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jaap-jan d07b336868 Free the terminal from the Hosts screen, and fill the room it left
The WebView sat inside the Hosts grid, so navigating to Files or the keychain
hid every open terminal and the strip that named them. A connection you had
opened was invisible from four of the five screens. The window now has two
surfaces rather than one: a nav rail that says which page you are on, and a
terminal strip that is always there and switches the whole content area to a
shell. Screen keeps meaning "which page" and never becomes a sixth kind of
page, which is why this is two properties instead of one enum with a terminal
member in it.

Every screen lives inside one wrapper panel that collapses when a terminal is
showing. That is not tidiness — the WebView hosts a Win32 child window that
composites above everything Avalonia draws, so a screen left visible over its
rectangle is a screen sliced in half, and this window has shipped that defect
once already. One decision point, IsTerminalShowing, and a nested panel rather
than five compound bindings nobody would remember to extend.

The focus choreography is the part no test in this repo can see. Every reveal
path now focuses in the same turn the WebView appeared, so all three of them
post at DispatcherPriority.Loaded and let the native control re-push its bounds
first. Going the other way had a real bug: the screen-changed branch called a
bare Focus() where it had to release the keyboard from the native child, so
switching from a terminal to Files silently ate the first keystrokes. Rare
before this commit and the primary gesture after it.

The tab strip grew a cross inside each tab, a plus that opens the quick-connect
palette, and middle-click close. Nested buttons are correct here: Avalonia
handles a left press on the cross and deliberately does not handle other
buttons, which is exactly what lets middle-click bubble up from the cross as
well as the tab. The test is PointerUpdateKind rather than
IsMiddleButtonPressed, because the latter reports button state and is also true
for a left press made while the middle button happens to be held. The handler
is on the tab and not the strip, so the background closes nothing by
construction. Plus opens the palette rather than a flyout, since a menu
dropping into the WebView's rectangle may or may not composite above a child
HWND and this repo does not make rendering claims it has not photographed.

Everything a user reads now says keychain. The wire, the database and the
cryptographic spec still say vault, deliberately: renaming those is a migration
and a protocol change for a word. That split is written down rather than left
to be rediscovered as an inconsistency.

Four things that were squeezed into the keychain's category rail, or into
nothing at all, now have screens. Pinned host keys get one, with fingerprints
never truncated and a filter that matches them, because comparing what you have
against what the operator published is the whole workflow; the approved date is
read out of the item's UUIDv7 rather than added as a column, and says so, since
it means first approval and not last use. Keys can be generated in the client,
which needed the openssh-key-v1 container written by hand — there is no BCL or
NSec helper, and the PKCS#8 route is unverified in the SSH library this uses.
The armour carries no passphrase: encrypting it needs bcrypt_pbkdf, which is
Blowfish with a swizzle, in a project whose crypto is otherwise entirely
libsodium, for a protection the key's own remarks argue is redundant inside a
vault. Generation fills the existing editor and stops, so SAVE stays the one
thing that writes. ~/.ssh/config can be imported behind a preview that is
ticked per row and writes nothing until the button; IdentityFile records the
path and imports the key material only on an explicit opt-in, because reading
somebody's private key into a vault is precisely the act this product exists to
make deliberate. Match blocks and ProxyJump are reported rather than obeyed —
one cannot be evaluated statically and the other has nothing behind it to route
with, and a preview that implied otherwise would be worse than one that admits
it.

Files can be dragged in all four directions that are honestly available. Remote
to Explorer does not ship and is not pretended to: the shell wants the bytes
during the drop, which needs a virtual file and a native COM data object,
outside what Avalonia offers. Note for the next person that Avalonia 12
replaced the drag model outright — DataObject and DataFormats are no-op stubs
and IDataObject is not in the reference assembly, so every tutorial written for
11 does not compile here.

Hosts can be grouped, flat and never nested. A parent id merged as a scalar
lets two offline clients each re-parent A under B and B under A, producing a
cycle inside an encrypted payload that no server can police and every reader
would have to detect for ever. Membership lives in that payload rather than in
the one plaintext concession ADR 0001 allows, whose test is that the relay
cannot function without it — nothing on the server reads a group, so what
plaintext would hand over is a clustering of the estate for nothing. The
plaintext column reserved for it is dropped, provably always null, and the
server now refuses a client that sends one; it was never populated, was copied
on apply, and was not cleared on delete, so a group id would have outlived the
host it described.

Snippets insert through xterm rather than through the pump, because xterm is
the only thing that knows whether the remote has bracketed paste on, and that
is what makes a shell treat embedded newlines as text instead of as execute.
The host process moves opaque bytes and never parses output, so it would have
to guess, and guessing wrong runs every line. Running is off by default and the
copy says the text goes into whatever is there — the terminal has no notion of
being at a prompt, and may be in vi or at a password prompt with echo off, so
the Enter the user presses themselves is the entire safety property.

Connections and keychain changes are recorded as synced encrypted items, which
is what makes them auditable by a team later and costs the server knowledge of
connection rate and timing from row counts alone. ADR 0001 already concedes it
cannot hide that class of metadata; the trade is now written into it rather
than left implicit. A connection entry is written once, at close, which is what
makes a synced log tractable: nothing to merge, one outbox row, no chance of
colliding with itself. Live sessions come from memory, not from the log. The
write is void by contract and posts to a bounded channel, because putting an
encrypt-and-write on the teardown path of every session is how closing the
application comes to take four seconds. A ticket opened before a lock still
closes afterwards, since a shell outlives the vault. The activity log hooks the
one generic repository every kind writes through, so it cannot miss a caller —
which is also why the log kinds themselves declare they are not audited, or the
first entry would write an entry about writing an entry. It records the names
of the fields that changed and never their values; a log with an old password
in it would be a plaintext credential store with no vault around it. Retention
is 90 days or 5,000 entries, whichever bites first, pruned on the sync loop
rather than on a second timer.

That log traffic then broke the status line, which is worth recording because
the fix is a shape and not a patch: background sync counted its own log rows as
pushed items, so the quiet rule stopped being quiet and every action's message
was overwritten a second later by a sync report. The report now separates log
rows from user items and the rule reads the latter.

S3 buckets appear as a remote in the file browser, behind the same interface an
SFTP session implements, so the queue and both panes did not have to learn what
they are talking to. Uploads go through a pipe, because the queue wants to
write and the SDK wants to read; memory is then bounded by the part size
instead of buffering a file to disk twice.

Finally, the Windows device key store moved out of the session project, which
was the one thing keeping it from being portable — everything else in it is
platform-neutral, and a Windows CNG dependency in the middle of the vault code
meant a second head could not reference it without dragging Windows along. The
seam that made the move free was already there. docs/android-port.md is the
audit behind that: what ports, what does not, in order of cost, the four
decisions taken, and an inventory of every screen and state the interface has
to carry, written so a design can be made from it directly.

dotnet build, dotnet test and dotnet format --verify-no-changes are all clean:
1240 tests at zero warnings, including the end-to-end suite against real
containers. The manual checks that headless Avalonia cannot make — the drag
from Explorer, a generated key against a real host, twelve tabs at the minimum
window width — are listed in docs/manual-checks.md and are still outstanding.
2026-07-31 20:30:05 +02:00
jaap-jan e24012b039 Sync credentials as a vault item type, and bind one to a host
Closes the largest remaining M1 gap in the data layer: a username and password
can live in the vault, sync between machines, and be named by a host as how it
authenticates. What is not here is the interface for creating one — see the end
of this message.

The third item type, and the first one that cost almost nothing to add. Server:
a VaultCredential row, an EF configuration, a migration, and a CredentialKind.
Client: a secret, a codec, a merge, a cipher, a kind, a repository facade and a
session property. No new reconciliation logic, no change to the sync engine, no
client cache migration. That was the whole point of the item-kind seam, and this
is the evidence it holds.

The narrowest type of the three on plaintext, and not for symmetry. A host has a
deliberate concession — the relay needs an address it can resolve. A key has a
fingerprint, public by nature, which this client still declines to send. A
password has no part that is safe to expose: not its length, not a hash, not a
hint. So CredentialKind refuses every plaintext field there is, hydrates none,
and the table has no column to put one in.

HostSecret.CredentialId is the password counterpart of SshKeyId, and the two are
mutually exclusive. SSH itself would happily try a key and fall back to a
password, but a host naming both leaves "how does this authenticate?" without a
single answer — the interface, the connect path and the user would each be free
to guess differently. TryValidate refuses it. One consequence was not
anticipated: "a full host" stops being a coherent idea, which is what broke
AFullHost_RoundTrips and is now written into that test.

The schema version became a ladder rather than a maximum: credential-bound is 3,
key-bound is 2, neither is still 1. Adding credentials therefore does not drag
every key-bound host in every vault onto a version that clients understanding
keys perfectly well would refuse to edit. A test pins exactly that, because it is
the property the whole content-dependent-version rule exists to provide, and the
obvious implementation would quietly lose it.

Two tests had become false and said so:

- Push_AnUnsupportedEntityType_IsInvalidNotAFailedBatch used Credential as its
  example of a type this server does not implement. It now asks the server's own
  registry what is still missing, so it cannot go stale again, and skips with a
  reason if that set ever empties.
- ThePullFilterNamesEveryTypeThisBuildSynchronises pinned the exact list, which
  is what it is for.

Also fixes ten nullable warnings — eight in SyncEndpointTests, two in a test file
added earlier today. Neither set was introduced here; both were invisible until
an unrelated change forced their project to recompile, which means the
zero-warning claims made earlier in this work only ever covered what happened to
be rebuilt.

777 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Not done, and deliberately: the credential interface. The vault column is 340
pixels wide and already holds two lists and two editors, kept from clipping its
own buttons at the window's minimum height only by the one-editor-at-a-time rule
added earlier today. A third list and a third editor would recreate that defect
rather than avoid it, so the column needs a shape decision first. Credentials
sync; they cannot yet be created in the interface.
2026-07-29 21:09:08 +02:00
jaap-jan 70b3290a77 Bind an SSH key to a host instead of picking one per connection
A host now names the key it authenticates with, or none, as a field in its
encrypted payload — so the choice follows the host to every machine rather than
being made again each time somebody connects. The per-connection "Use key"
switch it replaces was a stopgap for not having this, and keeping both would
have left two mechanisms answering one question.

This is the first payload schema version bump, and it does not work the obvious
way. A host is written at the *lowest* schema version that can represent it: one
that binds a key is written at 2, one that does not is still written at 1, byte
for byte as it was before the field existed. The version is what makes an older
client refuse to edit an item, so stamping 2 unconditionally would mean
upgrading a single machine and renaming a single host made that host uneditable
on every machine that had not upgraded yet. Confining the cost to the hosts that
actually use the field is the difference between a team noticing a bump and a
team being blocked by one. HostSecretCodec states the rule so the next field
added follows it, and a test pins the version-1 bytes against a literal rather
than against the codec, because the claim is about history: every host already in
every vault has to re-encode to what it encoded before, or the first sync after
an upgrade would push the whole vault as changed.

A binding is an item id, not a copy of the key — a second copy of a private key
is one that goes stale — which means the reference can dangle when the key is
deleted on another machine. Both places that meets are handled the same way, by
refusing rather than falling back:

- Connecting to a host whose key is gone is refused outright. A host somebody
  deliberately set up for key-only access must not quietly start offering a
  password.
- Opening such a host in the editor keeps the binding, selected, labelled as
  missing. The quieter version of the same failure is someone editing the port
  and saving, silently converting the host to password authentication with
  nothing ever having said so.

Two things this found by being falsified:

- The merge was untested for the new field, and "just take the server's value"
  passed the entire suite — a local binding change would have been discarded with
  no conflict recorded. HostSecretMergeTests already had a test written for
  exactly this class of omission; it simply had not been extended.

- Adding a nullable field exposed a defect in HostSecretMerge.Field: it
  short-circuited when the discarded value was null, so the formatter never ran
  for the one case where null is a value rather than an absence, and a field
  whose absence has a name could not report it. Now the formatter always runs,
  and "no key" appears in the conflict log where an empty string used to.

Also fixes eight nullable warnings in SyncEndpointTests left by the server-side
SSH key commit, which had omitted the null-forgiving operator the rest of that
file uses. They were invisible until an unrelated change forced the project to
recompile.

The end-to-end slice now binds its host to its key, so a schema-version-2
payload goes through the real API, the real PostgreSQL and back out on a second
machine.

745 tests green. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.
2026-07-29 20:42:51 +02:00
jaap-jan 8d2416a602 Add the encrypted local cache and the sync client
Three new client projects, and the wire-contract fix they needed.

DodoSSH.Client.Domain holds the decrypted item model and the three-way
merge, with no I/O at all — so the suite that decides whether a
credential can be lost runs in milliseconds with nothing to mock.
Scalars defer to the server on a genuine clash so every replica resolves
the same triple identically and two clients cannot ping-pong; directives
merge per name so two people each adding one both keep theirs; the jump
chain merges as a whole value because its order is the route. Whatever
loses is returned rather than dropped.

DodoSSH.Client.Storage is EF Core on SQLite, no SQLCipher: the rows are
already ciphertext, so an encrypted file would protect protected bytes
at the cost of a native dependency. It keeps the server's state and the
outbox in separate tables, which is what preserves the common ancestor a
merge needs. One pending operation per item, enforced by a unique index.

DodoSSH.Client.Sync is the pull/apply/push loop. Pulling never decrypts
— a change with no local work pending is plumbed as ciphertext — so a
first sync of thousands of items does not run twice as many AEAD
operations for nothing.

Contracts: EncryptedPayload gains WrappedDataKey and DataKeyId. The
specification has required a per-item data key since crypto.md §3, the
columns have existed since the first migration and DshAad.ItemPayload
binds the id, but this record had nowhere to put either — so a
spec-compliant item could not be transmitted at all. Found by writing
the client that has to produce one. Also closes a hole in
AadResourceType, which had no value for the HostTag and HostCredential
that SyncEntityType has always listed.

Four bugs the tests found, not review:

- SQLite refuses to order or compare its own DateTimeOffset mapping, and
  throws at execution rather than model build. Collecting tombstones and
  listing conflicts are both that shape, so this was a crash waiting for
  the first user with a deleted host. Timestamps are integers now, by
  convention so a later field cannot be the one left unconverted.
- SQLitePCLRaw 2.1.11, which EF resolves, is covered by
  GHSA-2m69-gcr7-jv3q. Pinned forward as a family.
- Resurrecting content from a remote deletion cleared the original
  before queueing the copy. Two transactions, so a crash between them
  lost the work; reversed, and the rescued id is derived from the
  tombstone so a replay coalesces instead of duplicating.
- Several equality assertions went through Shouldly's ShouldBe, which
  compares IEnumerable element-wise and so tested nothing about the
  Equals these types exist to provide. Corrected; the falsification that
  caught it went from 2 failures to 6.

The push response's cursor is deliberately ignored. It sits after this
client's own writes, so adopting it skips anything another client
committed at a lower sequence in the window between a pull and a push —
permanently. Re-reading one's own writes is idempotent and costs a page.
The Contracts doc that invited the shortcut now says so.

593 tests, up from 448. The delete-versus-edit rules, the ancestor
retention, the fresh operation id on coalesce and the cursor safeguard
were each verified by breaking them and watching the right test fail.
2026-07-29 10:27:37 +02:00