Omit Legacy Display Elements from "text/plain" and "text/html" (implement 4.5.3.{2,3} of
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9788 "Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email").
Follow-up for https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7042, part of
https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/6884.
This will make it possible to create invite-QR codes for broadcast
channels, and make them symmetrically end-to-end encrypted.
- [x] Go through all the changes in #7042, and check which ones I still
need, and revert all other changes
- [x] Use the classical Securejoin protocol, rather than the new 2-step
protocol
- [x] Make the Rust tests pass
- [x] Make the Python tests pass
- [x] Fix TODOs in the code
- [x] Test it, and fix any bugs I find
- [x] I found a bug when exporting all profiles at once fails sometimes,
though this bug is unrelated to channels:
https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7281
- [x] Do a self-review (i.e. read all changes, and check if I see some
things that should be changed)
- [x] Have this PR reviewed and merged
- [ ] Open an issue for "TODO: There is a known bug in the securejoin
protocol"
- [ ] Create an issue that outlines how we can improve the Securejoin
protocol in the future (I don't have the time to do this right now, but
want to do it sometime in winter)
- [ ] Write a guide for UIs how to adapt to the changes (see
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3886)
## Backwards compatibility
This is not very backwards compatible:
- Trying to join a symmetrically-encrypted broadcast channel with an old
device will fail
- If you joined a symmetrically-encrypted broadcast channel with one
device, and use an old core on the other device, then the other device
will show a mostly empty chat (except for two device messages)
- If you created a broadcast channel in the past, then you will get an
error message when trying to send into the channel:
> The up to now "experimental channels feature" is about to become an officially supported one. By that, privacy will be improved, it will become faster, and less traffic will be consumed.
>
> As we do not guarantee feature-stability for such experiments, this means, that you will need to create the channel again.
>
> Here is what to do:
> • Create a new channel
> • Tap on the channel name
> • Tap on "QR Invite Code"
> • Have all recipients scan the QR code, or send them the link
>
> If you have any questions, please send an email to delta@merlinux.eu or ask at https://support.delta.chat/.
## The symmetric encryption
Symmetric encryption uses a shared secret. Currently, we use AES128 for
encryption everywhere in Delta Chat, so, this is what I'm using for
broadcast channels (though it wouldn't be hard to switch to AES256).
The secret shared between all members of a broadcast channel has 258
bits of entropy (see `fn create_broadcast_shared_secret` in the code).
Since the shared secrets have more entropy than the AES session keys,
it's not necessary to have a hard-to-compute string2key algorithm, so,
I'm using the string2key algorithm `salted`. This is fast enough that
Delta Chat can just try out all known shared secrets. [^1] In order to
prevent DOS attacks, Delta Chat will not attempt to decrypt with a
string2key algorithm other than `salted` [^2].
## The "Securejoin" protocol that adds members to the channel after they
scanned a QR code
This PR uses the classical securejoin protocol, the same that is also
used for group and 1:1 invitations.
The messages sent back and forth are called `vg-request`,
`vg-auth-required`, `vg-request-with-auth`, and `vg-member-added`. I
considered using the `vc-` prefix, because from a protocol-POV, the
distinction between `vc-` and `vg-` isn't important (as @link2xt pointed
out in an in-person discussion), but
1. it would be weird if groups used `vg-` while broadcasts and 1:1 chats
used `vc-`,
2. we don't have a `vc-member-added` message yet, so, this would mean
one more different kind of message
3. we anyways want to switch to a new securejoin protocol soon, which
will be a backwards incompatible change with a transition phase. When we
do this change, we can make everything `vc-`.
[^1]: In a symmetrically encrypted message, it's not visible which
secret was used to encrypt without trying out all secrets. If this does
turn out to be too slow in the future, then we can remember which secret
was used more recently, and and try the most recent secret first. If
this is still too slow, then we can assign a short, non-unique (~2
characters) id to every shared secret, and send it in cleartext. The
receiving Delta Chat will then only try out shared secrets with this id.
Of course, this would leak a little bit of metadata in cleartext, so, I
would like to avoid it.
[^2]: A DOS attacker could send a message with a lot of encrypted
session keys, all of which use a very hard-to-compute string2key
algorithm. Delta Chat would then try to decrypt all of the encrypted
session keys with all of the known shared secrets. In order to prevent
this, as I said, Delta Chat will not attempt to decrypt with a
string2key algorithm other than `salted`
BREAKING CHANGE: A new QR type AskJoinBroadcast; cloning a broadcast
channel is no longer possible; manually adding a member to a broadcast
channel is no longer possible (only by having them scan a QR code)
We already have both rand 0.8 and rand 0.9
in our dependency tree.
We still need rand 0.8 because
public APIs of rPGP 0.17.0 and Iroh 0.35.0
use rand 0.8 types in public APIs,
so it is imported as rand_old.
If we use modules (which are actually namespaces), we can use shorter names. Another approach is to
only use modules for internal code incapsulation and use full names like deltachat-ffi does.
Create unprotected group in test_create_protected_grp_multidev
The test is renamed accordingly.
SystemMessage::ChatE2ee is added in encrypted groups
regardless of whether they are protected or not.
Previously new encrypted unprotected groups
had no message saying that messages are end-to-end encrypted
at all.
The setting is already removed from the UIs,
but users who had it disabled previously have
no way to enable it. After this change
encryption is effectively always preferred.
Also verify not yet verified contacts w/o setting a verifier for them (in the db it's stored as
`verifier_id=id` though) because we don't know who verified them for another device.
In order to debug some test failures wrt broadcast channels, I need to
read the log of some tests that have an alice0 and an alice1.
It's currently not possible to tell whether a line was logged by alice0
or alice1, so, I would like to change that with this PR.
Edit: Turns out that there are more tests that call their profiles
"alice1"/"alice2" (or "alice"/"alice2") than "alice0"/"alice1". So, I
changed the logging to count "alice", "alice2", "alice3", ….
Not sure whether I should adapt old tests; it might save someone some
confusion in the future, but I might also make a mistake and make it so
that the test doesn't properly test anymore.
this PR adds a info message "messages are end-to-end-encrypted" also for
chats created by eg. vcards. by the removal of lock icons, this is a
good place to hint for that in addition; this is also what eg. whatsapp
and others are doing
the wording itself is tweaked at
https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3817 (and there is
also the rough idea to make the message a little more outstanding, by
some more dedicated colors)
~~did not test in practise, if this leads to double "e2ee info messages"
on secure join, tests look good, however.~~ EDIT: did lots of practise
tests meanwhile :)
most of the changes in this PR are about test ...
ftr, in another PR, after 2.0 reeases, there could probably quite some
code cleanup wrt set-protection, protection-disabled etc.
---------
Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
Follow-up for https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6992
Since we're printing the hint to stderr now, rather than stdout (as per
link2xt's suggestion), it was too noisy. Also, it was printed once for
every test account rather than once per test.
Now, it integrates nicely with rust's hint to enable a backtrace:
```
stderr ───
thread 'chat::chat_tests::test_broadcasts_name_and_avatar' panicked at src/chat/chat_tests.rs:2757:5:
assertion failed: `(left == right)`
Diff < left / right > :
<true
>false
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
note: If you want to examine the database files, set environment variable DELTACHAT_SAVE_TMP_DB=1
FAIL [ 0.265s] deltachat chat::chat_tests::test_broadcast
```
Add `logged_debug_assert` macro logging a warning if a condition is not satisfied, before invoking
`debug_assert!`, and use this macro where `Context` is accessible (i.e. don't change function
signatures for now).
Follow-up to 0359481ba4.
I had it a few times now that I wanted to examine the database in order
to debug a test failure. Setting this environment variable makes this
easy in the future.
Part of #6884
----
- [x] Add new chat type `InBroadcastChannel` and `OutBroadcastChannel`
for incoming / outgoing channels, where the former is similar to a
`Mailinglist` and the latter is similar to a `Broadcast` (which is
removed)
- Consideration for naming: `InChannel`/`OutChannel` (without
"broadcast") would be shorter, but less greppable because we already
have a lot of occurences of `channel` in the code. Consistently calling
them `BcChannel`/`bc_channel` in the code would be both short and
greppable, but a bit arcane when reading it at first. Opinions are
welcome; if I hear none, I'll keep with `BroadcastChannel`.
- [x] api: Add create_broadcast_channel(), deprecate
create_broadcast_list() (or `create_channel()` / `create_bc_channel()`
if we decide to switch)
- Adjust code comments to match the new behavior.
- [x] Ask Desktop developers what they use `is_broadcast` field for, and
whether it should be true for both outgoing & incoming channels (or look
it up myself)
- I added `is_out_broadcast_channel`, and deprecated `is_broadcast`, for
now
- [x] When the user changes the broadcast channel name, immediately show
this change on receiving devices
- [x] Allow to change brodacast channel avatar, and immediately apply it
on the receiving device
- [x] Make it possible to block InBroadcastChannel
- [x] Make it possible to set the avatar of an OutgoingChannel, and
apply it on the receiving side
- [x] DECIDE whether we still want to use the broadcast icon as the
default icon or whether we want to use the letter-in-a-circle
- We decided to use the letter-in-a-circle for now, because it's easier
to implement, and I need to stay in the time plan
- [x] chat.rs: Return an error if the user tries to modify a
`InBroadcastChannel`
- [x] Add automated regression tests
- [x] Grep for `broadcast` and see whether there is any other work I
need to do
- [x] Bug: Don't show `~` in front of the sender's same in broadcast
lists
----
Note that I removed the following guard:
```rust
if !new_chat_contacts.contains(&ContactId::SELF) {
warn!(
context,
"Received group avatar update for group chat {} we are not a member of.", chat.id
);
} else if !new_chat_contacts.contains(&from_id) {
warn!(
context,
"Contact {from_id} attempts to modify group chat {} avatar without being a member.",
chat.id,
);
} else [...]
```
i.e. with this change, non-members will be able to modify the avatar.
Things were slightly easier this way, and I think that this is in line
with non-members being able to modify the group name and memberlist
(they need to know the Group-Chat-Id, anyway), but I can also change it
back.
This change introduces a new type of contacts
identified by their public key fingerprint
rather than an e-mail address.
Encrypted chats now stay encrypted
and unencrypted chats stay unencrypted.
For example, 1:1 chats with key-contacts
are encrypted and 1:1 chats with address-contacts
are unencrypted.
Groups that have a group ID are encrypted
and can only contain key-contacts
while groups that don't have a group ID ("adhoc groups")
are unencrypted and can only contain address-contacts.
JSON-RPC API `reset_contact_encryption` is removed.
Python API `Contact.reset_encryption` is removed.
"Group tracking plugin" in legacy Python API was removed because it
relied on parsing email addresses from system messages with regexps.
Co-authored-by: Hocuri <hocuri@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: iequidoo <dgreshilov@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: B. Petersen <r10s@b44t.com>
Move all `configured_*` parameters into a new SQL table `transports`.
All `configured_*` parameters are deprecated; the only exception is
`configured_addr`, which is used to store the address of the primary
transport. Currently, there can only ever be one primary transport (i.e.
the `transports` table only ever has one row); this PR is not supposed
to change DC's behavior in any meaningful way.
This is a preparation for mt.
---------
Co-authored-by: l <link2xt@testrun.org>
SecureJoin and importing a vCard are the primary
ways we want to support for creating contacts.
Typing in an email address and relying on Autocrypt
results in sending the first message unencrypted
and we want to clearly separate unencrypted and encrypted
chats in the future.
To make the tests more stable, we set up test contacts
with vCards as this always immediately
results in creating a single encrypted chat
and this is not going to change.
Currently broadcast lists creation is synced across devices. Groups creation, in some means, too --
on a group promotion by a first message. Otoh, messages deletion is synced now as well. So, for
feature-completeness, sync chats deletion too.
Replacing default key
when a profile is already part of
verified groups results in
`[The message was sent with non-verified encryption. See 'Info' for more details]`
messages for other users.
It is still possible
to import the default key before
Delta Chat generates the key.
Instead of being trashed, the message containing a reaction remains in the chat, hidden and InFresh. When the chat is opened, it will be marked as Seen on the server, so that a second device removes the notifications for the reaction.
Close https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/6210.
Also, this adds a benchmark.
This implements new group consistency algorithm described in
<https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/6401>
New `Chat-Group-Member-Timestamps` header is added
to send timestamps of member additions and removals.
Member is part of the chat if its addition timestamp
is greater or equal to the removal timestamp.
This PR:
- Moves the note about the false positive to the end of the test output,
where it is more likely to be noticed
- Also notes in test_modify_chat_disordered() and
test_setup_contact_*(), in addition to the existing note in
test_was_seen_recently()
- **feat: add `AccountsChanged` and `AccountsItemChanged` events**
- **emit event and add tests**
closes#6106
TODO:
- [x] test receiving synced config from second device
- [x] bug: investigate how to delay the configuration event until it is
actually configured - because desktop gets the event but still shows
account as if it was unconfigured, maybe event is emitted before the
value is written to the database?
- [x] update node bindings constants
Why:
- With IMAP APPEND we can upload messages directly to the DeltaChat folder (for non-chatmail
accounts).
- We can set the `\Seen` flag immediately so that if the user has other MUA, it doesn't alert about
a new message if it's just a sync message (there were several such reports on the support
forum). Though this also isn't useful for chatmail.
- We don't need SMTP envelope and overall remove some overhead on processing sync messages.
This reverts commit 1caf672904.
Otherwise public key signature is regenerated each time the key is
loaded and test `key::tests::test_load_self_existing` which loads the
key twice fails when two loads happen on different seconds.
Closes#5976
This makes possible to schedule one more sending of the message, the existing jobs are not
cancelled. Otherwise it's complicated to implement bots that resend messages when a new member joins
the group.
