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 jaap-jan
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7016ce36f1 |
Key the local cache to the identity, not to the door it was opened through
Groundwork for a device key, and a spec change rather than a feature. ADR 0007 records the decision it clears the way for: a Windows Hello gesture guarding a protected blob, with the passphrase kept as a permanent fallback. The reason that decision needed this first is that a device key cannot open a session on its own. SessionOpener derived two things from the passphrase master key — the bundle, and the local cache key — and a device wrap is SealTo(device_x25519_pk), which yields the bundle and never computes a master key at all. A device unlock could therefore have opened the identity and still not read the cache it had itself written. So LocalCacheKey now derives from the bundle: dsh1/localcache/v1 → v2, specified in crypto.md §3.2. Every wrap that opens a vault ends up holding the bundle, so every door reaches the same cache. Extract-and-expand, not expand alone. Everything derived from the master key uses HKDF-Expand directly, which is sound because an Argon2id output is uniformly random over its whole length. The bundle's encoding is not — it opens with a fixed 14-byte label and carries a version, a generation and a timestamp before reaching any key material — so it needs the extract step to become a pseudorandom key first. Two consequences fell out, both improvements and neither the point: - A passphrase change no longer discards the local cache. The bundle is unchanged by a re-wrap, so the cache key is too. Under v1 changing a passphrase silently orphaned every cached row and the next launch re-pulled the whole vault. - Recovery-code unlock is fixed before it ships. It derives a different master key from a different secret and a different salt, so under v1 it would have had the same defect as the device path, and nobody would have noticed until it landed. The cache becomes unreadable exactly when the identity is rotated, which is the correct moment to discard it. Existing caches are discarded and re-pulled on upgrade — already the specified behaviour for a stale cache, and the reason the label is versioned rather than reused: a v1 cache must fail to open rather than decrypt to nonsense. One stated guarantee got weaker and now says so. crypto.md §10 claimed locking meant "nothing on disk can be read again without the passphrase." Where a device wrap exists that is no longer true, and it would have been untrue under either candidate design — the alternative was storing a copy of the cache key in the device blob, which is the same door with an extra key lying next to it. The wording now points at ADR 0007, because what guards the device key is a platform decision and not a property of this specification. A golden vector was quietly lying, which is the part worth reading twice. The "local-cache" entry pinned HKDF-SHA512-Expand over a fixed PRK — a construction the cache key no longer uses. Regenerating it would have produced a green suite describing a derivation this code does not perform. It is replaced by a vector over a bundle whose every byte is pinned: the label, version 1, generation 1, a fixed timestamp and two recognisable key scalars, all visible in the fixture so a second implementation can check itself against it. UserSecretBundle.TryDecode is internal for this, because Create draws fresh randomness and so can never produce a reproducible input. Mutation tested, and this one earns its keep: dropping the extract step now fails CommittedVectors_MatchCurrentImplementation. The vector it replaced could not have caught that, because it never touched the bundle at all. One test became false and says so. ARecordSealedUnderAnotherPassphrase is now ARecordSealedByAnotherIdentity: a different passphrase deliberately no longer changes the cache key, and TheLocalCacheKey_SurvivesAPassphraseChange pins that. What must still be unreadable is another user's cache. CacheHarness therefore generates an identity rather than deriving from a passphrase, and has no passphrase parameter left — the cache key is not a question about passphrases any more. SyncHarness's two simulated machines now derive the same cache key, which is what keying on the bundle means: they are the same user holding the same identity. They still have separate cache databases, so nothing is shared between them but the key that would open either. Both harnesses lost a MasterKey field that existed only to make a protector. 858 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean. Not done: the device key itself. Three pieces remain, and the middle one was a discovery rather than a plan — EnrollmentService.AddDevice runs only during enrollment, so every already-enrolled account, which is all of them, needs an endpoint to add a device wrap while unlocked. The client proves possession by producing the wrap, so that shape falls out of the crypto. After that: the protector seam with the wrap cached locally for offline unlock, then the Hello implementation and the unlock-screen UI, which is where the Windows TFM lands and where automated testing stops. |
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jaap-jan
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e65d738912 |
Add the client key hierarchy: bundle, master key, vault and item keys
Everything crypto.md section 3 describes below the identity key, which is what the desktop client needs before it can enroll or store anything. DshAad gives every descriptor in the specification a named constructor. The AAD binding is the most valuable structural property in the design -- it is what stops a server holding every ciphertext from pasting one row's bytes onto another, rolling a row back to a superseded generation, or replaying a revoked grant -- and all of it depends on callers getting purpose, resource type and ids right at every single call site. Hand-constructing descriptors makes that a matter of care; picking a method name makes it a matter of spelling. UserSecretBundle holds private keys in libsodium's guarded, mlocked allocations rather than a byte[], so they are not paged out and do not land in a core dump. They are created exportable, deliberately: re-wrapping the same bundle for a passphrase change or a new device needs to re-encode it, and the alternative -- a long-lived managed array so the keys need not be exportable -- keeps the identical secret in strictly worse memory. Every export is into a buffer zeroed before the method returns. Two spec changes, both found by implementing it, which is the argument for writing code before calling a spec frozen: - MK is 64 bytes, not 32. Skipping HKDF-Extract is correct for an Argon2id output (RFC 5869 3.3), but it means MK *is* the PRK, and .NET's HKDF.Expand rejects a PRK shorter than the hash output -- so a 32-byte MK cannot be expanded with SHA-512 at all. Widening it keeps the specified primitive; the alternatives were dropping to SHA-256 or adding an Extract step that conditions nothing. - The bundle encoding is a fixed 92-byte layout rather than canonical CBOR. Canonicality is not load-bearing here -- unlike a key statement the bundle is never hashed or signed, only encrypted -- so CBOR's one advantage does not apply, while its canonicalisation rules are a real source of cross-implementation disagreement. It also costs a dependency System.Formats.Cbor is not in the shared framework. Safe to change now and not later: no bundle has ever been stored. 53 new tests. The encoding is checked against an independent codec written in the test rather than by round-tripping production code against itself -- a round trip passes just as happily when both directions are wrong the same way, and this format cannot change after one bundle is stored. The pinned 92-byte hex constant is the golden vector for the layout. Most of the rest are negative, because a binding is only demonstrated by the substitutions that fail: a wrap for another user, a grant from a superseded generation, a payload pasted onto another item, a metadata blob offered as a payload, a version rolled back. |