The tests were originally generated with AI and then reworked.
Follow-up to https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7754 (c724e29)
This prevents the following attack:
/// Eve is subscribed to a channel and wants to know whether Alice is also subscribed to it.
/// To achieve this, Eve sends a message to Alice
/// encrypted with the symmetric secret of this broadcast channel.
///
/// If Alice sends an answer (or read receipt),
/// then Eve knows that Alice is in the broadcast channel.
///
/// A similar attack would be possible with auth tokens
/// that are also used to symmetrically encrypt messages.
///
/// To prevent this, a message that was unexpectedly
/// encrypted with a symmetric secret must be dropped.
Close https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7396. Before reviewing,
you should read the issue description of
https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7396.
I recommend to review with hidden whitespace changes.
TODO:
- [x] Implement the new protocol
- [x] Make Rust tests pass
- [x] Make Python tests pass
- [x] Test it manually on a phone
- [x] Print the sent messages, and check that they look how they should:
[test_secure_join_group_with_mime_printed.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/24800556/test_secure_join_group.txt)
- [x] Fix bug: If Alice has a second device, then Bob's chat won't be
shown yet on that second device. Also, Bob's contact isn't shown in her
contact list. As soon as either party writes something into the chat,
the that shows up and everything is fine. All of this is still a way
better UX than in WhatsApp, where Bob always has to write first 😂
Still, I should fix that.
- This is actually caused by a larger bug: AUTH tokens aren't synced if
there is no corresponding INVITE token.
- Fixed by 6b658a0e0
- [x] Either make a new `auth_tokens` table with a proper UNIQUE bound,
or put a UNIQUE bound on the `tokens` table
- [x] Benchmarking
- [x] TODOs in the code, maybe change naming of the new functions
- [x] Write test for interop with older DC (esp. that the original
securejoin runs if you remove the &v=3 param)
- [x] From a cryptography perspective, is it fine that vc-request is
encrypted with AUTH, rather than a separate secret (like INVITE)?
- [x] Make sure that QR codes without INVITE work, so that we can remove
it eventually
- [x] Self-review, and comment on some of my code changes to explain
what they do
- [x] ~~Maybe use a new table rather than reusing AUTH token.~~ See
https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7754#discussion_r2728544725
- [ ] Update documentation; I'll do that in a separate PR. All necessary
information is in the https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7396 issue
description
- [ ] Update tests and other code to use the new names (e.g.
`request-pubkey` rather than `request` and `pubkey` rather than
`auth-required`); I'll do that in a follow-up PR
**Backwards compatibility:**
Everything works seamlessly in my tests. If both devices are updated,
then the new protocol is used; otherwise, the old protocol is used. If
there is a not-yet-updated second device, it will correctly observe the
protocol, and mark the chat partner as verified.
Note that I removed the `Auto-Submitted: auto-replied` header from
securejoin messages. We don't need it ourselves, it's a cleartext header
that leaks too much information, and I can't see any reason to have it.
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Co-authored-by: iequidoo <117991069+iequidoo@users.noreply.github.com>
This is a preparation for expiring authentication tokens.
If we make authentication token expire,
we need to generate new authentication tokens each time
QR code screen is opened in the UI,
so authentication token is fresh.
We however don't want to completely invalidate
old authentication codes at the same time,
e.g. they should still be valid for joining groups,
just not result in a verification on the inviter side.
Since a group now can have a lot of authentication tokens,
it is easy to lose track of them
without any way to remove them
as they are not displayed anywhere in the UI.
As a solution, we now remove all
tokens corresponding to a group ID
when one token is withdrawn,
or all non-group tokens
when a single non-group token is withdrawn.
"Reset QR code" option already present
in the UI which works by resetting
current QR code will work without any UI changes,
but will now result in invalidation
of all previously created QR codes and invite links.
Groups promotion to other devices and QR code tokens synchronisation are not synchronised processes,
so there are reasons why a QR code token may arrive earlier than the first group message:
- We are going to upload sync messages via IMAP while group messages are sent by SMTP.
- If sync messages go to the mvbox, they can be fetched earlier than group messages from Inbox.
Moved custom ToSql trait including Send + Sync from lib.rs to sql.rs.
Replaced most params! and paramsv! macro usage with tuples.
Replaced paramsv! and params_iterv! with params_slice!,
because there is no need to construct a vector.
as by reviving qr codes,
there may be more than one token for a chat,
ensure, the most recent token and only one token is returned
by the sql-command for looking up tokens
(used for generating new codes)
* Remove sql::error submodule
Use anyhow errors instead.
* Remove explicit checks for open SQL connection
An error will be thrown anyway during attempt to execute query.
* Don't use `with_conn()` and remove it
* Remove unused `with_conn_async`
* Resultify markseen_msgs
Switches from rusqlite to sqlx to have a fully async based interface
to sqlite.
Co-authored-by: B. Petersen <r10s@b44t.com>
Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: link2xt <link2xt@testrun.org>
Function `query_row` executes query and calls callback function to process
row returned. Function query_row_col() is special case, that provides
callback function, which returns value of one particular column of row,
ignoring others.
In all cases, that particular column was 0 (first and only column of
query result), since there is no point to select more than one column
with this function -- they are discarded anyway.
This commit removes that redundancy, removing column number argument of
query_row_col() function and adjusting call sites accordingly.
