feat(keys): add caller-owned key inventory

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Summary

• Add a caller-owned, provider-neutral inventory for named symmetric/public/private keys, certificate chains and CRLs, with explicit usages and immutable operation-policy enforcement. The library performs no implicit filesystem or network I/O.
• Import xmlsec keys.xml, PEM/DER, PKCS#1, encrypted PKCS#8 and bounded RustCrypto-backed PKCS#12. Preserve strict label/payload agreement, terminal protected-container errors, BER normalization, password/KDF limits and zeroizing secret storage.
• Wire named keys into CLI signing, verification, recipient encryption and direct AES decryption. XML RSAKeyValue entries are public-only; RSA recipient decryption uses explicit private PEM/DER or PKCS#12 inputs. Preserve exact-name selection, lax-search error ordering and shared candidate budgets.
• Preflight simultaneously live source, decoded material and encoding/decryption workspace before allocation. XML and PEM Base64 decoding borrow input and stream into exact-size output buffers; secret buffers are guarded before decoding starts. XML import sessions account for previously loaded certificate/file material alongside source and decoded keys.
• Preserve aggregate KDF work across repeated imports, inventory merges, failed decrypts and temporary CLI signing/decryption candidates. Release temporary inventories after candidate extraction without refunding work or retaining redundant key buffers.
• Preflight encrypted PKCS#8 against the remaining KDF allowance before invoking password callbacks. Bound both original and copied certificate/CRL payloads before constructing the owned X.509 fallback, including retained document revocation evidence.
• Parse nested recipient KeyInfo under one policy-bound session. Embedded X509Data binary values obey active per-resource and aggregate limits before decoding, with charges retained across repeated parses and failed candidates. Preserve KeyInfo metadata validation when importing public KeyValue directly.
• Enforce RSA/DSA component ceilings, operation-specific key-size policy, trusted-versus-lookup certificate distinctions, combined certificate/CRL allowances and later-snapshot revalidation. Document the API, CLI behavior and interoperability boundaries.

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• 3846 default and 3855 all-feature workspace tests, including unit, CLI, negative/boundary and reciprocal xmlsec1 1.3.13 interoperability coverage.
• All-feature workspace build and clippy with warnings denied; 24 doctests; formatting and diff checks.
• Separate XMLDSig-without-XMLEnc clippy configuration, plus alloc-only XML-input checks on host and thumbv7em-none-eabihf with Rust 1.92.0.
• Regression coverage includes live-memory exact/insufficient boundaries, private PEM denial before DER parsing, XML source-plus-material accounting, shared and failed-attempt X.509 byte accounting, split-text/decoder-buffer Base64 boundaries, aggregate KDF work across inventories and temporary candidates, failed-password accounting, no callback after exhausted work, and simultaneous configured certificate/CRL copies.

Replaces #169 with squashed history.

Closes #167

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• New Features
  • The CLI can now import XML key stores for signing, verification, encryption, and decryption, and supports PKCS#12 inputs for signing and decryption.
  • Applications can manage caller-owned key inventories, restrict keys by usage, and import supported key and certificate formats.
  • X.509 verification can use caller-provided certificate revocation lists.
• Security
  • Key imports and cryptographic operations enforce resource limits and operation policies, including RSA key-size checks before decryption.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on key management, supported formats, policy enforcement, and CLI key-store options.

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The change adds bounded PKCS#12 and protected-key imports, caller-owned key inventories, policy-aware XMLDSig and XML Encryption resolution, and CLI key-store support for signing, verification, encryption, and decryption.

Changes

Key inventory and import policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature wiring and resource policy .github/workflows/ci.yml, Cargo.toml, src/hard_limits.rs, src/lib.rs, src/policy.rs, src/document.rs, README.md	Feature configuration exposes key management under xmldsig, and xmlenc enables xmldsig. Resource policy adds KDF work and memory ceilings and validates RSA policy for decryption. XML decoding returns bounded borrowed-or-owned text.
Bounded PKCS#12 import src/key_manager/pkcs12_import.rs, tests/fixtures/keys/pkcs12/*, tests/fixtures_smoke.rs	The importer parses BER content, applies shared KDF, memory, candidate, and nesting limits, verifies optional MACs, and supports legacy 3DES and PBES2 AES formats.
XMLDSig parsing and key resolution src/xmldsig/parse.rs, src/xmldsig/whitespace.rs, src/xmldsig/keys.rs, src/xmldsig/x509.rs, src/xmldsig/signature.rs, src/xmldsig/mod.rs, src/provider.rs	XMLDSig parsing and key resolution share candidate and byte budgets. Public-key components are bounded before decoding, and configured CRLs enter certificate-chain validation.
Policy-aware XML Encryption src/xmlenc/decrypt.rs, src/xmlenc/mod.rs, src/policy.rs, src/provider.rs, tests/provider_contract.rs, docs/xmlenc.md	Resolution receives operation policy and a shared candidate budget. RSA metadata and ciphertext width are checked before recovery.
CLI key-store signing and verification tools/xmlsec1/src/args.rs, tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs, tools/xmlsec1/src/key_material.rs, tools/xmlsec1/tests/process_contract.rs, tests/fixtures/keys/xmlsec/mixed-keys.xml	The CLI imports named key stores and selects signing and verification keys by name, usage, and algorithm. Private-key imports use bounded reads and policy-aware password handling.
CLI inventory encryption and decryption tools/xmlsec1/src/commands.rs, tools/xmlsec1/tests/process_contract.rs, tests/xmlenc_encrypt_xmlsec1.rs	Encryption and decryption select stored AES keys and RSA recipients. Candidate exhaustion and policy denials stop selection.
Key-management documentation and fixtures docs/key-management.md, docs/cli.md, README.md, tests/fixtures/*	Documentation describes inventory imports, key formats, resource limits, and CLI selection rules. Fixtures cover PKCS#12 and mixed XML key material.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant KeyInventory
  participant KeyResolver
  participant CryptoProvider
  CLI->>KeyInventory: Import keys-file or PKCS#12 material
  CLI->>KeyInventory: Select entries by name and usage
  CLI->>KeyResolver: Resolve candidates under operation policy
  KeyResolver->>CryptoProvider: Verify or recover with selected key

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a7201

MAC-protected PKCS#12 bundles fail to import when their passwords contain characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, such as some emoji. The import reports a wrong-password error even when the password is correct. This edge case is narrow and has a straightforward fix. Apart from it, the key inventory changes look ready to merge, with follow-up on that encoding.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a7201

New key-import and resolution paths expand security-sensitive input handling across signing, verification and encryption. Reviewed controls preserve key authorization and resource budgets, and no newly introduced security defect was established. Incomplete coverage of the broader change prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns
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Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Adversarial XML or protected-container bytes can exercise parsing, allocation and cryptographic work inside a consuming process. The reviewed authority boundary is the caller-provided inventory and operation policy; named selection can reach only supplied key material, with usage and candidate controls at resolution boundaries.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — Signature KeyInfoReference parsing still starts fresh X.509 byte counters for individual parses rather than sharing the new session counter across recursive references. This pattern predates the PR, and the verifier's recursive callers are unchanged. Candidate, URI, depth and cycle controls remain, while head adds stronger per-parse byte checks. No introduced or worsened attack path was established from this condition.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Certificate lookup and trust-anchor authority remain distinct. Chain validation receives explicitly configured trusted certificates; embedded and lookup certificates are assembled separately. Named inventory selection substitutes supplied key material without importing document certificates into the trusted candidate's chain.
• observed — Strict CLI RSA selection retains an intentional single-unnamed-key fallback that can satisfy a named recipient. The same authority existed in the base implementation; it is not a newly introduced bypass of named inventory selection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Protected-key decryption preserves spent KDF work on errors. The CLI passes remaining work allowance into temporary imports and adds reported work back on success or failure. Within a KeyInfoParsingSession, embedded X.509 bytes are reserved before decoding and failed DER parsing does not refund the charge.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider extending operation-owned X.509 byte accounting through signature KeyInfoReference traversal, preserving charges across initial, same-document and external parses. This would address the pre-existing split accounting model, not remediate an established PR regression.

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Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The PR includes two changes with no demonstrated connection to [#167]. It removes #[must_use] from crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/model.rs::Document::nodes. It removes an unused std::f64 test import in…	Revert both unrelated changes, or provide evidence that each change directly supports [#167].
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 37.69% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 329 functions across 26 files. (1 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#167]. It adds a caller-owned, provider-neutral KeyInventory with usage policies and no implicit file or network lookup. It imports the requested symmetr…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding a caller-owned key inventory. It is concise and directly matches the pull request objectives and implementation.

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The PR includes two changes with no demonstrated connection to [#167]. It removes #[must_use] from crates/xml-sec-xslt/src/model.rs::Document::nodes. It removes an unused std::f64 test import in src/sxd_xpath/function.rs. The whole-PR change summary identifies no key-inventory, key-format, policy, test, or documentation purpose for either change.

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