Public Access
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The second M1 gate. This assembly, not the OpenAPI document, is the client's contract, so PublicApiAnalyzers now tracks all 540 public members: a renamed DTO property becomes a build error rather than a runtime deserialisation failure on someone's laptop. Contract surface: - EncryptedPayload carries the envelope plus the KeyGeneration and AadVersion columns needed to recompute AAD, since AAD is derived from the row rather than transmitted. - Sync: push with per-operation status (Applied/Conflict/Forbidden/Invalid/Duplicate) so one stale item cannot block a whole offline queue; a Conflict returns the server's row for client-side three-way merge, because the server cannot merge ciphertext. - Enrollment: KeyStatement whose hash becomes the OIDC nonce, so the identity provider signs over the public keys and this server cannot fabricate a key for a user who never enrolled. - Meta and .well-known configuration: capability negotiation instead of URL versioning, which is what a self-hosted product needs when client and server upgrade independently. - SyncPlaintextFields deliberately has no label or name field. ACL admin runs client-side where names can be decrypted, so the server never needs a searchable title. Two design problems found by writing the tests rather than assuming: - Hand-constructing JsonSerializerOptions and merely pointing its resolver at the context silently discards every source-generated setting. JsonSerializerDefaults.Web replaces NumberHandling.Strict with AllowReadingFromString, so "1" would be accepted where 1 is meant — invisible until two implementations disagree. Callers now use ResponseOptions or StrictRequestOptions; StrictRequestOptions is derived by copying so it cannot drift. - StrictRequestOptions had a static-initialisation cycle: it read the generated Default property from the same type's initialiser and got null. Now lazy. Requests reject unmapped members so a client typo is a 400; responses tolerate them so an older client can read a newer server. Enums cross the wire as strings, so reordering one cannot silently reinterpret stored data. Also: excluded source-generator output from PublicApiAnalyzers. The JSON generator emits a public member per serialisable type, which would have added hundreds of mechanical entries and drowned the ones describing the actual wire contract. And disabled MA0048's one-type-per-file rule: splitting SyncPullRequest from SyncPullResponse makes a reviewer open two files to understand one endpoint. Verified: 0 warnings, 95 tests pass, format clean.
DodoSSH
A self-hosted, team-oriented SSH client with an end-to-end encrypted vault.
Manage hosts, credentials and keys in a desktop app; sync them across your devices and share them with teammates through a server you run yourself. The server stores ciphertext and never holds a key — the operator cannot read the credentials it stores.
Status: early development. See the milestone plan for what exists today.
Why
Teams either scatter SSH credentials across individual ~/.ssh directories with no sharing
story, or pay per-seat for a hosted product that holds their infrastructure credentials.
DodoSSH keeps the convenience of a synced, shareable vault while remaining self-hostable and
zero-knowledge.
Architecture
| Component | Choice |
|---|---|
| Backend | ASP.NET Core on .NET 10, PostgreSQL + EF Core |
| Client | Avalonia (C#) for Windows/Linux/macOS; terminal pane is a WebView running xterm.js |
| Auth | OIDC, provider-agnostic (Entra ID, Keycloak, Auth0, Authentik) |
| Vault | End-to-end encrypted; X25519 + Ed25519 + XChaCha20-Poly1305, Argon2id unlock |
| Connections | Client-direct SSH by default, with an optional raw-TCP server relay |
Two consequences worth knowing before you read further:
- Revocation is not retroactive. A removed member keeps what they already downloaded. The real remediation is rotating the SSH credential, so offboarding is built around a rotation checklist rather than a button that implies more than it delivers.
- No session recording in relay mode. The relay forwards SSH ciphertext, so it cannot see commands. That is the cost of the relay not being able to read your traffic.
The reasoning behind each major decision is recorded in docs/adr/, starting with
the E2EE trust model.
Repository layout
src/
DodoSSH.Contracts DTOs shared with the client — the real API contract
DodoSSH.Crypto DSH1 envelope, AAD derivation, key wrapping
DodoSSH.Domain entities and invariants, no EF
DodoSSH.Infrastructure DbContext, configurations, migrations
DodoSSH.Api the host
tests/ one test project per source project
docs/adr/ architecture decision records
Building
Requires the .NET SDK pinned in global.json (10.0.x).
dotnet build DodoSSH.slnx
dotnet test DodoSSH.slnx
Run the API locally:
dotnet run --project src/DodoSSH.Api
It listens on http://localhost:5233, serving /healthz/live, /healthz/ready and — in
Development — /openapi/v1.json.
Conventions the build enforces
- Warnings are errors.
dotnet format --verify-no-changesgates CI. - Package versions are centralised in
Directory.Packages.props;packages.lock.jsonis committed and CI restores in locked mode. BannedSymbols.txtbansDateTime.UtcNow(useTimeProvider),Guid.NewGuid(useCreateVersion7), sync-over-async, MD5/SHA1 and PBKDF2.- Public members of
DodoSSH.Contractsmust be declared inPublicAPI.Unshipped.txt, so a contract change is a build error rather than a client-side surprise.
Milestones
- M0 — foundation. Repo structure, build conventions, CI, ADRs. Done.
- M1 — vertical slice. OIDC login → enroll → create a host → open a shell. Gated on
freezing
DodoSSH.Contractsand the crypto AAD, plus two client spikes (Linux WebView, SSH.NET window-change). - M2 — full personal vault, robust sync, relay.
- M3 — teams, sharing, ACLs.
- M4 — hardening and ops, packaging, self-hosting guide.
- M5 — multi-provider OIDC, key rotation, per-item content keys.
Licence
Not yet chosen.