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Revocation should be retried with ACK given from agent

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Description

Currently each revocation notice is sent only once, and this could pose a problem for nodes that are either offline for that period or are still going through setup. It seems better to get an ACK from each node that it received the revocation notice, and have some mechanism to try resending it if it is not acknowledged.

Do we know that there isn't currently a mechanism in Keylime for this type of retry?

@lukehinds This one came from our conversation.

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The issue names no files or tests. Start by locating the revocation-notice sender and the agent-side ACK handling, then verify whether Keylime already has retry logic. Done means agreeing on the ACK and resend behavior for offline or still-setup nodes and covering that behavior with tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
distributed-systems, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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