lighthouse/book/src/api-vc-auth-header.md
Michael Sproul e961ff60b4 Implement standard keystore API (#2736)
## Issue Addressed

Implements the standard key manager API from https://ethereum.github.io/keymanager-APIs/, formerly https://github.com/ethereum/beacon-APIs/pull/151
Related to https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2557

## Proposed Changes

- [x] Add all of the new endpoints from the standard API: GET, POST and DELETE.
- [x] Add a `validators.enabled` column to the slashing protection database to support atomic disable + export.
- [x] Add tests for all the common sequential accesses of the API
- [x] Add tests for interactions with remote signer validators
- [x] Add end-to-end tests for migration of validators from one VC to another
- [x] Implement the authentication scheme from the standard (token bearer auth)

## Additional Info

The `enabled` column in the validators SQL database is necessary to prevent a race condition when exporting slashing protection data. Without the slashing protection database having a way of knowing that a key has been disabled, a concurrent request to sign a message could insert a new record into the database. The `delete_concurrent_with_signing` test exercises this code path, and was indeed failing before the `enabled` column was added.

The validator client authentication has been modified from basic auth to bearer auth, with basic auth preserved for backwards compatibility.
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# Validator Client API: Authorization Header
## Overview
The validator client HTTP server requires that all requests have the following
HTTP header:
- Name: `Authorization`
- Value: `Bearer <api-token>`
Where `<api-token>` is a string that can be obtained from the validator client
host. Here is an example `Authorization` header:
```
Authorization: Bearer api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123
```
## Obtaining the API token
The API token is stored as a file in the `validators` directory. For most users
this is `~/.lighthouse/{network}/validators/api-token.txt`. Here's an
example using the `cat` command to print the token to the terminal, but any
text editor will suffice:
```
$ cat api-token.txt
api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123
```
When starting the validator client it will output a log message containing the path
to the file containing the api token.
```
Sep 28 19:17:52.615 INFO HTTP API started api_token_file: "$HOME/prater/validators/api-token.txt", listen_address: 127.0.0.1:5062
```
The _path_ to the API token may also be fetched from the HTTP API itself (this endpoint is the only
one accessible without the token):
```bash
curl http://localhost:5062/lighthouse/auth
```
Response:
```json
{
"token_path": "/home/karlm/.lighthouse/prater/validators/api-token.txt"
}
```
## Example
Here is an example `curl` command using the API token in the `Authorization` header:
```bash
curl localhost:5062/lighthouse/version -H "Authorization: Bearer api-token-0x03eace4c98e8f77477bb99efb74f9af10d800bd3318f92c33b719a4644254d4123"
```
The server should respond with its version:
```json
{"data":{"version":"Lighthouse/v0.2.11-fc0654fbe+/x86_64-linux"}}
```