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This PR aims to change how IP addresses are treated, how liberally they are used, and how an identity is constructed based on them. This is based on a few issues and discussions at tech meetings and elsewhere.

(It also contains a small fix in a test c2a89b6 in a separate commit as this PR indirectly touches on that area, but including that change in other commits felt wrong.)

Some details that has been discussed:

NOTE: this is by no means finished and tests do not pass. I've opened this PR to get feedback about how IP addresses are handled and how the identity is constructed.

• How the data is extracted from the DNSTAP frame, tech meeting: OK

  edm/pkg/dnstap/message.go

  Lines 356 to 376 in bc5704f

  	func parseIP(data []byte) (netip.Addr, bool) {
  	switch len(data) {
  	case 0:
  	// handle nil and zero length
  	return netip.Addr{}, false
  	case 4:
  	// handle IPv4 addresses
  	return netip.AddrFrom4([4]byte(data)), true
  	case 16:
  	// handle IPv6 addresses
  	return netip.AddrFrom16([16]byte(data)), true
  	case 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15:
  	// handle everything between 0 and 16 that is not an IPv4 address
  	b := [16]byte{}
  	copy(b[:], data)
  	return netip.AddrFrom16([16]byte(b)), false
  	default:
  	// handle anything longer than 16 bytes by cutting of the overflow
  	return netip.AddrFrom16([16]byte(data)), false
  	}
  	}

• How only valid IPs are now filtered, tech meeting: OK

  edm/pkg/runner/ignore.go

  Lines 131 to 150 in bc5704f

  	func (edm *DnstapMinimiser) clientIPIsIgnored(dt *dnstap.Message) bool {
  	// if the query address is valid AND is on the ignore clients ip list
  	// the frame is ignured, if not we let it through
  	if dt.HasFlags(dnstap.ValidQueryAddr) {
  	// Atomic snapshot - no lock on the hot path. Reload writers
  	// atomic.Store the new IPSet; readers see either old or new value
  	// per Load.
  	ipset := edm.ignoredClientsIPSet.Load()
  	// list does not exist
  	if ipset == nil {
  	return false
  	}
  	// check against the list
  	if ipset.Contains(dt.QueryAddr) {
  	edm.promClientIPIgnored.Inc()
  	return true
  	}
  	}
  	return false
  	}

• Key generation for AES, tech meeting: OK AES128, better with stdlib, and simple KDF. Done.

  edm/pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go

  Lines 18 to 24 in bc5704f

  	// generate a key based on the supplied keystring, we use a KDF simply
  	// because we have a hard time knowing the quality of the keystring
  	// TODO what are out requirements?
  	// * KDF, we used argon2(x/crypto) before, is pbkdf2 suitable(stdlib)?
  	// * Are the pbkdf2 setting suitable for our usecase?
  	// * AES128? AES256?
  	key, err := pbkdf2.Key(sha1.New, keystring, []byte(salt), 4096, 16)

• What to do if the AES block cipher isn't setup, tech meeting: use option to make the identity zero. Done.

  edm/pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go

  Lines 41 to 52 in bc5704f

  	func (edm *DnstapMinimiser) getPseudonymiser() cipher.Block {
  	pseudonymiser := edm.pseudonymiser.Load()
  	if pseudonymiser == nil {
  	// TODO how should we fail if we don't have one?
  	// TODO * an error?
  	// TODO * a cipher implementation that zeros out everything?
  	// TODO * a cipher with "random" key?
  	// TODO * ?
  	panic("TODO")
  	}
  	return *pseudonymiser
  	}

• Changes to the parquet files(multiple locations)
• The LRU cache is (at least currently) removed... , tech meeting: OK

Notes:

• The option cryptopan-address-entries is made deprecated. While the other cryptopan options are not renamed, but used differently, as discussed earlier. This means that the old cryptopan secret is being reused, but it has been decided that this is the way forward at the moment. The secret is however not used directly, but passed through a KDF. The used KDF has changed, and uses a (slightly) modified salt, so the key used for the cryptography is not the same.

Implements first part of #302
Related: #273

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The runner replaces Crypto-PAn address handling with AES-based pseudonymisation. Parsed address types and identifiers now feed session construction and HLL updates. Address parsing preserves normalized values for malformed inputs, and ignored-client filtering now requires a valid query-address flag.

Changes: IP pseudonymisation and processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Address parsing and validity pkg/dnstap/message.go, pkg/dnstap/message_test.go	Four-byte and sixteen-byte inputs parse as valid IPv4 and IPv6. Other lengths produce normalized but invalid address values. Socket-family checks clear validity flags without resetting address values.
Pseudonymiser and runner integration pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go, pkg/runner/service.go, pkg/runner/minimiser.go, pkg/runner/reload.go, pkg/runner/config.go, pkg/runner/dependencies.go, pkg/cmd/run.go, go.mod, pkg/runner/*_test.go	The runner derives an AES key with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and pseudonymises addresses. Crypto-PAn cache and dependency handling are removed. The address-entry setting is deprecated and no longer has its previous default.
Identifier-based session and HLL updates pkg/runner/session.go, pkg/runner/wkd.go, pkg/runner/data_collector.go, pkg/runner/histogram.go, pkg/runner/*_test.go	Session records and well-known-domain updates use identifiers from pseudonymised messages. HLL updates route by identifier type and count other identifiers separately. Tests and benchmarks no longer use Murmur3-derived IP inputs.
Ignored-client address filtering pkg/runner/ignore.go, pkg/runner/ignore_test.go, pkg/runner/atomic_reload_test.go	The ignored-client check looks up an address only when the query-address validity flag is set. An invalid query address no longer causes the packet to be ignored by this check.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DnstapMessage
  participant DnstapMinimiser
  participant pseudonymiseIPs
  participant wkdTracker
  participant newSession
  participant dataCollector
  DnstapMessage->>DnstapMinimiser: parsed query and response addresses
  DnstapMinimiser->>pseudonymiseIPs: pseudonymise addresses and classify types
  pseudonymiseIPs-->>DnstapMinimiser: pseudonymised message and identifiers
  DnstapMinimiser->>wkdTracker: sendUpdate with pseudonymised message
  DnstapMinimiser->>newSession: create session from pseudonymised message
  wkdTracker->>dataCollector: HLL hash and address-type source
  newSession->>dataCollector: session data with address identifiers

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 9c8c3

Normal production configuration avoids the identified identifier-collapse and empty-key paths. The remaining concerns are limited to an uninitialized fallback and explaining pseudonymised addresses in parse-error logs; they do not establish a production merge blocker.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 9c8c3

Invalid-address records can now bypass client-IP exclusions and continue into DNS collection or publication. Address pseudonymisation remains fail-closed, which limits exposure, but it does not preserve the previous exclusion behavior. The stored identity format also changes, requiring coordinated handling by readers and operators.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The client-IP exclusion boundary now admits records whose query address is invalid or family-mismatched, replacing the previous invalid-address drop behavior. If such metadata represents an excluded client, its DNS activity can proceed to collection or publication. Pseudonymising the address and labelling it IdentifierOther do not enforce the exclusion policy. This is a conditional privacy risk, not an established unauthenticated bypass.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The conditional exclusion risk affects DNS records accepted by a runner and their session, histogram, and new-name outputs. Exercising it requires invalid address metadata to reach that runner; the reviewed evidence does not establish ordinary DNS-client control of that metadata or deployed network reachability.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A malformed or mislabelled query address skips IP-set lookup and may reach storage or publication if the remaining DNS checks pass. A producer controlling all address metadata could already claim a different valid address, so this evidence does not establish newly gained authority for a malicious producer. The material change is loss of the conservative invalid-address exclusion behavior.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Valid addresses matching the ignored-client set still drop before pseudonymisation, and question-name exclusions remain downstream. Both address fields are replaced before the checked session, histogram, and address-bearing parse-error paths; a missing cipher substitutes unspecified addresses rather than plaintext.
• observed — The supported file-configuration path rejects an empty pseudonymisation secret, and constructor setup stops on configuration or cipher errors. This supports rejection of the supplied predictable-empty-key premise; it does not establish secret entropy or validation by every custom configuration provider.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make invalid-address admission an explicit privacy-policy choice, separate from identifier classification, so operators using client exclusions can retain conservative dropping behavior.
• proposed — Define identity-scheme and key-epoch metadata at the persisted output boundary, with coordinated rotation and rollback semantics for readers and aggregations. This would make key ownership explicit without assuming a missing production mechanism.

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[byKryptogram]

Are these modifications to the session parquet files ok @morkrost?

edm/pkg/runner/session.go

Lines 78 to 89 in e53377f

	// SourceIPv4/DestIPv4 are only set if the identifers are based on IPv4 addresses,
	// similarly for the SourceIPv6/DestIPv6 fields, SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier are
	// always set. Meaning if the identifers are based on IP addresses, then respective
	// fields are set as well as the SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier fields. If the
	// identifers are not based on IP addresses then only the SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier
	// fields are set.
	SourceIPv4 *int64 `parquet:"source_ipv4"`
	DestIPv4 *int64 `parquet:"dest_ipv4"`
	SourceIPv6 *int64 `parquet:"source_ipv6"`
	DestIPv6 *int64 `parquet:"dest_ipv6"`
	SourceIdentifier *int64 `parquet:"source_identifier"`
	DestIdentifier *int64 `parquet:"dest_identifier"`

[morkrost]

Are these modifications to the session parquet files ok @morkrost?

edm/pkg/runner/session.go

Lines 78 to 89 in e53377f

	// SourceIPv4/DestIPv4 are only set if the identifers are based on IPv4 addresses,
	// similarly for the SourceIPv6/DestIPv6 fields, SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier are
	// always set. Meaning if the identifers are based on IP addresses, then respective
	// fields are set as well as the SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier fields. If the
	// identifers are not based on IP addresses then only the SourceIdentifier/DestIdentifier
	// fields are set.
	SourceIPv4 *int64 `parquet:"source_ipv4"`
	DestIPv4 *int64 `parquet:"dest_ipv4"`
	SourceIPv6 *int64 `parquet:"source_ipv6"`
	DestIPv6 *int64 `parquet:"dest_ipv6"`
	SourceIdentifier *int64 `parquet:"source_identifier"`
	DestIdentifier *int64 `parquet:"dest_identifier"`

I would be more radical. This is the one that saves the actual record to disk, correct? In that case, the AES-generated identifier should be the only source identifier, and the destination usually is the server address which isn't particularly sensitive or interesting (but let's keep it for now). Then have a flag for IPv4, IPv6 or Other. So something like:

SourceIdentifier int64 parquet:"source_identifier"
Destination *int64 parquet:"destination"
AddressType uint8 parquet:"addr_type"

[morkrost]

On general principle, we should just toss the SourceIP after passing the AES section. If the ISP/Owner/etc want to find the actual address, we create a tool that generates the translation table.

So here's an interesting addition to the data we could collect locally: A list of all source IP addresses the server has seen. It would actually make sense to add counters to this which would replace one of the reports in the resolvers. Like:

| IP (unified v4 and v6) | A | AAAA | ... | AD | ... | OK | NX | fail |
| 0::ff:ff:127.0.0.1 | 55 | 0 | ... | True | ... | 53 | 111 | 2 |

The problem is that this is easy to correlate to the actual queries if it is on the same time boundary, which would give anyone accessing this data a shortcut to re-identification without the key. The safe thing is not to have attributes and just keep a list of all seen addresses. Something to consider.

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pkg/runner/session_test.go-236-243 (1)

236-243: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Print querySession in the IPv6 failure message.

When the check on Line 241 fails, Line 242 prints sd, which is the IPv4 session. Print querySession instead so the message shows the session that failed.

-		t.Fatalf("incorrect identifiers: %#v", sd)
+		t.Fatalf("incorrect identifiers: %#v", querySession)

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Review comment at @pkg/runner/session_test.go around lines 236 - 243:
Update the IPv6 identifier failure message in the query-session test to print
querySession instead of sd, so the diagnostic reports the session whose
identifiers failed validation.

pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go-58-62 (1)

58-62: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not emit a constant identifier when no pseudonymiser is set.

If edm.pseudonymiser is nil, every query address becomes ::. Every source identifier is then 0. addressToIdentifierType still reports IdentifierIPv4 or IdentifierIPv6, so dataCollector adds hash 0 to the v4 or v6 HLL. Cardinality then collapses to 1 for every domain, and nothing reports the problem. In production, NewDnstapMinimiser always calls setPseudonymiseKey, so this path is only reachable if construction is bypassed. In that state, also set both address types to IdentifierOther. Failing closed is another option. Either change keeps the HLL counts from looking valid when they are not.

Proposed fix

 	if pseudonymiser == nil {
 		dt.QueryAddr = netip.IPv6Unspecified()
 		dt.ResponseAddr = netip.IPv6Unspecified()
+		pdt.QueryAddrType = IdentifierOther
+		pdt.ResponseAddrType = IdentifierOther
 	} else {

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Review comment at @pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go around lines 58 - 62:
Update the nil-pseudonymiser branch in the address pseudonymisation logic to set
both query and response address types to IdentifierOther alongside the
unspecified addresses, so these fallback values are not counted as valid IPv4 or
IPv6 identifiers.

pkg/runner/ignore.go-126-141 (1)

126-141: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record invalid addresses that pass the ignore filter.

When an ignore list is loaded, a frame without ValidQueryAddr bypasses the list and continues to DNS parsing. Traffic from a client on the list can pass through when its address is unavailable. The previous code dropped these frames and incremented promClientIPIgnoredError. Log the pass-through case:

🐛 Suggested fix

-	}
+	} else if edm.ignoredClientsIPSet.Load() != nil {
+		edm.log.Error("unable to parse QueryAddress for ignore-checking; allowing dnstap packet through")
+	}
 	return false

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Review comment at @pkg/runner/ignore.go around lines 126 - 141:
In the ignore-filter logic guarded by ValidQueryAddr, add an error log for
frames without a valid query address only when ignoredClientsIPSet is loaded;
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Review comments at @pkg/runner/ignore.go:
- Around line 126-141: In the ignore-filter logic guarded by ValidQueryAddr, add
an error log for frames without a valid query address only when
ignoredClientsIPSet is loaded; then preserve the existing pass-through behavior.

Review comments at @pkg/runner/pseudonymise-ips.go:
- Around line 58-62: Update the nil-pseudonymiser branch in the address
pseudonymisation logic to set both query and response address types to
IdentifierOther alongside the unspecified addresses, so these fallback values
are not counted as valid IPv4 or IPv6 identifiers.

Review comments at @pkg/runner/session_test.go:
- Around line 236-243: Update the IPv6 identifier failure message in the
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pkg/runner/minimiser.go (1)

46-50: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Document pseudonymised addresses in parse-error logs.

pseudonymiseIPs mutates dt.QueryAddr and dt.ResponseAddr before parsePacket runs. When DNS unpacking fails, parsePacket logs these mutated fields. This protects raw IPs but prevents operators from identifying the client by its original address. Document this intended trade-off and the operator workflow.

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Review comment at @pkg/runner/minimiser.go around lines 46 - 50:
Add a concise comment near the `pseudonymiseIPs` and `parsePacket` calls in the
runner explaining that parse-error logs contain pseudonymised addresses, not
original IPs, and that operators should use the corresponding pseudonymised
client identity to investigate. Do not change the logging or pseudonymisation
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- Around line 46-50: Add a concise comment near the `pseudonymiseIPs` and
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[byKryptogram]

Normal production configuration avoids the identified identifier-collapse and empty-key paths. The remaining concerns are limited to an uninitialized fallback and explaining pseudonymised addresses in parse-error logs; they do not establish a production merge blocker.

@coderabbitai I don't understand. Can you clarify?

Invalid-address records can now bypass client-IP exclusions and continue into DNS collection or publication. Address pseudonymisation remains fail-closed, which limits exposure, but it does not preserve the previous exclusion behavior. The stored identity format also changes, requiring coordinated handling by readers and operators.

@coderabbitai It is intended behavior to only filter addresses that we are sure are IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, this is a change in behavior that was made last month on a tech meeting. Changing the identifier construction is also intended, and one of the main goals of this PR(see linked issues).

pseudonymiseIPs mutates dt.QueryAddr and dt.ResponseAddr before parsePacket runs. When DNS unpacking fails, parsePacket logs these mutated fields. This protects raw IPs but prevents operators from identifying the client by its original address. Document this intended trade-off and the operator workflow.

@coderabbitai This is intended, to no expose the real IP addresses to the logs.

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@byKryptogram, my earlier wording was unclear. I mixed fallback behavior with intended production behavior.

What “identifier collapse” meant

If pseudonymiseIPs has no configured cipher, it replaces both addresses with ::. Both identifiers then become zero. Different clients therefore receive the same identifier.

However, NewDnstapMinimiser initializes the cipher and returns an error if initialization fails. The nil-cipher fallback does not establish a defect in the normal constructor path.

What “empty-key paths” meant

setPseudonymiseKey does not itself reject an empty key string. However, Config.Validate rejects an empty cryptopan-key or cryptopan-key-salt.

I should not have presented direct calls with an empty key as evidence of a production defect.

Your intended behavior

Thanks for clarifying the requirements:

• Client-IP exclusions: Only verified IPv4 or IPv6 addresses should participate in filtering. Letting other records continue is intentional.
• Stored identifiers: Changing identifier construction is a main goal of this PR. The format change alone is not a defect.
• Parse-error logs: Pseudonymisation runs before parsePacket. The log therefore contains pseudonymised addresses rather than original addresses. This meets the privacy requirement. My concern about losing access to original addresses was misplaced.

I withdraw those objections. No change is needed to address them. This clarification is not an overall merge-readiness assessment.

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✏️ Learnings added

Learnt from: byKryptogram
URL: https://github.com/dnstapir/edm/pull/319

Timestamp: 2026-10-02T19:55:29.994Z
Learning: In the Go runner for dnstapir/edm, client-IP exclusions intentionally apply only to addresses verified as IPv4 or IPv6. Records with invalid or unknown address types may continue through processing. This behavior was agreed at a technical meeting and must not be flagged as a regression to the previous invalid-address exclusion behavior.

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Learnt from: byKryptogram
URL: https://github.com/dnstapir/edm/pull/319

Timestamp: 2026-10-02T19:55:29.994Z
Learning: In dnstapir/edm PR #319, changing IP-based identifier construction and the session Parquet identity format is an explicit objective related to issues #302 and #273. The format change alone is not an unintended regression.

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Learnt from: byKryptogram
URL: https://github.com/dnstapir/edm/pull/319

Timestamp: 2026-10-02T19:55:29.994Z
Learning: In the Go runner for dnstapir/edm, pkg/runner/minimiser.go intentionally calls pseudonymiseIPs before parsePacket so DNS parse-error logs do not expose original IP addresses. Loss of original-address visibility in these logs is intended privacy behavior, not a diagnostic defect.

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