protocol: enrollment links carry the public name, not the endpoint
Sharing port 443 between the admin UI and the control plane forces two hostnames — one port and one name is one certificate, and the two need different ones. That difference had been leaking into every enrollment link, so an operator handed out fmr-1.echo-lot.app when the thing they and their users know is fmr.echo-lot.app. The link now carries the public name and the app asks GET /v1/discover where to actually connect. The endpoint is plumbing: it exists to select a certificate, and nobody needs to see it. Discovery hands out an address and never a pin. The pin stays in the link. Fetching it over an ordinary TLS connection would make pinning worth exactly what the certificate authorities are worth, and pinning is there to survive one the operator does not control — a root injected by corporate device management, say, which is unremarkable on the networks this tool gets pointed at. With the pin pre-shared, an intercepted discovery can only send a device somewhere the pin will not match: an outage, not a compromise. Optional on both sides. A server that does not answer, or a link that already names the control endpoint, works unchanged — enrollment must not start failing because a lookup did. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Per-credential and per-source-IP token buckets on: session creation, actions, UDP packets, bytes. `429` on control plane; silent drop on data plane (probes must tolerate loss anyway). All reflected/generated traffic goes **only** to the session's observed source address (or, for connect-back, the source address of the session-creating request). Data-plane responses to unauthenticated packets are never larger than the request (§3.4).
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### 2.2 `GET /v1/discover` — where the control plane lives
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Unauthenticated, and says almost nothing: the control-plane URL and the server's display name.
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```json
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{ "control_url": "https://probe.example.net", "name": "example" }
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```
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It exists so an enrollment link can carry the name a person recognises while the app still connects
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to the name that selects the pinned certificate. When a server shares port 443 between its admin UI
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and its control plane, those must be different hostnames — one port and one name is one certificate,
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and the two need different ones (a browser-trusted certificate, and a long-lived self-signed one the
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client pins). Without discovery, the difference leaks into every enrollment link an operator hands
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out.
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**It hands out an address, never a pin.** The pin travels in the link itself. Serving it here would
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reduce pinning to whatever the certificate authorities are worth, and pinning exists precisely to
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survive one the operator does not control — a root injected by corporate device management, for
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instance, which is unremarkable on the networks this tool is pointed at. Because the pin is
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pre-shared, an intercepted discovery response can only send a device to the wrong host, where the
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pin will not match: an outage, not a compromise.
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Clients treat it as optional. A server that does not answer, or a link that already names the
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control endpoint, works unchanged — enrollment must not begin failing because a lookup did.
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## 3. UDP probe protocol
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### 3.1 Packet header (fixed 32 bytes, network byte order)
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