## Why
Device-key storage and signing are local security-sensitive operations
with platform-specific behavior. Keeping the core API in
`codex-device-key` keeps app-server focused on routing and business
logic instead of owning key-management details.
The crate keeps the signing surface intentionally narrow: callers can
create a bound key, fetch its public key, or sign one of the structured
payloads accepted by the crate. It does not expose a generic
arbitrary-byte signing API.
Key IDs cross into platform-specific labels, tags, and metadata paths,
so externally supplied IDs are constrained to the same auditable
namespace created by the crate: `dk_` followed by unpadded base64url for
32 bytes. Remote-control target paths are also tied to each signed
payload shape so connection proofs cannot be reused for enrollment
endpoints, or vice versa.
## What changed
- Added the `codex-device-key` workspace crate.
- Added account/client-bound key creation with stable `dk_` key IDs.
- Added strict `key_id` validation before public-key lookup or signing
reaches a provider.
- Added public-key lookup and structured signing APIs.
- Split remote-control client endpoint allowlists by connection vs
enrollment payload shape.
- Added validation for key bindings, accepted payload fields, token
expiration, and payload/key binding mismatches.
- Added flow-oriented docs on the validation helpers that gate provider
signing.
- Added protection policy and protection-class types without wiring a
platform provider yet.
- Added an unsupported default provider so platforms without an
implementation fail explicitly instead of silently falling back to
software-backed keys.
- Updated Cargo and Bazel lock metadata for the new crate and
non-platform-specific dependencies.
## Stack
This is stacked on #18428.
## Validation
- `cargo test -p codex-device-key`
- Added unit coverage for strict `key_id` validation before provider
use.
- Added unit coverage that rejects remote-control paths from the wrong
signed payload shape.
- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
Ruslan Nigmatullin