relay
  participant PinnedClient
  CLICommand->>RelayPinStore: Open vault pin store and probe relay
  RelayPinStore->>Relay: Verify relay certificate
  Relay-->>RelayPinStore: Certificate response
  RelayPinStore-->>CLICommand: Return pinning handle
  CLICommand->>PinnedClient: Create connection with pinning handle

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 07454

Resolve concurrent pin-store writes before merging: they can corrupt the store or lose certificate pins when the CLI and web co-signer share a vault. The duress relay loop should also back off on repeated connection failures.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/duress.rs:
- Around line 664-668: Update the retry loop around
crate::pinning::connect_client to use a capped backoff instead of retrying at a
fixed one-second interval, while keeping retries at debug level. Include the
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Review comments at @keep-frost-net/src/pin_store.rs:
- Around line 149-151: Update write_private and persist to serialize concurrent
updates: acquire an exclusive fs2 lock, re-read and merge the on-disk pins with
the in-memory set, then write the complete merged set to a per-process temporary
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• docs/SECURITY.md
• keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/attestation.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/dkg.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/duress.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/hardware.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/mod.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/secret.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/serve.rs
• keep-cli/src/commands/wallet.rs
• keep-cli/src/config.rs
• keep-cli/src/main.rs
• keep-cli/src/pinning.rs
• keep-frost-net/src/lib.rs
• keep-frost-net/src/pin_store.rs
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