server: §3.4 asymmetric grants + downtrain and big_send actions

The grant is the keystone that makes server->client sends safe: created
only by an authenticated control-plane action, bound at creation to the
session's OBSERVED data-plane source (so it can never be aimed at a third
party), and bounded by bytes, average rate and expiry. Sends stop the
moment the budget runs out, so a buggy action cannot become a flood.

Two granted actions on top of it:
- downtrain: N packets at a given size/interval toward the client, with
  seq + send-timestamp in the payload — downstream loss/reorder/jitter,
  which an upstream-only train cannot measure.
- big_send: one datagram per requested size, echoing the intended size in
  the payload — downstream MTU / black-hole evidence the client cannot
  produce for itself (only the far end can emit a large packet toward it).

Tests cover the security properties: no grant without a verified
destination, client requests clamped to server limits, byte budget stops
sending exactly, expiry refuses, and the rate ceiling throttles a burst.
Capabilities gain downtrain + big-send.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

server/internal/session/grant.go

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+package session
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Grant is the spec §3.4 "asymmetric grant": the ONLY thing that lets the server send more than
+// it receives. Without one, every response is capped at the request size, which is what keeps an
+// unauthenticated observer from using this server as a reflector/amplifier.
+//
+// A grant is created by an authenticated control-plane action (§5) for one session, and is bounded
+// three ways: total bytes, send rate, and wall-clock expiry. It is consumed as the data plane
+// sends; when the budget runs out the send stops, so a bug in an action cannot turn into an
+// unbounded flood.
+type Grant struct {
+	ActionID string
+	// Destination is fixed at creation to the session's observed data-plane source — a grant can
+	// never be pointed somewhere else, so it cannot be used to attack a third party.
+	Dest      string
+	MaxBytes  int64
+	MaxKbps   int
+	ExpiresAt time.Time
+
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	sentBytes int64
+	started   time.Time
+}
+
+// GrantLimits are the server-side ceilings an action may not exceed, independent of what the
+// client asks for.
+type GrantLimits struct {
+	MaxBytes int64
+	MaxKbps  int
+	MaxHold  time.Duration
+}
+
+var DefaultGrantLimits = GrantLimits{
+	MaxBytes: 8 << 20,          // 8 MiB per action
+	MaxKbps:  50_000,           // matches the profile's advertised max_kbps
+	MaxHold:  30 * time.Second, // an action must finish inside this window
+}
+
+// NewGrant clamps the request to the server's limits and binds it to the session's observed
+// data-plane source. Returns nil when the session has no observed source yet — refusing to send
+// anywhere we have not verifiably received from is the whole point.
+func (s *Session) NewGrant(actionID string, wantBytes int64, wantKbps int, lim GrantLimits) *Grant {
+	dest := s.DataSource()
+	if !dest.IsValid() {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if wantBytes <= 0 || wantBytes > lim.MaxBytes {
+		wantBytes = lim.MaxBytes
+	}
+	if wantKbps <= 0 || wantKbps > lim.MaxKbps {
+		wantKbps = lim.MaxKbps
+	}
+	g := &Grant{
+		ActionID: actionID, Dest: dest.String(),
+		MaxBytes: wantBytes, MaxKbps: wantKbps,
+		ExpiresAt: time.Now().Add(lim.MaxHold),
+		started:   time.Now(),
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	s.grants = append(s.grants, g)
+	s.mu.Unlock()
+	return g
+}
+
+// Allow reports whether n more bytes may be sent now, consuming the budget when they may. It
+// enforces the byte ceiling, the expiry, and the average rate (by refusing early sends rather
+// than sleeping, so callers stay in control of pacing).
+func (g *Grant) Allow(n int) bool {
+	g.mu.Lock()
+	defer g.mu.Unlock()
+	if time.Now().After(g.ExpiresAt) {
+		return false
+	}
+	if g.sentBytes+int64(n) > g.MaxBytes {
+		return false
+	}
+	// Average-rate check: bytes allowed so far = kbps/8 * elapsed_seconds.
+	elapsed := time.Since(g.started).Seconds()
+	allowed := float64(g.MaxKbps) * 125 * elapsed // kbps -> bytes/s is kbps*1000/8 = kbps*125
+	if elapsed > 0.05 && float64(g.sentBytes+int64(n)) > allowed {
+		return false
+	}
+	g.sentBytes += int64(n)
+	return true
+}
+
+// Sent returns how many bytes this grant has consumed.
+func (g *Grant) Sent() int64 {
+	g.mu.Lock()
+	defer g.mu.Unlock()
+	return g.sentBytes
+}

server/internal/session/grant_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+package session
+
+import (
+	"net/netip"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func sessionWithSource(t *testing.T) *Session {
+	t.Helper()
+	m := NewManager(time.Minute)
+	s, _, err := m.New("dev", "cred", netip.MustParseAddr("127.0.0.1"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s.NoteDataSource(netip.MustParseAddrPort("127.0.0.1:5000"))
+	return s
+}
+
+// Without an observed data-plane source there is nowhere verified to send, so no grant may exist.
+func TestNoGrantWithoutObservedSource(t *testing.T) {
+	m := NewManager(time.Minute)
+	s, _, _ := m.New("dev", "cred", netip.MustParseAddr("127.0.0.1"))
+	if g := s.NewGrant("a1", 1000, 1000, DefaultGrantLimits); g != nil {
+		t.Fatal("granted a send with no verified destination")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGrantIsBoundToObservedSourceAndClamped(t *testing.T) {
+	s := sessionWithSource(t)
+	g := s.NewGrant("a1", 1<<40, 1<<30, DefaultGrantLimits) // absurd request
+	if g == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected a grant")
+	}
+	if g.Dest != "127.0.0.1:5000" {
+		t.Fatalf("grant destination = %s, want the observed source", g.Dest)
+	}
+	if g.MaxBytes != DefaultGrantLimits.MaxBytes || g.MaxKbps != DefaultGrantLimits.MaxKbps {
+		t.Fatalf("client request was not clamped to server limits: %d bytes / %d kbps",
+			g.MaxBytes, g.MaxKbps)
+	}
+}
+
+// The byte budget must actually stop sending — this is the anti-amplification guarantee.
+func TestGrantStopsAtByteBudget(t *testing.T) {
+	s := sessionWithSource(t)
+	g := s.NewGrant("a1", 1000, 0, DefaultGrantLimits)
+	sent := 0
+	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
+		if !g.Allow(100) {
+			break
+		}
+		sent += 100
+	}
+	if sent != 1000 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d bytes, want exactly the 1000-byte budget", sent)
+	}
+	if g.Allow(1) {
+		t.Fatal("grant allowed a send after the budget was exhausted")
+	}
+	if g.Sent() != 1000 {
+		t.Fatalf("Sent() = %d, want 1000", g.Sent())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestExpiredGrantRefuses(t *testing.T) {
+	s := sessionWithSource(t)
+	g := s.NewGrant("a1", 10_000, 0, GrantLimits{MaxBytes: 10_000, MaxKbps: 1000, MaxHold: time.Millisecond})
+	time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	if g.Allow(10) {
+		t.Fatal("expired grant still allowed a send")
+	}
+}
+
+// The rate ceiling must throttle a burst that is well inside the byte budget.
+func TestGrantEnforcesRate(t *testing.T) {
+	s := sessionWithSource(t)
+	// 8 kbps = 1000 bytes/s. A burst far beyond one second's worth must be refused.
+	g := s.NewGrant("a1", 1<<20, 8, DefaultGrantLimits)
+	time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond) // let the rate window open a little
+	sent := 0
+	for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
+		if !g.Allow(100) {
+			break
+		}
+		sent += 100
+	}
+	if sent > 5000 {
+		t.Fatalf("rate limit let %d bytes through in ~60ms at 8kbps", sent)
+	}
+}

server/internal/session/session.go

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ type Session struct {
 	maxSeq uint32
 	window [16]uint64
 
+	// Active asymmetric grants (spec §3.4/§5) — the only licence to send more than we receive.
+	grants []*Grant
+
 	// Observations (spec §6): per-packet UDP view + connect-back results.
 	packetsSeen uint64
 	udpObs      []UDPObservation // ring, newest last, cap obsCap