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jaap-jan 3ead865f01 Merge branch 'main' into the desktop updater, and give way on two numbers
Main landed a realtime push feature while this branch was building the updater,
and the two collided in three places. Every one of them resolves the same way:
main got there first, so this branch moves.

**Two ADRs were both numbered 0012.** Main's is realtime push; this one is now
[ADR 0013](docs/adr/0013-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md). Git did not call
this a conflict — the filenames differ — so it would have merged quietly and left
the directory with two 0012s and every cross-reference ambiguous. Renumbered here
along with the nine places that point at it.

**Two manual-check phases were both numbered 15**, and that one git did catch.
Main's "Changes that arrive without a timer" keeps 15; installing and updating
the desktop client becomes Phase 16, with its checks and every reference to them
renumbered. The file's own rule is that a number is for life, which is exactly
why the one that had not been pushed is the one that gives way.

**The merge rewrote several files with CRLF**, and `.editorconfig` asks for LF on
everything except `*.ps1`. That is not cosmetic here: IDE0055 is an error and
`EnforceCodeStyleInBuild` is on, so it failed the build on three lines of
App.axaml.cs whose only change in this branch was an ADR number in a comment.
Forty-six files normalised back to LF; the release script keeps CRLF, which is
what `.gitattributes` and `.editorconfig` both already say for a PowerShell file.

Nothing else conflicted. The updater does not touch the sync loop or the event
stream, and the one file both sides edited heavily — MainWindowViewModel — merged
without a hunk in common.

Verified after merging: the solution restores locked and builds clean, and 304
shell, 100 layout, 54 session, 28 client-api and 25 contracts tests pass. The
first two counts are higher than before the merge because main's own tests came
with it and pass alongside these.
2026-08-04 17:52:57 +02:00
jaap-jan 6728a0a597 Let the desktop client replace itself, and give the repository one version
Packaging for Windows, and the updater that only exists once something is
packaged. Velopack, win-x64, fed from the project's own forge — never from the
deployment a client signs in to, which is ADR 0011 rule 2 carried over
unchanged and is why the feed address is a constant in the code rather than a
setting. See docs/adr/0012-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md.

**Nothing is ever installed while somebody is using it.** A newer build is found
on a six-hourly pass, downloaded in the background, and then waits — for a
restart the user presses, or for the next launch they were going to do anyway.
That is a policy rather than caution: this application argues at length that
locking keeps shells running, because a lock that destroyed work would stop
being used, and a restart does not keep them. Having taught that, it owes the
user the choice at the one moment it stops being true, and the sentence saying
so counts the shells it would close.

**The version is now derived from the v* tag**, by MinVer, for everything. There
was no version before this — no property anywhere, so every assembly reported
the SDK's 1.0.0 and the API served that string as its serverVersion to every
client that asked. The tag was already the version of record for the container
image; this makes it the version of record full stop. MinVer's failure mode is
answering plausibly rather than failing, and here a wrong version is a client
that never updates, so it is guarded twice: fetch-depth 0 on every checkout, and
a step that fails a tag build when the tag and the computed version disagree.

**The pack id is DodoSSH.Desktop and not DodoSSH**, which is the one decision
here that would have destroyed data. Velopack installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\<packId>
and removes that whole directory on uninstall, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH is
where ClientPaths keeps the encrypted cache, the outbox of changes not yet
pushed, and the device key. The obvious id would have had the uninstaller
silently delete work the server has never seen — the thing the application
refuses to do without a counted confirmation. Velopack's own advice to move user
data to roaming %APPDATA% is declined for the reason ClientPaths already gives.

**Releases are cut by a person, and CI gains no job that could.** The tempting
argument is that a forge write token is not a signing key. It does not survive
contact with what the token does: Velopack clients trust their feed and do not
verify a package signature when they apply one, so whoever can write a release
can ship an update every install runs. That is the capability ADR 0011 rule 1
puts on a machine which is not a runner, reached through a different door. The
mechanical objection — vpk needs Windows and the runners are Linux — is the
smaller of the two and is recorded beside it, because somebody will fix one and
believe they are done.

Unsigned for now, deliberately and with the cost stated where a user reads it:
SmartScreen warns once per person, on Setup.exe, because Mark-of-the-Web is
applied by the browser that downloaded it. In-app updates are fetched by the
application and applied from a local file, and never trip it.

The banner is a fourth row of the window rather than an overlay. Anything drawn
in the terminal's rectangle is sliced by the native child window that composites
above it — the defect this window has shipped once — and a sibling row is the
arrangement TitleBar and StatusBar already prove works.

----

Three defects surfaced on the way, none of them in the feature being built.

**A settings key absent from the file came back as the CLR default, not the
declared one.** The JSON source generator builds a record through a synthesised
parameterised constructor and assigns every property from its argument array, so
a property initializer runs and is then overwritten by a default for anything the
file did not contain. A settings.json of {} read back a font size of 0, clamped
up to the 8px floor rather than the 13px the renderer draws at. It could not bite
while there was one setting, because that setting was written on every save and
so was never absent; adding a second would have turned automatic update checks
off for every existing profile, silently, the opposite of the documented default.
Reflection-based deserialisation of the same JSON answers correctly, which is why
every way of checking it by hand agrees except the one that ships. The defaults
now live on the constructor parameters, which is the only place the generator
reads them from.

**Declaring a RuntimeIdentifier on the desktop head broke the server's image
build.** It is the obvious way to let a self-contained publish restore under
locked mode, and it writes a net10.0/win-x64 target into the lock file of every
project the head references transitively — including DodoSSH.Contracts and
DodoSSH.Crypto, which the API builds too. The Dockerfile restores those with no
RID and fails NU1004. Found by running docker build rather than by reading. The
RID stays out of the committed state; the two commands that need one ask for it
unlocked, and the release script puts the lock files back.

**A Docker ARG named VERSION silently sets MSBuild's Version.** An ARG is an
environment variable for the rest of the stage, MSBuild reads environment
variables as properties, and property names are case-insensitive. With the
workflow passing main-<short sha> on a main build the publish died with
NETSDK1018 pointing at DodoSSH.Contracts, a project nobody had touched. The build
stage's argument is ASSEMBLY_VERSION now, empty except on a tag build.

All three are in docs/platform-flags.md, which is where the next person will look.

----

Verified: the whole solution builds and restores locked; 289 shell, 93 layout and
54 session tests pass, including the regression test for the settings defect and
a measurement of the banner at the window's minimum width. vpk pack runs end to
end and reports "Verified VelopackApp.Run()" against Program.Main. The API image
builds correctly both as a main build and as a tag build, carrying 1.0.0 and
0.1.0 respectively.

Not verified, and it needs a published release to be: installing, updating and
uninstalling on a real machine. That is Phase 15 of docs/manual-checks.md, and
the pack id and the WebView2 profile fix are reasoned and commented but only
proved by walking it. Two things to watch at the first upload — the reverse
proxy's body-size limit for a 64 MB asset, and whether vpk upload gitea is happy
with Gitea 1.27.1.
2026-08-04 17:04:41 +02:00
jaap-jan 2caedd93ff Merge branch 'main' into the Android head
Main grew the screens the host-management plan called for — hosts, pins, snippets, logs,
import, teams — plus the ObjectStore and Import projects behind two of them, and moved
WindowsDeviceKeyStore into the desktop head's Platform folder.

Five of those view models landed in a directory this branch had already moved, so they
join the rest in DodoSSH.Client.Shell: git spotted the rename and put them there, and the
namespaces followed. Shell picks up ObjectStore and Import as a result, which the Android
head then gets transitively and will use neither of at first — scoped storage means there
is no ~/.ssh/config to import, and file transfer is out of its first scope.

Desktop suites green at 155 and 64.
2026-07-31 21:03:22 +02:00
jaap-jan fe9d7fc289 Give DodoSSH a phone, and a shared shell for both heads to drive
The Android head from docs/android-port.md, taken as far as its step 6.

Step 3, the spike, is answered and its throwaway screen is gone: libsodium.so and
libe_sqlite3.so are both in the arm64 APK, so NSec resolves its native half on Android
despite shipping no Android build, and the local cache opens. Two findings the audit
could not have had: Avalonia.Controls.WebView only ships net10.0-android36.0, which
settles the open "which Android versions" question at targetSdk 36; and Android has
blocked cleartext HTTP since API 28, so the terminal renderer needs a network security
config scoped to 127.0.0.1 or the WebView loads nothing.

DodoSSH.Client.Shell is new and is why the phone can exist: the view models, the terminal
renderer files and the palette moved there so both heads drive one state machine and draw
from one set of tokens. The desktop head is otherwise untouched and its 144 tests still
pass.

The platform pieces behind interfaces that already existed: the profile directory from
filesDir, a device key wrapped by a StrongBox-backed key that a fingerprint releases, and
a foreground service so a shell outliving a vault lock stays true on a platform that
stops backgrounded processes.

Sign-in is deliberately absent rather than approximated. It needs an app link, because
reusing the desktop loopback listener is the attack RFC 8252 section 8.3 names.
2026-07-31 20:58:48 +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 94e11f5e38 update packages
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (push) Canceled after 0s
ci / build (windows) (push) Canceled after 0s
2026-07-31 10:12:05 +02:00
jaap-jan 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.
2026-07-31 08:39:06 +02:00
jaap-jan c5dec2d68e Measure the vault column instead of arguing about it
Nothing in this repository loaded a .axaml, so the one class of defect this
window has actually shipped — a control arranged past the edge of its container,
where it cannot be clicked — was the one class nothing could catch. The setup
screens rendered sliced once, with their buttons unreachable. The vault column is
the next candidate: 340 pixels wide, two lists and two editors, and the only
thing keeping it from clipping its own Save button at the window's 520-pixel
minimum is a state rule that one editor may be open at a time.

That rule was added on the strength of an argument. This adds an
Avalonia.Headless project that lays real XAML out at a real size and reports
what a user could not reach, and the argument is now a number: with both editors
open the column overflows, so the rule is load-bearing rather than defensive.
BothEditorsAtOnce_DoNotFit_WhichIsWhyTheRuleExists is the test, and it says what
to do if it ever starts passing — the column has room, so delete the rule, not
the test.

Two findings arrived by measuring rather than by reasoning, and the first one
changed the design.

MainWindow cannot be shown headlessly at all. Showing it attaches the terminal's
NativeWebView, whose Win32 adapter initialises WebView2 on attach, and WebView2
refuses a non-STA thread — which is exactly why Program.Main carries [STAThread]
and is written down in that comment. A HeadlessUnitTestSession owns its
dispatcher thread and offers no apartment choice, so the whole window is out of
reach at any size. That is pinned as a test asserting RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE by
HResult rather than by message, so a future Avalonia that makes the adapter lazy
will fail it and the harness can be widened.

So the column had to become its own control to be measurable, which is the
extraction the type-selector rework wanted anyway. Keyboard release moved with
it: MainWindow used to call Focus() on HostList by name, and now asks
VaultColumn.KeyboardTarget. The window decides that the keyboard should leave the
terminal and the column decides where it lands — which is the seam the rework
needs, because once the column shows one list at a time, "which list owns the
keyboard" is a question only the column can answer.

The second finding is the way this kind of test lies quietly. The hint class
lived in MainWindow.Styles and carries TextWrapping. A Window's styles reach its
whole tree, so nothing about the application depended on where it lived — but a
control laid out on its own loses them, and every hint paragraph would have
measured as a single line. The harness would have passed while measuring heights
that were all too small. The three shared classes now live in App.axaml, which
changes no rendering and makes the measurement honest.

The detector is calibrated in both directions, because a clipping detector that
never fires reads as a guarantee: a deliberately clipped Save button is caught by
name, and a list longer than its viewport is exempt. Scrolling is how a list is
supposed to handle more rows than fit, and without that exemption the host list
would fail the moment it had content. It also mis-fired once and the rule is
narrower for it — an empty ListBox is zero pixels tall and correct, so "arranged
with no size" now applies only to controls the theme gives a height to.

Skia rather than the headless drawing stub, deliberately. The stub's font manager
invents glyph metrics, and text height is an input to every stacked panel in this
column, so measuring against it would produce numbers that are self-consistent
and unrelated to the application.

A separate test project rather than more tests in DodoSSH.Client.App.Tests.
Avalonia's application, dispatcher and platform are process-global singletons
initialised once, and that project's identity is the shell's state machine
without Avalonia — the whole reason sign-in is a delegate. The fakes needed to
reach a real unlocked vault are shared from DodoSSH.Client.Session.Tests by
source link: a project reference would make one test project a library of
another, and a copy would be a third implementation of the same decision table
drifting from the other two.

855 tests green, 10 of them new. Zero warnings, dotnet format clean.

Not done, and this is groundwork rather than the item itself: the type selector.
The column still holds both lists at once, so a third item type would still
recreate the defect the one-editor rule works around. What is different is that
the rework can now be checked instead of eyeballed — including the claim it is
being made for, that one editor at a time stops being a runtime rule and becomes
a fact about what is in the visual tree.

What this harness will never catch is the terminal's native child window
compositing over Avalonia content. That is a Win32 property of a real window, no
headless surface reproduces it, and it is the reason the WebView is collapsed
rather than covered.
2026-07-30 11:34:09 +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
jaap-jan 5fccd53824 Add the Avalonia app and the xterm renderer, and fix two real bugs
The terminal works end to end. A new integration test drives a real sshd in
a container through a real PTY, the real pump, the real loopback WebSocket
with its token and origin checks, and a ClientWebSocket standing in for the
page: the login banner arrives, typed input round-trips, and `stty size`
reports the 100x30 the session asked for. The only untested link left is
xterm drawing bytes it was handed.

The WebView is de-risked on Windows, which was the plan's largest risk. Not
by assertion: with the app running there is an established TCP connection
from msedgewebview2 to the data plane port, so WebView2 launched, navigated
to the loopback page, executed terminal.js, and completed the WebSocket
handshake against the real token and origin checks. Linux remains unproven
and the package's own release notes now corroborate the concern -- Linux uses
a WPE backend, and it ships a NativeWebDialog described as useful where
embedded WebViews may be unavailable.

Two bugs found by building it, both of which would have shipped:

- ShellStream.Write buffers and needs an explicit Flush. Without one a
  keystroke is accepted, reported as written, and never reaches the remote:
  the terminal displays output perfectly and simply stops responding to
  input. SSH.NET's own WriteLine flushes, which is why the earlier spike
  never hit it. Found by isolating the pump against real SSH and reading
  BytesRead=51 -- banner and prompt through, nothing after.
- The Windows app manifest needs a supportedOS list, or Avalonia's native
  control host fails outright and the terminal never starts.

Also fixed a genuinely flaky test I happened to catch: SyncCursorTests
tampered with the *last* base64url character, whose low bits the decoder
ignores when the input length is not a multiple of three -- so a tampered
cursor sometimes decoded to identical bytes and verified. It failed roughly
one run in thirty, depending on a random key. Now tampers the penultimate
character, which is fully significant at every length; 40 consecutive runs
are clean.

xterm 6.0.0 plus the fit and webgl addons are vendored as UMD bundles rather
than built with npm, so a clean clone needs only the .NET SDK. Provenance
and licences are recorded next to them, along with the UMD global names
terminal.js depends on -- a bundle that switched to ES modules would load
without error and leave Terminal undefined.

The renderer acknowledges output from term.write's completion callback, not
on receipt. Acknowledging early would return flow-control credit for bytes
the screen has not caught up with, which is the one thing the credit window
exists to measure.

TerminalWorkspace moved into DodoSSH.Client.Terminal: it has no Avalonia
dependency, and having it there is what let the end-to-end test exist at all.

404 tests pass, zero warnings on a clean rebuild, format clean.
2026-07-28 22:30:42 +02:00
jaap-jan 885fb17bdc Clear the SSH gate: window-change reaches the remote, and licence as MIT
Licence is MIT, set solution-wide rather than only on the packable project:
DodoSSH.Contracts is published so clients can build against it, and a
package with no licence expression is one a corporate policy scanner
rejects outright.

The SSH.NET spike is the M1 client gate and it passes. SSH.NET 2025.1.0
exposes ShellStream.ChangeWindowSize, but a method existing is not the
remote observing it, so the tests read `stty size` back from a real sshd
after resizing rather than asserting the call did not throw. Repeated
resizes each take effect too, which matters because dragging a window edge
produces a stream of them. The IChannelSession fallback is not needed.

Also verified against a real sshd: password and public-key auth, that the
host key arrives as a raw blob we can fingerprint ourselves rather than
reading SSH.NET's MD5 property, and that refusing the key via CanTrust
actually aborts the connection -- without which the TOFU dialog would be
decoration.

Kept as a permanent suite, not deleted after the spike. An upgrade that
silently stopped sending the request would present as wrapped output only
after a resize, which is easy to misattribute to the terminal emulator.

Two bugs in the test itself, both worth naming because either would have
been read as "resize does not work":

- A PTY emits CRLF, and the anchored regex rejected the CR. The output
  visibly contained `24 80` while the match failed.
- Each read can begin with output still buffered from the previous command,
  including its size line. Taking the first match would have reported the
  pre-resize size.

platform-flags.md now records window-change as resolved rather than
unverified -- a stale flag is worse than none -- plus the three real SSH.NET
limits found on the way: ShellStream does not override ReadAsync so every
idle session parks a pool thread, one connection cannot serve both
SshClient and SftpClient, and agent forwarding needs an upstream change.
2026-07-28 16:52:09 +02:00
jaap-jan 98d29bff37 Add HTTP integration harness and the sync authorization matrix (M1)
ci / build and test (ubuntu) (push) Has been cancelled
ci / build (windows) (push) Has been cancelled
27 end-to-end tests over the real HTTP pipeline, against a PostgreSQL container and a
stubbed identity provider. This closes the gap the previous commit flagged.

Authentication is genuinely exercised, not bypassed. StubIdentityProvider serves real OIDC
discovery and JWKS via WireMock and signs tokens with a real RSA key, so the application's
own JwtBearer pipeline validates issuer, audience, signature, lifetime and claims. A
TestAuthHandler that short-circuits authentication would hide exactly the claim-mapping
mistakes that cause real authorization holes. Proven by rejecting: no token, a foreign
signing key, the wrong audience, the wrong issuer, and an expired token.

Authorization denials — the tests that matter most:
- Another user's vault is 404, not 403, for both pull and push. A distinct
  "exists but forbidden" answer is an existence oracle for other tenants' vault ids.
- A denied push writes nothing: no host row and no change-log entry. A denial that still
  mutated state would be worse than no check at all.
- A team vault is denied until M3 rather than falling through to a permissive default.

Behaviour covered: push/pull round trip, cursor advance (and that an empty pull does not
rewind the cursor, which would replay history), tampered cursor rejection, stale-version
conflict returning server state without overwriting, operation-id replay reported Duplicate
and applied once, a mixed batch applying the good and reporting the bad, relay field
enforcement both ways, delete clearing the relay address, tombstones carrying no payload,
and JIT provisioning happening exactly once.

Two configuration problems found by running it:
- appsettings.json carried empty-string placeholders for the connection string and OIDC
  authority. Under minimal hosting those beat anything a test registers via
  ConfigureAppConfiguration, because Program.cs adds its own sources after that callback
  runs. Removed them outright — an empty placeholder turns "not configured" into
  "configured as empty", which defeats failing fast. Tests now use DODOSSH_ environment
  variables, which Program.cs adds last.
- My first fix for minting an expired test token derived notBefore from the expiry, which
  put nbf fourteen minutes in the future for normal tokens and made every valid token 401.
  It needs the earlier of now-1min and exp-1min.

Verified: 0 warnings on a clean rebuild, 173 tests pass (up from 146), format clean.
2026-07-28 15:11:43 +02:00
jaap-jan d3b14e6bc0 Add configuration, OIDC auth wiring and discovery endpoints (M1)
Options, JWT bearer validation, the /meta and .well-known endpoints, and a dev compose
stack with Keycloak. Verified end to end: compose up, migrate, run, both discovery
endpoints return correct payloads, and readiness reports the schema current.

Configuration:
- Strongly-typed options for Server, Oidc, Relay and Sync, all ValidateOnStart. A
  self-hosted server that boots half-configured and fails later per-request is far harder
  to diagnose than one that refuses to start and names the bad setting.
- Cross-field validation the annotations cannot express: relay needs a WebSocketUrl when
  enabled, idle timeout must be under max session duration, item payload cap under batch cap.
- Startup warnings for combinations that are individually valid but dangerous together:
  RequireHttpsMetadata false outside Development, and AllowEmailLinking (which turns any
  token bearing a victim's email into account takeover, hence default false).

Auth:
- JwtBearer with ClockSkew cut to 30s from the 5-minute default; five minutes of slack on a
  credential granting vault ciphertext access is more than any clock needs.
- IncludeErrorDetails off, and a FallbackPolicy so an endpoint without an explicit policy
  still requires a caller rather than silently being public.

Discovery, per ADR 0002:
- /api/v1/meta reports versions, features and push caps.
- /.well-known/dodossh-configuration is the onboarding story: the user types one server URL
  and the client discovers OIDC authority, client id, scopes and relay endpoint.

Two environment problems found by actually running the stack:
- PostgreSQL 18 changed its data mount point. Mounting /var/lib/postgresql/data — correct
  through 17 — makes the image refuse to start; 18+ wants a single mount at
  /var/lib/postgresql with the cluster in a subdirectory.
- Keycloak moved to host port 18080. An unrelated Apache Tomcat on this machine holds
  127.0.0.1:8080, and a loopback-specific bind beats Docker's 0.0.0.0 publish for
  "localhost". It presents as Keycloak 404ing every realm while its own log says the import
  succeeded, which is a genuinely misleading failure.

Also: CA1848 is enforced, not advisory — warnings are errors, so the .editorconfig comment
claiming otherwise was wrong. Startup and health logging now uses [LoggerMessage]. And a
clean rebuild is back to zero warnings; the incremental build had been hiding 40 in test
projects (banned Guid.NewGuid, an obsolete Testcontainers constructor, and two analyzer
families that are genuinely noise under a test host).

Verified: 0 warnings on a clean rebuild, 122 tests pass, format clean.
2026-07-28 14:33:54 +02:00
jaap-jan eaf68c86b0 Add data model, DbContext and initial migration (M1)
Schema for identity, vaults, grants, hosts and the sync change log, verified against a
real PostgreSQL 18 container rather than an in-memory provider: partial unique indexes,
CHECK constraints, citext and identity-always columns are all provider behaviour that an
in-memory fake would not exercise.

Invariants pushed into the database, so they hold even when application code has a bug:
- ck_host_relay_target is a security boundary, not tidiness. A host may carry a plaintext
  hostname and port ONLY when relay is deliberately enabled. Both directions are tested;
  the important one is that relay-disabled hosts cannot carry an address, since otherwise
  a bug would silently give the server infrastructure visibility it was never granted.
- ck_vault_owner: exactly one of owner_user_id or team_id, or permission resolution would
  have no defined answer.
- ck_vault_key_grant_recipient: member grants name a user; recovery and escrow grants are
  wrapped to a key and must not.
- ck_user_key_wrap_kdf: a password-derived wrap without its parameters is permanently
  unopenable, so a partial write is rejected outright.

Present from the first migration on purpose:
- GrantKind (Member/Recovery/Escrow). Recovery cannot be bolted on later — every vault
  created before it existed would be unrecoverable by design.
- team and team_membership, though team features are M3. Adding them later would mean
  introducing a foreign key on a live vault table.
- Host.ContentKeyId, reserved for per-item content keys wrapped to individual users.
- user_key as its own table, so key rotation does not require altering the user row.

Two things verified rather than assumed:
- Npgsql's UseXminAsConcurrencyToken helper no longer exists in EF 10, so xmin is mapped
  directly in XminConcurrency. The generated migration *looks* like it creates an xmin
  column; it does not. Confirmed by inspecting pg_attribute (attnum -2, a system column)
  and by grepping the emitted DDL. A test pins both, because had it created a real column
  PostgreSQL would have rejected the name.
- EF Core is now pinned centrally. The Npgsql provider asks for 10.0.4 while
  EntityFrameworkCore.Design pulls 10.0.10, and because Design is PrivateAssets=all that
  higher version does not flow to referencing projects — producing a CS1705 in any test
  project referencing Infrastructure.

Also commits artifacts/schema/v0.1.sql, the idempotent script, as the baseline for future
upgrade tests.

Verified: 0 warnings, 122 tests pass (27 new against Postgres), format clean.
2026-07-28 14:17:37 +02:00
jaap-jan b15af836a3 Freeze DSH1 crypto specification and implement the core (M1)
docs/crypto.md is now the normative, frozen specification. This had to land before
anything else in M1: the server holds ciphertext and no keys, so it can never
re-encrypt, and a format change after users hold data is a coordinated client rewrite
with no rollback.

Specification:
- DSH1 envelope layout, canonical 64-byte AAD encoding, SealTo construction, key
  hierarchy, Argon2id profiles, fingerprints, and the change rules for each version field.
- AAD encoding is fixed-width binary rather than delimited string concatenation, so no
  field value can forge a field boundary. This supersedes the illustrative form sketched
  in ADR 0001, which now points here.
- UUIDs are RFC 4122 big-endian. Guid.ToByteArray() emits the first three groups
  little-endian and would have made our ciphertext unreadable by any other implementation
  of this spec, failing only at a cross-implementation boundary.

Verified rather than assumed:
- PrimitiveAvailabilityTests proves X25519, Ed25519, XChaCha20-Poly1305, Argon2id and
  HKDF-SHA512 all function on net10.0. NSec 26.4.0 targets net9.0 and is consumed by
  forward compatibility; this closes one of the two package questions the plan flagged.
- Argon2Profile exists because NSec's MemorySize is in KIBIBYTES, not bytes. Passing bytes
  gives either a 256 GiB allocation or a 256 KiB KDF that cracks instantly. The type takes
  mebibytes so the unit cannot be got wrong at a call site. Found by benchmarking: the
  first measurements were ~1000x too slow, which turned out to be 19 GiB of work.
- Parameters measured, not guessed: 256 MiB/t=4 is 323 ms on this machine; the table of
  candidates is in the spec.

Implementation and tests (83 total, up from 17):
- AadDescriptor, DshEnvelope, DshCrypto (Seal/Open/SealTo/OpenSealed/fingerprints).
- Decryption returns null rather than throwing: ciphertext comes from a server that is
  explicitly not trusted, so a failed tag is an expected outcome.
- Envelope readers reject unknown algorithms and any non-zero flag bit, so an envelope
  that is not fully understood fails closed.
- Executable form of the spec's substitution claims: a server cannot move ciphertext
  between resources, roll back a key generation or item version, repurpose a payload as
  metadata, or confuse the two constructions.
- Golden vectors in tests/fixtures/crypto/vectors.json guard the format. Mutation-checked:
  a one-byte schema version change trips four tests including the guard.

Two build-infrastructure bugs found and fixed along the way:
- .editorconfig forced camelCase on const and static readonly fields. PascalCase is the
  .NET convention for both; the config was wrong, not the code.
- The golden fixture was resolved with [CallerFilePath], which ContinuousIntegrationBuild
  rewrites to /_/... under deterministic source paths. It passed locally and would have
  failed only in CI. Now copied to the output directory and read from there.
2026-07-28 13:18:29 +02:00
jaap-jan 3a81f3c90b Restructure into src/tests and add build foundation (M0)
Moves the scaffold to src/DodoSSH.Api and establishes the repo conventions the rest
of the milestones build on.

Structure:
- src/{Contracts,Crypto,Domain,Infrastructure,Api}, tests/{Contracts,Crypto,Domain}.Tests
- DodoSSH.slnx rewritten with src/ and tests/ solution folders

Build:
- Directory.Build.props centralises TFM, nullable, deterministic builds and
  TreatWarningsAsErrors; Directory.Packages.props pins every version centrally
- packages.lock.json committed so CI restores in locked mode
- NuGet.config clears machine-level sources, which both fixes NU1507 under central
  package management and makes restore reproducible off this machine
- Microsoft.OpenApi pinned to 2.11.0: ASP.NET Core 10.0.10 resolves 2.0.0, which is
  covered by GHSA-v5pm-xwqc-g5wc (high, patched in 2.7.5)

Analyzers:
- AnalysisLevel is Recommended, not All. With warnings-as-errors, All turns opinionated
  naming rules into build breaks and trains people to blanket-suppress.
- BannedSymbols.txt bans DateTime.UtcNow (TimeProvider), Guid.NewGuid (CreateVersion7),
  sync-over-async, MD5/SHA1, PBKDF2 and SecureString
- CA1711/CA1724 disabled: both are .NET Framework CAS-era naming rules
- PublicApiAnalyzers on Contracts only, since that assembly is the client's real contract

API:
- weather-forecast template removed
- UseHttpsRedirection removed; TLS terminates at the reverse proxy and redirecting
  behind one causes loops
- /healthz/{live,ready,startup}. Liveness deliberately checks no dependencies so a
  transient database outage cannot restart the container and kill live SSH sessions.

Notes:
- No coverage collector yet. Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage pulls an MTP 1.x
  MSBuild extension that throws TypeLoadException against the MTP 2.3.x xunit.v3 brings.
  Coverage gates are an M3 concern; revisit with an MTP 2.x-aligned version then.

Verified: dotnet build (0 warnings), 17 tests pass, format check clean, API serves
health and OpenAPI endpoints.
2026-07-28 12:25:34 +02:00