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Part 16 of 20 in the DSPX-2604 re-cut. Base branch: dspx-2604-07-readfull.

This stack replaces #3782 / #3865 / #3921, which stay open and untouched
until it lands. Nothing here is a rebase of those branches — the work was
re-cut from the ticket so each PR stands on its own.

Proposed Changes

CreateTDF and CreateTDFContext took an io.ReadSeeker, so a caller with a pipe,
a socket, or any other one-pass source had to spool the whole payload to disk
or memory first. That is the block DSPX-2604 exists to remove: the Everfox
re-wrap pipeline hands us a stream it cannot rewind. Both now take an
io.Reader and consume it from its current position through EOF.

Seekability was only ever used to measure the input. The length still matters,
but it is now resolved rather than required:

  • WithInputSize(n) declares it outright, for a reader that cannot report it;
  • failing that, a reader that happens to implement io.Seeker is probed, and
    the cursor restored to wherever it was;
  • failing both, the payload is unmeasurable and is read until it ends.

The one thing an unmeasurable payload gives up is the compact ZIP32 layout.
The ZIP64 decision is baked into the payload's local file header, which is
emitted ahead of the first segment, so it cannot be revisited once the archive
has started; a payload that might exceed a 32-bit offset has to be written as
ZIP64 from the outset. WithInputSize exists to buy that back — declaring the
length of a piped payload keeps it in ZIP32 when it fits.

The read loop no longer computes a segment count up front. It reads a buffer
at a time until EOF, which is what makes an unknown length workable, and
happens to be the same code path for a short final segment. An empty payload
still produces one empty segment. The segment count is still passed to the
archive writer when it is known, because that is what keeps a large declared
count from being clamped to a one-segment capacity hint.

Three behavior changes worth calling out. The first is the only one that can
silently shorten a payload; the other two fail loudly.

  • A seekable reader is no longer rewound. The old code seeked to the end to
    measure and then back to byte 0, so it encrypted the whole file no matter
    where the caller had left the cursor. resolveInputSize saves the current
    position and restores that one, so the payload is whatever remains from
    there. Concretely: a caller that sniffs the first 512 bytes for
    content-type detection and then hands the same *os.File to CreateTDF used
    to get the whole file and now gets the file minus 512 bytes — no compile
    error, no runtime error, just a shorter TDF that looks complete. Reading
    from the current position is the right semantics for an io.Reader-shaped
    API, and a seekable reader is encrypted from its current position pins
    it, but a caller relying on the rewind has to seek to 0 itself now.

  • The 64 GB cap (maxFileSizeSupported/errFileTooLarge) is gone. It could
    only ever be enforced on a measurable payload, so keeping it would have
    meant encrypt bigfile failing where encrypt < bigfile succeeded. Both
    were unexported; nothing outside the package referenced them.

  • A declared size is exact, not an upper bound. A reader that reaches EOF
    early now fails the call with errInputShorterThanDeclared instead of
    returning a TDF that is silently short of the payload the caller asked to
    encrypt. Reading still stops at the declared size if the reader has more.

What bounds a payload now, with the cap gone. maxPayloadSegments refuses a size
needing more than MaxInt32 segments, but segmentCount is the only place it is
enforced and that runs only when the length resolves — an unmeasurable stream
has no segment ceiling. Underneath that, the real limit is manifest memory: one
manifest segment and one archive-writer entry per segment, all live until
finalize, roughly 500k entries per terabyte at the 2 MiB default. Neither is
reachable today — 4 PiB at that segment size — so this is a note about where
the wall moved to, not a regression. DSPX-4905 tracks bounding and measuring
both.

Testing: Test_CreateTDF_StreamingInput covers the three measurement modes
across empty, sub-segment, exact-multiple, and partial-final-segment payloads,
asserting the ZIP64 choice, the segment count, and a full round trip through
LoadTDF. Test_CreateTDF_InputSizeBounds covers the negative, over-long, short,
and mid-stream-start cases. Both guards were mutation-checked: removing the
io.LimitReader fails "declared size bounds the read", and dropping the
unknown-size ZIP64 rule fails every unmeasurable case.

Checklist

  • I have added or updated unit tests
  • I have added or updated integration tests (if appropriate)
  • I have added or updated documentation

Testing Instructions

cd sdk && go test ./... -race

Test_CreateTDF_StreamingInput and Test_CreateTDF_InputSizeBounds are the
new coverage. Both guards were mutation-checked: removing the io.LimitReader
fails "declared size bounds the read", and dropping the unknown-size ZIP64 rule
fails every unmeasurable case.

The full DSPX-2604 stack — 20 PRs
# PR Based on
01 #3930 chore: bump go.work toolchain to go1.25.12 and simplify an rt_test condition main
02 #3931 feat(sdk): make the zipstream clock injectable for deterministic ZIP output main
03 #3932 fix(sdk): reject a zipstream write set that omits segment 0 #3931
04 #3933 fix(sdk): map ReadAt plaintext offsets from cumulative segment sizes main
05 #3934 chore(sdk): extract integrityAlgorithmString, createPolicyBinding, signAssertions main
06 #3935 chore(sdk): add direct tests for createKeyAccess, encryptMetadata and tdfSalt main
07 #3936 fix(sdk): fill each segment with io.ReadFull and size the buffer to the input main
08 #3937 chore(cli): move streaming IO helpers into pkg main
09 #3938 fix(cli): stream encrypt instead of buffering the whole payload #3937
10 #3939 fix(cli): stream decrypt and inspect instead of buffering #3938
11 #3940 feat(sdk): add a chunked segment writer (experimental) dspx-2604-base-11 = #3932 + #3934 + #3935
12 #3941 fix(sdk): stop GetManifest from splitting the key under the lock #3940
13 #3942 fix(sdk): reject a chunked split naming a KAS with no resolved public key #3941
14 #3943 chore(sdk): alias experimental/tdf manifest and assertion types #3942
15 #3944 fix(sdk): emit spec-compliant key access in experimental/tdf and delegate Writer #3943
16 #3945 feat(sdk): accept io.Reader in CreateTDF and drop the 64 GB payload cap #3936
17 #3946 chore(sdk): rewrite CreateTDF on top of the chunked writer dspx-2604-base-17 = #3944 + #3945
18 #3947 chore(sdk): drop dead TDFConfig fields and deprecate the TDFFormat enum #3946
19 #3948 fix(cli): drop the encrypt-side stdin spool dspx-2604-base-19 = #3947 + #3939
20 #3949 feat(sdk): graduate the chunked writer to stable API #3948

Reviewable in parallel right now, since they sit directly on main and depend on
nothing else: 01, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08.

Why three PRs have a dspx-2604-base-* base. A GitHub PR takes one base branch,
but 11, 17 and 19 each build on more than one parent. The base-* branches are empty
merge commits that exist only to join those parents so the PR diff shows exactly its
own change and nothing else. They contain no code, have no PR of their own, and go
away once their parents land — retarget the child onto main at that point.

Wants a cross-SDK xtest run before merge: 15, 17 (and therefore 20). They touch
the KAS wire format.

Red checks you may see are network flakes, not this stack. Four distinct ones hit
this batch and all clear on re-run: golangci-lint config verify timing out on
https://golangci-lint.run/.../golangci.v2.8.jsonschema.json (fails the whole go (<module>) job and fail-fast cancels its siblings), the bats installer getting a 403,
Docker Hub timing out on keycloak/keycloak:26.4, and buf reporting "the server
hosted at that remote is unavailable" while the Java SDK generates sources. The
govulncheck step also emits ##[error] annotations against the go1.25.11 stdlib, but
it is continue-on-error: true and never fails a job — 01 bumps the toolchain and
clears those annotations.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • TDF creation now supports streaming inputs, including non-seekable readers such as pipes and network streams.
    • Added WithInputSize to declare the exact payload size when it cannot be determined automatically.
    • Payloads are processed in segments, supporting unknown sizes and ZIP64 archives when needed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or inaccurate declared sizes now result in clear errors, including when input ends too early.
    • Payloads exceeding the supported segment limit are rejected.

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The SDK now accepts streaming io.Reader inputs. Callers can declare an exact payload size with WithInputSize. Segment processing handles known and unknown lengths, empty and partial payloads, and readers positioned at their current offset.

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Streaming TDF creation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Input-size configuration
sdk/tdf_config.go
TDFConfig stores an optional input size. WithInputSize rejects negative values and declares exact read bounds.
Streaming segment creation
sdk/tdf.go, sdk/tdferrors.go
CreateTDF and CreateTDFContext now accept io.Reader. Size resolution supports declared sizes, seekable readers, and unknown lengths. Segment reads use bounded readers and io.ReadFull. Short declared inputs return errInputShorterThanDeclared. The 64 GB limit was removed, and declared segment counts are bounded.
Streaming behavior validation
sdk/tdf_test.go
Tests cover seekable and non-seekable inputs, segment counts, partial and empty payloads, declared-size limits, short readers, current seek positions, and ZIP64 detection.

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  CreateTDFContext->>Reader: Resolve or read input size
  CreateTDFContext->>Reader: Read payload segments
  Reader->>TDF ZIP writer: Provide segment data
  TDF ZIP writer-->>Caller: Return TDF output
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- Line 428: Update resolveInputSize to clamp end-start to zero when a seekable
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> **Part 14 of 20** in the DSPX-2604 re-cut. Base branch:
`dspx-2604-13-unresolved-kas`.
>
> This stack replaces #3782 / #3865 / #3921, which stay open and
untouched
> until it lands. Nothing here is a rebase of those branches — the work
was
> re-cut from the ticket so each PR stands on its own.

### Proposed Changes

`sdk/experimental/tdf` carried its own copies of the manifest and
assertion
types -- `Manifest`, `Segment`, `KeyAccess`, `Assertion`, `Statement`,
`AssertionKey` and the rest -- structurally identical to the ones in
`sdk`
but distinct to the type system, so anything crossing the boundary
needed
conversion. Two copies of the JWT signing and verification logic also
had
to be kept in step by hand.

Replaces both files' definitions with type aliases. `sdk` owns the
definitions; this package re-exports them. Every exported name and every
method survives: `Assertion.Sign` / `Verify` / `GetHash`,
`Statement.UnmarshalJSON`, `AssertionKey.IsEmpty` / `Algorithm`,
`AssertionVerificationKeys.Get` / `IsEmpty` and the five `String()`
methods
all come along with the aliased types, so importers compile unchanged. A
manifest produced here can now be handed to the stable SDK without
conversion, which is what the follow-up delegation needs.

Two deliberate non-aliases:

`Policy`, `PolicyBody` and `PolicyAttribute` stay local.
`sdk.PolicyObject`
declares `Body` as an anonymous struct over an unexported element type,
so
there is no nameable sdk equivalent to alias to. Exporting those in
`sdk`
first would make the alias possible; that is a separate change.

`IntegrityAlgorithm` stays a distinct `int` type.
`sdk.IntegrityAlgorithm`
is itself `= int`, so no method can be attached to it, and aliasing
would
silently drop `String()` from this package's public API. The underlying
values match, so the two convert freely.

`kSplitKeyType`, `kPolicyBindingAlg`, `kGMACPayloadLength` and
`calculateSignature` are retained verbatim: this package still builds
its
own manifests and they have callers in `writer.go` and `key_access.go`.
The change that removes those callers removes these too.

No behavior change. The package's existing tests pass unmodified.

### Checklist

- [ ] I have added or updated unit tests
- [ ] I have added or updated integration tests (if appropriate)
- [ ] I have added or updated documentation

### Testing Instructions

```
cd sdk && go test ./experimental/... -race
```

No behavior change — the point is that the package's existing tests pass
unmodified against aliased types.

<details>
<summary><b>The full DSPX-2604 stack — 20 PRs</b></summary>

| # | PR | Based on |
|---|----|----------|
| 01 | #3930 chore: bump go.work toolchain to go1.25.12 and simplify an
rt_test condition | `main` |
| 02 | #3931 feat(sdk): make the zipstream clock injectable for
deterministic ZIP output | `main` |
| 03 | #3932 fix(sdk): reject a zipstream write set that omits segment 0
| #3931 |
| 04 | #3933 fix(sdk): map ReadAt plaintext offsets from cumulative
segment sizes | `main` |
| 05 | #3934 chore(sdk): extract integrityAlgorithmString,
createPolicyBinding, signAssertions | `main` |
| 06 | #3935 chore(sdk): add direct tests for createKeyAccess,
encryptMetadata and tdfSalt | `main` |
| 07 | #3936 fix(sdk): fill each segment with io.ReadFull and size the
buffer to the input | `main` |
| 08 | #3937 chore(cli): move streaming IO helpers into pkg | `main` |
| 09 | #3938 fix(cli): stream encrypt instead of buffering the whole
payload | #3937 |
| 10 | #3939 fix(cli): stream decrypt and inspect instead of buffering |
#3938 |
| 11 | #3940 feat(sdk): add a chunked segment writer (experimental) |
`dspx-2604-base-11` = #3932 + #3934 + #3935 |
| 12 | #3941 fix(sdk): stop GetManifest from splitting the key under the
lock | #3940 |
| 13 | #3942 fix(sdk): reject a chunked split naming a KAS with no
resolved public key | #3941 |
| 14 | #3943 chore(sdk): alias experimental/tdf manifest and assertion
types | #3942 |
| 15 | #3944 fix(sdk): emit spec-compliant key access in
experimental/tdf and delegate Writer | #3943 |
| 16 | #3945 feat(sdk): accept io.Reader in CreateTDF and drop the 64 GB
payload cap | #3936 |
| 17 | #3946 chore(sdk): rewrite CreateTDF on top of the chunked writer
| `dspx-2604-base-17` = #3944 + #3945 |
| 18 | #3947 chore(sdk): drop dead TDFConfig fields and deprecate the
TDFFormat enum | #3946 |
| 19 | #3948 fix(cli): drop the encrypt-side stdin spool |
`dspx-2604-base-19` = #3947 + #3939 |
| 20 | #3949 feat(sdk): graduate the chunked writer to stable API |
#3948 |

**Reviewable in parallel right now**, since they sit directly on `main`
and depend on
nothing else: 01, 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08.

**Why three PRs have a `dspx-2604-base-*` base.** A GitHub PR takes one
base branch,
but 11, 17 and 19 each build on more than one parent. The `base-*`
branches are empty
merge commits that exist only to join those parents so the PR diff shows
exactly its
own change and nothing else. They contain no code, have no PR of their
own, and go
away once their parents land — retarget the child onto `main` at that
point.

**Wants a cross-SDK xtest run before merge:** 15, 17 (and therefore 20).
They touch
the KAS wire format.

**Red checks you may see are network flakes, not this stack.** Four
distinct ones hit
this batch and all clear on re-run: `golangci-lint config verify` timing
out on
`https://golangci-lint.run/.../golangci.v2.8.jsonschema.json` (fails the
whole `go
(<module>)` job and fail-fast cancels its siblings), the bats installer
getting a 403,
Docker Hub timing out on `keycloak/keycloak:26.4`, and `buf` reporting
"the server
hosted at that remote is unavailable" while the Java SDK generates
sources. The
`govulncheck` step also emits `##[error]` annotations against the
go1.25.11 stdlib, but
it is `continue-on-error: true` and never fails a job — 01 bumps the
toolchain and
clears those annotations.

</details>


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-->
## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Compatibility**
* Experimental TDF manifest and assertion types now align with the
stable SDK, enabling direct interoperability without type conversion.
* Existing assertion and manifest behavior is provided through the
stable SDK definitions.

* **Documentation**
* Clarified the relationship between the experimental TDF package and
the stable SDK.
* Updated documentation for missing assertion verification keys to
reflect current behavior.
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Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>

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Reviewed the read-loop rewrite fairly closely. Overall this looks solid — I traced the loop through empty, sub-segment, exact-multiple and partial-final payloads across all three measurement modes and it holds up. The overflow work is genuinely careful: subtracting the overhead for the ZIP64 comparison rather than adding it, and the quotient-plus-remainder ceiling division, both avoid wraps that the obvious formulations would hit.

Two things I chased down and want to record as cleared, since they're the non-obvious ones a future reader will also worry about:

  • NewSegmentTDFWriter(0, ...) on the unmeasurable path clamps expectedSegments to 1, and FinalizeCRC() loops i < ExpectedCount. That looks like it would combine only segment 0's CRC for a multi-segment stream. It doesn't: Finalize derives Order from the present indices before finalizing, and both IsComplete and FinalizeCRC take the len(Order) > 0 branch ahead of ExpectedCount. Passing 0 is safe.
  • A zero-length readBuf would make io.ReadFull return (0, nil) and spin. Prevented by max(1, ...), and the comment says so.

Three findings below.


1. The compatibility claim is wrong, and the change it hides can silently truncate a payload

From the description:

failing that, a reader that happens to implement io.Seeker is probed, and the cursor restored, so every existing caller keeps today's behavior byte for byte

That holds only for readers already at position 0. The old code did:

inputSize, err := reader.Seek(0, io.SeekEnd)   // whole-file size
_, err = reader.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)          // rewind to 0

It always rewound to byte 0 and encrypted the whole file regardless of where the reader was. resolveInputSize now saves start = Seek(0, io.SeekCurrent) and restores to start, so the payload is whatever remains from the current position.

Concretely: a caller that sniffs the first 512 bytes for content-type detection and then hands the same *os.File to CreateTDF used to get the whole file, and now gets the file minus 512 bytes. No compile error, no runtime error — just a shorter TDF that looks complete.

I think the new semantics are the right ones for an io.Reader-shaped API, and there's a test pinning it (a seekable reader is encrypted from its current position), so this is a documentation issue rather than a code one. But it is the only change here that can silently lose caller data, and it's the one not in the "Two behavior changes worth calling out" list — which currently covers the 64 GB cap and the exact-size rule, both of which fail loudly. Worth promoting into that list and into the release notes.

2. maxPayloadSegments only guards the measurable path

segmentCount() is the only place the limit is enforced, and it only runs when the size resolves. An unmeasurable stream has no segment ceiling at all.

Unreachable in practice — 4 PiB at the default segment size — so not worth adding a counter for. Flagging it because the generated release note ("Prevented payloads exceeding the supported segment limit from being written") reads as unconditional when it applies only to declared sizes.

3. Dropping the 64 GB cap makes manifest memory the new ceiling

manifest.Segments and the zipstream Segments map both grow one entry per segment and stay live until finalize. The old cap bounded that at roughly 32k entries; a 1 TB stream at the default 2 MiB segment is now ~500k entries held in memory.

Not an argument for keeping the cap — removing it is clearly right given encrypt bigfile vs encrypt < bigfile. Just noting that the limit moved from a constant to available RAM, which is worth a line somewhere so the next person sizing a large streaming job knows where the wall is.

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Thanks — all three confirmed, and thanks especially for recording the two you cleared. NewSegmentTDFWriter(0, ...) deriving Order from the present indices before ExpectedCount is exactly the kind of thing that gets "fixed" by someone six months from now; good to have it written down.

All three land as documentation. Details:

1. The rewind claim. You're right and I had it backwards in the description. The old code always went to byte 0, the new code restores to wherever the caller left the cursor, and that is the one change here that loses data quietly. Fixed in three places:

  • The bullet no longer claims byte-for-byte compatibility — it just says the cursor is restored to where it was.

  • The callout list is now three entries, with this one first and a note that it's the only one of the three that fails silently. That carries into the release note, since release-please builds the changelog from the squashed commit body.

  • CreateTDF had no godoc at all, which is the real reason this was easy to miss. It has one now, and it names the old io.ReadSeeker behavior explicitly:

    Bytes are consumed from the reader's current position through EOF. A seekable
    reader is not rewound first: a caller that has already advanced it — sniffing a
    header for content-type detection, say — encrypts only what remains. Earlier
    releases took an io.ReadSeeker and always rewound to byte 0.
    

2 and 3. Taking your recommendation on both — no counter in the read loop, no cap restored. A branch per segment to catch a 4 PiB stream isn't worth it, and RAM is the honest ceiling now. But you're right that they shouldn't just evaporate, so:

  • maxPayloadSegments now says in its comment that it bounds only a resolved length, and that an unmeasurable stream has no ceiling.
  • CreateTDFContext godoc now states that memory scales with segment count — ~500k live entries per terabyte at the 2 MiB default — and that this is what replaced the 64 GB cap.
  • The description has a "what bounds a payload now" paragraph covering both, so the release note stops reading as though the segment limit were unconditional.
  • DSPX-4905 tracks the actual work, under the large-file epic (DSPX-4502) and linked to DSPX-4584, which is the same manifest-memory problem in the java-sdk.

No code or test changes; a seekable reader is encrypted from its current position already pins the behavior in (1).

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Benchmark authorization.GetDecisions Results:

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Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 143.019346ms

Benchmark authorization.v2.GetMultiResourceDecision Results:

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Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 85.170744ms

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Bulk Benchmark Results

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Total Decrypts 100
Successful Decrypts 100
Failed Decrypts 0
Total Time 306.439422ms
Throughput 326.33 requests/second

TDF3 Benchmark Results:

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Total Requests 5000
Successful Requests 5000
Failed Requests 0
Concurrent Requests 50
Total Time 39.819684447s
Average Latency 397.547302ms
Throughput 125.57 requests/second

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Benchmark authorization.GetDecisions Results:

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Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 191.103794ms

Benchmark authorization.v2.GetMultiResourceDecision Results:

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Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 108.361321ms

Benchmark Statistics

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Bulk Benchmark Results

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Total Decrypts 100
Successful Decrypts 100
Failed Decrypts 0
Total Time 340.532951ms
Throughput 293.66 requests/second

TDF3 Benchmark Results:

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Total Requests 5000
Successful Requests 5000
Failed Requests 0
Concurrent Requests 50
Total Time 47.902057684s
Average Latency 477.92147ms
Throughput 104.38 requests/second

CreateTDF and CreateTDFContext took an io.ReadSeeker, so a caller with a pipe,
a socket, or any other one-pass source had to spool the whole payload to disk
or memory first. That is the block DSPX-2604 exists to remove: the Everfox
re-wrap pipeline hands us a stream it cannot rewind. Both now take an
io.Reader and consume it from its current position through EOF.

Seekability was only ever used to measure the input. The length still matters,
but it is now resolved rather than required:

  - WithInputSize(n) declares it outright, for a reader that cannot report it;
  - failing that, a reader that happens to implement io.Seeker is probed, and
    the cursor restored to wherever it was;
  - failing both, the payload is unmeasurable and is read until it ends.

The one thing an unmeasurable payload gives up is the compact ZIP32 layout.
The ZIP64 decision is baked into the payload's local file header, which is
emitted ahead of the first segment, so it cannot be revisited once the archive
has started; a payload that might exceed a 32-bit offset has to be written as
ZIP64 from the outset. WithInputSize exists to buy that back — declaring the
length of a piped payload keeps it in ZIP32 when it fits.

The read loop no longer computes a segment count up front. It reads a buffer
at a time until EOF, which is what makes an unknown length workable, and
happens to be the same code path for a short final segment. An empty payload
still produces one empty segment. The segment count is still passed to the
archive writer when it is known, because that is what keeps a large declared
count from being clamped to a one-segment capacity hint.

Three behavior changes worth calling out. The first is the only one that can
silently shorten a payload; the other two fail loudly.

  - A seekable reader is no longer rewound. The old code seeked to the end to
    measure and then back to byte 0, so it encrypted the whole file no matter
    where the caller had left the cursor. resolveInputSize saves the current
    position and restores that one, so the payload is whatever remains from
    there. Concretely: a caller that sniffs the first 512 bytes for
    content-type detection and then hands the same *os.File to CreateTDF used
    to get the whole file and now gets the file minus 512 bytes — no compile
    error, no runtime error, just a shorter TDF that looks complete. Reading
    from the current position is the right semantics for an io.Reader-shaped
    API, and `a seekable reader is encrypted from its current position` pins
    it, but a caller relying on the rewind has to seek to 0 itself now.

  - The 64 GB cap (maxFileSizeSupported/errFileTooLarge) is gone. It could
    only ever be enforced on a measurable payload, so keeping it would have
    meant `encrypt bigfile` failing where `encrypt < bigfile` succeeded. Both
    were unexported; nothing outside the package referenced them.

  - A declared size is exact, not an upper bound. A reader that reaches EOF
    early now fails the call with errInputShorterThanDeclared instead of
    returning a TDF that is silently short of the payload the caller asked to
    encrypt. Reading still stops at the declared size if the reader has more.

What bounds a payload now, with the cap gone. maxPayloadSegments refuses a size
needing more than MaxInt32 segments, but segmentCount is the only place it is
enforced and that runs only when the length resolves — an unmeasurable stream
has no segment ceiling. Underneath that, the real limit is manifest memory: one
manifest segment and one archive-writer entry per segment, all live until
finalize, roughly 500k entries per terabyte at the 2 MiB default. Neither is
reachable today — 4 PiB at that segment size — so this is a note about where
the wall moved to, not a regression. DSPX-4905 tracks bounding and measuring
both.

Testing: Test_CreateTDF_StreamingInput covers the three measurement modes
across empty, sub-segment, exact-multiple, and partial-final-segment payloads,
asserting the ZIP64 choice, the segment count, and a full round trip through
LoadTDF. Test_CreateTDF_InputSizeBounds covers the negative, over-long, short,
and mid-stream-start cases. Both guards were mutation-checked: removing the
io.LimitReader fails "declared size bounds the read", and dropping the
unknown-size ZIP64 rule fails every unmeasurable case.

Signed-off-by: Dave Mihalcik <dmihalcik@virtru.com>
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Benchmark authorization.GetDecisions Results:

Metric Value
Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 225.746882ms

Benchmark authorization.v2.GetMultiResourceDecision Results:

Metric Value
Approved Decision Requests 1000
Denied Decision Requests 0
Total Time 124.713257ms

Benchmark Statistics

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Bulk Benchmark Results

Metric Value
Total Decrypts 100
Successful Decrypts 100
Failed Decrypts 0
Total Time 458.759231ms
Throughput 217.98 requests/second

TDF3 Benchmark Results:

Metric Value
Total Requests 5000
Successful Requests 5000
Failed Requests 0
Concurrent Requests 50
Total Time 56.658745281s
Average Latency 564.874844ms
Throughput 88.25 requests/second

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⚠️ Govulncheck found vulnerabilities ⚠️

The following modules have known vulnerabilities:

  • otdfctl
  • service
  • tests-bdd

See the workflow run for details.

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