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55e5de0ce4 |
Server: a cursor carries the sync horizon it was issued under, so a read from the beginning after a collection is not refused on its own pages
A cursor behind the horizon was refused on position alone. But the read a refused client starts from the beginning is itself behind the horizon on every page until it passes the collected deletion, since older untouched items come first. So its second page was refused, it started over, and it never finished, on any vault larger than one page. The cursor now records the horizon read before the page that produced it, and only a cursor issued under an older horizon is refused. A cursor issued under no horizon keeps the v1 format, so a server from before this still reads it. |
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8cb1457ca9 | Server: collect tombstones past their retention, compact superseded change entries, and refuse cursors from before a collection | ||
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b2516ca7fb | Server: start a retried write transaction from the database, not from the attempt that failed | ||
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jaap-jan
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6846f67c20 |
Server: send each item at the revision its ciphertext is sealed at, keep team archiving with the owner, refuse suspended accounts, and stop enrolment failing after an hour
- Pull hydrated every historical change entry with the item's current ciphertext under that entry's old revision. The AAD binds the revision, so a client opened it at the wrong version, failed, and parked its own pending edit as undecryptable. Entries an item has since moved past are left out; the later entry carries the same payload under the right number, and a fresh device no longer downloads an item once per edit it ever had. - Deleting a team's last vault archived the team whoever deleted it, so an admin could archive it out from under its owner. Only the owner's delete archives it now, and TeamService.ArchiveAsync checks. - UserStatus was checked nowhere on the request path. ActiveAccountRequirement on both policies answers 403 account-not-active for a suspended or deprovisioned account. - The hourly last-seen update moves xmin under the tracked user, and enrolment then saved that user against the stale token: a 500 for anybody enrolling more than an hour after first signing in. The entity is reloaded after the update. |
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jaap-jan
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b08f2c58e3 |
Fill in the Spelunk API key on the Security page, as a synced Spelunk key that goes only to its own address
Settings → Security gains a SPELUNK section: an API address and a key, saved as a new keychain item, a Spelunk key (SyncEntityType 14, AadResourceType 17, server table spelunk_key via the AddSpelunkKeyItem migration). It is ciphertext only on the server, lives in the personal vault, syncs like every secret, and holds the key together with the one address it may be sent to. The key box empties once saved; the list shows name, address and how many hosts use each key, never the key. Saving a key for an address that already has one replaces it, and deleting goes through the shared confirmation card with the hosts that would stop connecting. A host's route names a saved key where it named a credential, in the same apiKeyCredentialId field, so no host schema changes and an older build reads such a host as one whose key credential has gone. At connect a saved key is sent only to its own address; a host naming it with another Spelunk address is refused in words. Keys kept as a credential's password still work. The editor offers saved keys first and picks the one saved for an address as it is typed. A link from a Spelunk with a saved key now connects straight away, including the first one: saving the key is the user's say-so that the first-link editor used to ask for. The address and key merge as one pair, so two concurrent edits can never pair one device's key with another's address, and the key never reaches the conflict log. |
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jaap-jan
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4b706bc3c3 |
Say when a vault has moved, so nobody waits out the minute
The delta pull was cheap enough to run on a timer and the client did, once a minute. That is fine for a machine and wrong for two people: an edit a colleague makes is up to a minute stale, which is long enough for both of them to make it and produce a conflict neither needed to have. Shortening the interval is the obvious answer and the wrong one — it costs a request per client per interval whether or not anything happened, and it converges on a busier server that is still late. So the server now says so. A client holds a WebSocket open at GET /api/v1/events, subprotocol dodossh.events.v1, and gets a line down it when something it can read has changed. ADR 0012 has the reasoning; three parts of it are worth repeating here, because they are what everything else rests on. **What crosses the socket is a notice, never data.** A frame names a vault and how far its change log has got. No item, no ciphertext, not even which item it was. The client's answer is the delta pull it would have run anyway, so there is still exactly one code path that applies a change to a keychain, and it is not this one. Pushing the items themselves would save a round trip and fork that path in two, with the cursor, the merge and the tombstone rules duplicated across both — ADR 0003 put every mutation through one write path for that reason, and this keeps every read on one for the same one. It also makes a dropped notice harmless, which is what lets the fan-out below be as simple as it is. **Polling stays, and is what guarantees a pass.** The minute timer is unchanged. A network that eats WebSockets, a server with Events:Enabled off, an older server, a proxy that will not upgrade, a notice dropped under backpressure — every one of those leaves a client behaving exactly as it did before this commit. Nothing is reachable only over the socket and nothing is meant to become so; VaultViewModel's AutoSyncInterval remark now says that where somebody changing it will read it. **The bearer token authorises the upgrade, unlike the relay's ticket.** Not an inconsistency with ADR 0004: the relay's socket is a byte pipe whose whole authorization decision — which host, which IPs, which port — is made before it opens and never revisited, and it is the extraction seam for a process that must hold no ACL code. This one is a view of the caller's own vault list and has to keep answering "what may this account read" for as long as it is held. A ticket would carry that answer in a token and be wrong the moment the account's access changed. The two bounds that arrangement needs are met rather than waved at: the socket is closed at the token's exp with close code 4401 and the client comes straight back with a fresh one, and the vault set is re-resolved every few minutes as well as on the changes known to affect it. Both bound *metadata*, because a notice contains nothing else and reading a vault still needs a key this server has never held. **The fan-out.** VaultEventHub is a singleton holding the sockets this node accepted; publishing walks them and asks each whether it cares, rather than keeping a vault-to-subscriber index that every re-subscription would have to move entries between under a lock publishing also takes. At a few hundred sockets per node and an event rate bounded by how often people edit keychains, the walk is not measurable and its races are obvious. Per-connection queues are bounded and drop the *oldest*: a notice means "pull vault X, which is at least at sequence N", so the newest subsumes what it displaces and the client's answer is identical either way — which is what lets the publish path be void, never block, and never fail. Announced from the endpoint rather than from SyncService, and that placement is the point: by then the push has committed and released the per-vault advisory lock. From inside it would name a sequence no reader can see yet and would hold the lock that serialises writers across a socket write. Only the highest *applied* sequence, so a batch of pure conflicts announces nothing, and a duplicate — already announced when it first landed — announces nothing either. Grants and membership publish too, and those take the *recipient* rather than the actor. This is what AdmitNewVaultsAsync has been apologising for since sharing shipped — "the recipient is handed nothing, there is no push channel" — and the README with it. A vault shared with somebody now turns up as it is shared. The comment and the README paragraph both say what is true now, and both keep saying that the pass is what *discovers* the vault, because a client with no socket has to arrive at the same place. **On the client**, VaultEventStream is really a reconnection policy wrapped round a ClientWebSocket: a dropped socket is the ordinary case here — laptops sleep, proxies time out, tokens expire, servers are redeployed — so nothing in it treats a failure as exceptional, and every path ends in "wait, then dial again". A connection that lived long enough to say hello resets the backoff, so a laptop that woke, worked, and lost its network an hour later does not inherit a minute-long wait it has already proved it need not take. A 4401 close skips the backoff entirely and asks the token provider again, which is the whole reason that close code is distinct. A server that does not advertise the events feature gets IdleVaultEventStream, which never delivers — so IVaultServer.Events is never null and every caller stays on one shape, because the correct behaviour without a socket is the behaviour with a silent one. The shell's background loop now selects between the timer and a notice, and both waits are held across iterations. That is load-bearing rather than tidy: PeriodicTimer permits one outstanding WaitForNextTickAsync and throws on a second, and an abandoned channel read stays registered and consumes the next notice written. Either defect leaves the first notice working and every one after it silently lost, which is why NoticesKeepWakingTheLoop_NotJustTheFirst pushes three and not one. Notices are coalesced over a quarter of a second, so one person's save — a host and its log entry are two items — and a colleague clearing a folder each cost one pass rather than a dozen. **The kind is a string, not an enum**, and that is a compatibility decision. UseStringEnumConverter throws on a value it does not know, so a newer server sending a kind an older client had never heard of would not add an unreadable frame — it would break that client's socket outright. A string is ignored instead. ProblemCodes is the same shape for the same reason. **Tested on both sides, through the real pipeline.** The endpoint suite opens a genuine socket against TestServer and proves a push produces a notice, that another account's push does not reach it, that a ping is answered, and that a frame this server cannot parse does not end the connection. Two of those assert on *ordering* rather than on absence within a timeout — the stranger's write goes first, so a socket that leaked would have announced it before the one the test waits for — because "nothing arrived in two seconds" is a test that passes on a slow machine for the wrong reason. And ANoticeCarriesNoCiphertext asserts on the bytes that crossed the wire rather than on the record's fields, since the latter would only prove that this type has no payload member, which is a tautology; the former is what catches a field added later without anybody thinking about disclosure. The client suite drives VaultEventStream through an injected connector, because the one thing a test cannot do to a real network is make it fail on cue — and failure is the entire subject. The shell suite proves a notice produces a pull inside ten seconds against a sixty-second timer, so the timer cannot be what caused it. **Two limits, stated rather than left to be discovered.** Fan-out is in-process, so a deployment running more than one API replica only pushes for writes its own replica handled and the rest arrive on the timer. IVaultEventPublisher is the seam a PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY backplane implements and it is deliberately not implemented: an untested backplane is worse than a documented gap, and multiple replicas degrade to the behaviour before this commit rather than breaking. And a client is notified of its own writes; it pushed, so it already pulled, and the extra pass finds nothing. Suppressing that echo correctly needs a per-device identity on the socket, and the same user's other machines must still be told. Manual checks phase 15 covers what no test here can reach, which is the network in between: a proxy that will not upgrade, one that drops an idle socket without telling either end, a laptop lid, a token expiring. Every one of those is invisible inside a test host, and every check there passes only if the change arrives quickly *and* still arrives with the socket taken away. ADR 0012 also fixes one thing about the shared terminal session this is the transport for, so it need not be renegotiated later: session data will be binary frames on this same socket, because base64 in a JSON envelope is the wrong shape for the one payload here that is continuous rather than occasional. Two questions it explicitly does not answer by implication — whether those bytes go through the API at all, and what end-to-end encryption means when the second party watches a stream rather than holding a key — are ADR 0001 questions and get their own decision. 1512 tests pass. DodoSSH.SystemTests was not run — it needs the whole compose stack — so the end-to-end path is unverified for this change beyond what the manual checks describe. |
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 jaap-janandClaude Opus 5
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8c04ba60b0 |
Build the three things the phone's + needs, before the + exists
Steps 1 to 3 of docs/adding-hosts-on-the-phone.md: the domain half. Nothing on either head has changed, which is deliberate — the plan orders these first because everything the editors will bind to has to exist and be merge-safe before a screen can offer it. HostGroupSecret gains a parent and four defaults, and the codec gains the version rule it never had. It stamped CurrentSchemaVersion unconditionally, which was harmless with one field and one version and stops being harmless here: upgrading one machine and renaming any group would have made that group uneditable on every machine still on the old build. It now emits the lowest version that loses nothing, so a flat group with no defaults still encodes at version 1, byte for byte, pinned against a literal. Tags become a real item over the reserved slot. Secret, codec, merge, cipher, repository, both registries, the EF entity and a generated AddTagItem migration. TagCipher names AadResourceType.Tag as a constant rather than casting the wire type, because Tag is 5 on the wire and 8 in the crypto enum and 5 there is Credential — a cast would seal every tag under the resource type for a password, encrypt and decrypt perfectly on the machine that wrote it, and only fail when another implementation refused the item, by which time the AAD is frozen into stored ciphertext. HostTag stays reserved and unused: the one thing the join buys over a set on the host is bought instead by merging TagIds per id. HostSecret grows TagIds and Port goes nullable, which is the change with the widest blast radius and the only one that loses an item rather than locking one. A host with no port of its own omits the property, an older build reads int Port as 0, and TryValidate refuses it — unreadable rather than read-only. That cost is confined to hosts which actually inherit, because the version is a maximum over the fields present; the alternative, writing 22 into every host, is the lie inheritance exists to stop telling. One decision the plan did not specify. "Three states where there were two" is four — key, credential, typed password, or the group's answer — and two nullable ids carry three. Naming neither id now means inherit, so AsksForPassword says "a typed password even under a group that lends a key" out loud. Only true is ever written and a decoded false folds back to null, so a host that never touched it encodes as it always did. Nothing already stored changed meaning: no group could lend a binding before this build, so every existing host resolves exactly as it did. HostInheritance is the resolver, and its visited set is load-bearing rather than defensive. Two clients can each re-parent A under B and B under A while offline; the merge sees one item against one item and the server sees ciphertext, so nothing upstream can refuse the pair. With inheritance the chain is walked at connect time, so an unguarded cycle is not an undrawable sidebar — it is a shell that never opens. Stopping at the first repeat degrades it to a group that reads as a root, and clearing the parent is the repair. A tag set turns out to be the one field on a host that can never ask the user anything. TagSet.ToIdMap keys by the value, so no key can hold two values, so the both-sides-moved-differently branch of the keyed merge is unreachable — asserted over the whole eight-row matrix. The conflict loop is kept anyway, because that proof is one edit from ceasing to hold and what it would cause is a discarded tag nothing records. Three guard tests failed by design and were fixed rather than relaxed: the ordered pull filter, the AAD pinning table, and the server's refusal of a plaintext parent — that last one survives with its reason rewritten, because the refusal now means "the parent is not the server's to hold" rather than "there is no such thing as a parent". The prose that said groups are flat is rewritten in all four places it appeared, not deleted. The five view-model sites that read Port directly now go through the resolver, which is a down payment on step 4 rather than the whole of it. HostFields.From still emits the stored port, and that is the one remaining place where an unresolved read would be a wrong wire rather than a wrong label. Verified by the whole suite: 1382 tests over nineteen projects, none failing. Both heads build. Nothing seen on a display, because nothing on a display has changed yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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jaap-jan
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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. |
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9bc28f1c0f |
Move the API onto FastEndpoints, without moving the wire
Eight endpoints today, around sixty planned. The minimal-API shape — a static
class per area holding static local functions, route and policy and name
asserted in one fluent chain with the handler somewhere below it — has not hurt
yet, and would. A handler's dependencies are parameters rather than injected, a
group's RequireAuthorization sits far from the handler it governs, and there is
no type to hang an endpoint's own documentation on. FastEndpoints is one class
per endpoint, its route and authorization in Configure(), its handler a method
on the same type.
Nothing about the wire moves, and the evidence is that the 94 existing HTTP
tests pass with zero edits to any of them. Same routes, verbs, route
constraints, status codes, operation ids, and the same RFC 9457 bodies with the
same code values. Every place the idiomatic FastEndpoints answer would have
changed one of those, it was refused:
Endpoints are registered from an explicit List<Type>, not found by scanning.
ADR 0002 rejected reflection discovery by name, and the reason it gave is
sharper here than in general — under WebApplicationFactory the scan reaches the
test assembly, so an endpoint written in a test would be registered into the
host under test. The cost is a line per endpoint that can be forgotten, which is
what the endpoint-inventory test is for. That test is the one ADR 0002 promised
and never got.
Handlers still return Results<Ok<T>, NotFound, ProblemHttpResult> from
ExecuteAsync. The union executes as an ordinary IResult, which is what keeps
problem bodies going through the host's serialiser and IProblemDetailsService,
and what keeps the compile-time record of which statuses an endpoint can
produce. No Send.* call appears anywhere; the moment one does, a response has
left the host's serialiser.
Validation stays in the feature services. A Validator<T> short-circuits before
the handler and answers with FastEndpoints' own envelope, which carries no code
— and the code is the only part of an error the client branches on. Twenty-odd
tests assert a specific code on a 400. It is banned in BannedSymbols.txt rather
than merely avoided, because the framework's documentation leads straight to it
and it looks like an improvement.
Three defects arrived with the framework and were caught in review. All three
were green at the time, which is the part worth remembering. FastEndpoints maps
GET /_test_url_cache_ unconditionally, in every environment, with no policy and
no way to opt out; it answers with the whole endpoint-name-to-route table. It is
short-circuited to 404 — by asking routing which endpoint it selected, after the
first attempt compared the request path with Ordinal and was therefore bypassable
at /_TEST_URL_CACHE_, certified by a test that only ever tried one spelling. The
default request binder writes query-string values over the deserialised body,
which would have let ?identityProviderToken=... put an ID token in a URL and from
there into every proxy log on the path; every endpoint now binds from the body
alone. And a route value read with Route<T>() is invisible to ApiExplorer, so the
generated document named {vaultId} in a path template with nothing declaring it —
invalid OpenAPI, and unusable by the client generators the document exists for.
Two changes to the surface, both deliberate. A body that cannot be deserialised
now answers with a problem document carrying malformed-request, rather than an
empty 400: FastEndpoints' default announces application/problem+json while
sending something else, and names the failing .NET type on the wire, in a
codebase that sets IncludeErrorDetails = false to prevent exactly that. And the
route table above returns 404 where it would otherwise have answered any
authenticated caller.
Each of the three fixes has a regression test that was checked by reverting the
fix and watching it fail — four failures for the route table and the binder, four
for the document. That check is the whole reason to trust them, since all three
defects passed a full green suite on the way in.
950 tests green across 16 projects, 14 of them new and no existing test edited.
Zero warnings, format clean, locked restore clean. FluentValidation, JobQueues
and Messaging are in the graph now and none is used.
Not verified: the generated document's response schemas, which differ from
before — FastEndpoints contributes its own Produces metadata. Nothing consumes
the document yet, and MapOpenApi runs only in Development behind the fallback
policy. It needs pinning if ADR 0002's build-time artifacts/openapi/v1.json is
ever built.
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211eba0666 |
Keep host key trust in the vault, and make it withdrawable
A fingerprint approved once is now approved on every machine and survives a
restart, because host key trust is a vault item type rather than a dictionary
that dies with the process. InMemoryKnownHostStore was what shipped, so the user
was asked to verify a fingerprint on every single connection — which is the gap
most likely to train somebody to click through the one warning that actually
matters. A warning that appears when nothing is wrong teaches that nothing is
ever wrong.
The fourth item type, and like the third it cost no sync logic: a row, an EF
configuration, a migration, a server kind; a secret, a codec, a merge, a cipher,
a repository facade and a session property. One row in the client registry. The
reconciler, the mirror, the repository, the outbox and the pull filter were not
touched. SyncEntityType.KnownHostKey and AadResourceType.KnownHostKey were
already reserved, so neither the contract nor docs/crypto.md changed.
One item per (host, port, algorithm), because a server legitimately offers
several host keys and which one gets negotiated is not ours to predict. Pinning
per endpoint would make an algorithm change indistinguishable from an attack.
The label is derived rather than stored, which is the one place this type
departs from the other three. A user never names a pin — there is nothing to
name it after but the three fields it already has — and a stored label is a
second copy of data that can disagree with the first after a merge. Relabel
returns the secret unchanged, and says why.
The store answers the handshake without touching the disk. SshNetConnectionFactory
calls FindAsync from inside SSH.NET's synchronous HostKeyReceived event, over
.GetAwaiter().GetResult(), which cannot be avoided; doing SQLite I/O plus an AEAD
open per lookup there would put the handshake behind the cache. So decryption
happens in OpenAsync and RefreshAsync — on unlock and after each sync pass,
exactly where the host and key lists already reload — and FindAsync is a
dictionary read under a lock with no await inside it.
That snapshot is where the one real bug in this change lived. Install originally
merged the live pins over the freshly loaded snapshot, to protect a TrustAsync
that had landed while the read was in flight. It would also have resurrected
every pin the user had just forgotten, and stopped a withdrawal made on another
machine from ever taking effect — the store would have healed the deletion back
into existence on every refresh. Replacing wholesale and discarding the read
instead is correct because writes are the rare case: every write bumps a
generation counter, and a refresh whose stamp is stale throws itself away rather
than winning. Nothing found this but reading the method again; it is the kind of
mistake that passes every test written before it, because the test that catches
it is the one the bug tells you to write.
Forgetting is new, and persistence is what made it mandatory rather than
convenient. A mismatch is a hard refusal with no way to continue — deliberately,
and that stays — so pinning a key permanently is also a way to make a
legitimately rebuilt server permanently unreachable. Before this change the pin
died at exit and the problem solved itself; now it does not.
ForgetAsync drops every algorithm for an endpoint, and it is reachable from the
host editor rather than from the warning. Putting it on the mismatch banner would
have made it two clicks from "this may be an attack" to "connect anyway", which
is the affordance the hard refusal exists to deny. The banner already promised
the key could be removed in the host's settings; that promise is now true and
points at the button.
Trust recorded on another machine becomes visible at the next sync pass, not
immediately, and that is a decision rather than an oversight. The failure it
produces is a first-contact prompt for a host a colleague approved a minute ago:
answerable, and self-correcting on the next pass. The opposite trade — polling
the vault on the handshake thread to close a one-minute window — buys nothing
and costs the property above. The dangerous direction is not reachable at all: a
pin recorded here enters the snapshot as part of recording it, so a refresh can
never discard a local trust decision.
The server learns nothing, and this is the item type where the temptation was
real. A plaintext host column would let a known-hosts screen sort and page
without decrypting anything, and it would hand the operator the map of every
user's estate — assembled, as these things are, out of facts that are each
individually harmless. A host row concedes an address only when relay is
switched on and the database refuses to store one otherwise (ADR 0004); there is
no equivalent excuse here. The table has no column to put one in, and the EF
configuration says so where somebody adding it would be standing.
Two things about the migration in this commit are worth knowing, because both
came out of getting it wrong.
It was hand-written first, including its .Designer.cs, and that version is not
what is here. Verifying it turned up something that had been quietly assumed:
Migration_AppliedCleanly_WithNoPendingModelChanges does not check the model
snapshot. It asserts that migrations applied and that none are pending, which a
wrong snapshot satisfies perfectly — the snapshot only matters as the diff base
for the *next* migrations add, so an incorrect one passes the whole suite and
corrupts the following migration instead. The real check is to generate a
throwaway migration and confirm its Up and Down come out empty. They did, and
the generated designer was byte-identical to the transcribed one across all 1255
lines, so the hand-written work was in fact correct.
Then dotnet ef migrations remove --no-build deleted the wrong migration. With
--no-build the tool reads the previously compiled assembly rather than the files
on disk, and the probe had just changed which migration was last, so it removed
AddKnownHostKeyItem and reverted the snapshot. That turned out to leave exactly
the right diff base, so the migration here is EF's own output rather than a
transcription — a better outcome than the one that was interrupted, arrived at
by accident. Never pass --no-build to migrations remove.
Mutation tested, all three sabotages detected: dropping the algorithm from
KnownHostIdentity.For, merging instead of replacing in Install, and pointing
KnownHostKeyCipher at PortForward — which is what a cast from the wire enum's 10
would silently produce. Each is caught both by an assertion about the mechanism
and by a behavioural test that never mentions it; the resource-type sabotage is
caught by the table from
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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. |
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e93acc856f |
Sync SSH keys as a vault item type, over a shared write path
The private key now lives in the vault as ciphertext, syncs between a user's machines, and is stored on the server so it can later be shared — sharing itself needs M3's signed grants; this is the storage that makes it possible. More was already reserved than expected: SyncEntityType.SshKey, CryptoSpec.AadResourceType.SshKey, ChangeEntityType.SshKey, SyncPlaintextFields.PublicKeyFingerprint, and SshPrivateKeyCredential wired through PrivateKeyFile over a MemoryStream so a key never touches disk. The frozen contract and crypto spec needed no change at all. What was missing was the server. Rather than copy the push path per item type — version check, change-log append, exactly-once receipt, advisory lock — it is now written once over IVaultItem, with everything type-specific behind IItemKind: which table, which plaintext columns, and what those columns must satisfy. Ten copies of that logic by M5, with a fix applied to nine, is the outcome this avoids. The refactor landed first with no behaviour change, so all 66 existing Host tests were the regression net, and they stayed green. An interface rather than a base class, deliberately: EF Core maps an inheritance hierarchy when it can see one, so a mapped base would quietly become a table-per-hierarchy discriminator across item types — the very arrangement per-type tables exist to avoid. ssh_key mirrors host and pointedly has no relay trio. That is the argument for separate tables rather than one wide item table: the columns a host needs are columns a key must never have, and a shared table could only make them nullable and trust the code. A key carrying a relay target is refused with a reason rather than silently dropped. A key hydrates PlaintextFields as null, not an empty instance — the difference is visible on the wire, because an all-defaults instance still serialises "relayEnabled": false and invites a reader to believe the setting exists and is off. It has none. Two things now defended by tests rather than by comments. Each kind states its own ChangeEntityType instead of casting: the two enums agree numerically but do not even share member names (Host against SshHost), and filing key changes under the host type is silent sync corruption — sabotaging it fails three tests. And EntityTypeAlignmentTests asserts the two enums stay aligned in both directions and in count, which nothing did before. The client half is next: SshKeySecret, its codec and merge, the cipher, a repository, and the UI. Note for that work — SyncEntityType.SshKey is 3 while AadResourceType.SshKey is 6, so a cast between them would seal key ciphertext as a vault and nothing would fail. |
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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. |
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Add /me and enrollment with the identity-provider key binding (M1)
The last backend piece of M1. A client can now log in, discover it must enroll, publish its identity key, and get a usable personal vault. Enrollment is one indivisible act. One transaction writes the key, its wraps, the device, the key log entry, the vault and the vault key grant, because none of them is useful alone: a key with no vault leaves a user unable to store anything, and a vault with no grant is a container nobody can ever open -- including its owner, since only the client can wrap the key and it has already moved on. Two independent checks run, and neither substitutes for the other. The Ed25519 self-signature proves possession of the private key. The identity-provider binding proves whose key it is: the client hashed its statement, used the hash as an OIDC nonce, and the resulting ID token is the provider's signature over exactly those public keys. This server cannot mint that signature, so it cannot invent a key for a user who never enrolled -- which is the attack that would otherwise let an operator read every vault by publishing its own key as yours. The binding token is stored verbatim, not just summarised. Clients must repeat the check against the provider's JWKS fetched directly, and storing only our conclusion would ask them to trust the server about the one question the design exists to avoid trusting it about. Key log appends take a deployment-wide advisory lock. The falsification matters more than the passing test: with the lock removed, Enroll_ConcurrentEnrollmentsByDifferentUsers_LeaveAnUnbrokenChain fails with entry 11 linked to the wrong predecessor. Different users trip no unique index, so without serialising they all read the same head and the chain forks -- indistinguishable from the key substitution the log exists to make detectable, and permanent, because the log is append-only. Enrollment is idempotent. Vault ids and keys are client-chosen, so a client whose response was lost re-sends the identical body and gets the identical result. Without that, a lost response leaves a user enrolled against a vault they never learned the id of. Contract change, breaking the v0.1 freeze deliberately. EnrollmentRequest had DevicePublicKey but no wrap to go with it, which is unsatisfiable: only the holder of the secret bundle can seal it, so the server could never fill the gap. Added DeviceWrappedPrivateKey, and PersonalVault so enrollment can be atomic rather than leaving an unopenable vault behind two endpoints that do not exist yet. No client exists and no package is published, which is exactly when PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt expects this. Sync now requires the Enrolled policy, which until now was a stub whose name promised a check it never made. The sync denial tests use enrolled intruders instead of unenrolled ones -- an unenrolled caller is stopped before the vault check runs, which would have left those tests passing without exercising the thing they exist to prove. Also fixed: omitting kdfParameters from the JSON body was a 500. A record's non-nullable parameters are a compile-time promise, not a runtime one. 268 tests pass, zero warnings on a clean rebuild, format clean. |
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3829217e8a |
Add sync engine: cursors, push/pull, and the advisory-lock ordering proof (M1)
The vault write path. Push is the only way items change — no per-entity POST/PUT/DELETE — so one place enforces revisions, the change log and access control. The concurrency hazard, now proven rather than asserted: bigserial assigns sequence values when the INSERT runs, not at commit, so transaction A can take sequence 5 while B takes 6 and commits first. A reader polling in between sees only 6, advances past 5, and never learns about it. AdvisoryLockOrderingTests reproduces that gap WITHOUT the lock first — otherwise the with-lock test proves nothing, since it would pass just as happily if the interleaving never occurred — then shows pg_advisory_xact_lock removes it, and that 12 concurrent writers produce no gaps. Cursors are opaque and HMAC-tagged, and carry their vault id. 29 unit tests cover the rejections, which are the point: an accepted-but-wrong cursor is silent data loss, strictly worse than an error a client can resync from. Rejected: tampered tag, tampered payload, foreign signing key, a legitimately-issued cursor from another vault, truncation, and hostile input (never throws — cursors come from clients). Push semantics: - 200 even on partial failure, with per-operation status, so one stale item cannot block everything a client queued while offline. - Conflict returns the server's current row for client-side three-way merge. The server cannot merge ciphertext, so never last-writer-wins. - opId receipts make retries exactly-once per operation, not per batch — a client retrying a partially-overlapping batch after a timeout would otherwise double-apply what landed. - A tombstone beats a late upsert, and delete clears hostname/port: leaving the address would keep the server able to resolve a host the user believes they deleted. - Relay field validation mirrors the DB CHECK so a bad request is a clear Invalid rather than a constraint violation surfacing as a 500. Authorization goes through IVaultAccessService, which returns the same answer for "absent" and "forbidden" — distinguishing them is an existence oracle for other tenants' vault ids. Team vaults are explicitly denied until M3 rather than falling through to a permissive default. JIT provisioning keys on (issuer, subject), never email, and handles the concurrent-first-request race via the unique index. Renamed two domain types: Host -> SshHost, because Host collides with Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Host in every file of a web project, and SyncChange -> VaultChange to stop it colliding with the Contracts DTO of the same name. Aliasing at every use site would have been permanent friction. Worth noting: `ef migrations has-pending-model-changes` reported clean after those renames even though the snapshot still said "DodoSSH.Domain.Host" — it diffs tables, not CLR type names. The snapshot was regenerated and the emitted DDL diffed against the previous artifacts/schema/v0.1.sql to confirm the rename produced no schema change. Also removed ConfigureAwait(false) from test methods: xUnit1030 flags it as bypassing parallelization limits, which is why MA0004 is suppressed in test projects. Verified: 0 warnings on a clean rebuild, 146 tests pass (up from 122), format clean. Endpoint-level tests are the immediate next step: they need a WireMock OIDC/JWKS stub and real JWT minting, so the "wrong user is denied" matrix does not exist yet for these two routes. The service-layer authorization and the concurrency property are covered. |