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jaap-jan 8209f15741 Let a session's transport say what it negotiated
ISshConnection and ISftpSession both carry Cipher now — the server-to-client
algorithm off SSH.NET's own ConnectionInfo, captured once because a rekey is
not an event that library raises — and TerminalWorkspace.GetSessionFacts hands
that plus the host key's algorithm back per session, without ever handing over
the connection itself. Nothing reads either yet; the status bar that will is
the next commit.
2026-08-08 20:54:14 +02:00
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 e3fd3e1728 Sync and authenticate with SSH keys on the client
Completes the client half of SSH keys: they sync alongside hosts, appear in
their own list, and can be selected to authenticate a connection instead of
typing a password.

The reconciler and the repository were Host-typed throughout, so the choice was
to generalise them or to keep a second copy per item type. Generalised, because
ItemReconciler's whole premise is that the pull and the push paths must answer
the same collision the same way — two copies would drift the first time one of
them was fixed. What is genuinely per-type now arrives through
IItemKind<TSecret>: the cipher, the merge, the plaintext columns, and the noun
to use when telling a person what happened to their item. Generic where the
server's IItemKind is not, and for the reason that reverses there — the client
needs the concrete type, because it merges field by field.

The pull filter is derived from the same registry that builds the reconcilers.
That is the specific failure being designed out: an item type that encrypts,
merges and lists perfectly and is never once requested from the server, so it
works on the machine that made it and exists nowhere else.

No client cache migration. The item table's primary key and the outbox's unique
index already carry the entity type, and AadResourceTypes already mapped SshKey
— so a host and a key may share an id and never see each other's rows, which
SshKeySyncTests now arranges deliberately.

A key hands the server nothing in plaintext. There is a public_key_fingerprint
column and it would be accepted; leaving it null is deliberate. A fingerprint is
not secret but it is a stable identifier for a key pair, so filling it would let
an operator tell which of their users hold the same key and correlate one across
vaults, for a column nothing reads. The design allows itself one plaintext
concession — the relay address, which the relay cannot work without — and this
is not that.

A key is chosen per connection rather than bound to a host, which works the way
ssh -i does. Binding one needs a field on HostSecret and therefore a payload
schema bump, which makes every host written afterwards read-only on an older
build; worth doing deliberately rather than as a side effect of adding keys.

Three things this found, all of them by being falsified rather than by review:

- Making the reconciler generic silently turned a record comparison into
  reference equality, because == on a type parameter is not value equality. The
  effect would have been a conflict recorded on every pass for an unacknowledged
  create that had in fact landed. Sabotaging the fix left all 73 tests passing —
  nothing covered that branch — so ConflictMatrixTests now has
  AnUnacknowledgedCreateThatDidLand_IsDroppedQuietly, which fails without it.

- A test asserting that a blank passphrase reaches SSH.NET as null was vacuous:
  it exercised the editor, not the credential path, and passed with the guard
  deleted. Resolved by making SshKeySecret.Passphrase normalise an empty string
  to null, so there is one spelling of one state — which also keeps two clients
  from producing different payload bytes for an identical key. That exposed a
  wider gap: SshKeySecret, its codec and its merge had no direct unit tests at
  all. They have 25 now.

- The reason first given for that normalisation was false. It claimed SSH.NET
  rejects a passphrase supplied for an unprotected key; measured against a real
  sshd it ignores it and authenticates anyway. Corrected everywhere it was
  stated and recorded in docs/platform-flags.md. The same test file also closes
  a real hole: SshPrivateKeyCredential had never been exercised against a
  server, because the existing key test builds SSH.NET's auth method directly
  and bypasses the path a vault-held key actually takes.

Only one editor may be open at a time. Both sit in the same 340-pixel column as
Auto rows and their heights together exceed it at the window's minimum size, so
two open editors put the lower one's Save and Cancel past the bottom edge — the
same failure this window already shipped once with the setup screens. Expressed
as a state rule because that is the only form of it this repository can check:
nothing here loads a .axaml. The refusal keeps what was typed, since in the key
editor that is a pasted private key the user may have nowhere else.

The end-to-end slice now carries a key as well as a host, so both item types go
through the real API, the real PostgreSQL and the real crypto in one pass — the
three hand-kept mappings between enums that do not line up are the reason that
is worth doing rather than trusting the unit suites.

735 tests green, including the container-backed SSH and end-to-end suites. Zero
warnings, dotnet format clean.
2026-07-29 20:27:23 +02:00