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Motivation

Every loadTDF call triggers a ListKeyAccessServers RPC to build the KAS allowlist. The result is never cached, so decrypting 100 files makes 100 identical RPCs. KAS public keys are already cached via KASKeyCache; the allowlist had no equivalent.

Resolves #390. See also: opentdf/web-sdk#998, opentdf/platform#3897.

PR Changes

  • Add KASAllowlistCache class mirroring KASKeyCache (keyed by platform URL, 5-minute TTL)
  • Add private resolveKasAllowlist() method on SDK that encapsulates cache check, RPC fallback, and cache store
  • SDK.loadTDF() calls resolveKasAllowlist() to populate config.kasAllowlist before delegating to TDF
  • No changes to TDF, Services, or existing tests
  • Add KASAllowlistCacheTest with tests for basic store/get, expiration, clear, and multiple entries

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added automatic KAS allowlist resolution when loading TDFs.
    • Reuses recently retrieved allowlists for improved performance.
    • Refreshes cached allowlists after five minutes and supports clearing cached entries.
    • Reports clear errors when allowlist lookup fails.

Resolves #390

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Yakhnenko <eugene.yakhnenko@virtru.com>
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The SDK now resolves KAS allowlists during TDF loading. It uses a per-instance, five-minute platform URL cache and queries the KAS registry on cache misses. Cache behavior has dedicated tests.

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KAS allowlist resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timestamped allowlist cache and validation
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCache.java, sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCacheTest.java
KASAllowlistCache stores timestamped allowlists by platform URL, expires entries after five minutes, and supports clearing. Tests cover retrieval, expiration, missing keys, clearing, and multiple entries.
TDF loading integration
sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDK.java
SDK.loadTDF uses cached allowlists when available. Otherwise, it queries the KAS registry, adds the platform KAS address, updates the reader configuration, and caches the result. Lookup failures become SDKException instances.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 41e53

Caching the KAS allowlist currently makes plaintext TDF loading depend on registry availability and can share mutable trust data between loads, which may cause failures or incorrect authorization behavior. These issues should be fixed before merging.

Possibly related issues

  • opentdf/java-sdk#390 — Requests per-SDK caching of ListKeyAccessServers results during loadTDF.
  • opentdf/web-sdk#998 — Covers per-instance platform URL caching for KAS allowlists.
  • opentdf/platform#3897 — Proposes the five-minute per-SDK KAS allowlist cache implemented here.

Suggested reviewers: biscoe916

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SDK
  participant AllowlistCache
  participant KASRegistry
  participant TDFReader
  SDK->>AllowlistCache: Check platform URL
  alt Cached allowlist available
    AllowlistCache-->>SDK: Return allowlist
  else Cache miss
    SDK->>KASRegistry: Request KAS list
    KASRegistry-->>SDK: Return KAS URIs
    SDK->>AllowlistCache: Store resolved allowlist
  end
  SDK->>TDFReader: Configure allowlist
  SDK->>TDFReader: Load TDF
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Poem

A rabbit cached the KAS list tight,
With timestamps guarding day and night.
Five minutes pass, the entry fades,
Then registry paths are freshly made.
The TDF loads with guards in place—
Hop, hop, secure with grace!

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCacheTest.java (1)

10-10: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use AssertJ assertions in this test class.

Replace the JUnit static assertions with AssertJ assertions. Keep the JUnit Jupiter annotations.

As per coding guidelines, sdk/src/test/java/**/*Test.java requires test classes to use JUnit Jupiter, Mockito, and AssertJ.

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In `@sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCacheTest.java` at line
10, Update KASAllowlistCacheTest to remove JUnit static assertion imports and
replace all referenced assertions with equivalent AssertJ assertions, while
retaining the existing JUnit Jupiter annotations and test structure.

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Inline comments:
In `@sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCache.java`:
- Around line 41-46: Update KASAllowlistCache so store creates and caches a
defensive immutable copy of the supplied allowlist, and the retrieval method
returns a separate copy for each Config.TDFReaderConfig instead of exposing the
cached Set reference. Preserve the existing cache behavior and timestamp
handling.

In `@sdk/src/main/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/SDK.java`:
- Around line 143-146: Update SDK.loadTDF and the TDF.loadTDF flow so
resolveKasAllowlist is invoked only after determining that the manifest
represents an encrypted TDF; plaintext TDFs must load without a registry lookup.
Add a regression test covering an unavailable registry with an unencrypted TDF.

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In `@sdk/src/test/java/io/opentdf/platform/sdk/KASAllowlistCacheTest.java`:
- Line 10: Update KASAllowlistCacheTest to remove JUnit static assertion imports
and replace all referenced assertions with equivalent AssertJ assertions, while
retaining the existing JUnit Jupiter annotations and test structure.
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✅ java@v0.18.0-v0.25.1
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Comment on lines +17 to +24
Map<String, TimeStampedAllowList> cache;

public KASAllowlistCache() {
this.cache = new HashMap<>();
}

public void clear() {
this.cache = new HashMap<>();

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cache is a plain HashMap, but KASAllowlistCache is held as a field on SDK (SDK.java:64), so a single instance is shared for the lifetime of the client. Three things make that unsafe under concurrent loadTDF calls:

  • get() writes to the map — the expiry path calls cache.remove(platformURL) on line 39 — so this isn't a read-mostly accessor that could get away without synchronization.
  • store() writes on every miss.
  • The field is non-final and clear() reassigns it rather than clearing in place, so a clear() on one thread may never become visible to another (no happens-before edge).

This matters specifically because of the PR's own motivation — "decrypting 100 files makes 100 identical RPCs". The natural way a caller speeds that up is a thread pool over one SDK instance, which is exactly the pattern that puts concurrent get/store on an unsynchronized HashMap: lost entries, or corruption during a resize.

Cheap fix:

private final Map<String, TimeStampedAllowList> cache = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

public void clear() {
    cache.clear();
}

I see the header comment notes this mirrors KASKeyCache, which has the same shape — so this may be deliberate consistency. Worth calling out that the exposure is different though: KASKeyCache is reached far less often than one lookup per loadTDF.

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Fixed in b5254ca — switched to ConcurrentHashMap with final field and cache.clear() instead of reassignment.

try {
response = RequestHelper.getOrThrow(
services.kasRegistry().listKeyAccessServersBlocking(request, Collections.emptyMap()).execute());
} catch (Exception e) {

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narrow scope if you can

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Fixed in b5254ca — narrowed to ConnectException, matching the original TDF.loadTDF catch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Yakhnenko <eugene.yakhnenko@virtru.com>
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