feat: add optional OpenBao Transit KMS with Holder key routing

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Summary

• add an optional openbao Credo KMS backend while keeping Askar as wallet storage and the default KMS backend
• support non-exportable Ed25519 and P-256 Transit keys, public-key lookup, signing, and verification
• support static-token and AppRole authentication with token caching and one fail-closed re-authentication attempt
• scope Transit key names and key ids to the Credo agent context to isolate tenants
• add an explicit purpose policy for Holder OpenID4VC credential-binding keys
• sanitize OpenBao HTTP failures so request configuration and authentication headers are not retained in error causes
• reject malformed OpenBao endpoints before creating the HTTP client

This is the first implementation slice of #436. Existing configurations remain unchanged: Holder credential binding uses Askar unless keyManagement.holderCredentialBinding is explicitly set to openbao. Issuer signing and all other key purposes remain on their existing paths.

Security behavior

• private keys are generated inside Transit with exportable: false and allow_plaintext_backup: false
• OpenBao key ids cannot be used across tenant contexts
• OpenBao errors do not fall back to Askar
• selecting openbao for Holder binding without registering the OpenBao backend fails agent startup
• key import, encryption/decryption, random generation, and deletion are not advertised as supported
• Askar remains first/default for backwards compatibility

Verification

• 19 focused unit tests passed for the OpenBao backend and KMS purpose policy
• yarn validate
• yarn build
• live OpenBao 2.6.1 Transit test on Apple Container:
  • Ed25519: create, public JWK, 64-byte signature, valid verification, tampered-input rejection
  • P-256/JWS: create, public JWK, 64-byte signature, valid verification, tampered-input rejection
  • least-privilege AppRole: login, key read, sign, and verify
  • Holder credential binding: did:jwk creation routed to OpenBao, proof signing succeeds, Askar cannot resolve the key, and another tenant context is rejected
  • availability failure: stopping OpenBao makes signing fail closed with no Askar fallback

The live test identified and fixed two wire-format differences: Ed25519 public keys are returned as Base64 raw bytes, while P-256 JWS signatures use Base64URL.

Follow-ups

• add the live OpenBao integration test to CI
• automate the Holder OpenBao integration scenario in CI
• add explicit Issuer key routing after Credo exposes backend selection for its internally created access-token signing key
• define key rotation and deletion policy

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds an optional OpenBao Transit KMS backend, tenant-scoped signing keys, configurable holder credential-binding backend selection, CLI and REST-agent wiring, validation tests, and README documentation. Askar remains the default backend.

Changes

OpenBao Transit KMS

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and Transit transport src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKmsConfig.ts, src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoTransitClient.ts, src/kms/openbao/__tests__/OpenBaoKmsConfig.test.ts	Validates OpenBao configuration and authentication. The Transit client supports key operations, signing, verification, token handling, AppRole refresh, namespaces, and retry behavior.
Tenant-scoped key-management service src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKeyManagementService.ts, src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKmsModule.ts, src/kms/openbao/index.ts, src/kms/openbao/__tests__/*	Registers the openbao KMS backend. The service supports Ed25519 and P-256 key creation, public-key retrieval, signing, and verification with tenant-scoped key IDs. Unsupported operations raise KMS errors.
Credential-binding backend policy src/kms/policy/*, src/controllers/openid4vc/holder/credentialBindingResolver.ts	Adds askar and openbao policy selection. Startup validates that the selected backend is registered. Holder credential-binding key creation uses the resolved backend.
Agent registration and configuration flow src/cli.ts, src/cliAgent.ts, README.md	Passes openBaoKms and keyManagement settings from CLI configuration to the REST agent. The agent conditionally registers the related modules. The README documents configuration and backend behavior.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 7606a

The optional OpenBao KMS path can expose authentication tokens through error logging and accepts malformed service URLs. Merge should wait until token-bearing errors are sanitized and endpoint validation is added.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant runRestAgent
  participant KeyManagementPolicyModule
  participant OpenBaoKmsModule
  participant OpenBaoTransitClient
  participant OpenBaoTransit

  CLI->>runRestAgent: provide OpenBao and policy configuration
  runRestAgent->>OpenBaoKmsModule: register openbao backend
  runRestAgent->>KeyManagementPolicyModule: register holder-binding policy
  KeyManagementPolicyModule->>OpenBaoKmsModule: validate selected backend
  OpenBaoKmsModule->>OpenBaoTransitClient: create KMS service
  OpenBaoTransitClient->>OpenBaoTransit: create or use tenant-scoped Transit key
  OpenBaoTransit-->>OpenBaoTransitClient: return key or signature result

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 17 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: adding an optional OpenBao Transit KMS backend and routing Holder key operations to it.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKeyManagementService.ts`:
- Around line 42-44: Sanitize Axios errors before retaining them in all three
catch blocks of OpenBaoKeyManagementService: remove nested request
configuration, especially sensitive headers such as X-Vault-Token, and retain
only a safe cause containing the REST response error message. Update the shared
asError handling or each catch path while preserving existing KeyManagementError
propagation.

In `@src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKmsConfig.ts`:
- Around line 36-37: Update the URL validation in OpenBaoKmsConfig to parse the
normalized value with URL, requiring an http: or https: protocol and a non-empty
hostname so malformed hosts are rejected before reaching the HTTP client. Add
configuration tests covering invalid URLs, including whitespace in the hostname,
while preserving valid HTTP and HTTPS URLs.

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📒 Files selected for processing (18)

• README.md
• src/cli.ts
• src/cliAgent.ts
• src/controllers/openid4vc/holder/credentialBindingResolver.ts
• src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKeyManagementService.ts
• src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKmsConfig.ts
• src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoKmsModule.ts
• src/kms/openbao/OpenBaoTransitClient.ts
• src/kms/openbao/__tests__/OpenBaoKeyManagementService.test.ts
• src/kms/openbao/__tests__/OpenBaoKmsConfig.test.ts
• src/kms/openbao/index.ts
• src/kms/policy/KeyManagementPolicyConfig.ts
• src/kms/policy/KeyManagementPolicyModule.ts
• src/kms/policy/__tests__/KeyManagementPolicyConfig.test.ts
• src/kms/policy/__tests__/KeyManagementPolicyModule.test.ts
• src/kms/policy/__tests__/getHolderCredentialBindingBackend.test.ts
• src/kms/policy/getHolderCredentialBindingBackend.ts
• src/kms/policy/index.ts

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@ajile-in @sagarkhole4 The two security findings from the latest CodeRabbit review are addressed in signed commit 562dc51:

• Axios request configuration and X-Vault-Token headers are replaced with a safe OpenBao error before entering the Credo error chain.
• OpenBao endpoints are parsed and validated for HTTP(S), hostname, whitespace, and embedded credentials.

Regression coverage was added; 19 focused tests, type checking, formatting, and the production build pass. Could you please review when convenient?