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Logon retries had no attempt limit, and expired session keys remained usable by the world handshake.

The Gateway now caps each connection at three attempts, each address at ten failed logons per 60-second window, and each address at eight open logon connections. Wrong proofs wait 200 ms before their reply. Failed proofs and refused challenges spend the address budget before reply I/O, including when the peer resets the connection. The third failure receives its reply before the connection closes. Limiter refusals and ordinary peer disconnects use debug logging. Idle address cleanup scans run at most once per second; address limits are checked on every attempt.

Session keys expire after one hour at the authoritative realm-core lookup. A five-minute scheduled reaper removes expired rows, and a later logon replaces a stale row. Existing World Sessions continue. The new schedule and Operator-only debug expiry fixture use regenerated Gateway bindings, including the generator's current index accessors.

Verification:

  • Gateway: 1,411 tests passed on the current main base, including failed proof and challenge replies and third-attempt handling.
  • Module with debug_reducers: 1,477 tests passed.
  • Full ./lyracore preflight passed.
  • A private Standalone lifecycle test passed using the real five-minute scheduler. It checks table privacy, renewal, one recurring schedule, refusal of external cleanup calls, expired-row removal, and retention of a fresh Session.

No production realm was accessed. Formatting and Clippy cleanup is tracked in #419, which merges last.

Original implementation by Claude Opus 5 in Claude Code. Reviewed and updated by GPT-6 in Codex, with GPT-5.6 review subagents.

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  • New Features

    • Added protection against excessive logon attempts, repeated failures, and concurrent connections from the same address.
    • Added one-hour session validity with automatic cleanup of expired sessions.
    • Added session renewal support after expiration.
    • Added operator tooling to expire an account session for testing or administration.
  • Documentation

    • Updated LAN security guidance to accurately describe logon limits, session expiration, encryption, and TLS considerations.
    • Documented session cleanup scheduling and related database behavior.

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The change adds SRP6 logon limiting and one-hour session expiry. The gateway tracks connection and failure limits. Session records include expiry metadata and are cleaned by a lazy, scheduler-only reaper.

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SRP6 logon limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Limiter state and admission
gateway/src/logon/limiter.rs
Adds per-connection attempts, per-address failure and connection limits, refusal types, expiry windows, pruning, slot release, and tests.
Listener and protocol integration
gateway/src/logon/mod.rs
Applies limiter admission and failure accounting to challenge and proof handling. Preserves final responses and pre-auth deadline behavior.
Security documentation
CONTEXT.md, docs/quickstart.md
Documents logon limits, proof delay, failure reset, session expiry, and remaining SRP6 security properties.

Session expiry and reaping

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session expiry contract
gateway/src/realm_core.rs, gateway/src/stdb/reads/account.rs, gateway/src/stdb/world_store.rs
Carries expiry timestamps with session keys and rejects expired sessions.
Session scheduling and cleanup
module/src/auth.rs, module/src/debug/*
Adds one-hour TTL handling, lazy reaper scheduling, scheduler-only cleanup, and an operator debug-expiry reducer.
Gateway schedule and reducer bindings
gateway/src/stdb/bindings/*
Adds bindings for the reaper schedule table, reducers, cache updates, queries, callbacks, and indexed columns.
Expiry validation and schema documentation
module/tests/session_expiry.rs, module/tests/support/mod.rs, docs/schema.md
Adds integration coverage and documents session expiry, reaping, schedule counts, and lazy arming.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39e45

The new logon protections are mergeable, but fixed per-address limits may temporarily refuse legitimate users behind shared networks without an operator override.

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In `@docs/quickstart.md`:
- Line 502: Update the session-expiry statement near the SRP6 exchange to
specify that the game_session row expires one hour after logon and prevents
later world handshakes, while an existing World Session remains valid; use the
documented glossary terms and avoid implying active connections are closed.

In `@gateway/src/logon/limiter.rs`:
- Line 115: Change the admission flow around addresses.retain and the limiter
state so idle-address pruning runs only when the map exceeds a defined threshold
or the configured pruning interval elapses, rather than on every accepted
connection. Preserve idle-record removal and add or update the
idle_addresses_are_pruned_on_the_next_admission test to trigger the threshold or
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In `@gateway/src/logon/mod.rs`:
- Line 2051: Update the assertion near the limiter rejection test to match the
exact refusal variant, following the established assertion form used near the
other refusal test around line 1885, instead of checking whether the error
string contains "failed".

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  • gateway/src/stdb/bindings/creature_ai_state_type.rs
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  • gateway/src/stdb/bindings/gw_auction_release_listing_hold_reducer.rs
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  • gateway/src/stdb/bindings/reap_sessions_reducer.rs
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The logon port let one connection retry SRP6 proofs without limit, and
game_session rows were written with an expires_at nothing read.

The Logon Limiter caps attempts at three per connection, ten failed
logons per address per minute and eight open logon connections per
address, and answers a failed proof after 200 ms. The world handshake
refuses an expired session, and the Module's reap_sessions deletes
expired rows every five minutes from a lazily armed schedule row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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gateway/src/logon/mod.rs (1)

338-338: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider making the limits operator-configurable.

LogonLimiter uses fixed compile-time constants. Players behind one NAT or CGNAT address share one budget. Ten failed logons per 60 seconds and eight open logon connections can be reached by a shared address during normal play, and the operator has no override. Every other gateway limit arrives through GatewayConfig::from_env.

Read the three limits from the environment with the current values as defaults.

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In `@gateway/src/logon/mod.rs` at line 338, Update LogonLimiter::new and the
surrounding gateway initialization to read its three rate/connection limits from
environment-backed GatewayConfig::from_env settings, while retaining the current
compile-time values as defaults when variables are absent or invalid. Pass the
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In `@gateway/src/logon/mod.rs`:
- Line 338: Update LogonLimiter::new and the surrounding gateway initialization
to read its three rate/connection limits from environment-backed
GatewayConfig::from_env settings, while retaining the current compile-time
values as defaults when variables are absent or invalid. Pass the configured
limits into LogonLimiter instead of always using fixed constants, and preserve
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