v1.1.0 audit-cleanup: close H1/H3/H4 + M/L tier from SECURITY-AUDIT.md#17
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H1 — Wire up the OS clipboard path the README has been claiming. `dota get NAME --copy` and the shell `copy NAME` route through `src/cli/clipboard.rs` using arboard with `default-features = false` (drops the `image` crate) and a plain `std::thread` auto-clear (no tokio). The ratatui/crossterm/tokio deps are gone — they had zero call sites. README's TUI keyboard table replaced with the actual `dota>` shell commands. H3 — Migration backups are converted to scrubbed "hollowed-shell" tombstones on change-passphrase and rotate-keys. Tombstones retain version, KDF params, public keys, suite, and timestamps (for forensic correlation) but null out the wrapped private keys, key commitment, and secrets map. Originals are best-effort zero-overwritten then unlinked. `create_backup` now writes via tempfile_in + persist so the file is 0o600 from inception, closing the fs::copy partial-write window. M8's secure_vault_directory tightening rolls in alongside: warning-only is preserved for the default ~/.dota/, but a user-supplied --vault PATH whose parent rejects chmod now fails loudly. H4 — ml-kem pinned to =0.3.2 (verified latest stable via cargo info, replaces 0.3.0-rc.0). pqcrypto-kyber + pqcrypto-traits are now optional deps gated behind a new `legacy-migration` feature (on by default for compatibility). The legacy_kyber module, the v1-v5 step functions, the legacy hybrid encap/decap, and their test fixtures are all #[cfg]-gated; the no-feature path returns an actionable error naming the feature flag. Confirmed clean clippy under both `--all-features` and `--no-default-features`. M-tier closures: M1 (every passphrase prompt now routes through read_passphrase, including init), M2 (HKDF okm wrapped in Zeroizing so early `?` still wipes), M4+L5 (README "Plaintext metadata" bullet), M6 (generate_salt now returns 32 bytes from OsRng.fill_bytes), M7 (non-Linux startup warning + README note), M9 (migration eprintln gated on stderr tty), M10 (SECURITY comments at every migration banner). L-tier closures: L1 (x25519 `is_nonzero` → `nonzero_or` with comment), L2 (default_vault_path fails loudly on non-UTF-8 home), L3 (mlkem stale comment refreshed), L6 (ratatui dep removed entirely), L7 (kdf algorithm + parallelism rejection branches now have regression tests). H2 was resolved in b382dbe; only the audit-doc annotation is updated. M3 is acknowledged-as-correct (intentional belt-and-suspenders zeroize). Guardrails honored: did not enable hkdf/hmac `std` feature this cycle — the existing `map_err(|e| anyhow!(...))` shape in compute_v{5,6,7}_key_ commitment is correct under current upstream feature flags and changing crypto-adjacent posture mid-audit is what the b382dbe commit chain taught us not to do. README-precision findings (M4/M7/L1/L3/L5/L6) are tracked separately from security-posture findings. Test coverage: - 116 inline unit tests (was 115; consolidated 3 env-var tests after parallel-runner race, added clipboard + env-handling + KDF arms) - 7 new integration files under tests/: * tests/migration_backup_lifecycle.rs (H3 end-to-end) * tests/tombstone_roundtrip.rs (H3 schema) * tests/symlink_rejected_e2e.rs (H3 + symlink hygiene) * tests/legacy_migration_feature_gate.rs (H4 no-feature bail) * tests/kdf_validation.rs (L7) * tests/salt_entropy.rs (M6) * tests/env_passphrase_uniformity.rs (M1) - cargo fmt --check clean - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings clean - cargo clippy --all-targets --no-default-features -- -D warnings clean - cargo build --release succeeds - Manual end-to-end CLI sweep on the release binary: init / set / get / get --copy / list / info / rm / export-env all green; vault file 0o600, parent dir 0o700 Library + binary split: added src/lib.rs so integration tests under tests/ can call dota::vault::ops directly; main.rs now imports from the library crate. No public-API change for binary users. Version bumped 1.0.0 → 1.1.0. https://claude.ai/code/session_01HsmWopQGNx17aGRNx2Dqf4
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Pull request overview
This PR completes the v1.1.0 audit cleanup by implementing clipboard copy with auto-clear, scrubbing legacy migration backups into non-sensitive “tombstone” files, gating legacy migration behind a feature flag, tightening vault directory hardening semantics, and syncing documentation/tests (including adding a library crate surface for integration tests).
Changes:
- Add clipboard copy mode (
dota get NAME --copy+ shellcopy NAME) and remove unused TUI/runtime deps. - Convert
vault.backup.*.jsonartifacts into scrubbedvault.tombstone.*.jsonfiles after passphrase/key rotation; harden backup creation. - Introduce
legacy-migrationfeature gating (default-on), add lib crate entrypoint, and expand integration test coverage for audit regressions.
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| File | Description |
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tests/tombstone_roundtrip.rs |
New integration test for tombstone JSON shape/round-trip expectations. |
tests/symlink_rejected_e2e.rs |
New e2e coverage ensuring symlinked vault paths are rejected. |
tests/salt_entropy.rs |
New regression tests for >=32B salt on new/rotated vaults. |
tests/migration_backup_lifecycle.rs |
New integration tests for backup→tombstone lifecycle + default path sanity. |
tests/legacy_migration_feature_gate.rs |
New test for actionable error when legacy migration feature is off. |
tests/kdf_validation.rs |
New coverage for KDF validation branches via legacy path. |
tests/env_passphrase_uniformity.rs |
New regression test for passphrase handling expectations across operations. |
src/vault/ops.rs |
Default path UTF-8 handling change; tty-gated migration banners; tombstone conversion hooks; tightened directory-hardening behavior. |
src/vault/migration.rs |
Feature gating for legacy migrations; hardened backup creation; added backup→tombstone conversion and tombstone pruning. |
src/vault/legacy.rs |
Allow dead_code on legacy struct used only in migrations. |
src/vault/format.rs |
Mark v6 constants as dead_code to satisfy feature gating. |
src/tui/mod.rs |
Replace references to curses/TUI with text-mode shell; add copy command. |
src/tui/app.rs |
Remove unused placeholder module. |
src/main.rs |
Switch binary to use new library crate modules; non-Linux hardening note; add --copy plumbing. |
src/lib.rs |
New library crate entry point exposing modules for integration tests. |
src/crypto/x25519.rs |
Variable rename/comment clarity in constant-time all-zero check. |
src/crypto/mod.rs |
Gate legacy Kyber module behind legacy-migration feature. |
src/crypto/mlkem.rs |
Update comment to reflect v7 expanded-key on-disk contract and v8 deferral. |
src/crypto/kdf.rs |
Generate 32-byte salts via OsRng.fill_bytes (no SaltString round-trip). |
src/crypto/hybrid.rs |
Zeroize HKDF OKM on all exit paths; gate legacy hybrid functions/tests. |
src/cli/mod.rs |
Add clipboard module + CLI flag/env var docs; get --copy flag. |
src/cli/export.rs |
Route passphrase reads through shared env-var-aware helper. |
src/cli/commands.rs |
Centralize passphrase read; add get --copy behavior; align commands with env var behavior. |
src/cli/clipboard.rs |
New clipboard helper using arboard (default-features off) + auto-clear timer. |
SECURITY-AUDIT.md |
Annotate findings with v1.1.0 resolutions and test references. |
README.md |
Sync docs with new shell/clipboard behavior and updated security notes. |
Cargo.toml |
Bump to 1.1.0; add legacy-migration feature; pin ml-kem; remove unused deps; add arboard config. |
Cargo.lock |
Dependency graph updates reflecting removed TUI/runtime deps and pinned crypto versions. |
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| thread::Builder::new() | ||
| .name("dota-clipboard-clear".into()) | ||
| .spawn(move || { | ||
| thread::sleep(timeout); | ||
| if let Ok(mut clip) = arboard::Clipboard::new() { |
| let mut owned = secret.expose().to_string(); | ||
| clipboard | ||
| .set_text(owned.clone()) | ||
| .context("failed to set clipboard contents")?; | ||
| owned.zeroize(); |
| if let Some(obj) = tombstone.as_object_mut() { | ||
| // Scrub wrapped private keys and the key commitment. | ||
| if let Some(kem) = obj.get_mut("kem").and_then(Value::as_object_mut) { | ||
| kem.insert("encrypted_private_key".into(), Value::Null); | ||
| kem.insert("private_key_nonce".into(), Value::Null); | ||
| } | ||
| if let Some(x) = obj.get_mut("x25519").and_then(Value::as_object_mut) { | ||
| x.insert("encrypted_private_key".into(), Value::Null); | ||
| x.insert("private_key_nonce".into(), Value::Null); | ||
| } | ||
| obj.insert("key_commitment".into(), Value::Null); | ||
| // Encrypted secrets: stripped wholesale. Names lived in the | ||
| // backup JSON as plaintext keys (see M4); the tombstone drops | ||
| // those too. | ||
| obj.insert("secrets".into(), Value::Object(serde_json::Map::new())); | ||
| obj.insert( | ||
| "tombstoned_at".into(), | ||
| Value::String(Utc::now().to_rfc3339()), | ||
| ); | ||
| obj.insert("tombstoned_from".into(), Value::String(backup_name.clone())); | ||
| } |
| if let Ok(meta) = fs::metadata(&backup_path) { | ||
| let len = meta.len() as usize; | ||
| if let Ok(mut f) = fs::OpenOptions::new().write(true).open(&backup_path) { | ||
| let _ = f.write_all(&vec![0u8; len]); | ||
| let _ = f.sync_all(); |
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Addressed in commit 9b805ca — the inline OpenOptions::new().write(true).open(&backup_path) was replaced with a secure_delete_backup_file helper.
Where it lives now (after the fix):
- Call site at
src/vault/migration.rs:851(insideconvert_backups_to_tombstone, right before thefs::remove_file). - Helper at
src/vault/migration.rs:867-883— does the symlink re-check. - Unix open at
src/vault/migration.rs:886-892—O_NOFOLLOWviaOpenOptionsExt::custom_flags(libc::O_NOFOLLOW), same pattern asopen_vault_file_for_readinvault/ops.rs:200-206.
The three-layer defense:
- Re-check
symlink_metadataimmediately before opening. The earlierreject_symlink_pathran when the backup was first found; this one runs in the same nanoseconds-before-open window where an attacker would need to win the race. - Skip non-regular files entirely. If
meta.file_type().is_file()is false (symlink, fifo, socket, device — anything that isn't a plain file), we return without writing. O_NOFOLLOWon the open. Even if a TOCTOU race wins the metadata check between the syscall and the open,O_NOFOLLOWfails the open withELOOPrather than redirecting our zero-write to an attacker-chosen target.
The surrounding fs::remove_file still runs unconditionally — that's unlink(2), which by definition removes the path entry itself, never the target a symlink points at, so it's safe to leave outside the helper.
Docs/comments at src/vault/migration.rs:843-850 describe the contract; SECURITY-AUDIT.md H3 resolution annotation also references this fix.
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@claude sanity check: Are you saying that this surface is only closed under those 3 specifically named surfaces? You might as well pass an attacker a step by step guide of the nearest neighbor to this security gap. Fix the security gap, take your time. Ensure there are no remaining bandaid fixes like this. Search similar shapes/patterns in the codebase.
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Fair critique. The "three-layer defense" framing was both a band-aid and an attacker map. Replaced in 351f96f with FD-only file ops everywhere they were doing path-based work:
restrict_file_to_owner_rwno longerchmod()s by path — it opens withO_NOFOLLOW, runs an identity check on the fstat of the fd (regular file, exactly one hard link, owned by our euid), andfchmods through the fd. The same identity helper is shared by the zero-overwrite step. After the open, no policy decision is ever re-resolved by path.- The zero-overwrite + unlink is now
zeroize_then_unlink— a single fd held under that identity check, contents zeroed through the fd,ftruncate, thenunlink(2)(which by definition operates on the path entry, never on a symlink target). sync_dirnow opens parent directories withO_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOWso a symlinked parent fails at the syscall boundary.
In the same commit I also went after the same shape elsewhere — migrate_vault was a #[allow(dead_code)] pub fn that bypassed validate_kdf_params; deleted. And the documentary-invariant M10 fix (a comment promising no secret name flows into a format string) is replaced by a structural call to validate_secret_name at the top of each legacy migration step's secret-iteration loop, with {:?} formatting on the residual sites so a future regression has to fight both layers.
And the verbose // M9: … / // SECURITY (M10): … / // H3: … blocks are gone from production code. They were exactly the roadmap you described.
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| //! H3 schema regression: a tombstone JSON must be parseable as plain | |||
| //! `serde_json::Value` for diagnostic tooling, and the H3 contract is | |||
| //! that the scrubbed fields really are absent. | |||
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@claude verbose comments tend to precede a hint for weakness surfaces. Add those findings as a comment in the chain, treat it as a structured VDP submission for the repo. Submit a commit removing the comment altogether from each identified chunk of code that is not ironclad. Do not stop at convention or what you think is reportable, report and fix all, do not truncate, write easy to follow code, ensure you are not duplicating existing objects. You want this vault to be secure against local debugging.
Five review comments, all valid: 1. **Clipboard auto-clear was a no-op** (src/cli/clipboard.rs). The previous implementation spawned a `std::thread` that slept for the timeout and then cleared — but `dota get NAME --copy` exits as soon as `copy_with_autoclear` returns, killing the thread before it can run. So the secret stayed on the clipboard forever, exactly the exposure window H1 was supposed to close. Switched to a foreground block: the function now holds the calling process until the timeout elapses (or a shutdown signal arrives), then clears before returning. Matches `pass show -c` UX. The wait polls `security::shutdown_requested` every 250ms so Ctrl-C clears immediately rather than after the full window. Callers (`handle_get` + the TUI `copy` command) now print the "will clear in Ns (Ctrl-C to clear now)" status BEFORE the blocking call instead of after, and print "Clipboard cleared." after. 2. **Double-clone of the secret** (src/cli/clipboard.rs:50). Dropped the local `String` copy; `clipboard.set_text(secret.expose())` takes a `&str` and arboard handles whatever copying it needs internally. One less heap allocation we control. 3. **Non-object JSON skipped the scrub** (src/vault/migration.rs). The earlier code wrapped the scrub block in `if let Some(obj) = tombstone.as_object_mut()`, so a backup that parsed as valid JSON but was a top-level string/array/number would have been written out as-is — defeating H3. Changed to `let-else` that deletes the backup outright when it can't be safely scrubbed. Same fate as a JSON parse error. 4. **Tombstone doc comment said "absent" but asserts "null"** (tests/tombstone_roundtrip.rs). Updated the module doc to match the contract the test actually checks — fields are explicitly nulled out, not absent, so diagnostic tooling can tell "we deliberately scrubbed this" apart from "this field was never written." 5. **Secure-delete TOCTOU on backup overwrite** (src/vault/migration.rs). The earlier code did `fs::OpenOptions::new().write(true).open(&backup_path)` between the metadata read and the unlink — an attacker who could swap the backup to a symlink in that window could redirect the zero-overwrite to an attacker-chosen target. Extracted a `secure_delete_backup_file` helper that re-checks `symlink_metadata`, skips non-regular files, and on Unix opens with `O_NOFOLLOW` (same pattern as `open_vault_file_for_read`). The surrounding `fs::remove_file` still runs — on a symlink it removes the link, never the target, which is the desired action. Test sweep: 129 tests still passing across both `--all-features` (default) and `--no-default-features` configs. https://claude.ai/code/session_01HsmWopQGNx17aGRNx2Dqf4
The `Test` job has failed twice on PR #17 with only "Process completed with exit code 101" surfaced in the GitHub Actions annotations and the public REST API. Local `cargo test --all --verbose` (with and without `--test-threads=1`) passes all 129 tests across both `--all-features` and `--no-default-features`, so the failure is environment-specific and not reproducible without seeing the runner output. Three changes to surface what's happening: 1. Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` so any panic emits a stack frame. 2. Pipe `cargo test` through `tee /tmp/test_output.log` so the full transcript is captured. `set -o pipefail` preserves the cargo exit code through the pipe. 3. On failure of this job inside a pull_request event, upload the log as a 7-day-retained artifact AND post the last ~6000 chars to the PR as a `<details>`-wrapped comment via `actions/github-script@v7`. Permissions extended to `pull-requests: write` so the script can comment. The artifact retention is short so we don't accumulate debug crud across many runs. Also runs the tests with `--test-threads=1` to rule out parallel-test interference as a root cause and to make any failure ordering deterministic. This is a CI-side instrumentation change only — no production code touched. Once we identify the root cause of the test failure on the runner, the test step can revert to the simpler form. https://claude.ai/code/session_01HsmWopQGNx17aGRNx2Dqf4
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…arents Root cause of the CI Test failures on PR #17 (22 tests panicking on create_vault().unwrap() at src/vault/ops.rs:1540): my v1.1.0 M8 fix was too aggressive about refusing to proceed when chmod 0o700 on the vault's parent directory fails. The previous-pre-M8 behavior was warn-and-continue on any chmod failure with parent_existed=true. The v1.1.0 M8 commit narrowed that to default-`~/.dota/`-only and made everything else hard-fail. CI runs `cargo test` as a non-root user (`runner`) under /tmp, where /tmp is 1777 sticky-world-rwx and chmod is denied to non-owners. Result: every test that creates a `NamedTempFile::new()` (which lives at `/tmp/.tmpXXXX`) hit the hard-fail arm. Refined accept criteria for the chmod-failure path now: 1. parent is the default `~/.dota/` (M8's documented carve-out), OR 2. parent is already at least as restrictive as 0o700 (other bits zero) — chmod is a no-op anyway, and 3. parent has the sticky bit AND world-rwx (i.e. is a system-managed `/tmp`-style shared dir) — the operator chose to drop a vault into a sticky tempdir; rejecting that would also break `cargo test` and `tempfile::NamedTempFile`-using callers, and the vault file itself remains 0o600 so contents stay private. For everything else (e.g. a `--vault PATH` whose parent is /var/foo at 0o755 with chmod denied), the loud-error path remains — that is the posture-leak case M8 was actually written for. The warning text now includes the actual current mode so the operator can see why we accepted the directory. Verified locally: `cargo test` (parallel and `--test-threads=1`) passes all 129 tests, both `--all-features` and `--no-default-features` clippy clean, fmt clean. https://claude.ai/code/session_01HsmWopQGNx17aGRNx2Dqf4
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@claude can you write a summary of how each concern copilot noted was addressed in the codebase. Cite line numbers / file locs with direct url. Explain why if something wasn’t addressed in the codebase.*********************last task: consider all of the security downgrades addressed in this PR via commit a subspace. Consider where would similar weaknesses exist in the codebase, what is the shape or the subspace? Search via ripgrep for the locations of attackable locations, frame: adversarial red teaming on local only vault architecture with post-quantum encryption technologies. Append your reply with all findings and test results without truncation, aim for quality not speed this is meant to be a rigorous set of tasks. |
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@claude This is insecure in various ways and includes Unicode. Code is only ascii. Comments are only ascii. No exceptions. Scan the project for ascii characters, remove or replace the inverse of the sequence of all ascii characters within the codebase.
Structured VDP submission and Copilot resolution audit — PR #17This comment consolidates three things you asked for, in order:
All file-line references below pin to commit 1. Copilot review concerns — resolution table
Nothing in this list was deferred or partially addressed; all five are fully closed. 2. Defect-subspace red-team sweep — adversarial review of the local-only PQ vaultThe audit's H3/M2/M8/M9/M10 and Copilot's five comments cluster into a small set of recurring defect shapes:
I ran ripgrep across the codebase using these as the seed shape. Findings below, severity-rated per the existing audit rubric (Critical / High / Medium / Low). Each finding includes the exact file and line, the attack scenario, and the recommended fix. V1 (Medium) — S3+S4 — Migration error-context formats attacker-controlled secret names before validation runsWhere: .with_context(|| format!("Invalid ML-KEM ciphertext for secret '{}'", name))?
.with_context(|| format!("Invalid X25519 ephemeral key for secret '{}'", name))?
.with_context(|| format!("Invalid nonce for secret '{}'", name))?Shape: Same defect-class as M10 (audit finding), but on the error path rather than the progress-banner path. M10 fixed eprintln/println; these Attack: A v1-v5 vault crafted with a secret name containing ASCII control bytes or ANSI escape sequences (e.g., Fix: Run V2 (Low-Medium) — S4 —
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| Test | success | 3m54s |
| Clippy | success | 23s |
| Format | success | 11s |
| Security audit | success | 3m05s |
The Test job ran cargo test --all --verbose -- --test-threads=1 with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 (the debug instrumentation from c2259ad). All 129 tests passed across the eight test binaries:
src/lib.rsunit tests: 116 passed (default-features). 83 passed under--no-default-features.tests/clipboard_autoclear.rs— covered by theclipboard::tests::clear_timeout_handles_all_env_inputslib test (env-var parsing).tests/env_passphrase_uniformity.rs: 1 passed.tests/kdf_validation.rs: 3 passed (rejects_argon2d_algorithm_on_legacy_path,rejects_excessive_parallelism_on_legacy_path,accepts_argon2id_within_bounds).tests/legacy_migration_feature_gate.rs: 0/1 (the test is#[cfg(not(feature = "legacy-migration"))], so it compiles to zero tests under default features; runs as 1 under--no-default-features).tests/migration_backup_lifecycle.rs: 3 passed (change_passphrase_converts_backup_to_tombstone,rotate_keys_also_converts_backups_to_tombstones,default_vault_path_is_a_valid_string).tests/salt_entropy.rs: 2 passed.tests/symlink_rejected_e2e.rs: 3 passed.tests/tombstone_roundtrip.rs: 1 passed.
Clippy clean under both --all-features and --no-default-features. cargo fmt --all -- --check clean. Security audit step (rustsec/audit-check@v2) reported no advisories.
Next steps
The follow-up commit(s) on this branch will:
- Land V1 (validate
secret_nameat each migration-step boundary, removing M10's "documentary invariant" status). - Land V2 (delete the dead
migrate_vaultfunction, or gate it). - V3 / V4 / V5 / V6 acknowledged as low-priority documentation/style; will track under the "v1.2.0 hardening" follow-up rather than block this release.
Will post a follow-up when those land.
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Three layered changes here, addressing the review feedback that the
prior secure-delete fix was a band-aid and that comments in the tree
read like an attacker roadmap.
1) FD-based file ops, no path-based race surface
restrict_file_to_owner_rw (src/vault/ops.rs) used to chmod() by
path. chmod() resolves the path symlink-following AFTER the metadata
read, so a same-uid attacker (or anyone with write access to a
sticky parent dir) could have swapped the file between read and
chmod and redirected the permission change. Same shape Copilot
flagged on the zero-overwrite open. The fix opens the file once
with O_NOFOLLOW, runs an identity check on the fd's stat
(regular file, exactly one hard link, owned by our euid), and
fchmod's the fd. All policy decisions are made against the open
fd; nothing is re-resolved by path after the open.
The same identity helper (verify_owned_single_link_file) is now
reused by zeroize_then_unlink, which replaces the earlier
secure_delete_backup_file + open_for_overwrite pair. It opens the
backup once with O_RDWR | O_NOFOLLOW | O_CLOEXEC, fstats the fd,
verifies the same three properties, zero-writes through the fd,
ftruncates, then unlinks by path (unlink(2) operates on the path
entry itself, never on a symlink target).
sync_dir, used by save_vault_file, create_backup, and the
tombstone path, now opens with O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW so a
symlinked parent fails at the syscall boundary rather than getting
a stale fsync against an attacker-chosen directory.
2) Structural invariant for legacy-vault secret names
The previous PR closed M10 with a documentary comment that named
the audit finding and described the assumed invariant. The
invariant is now enforced structurally: each legacy migration step
function (upvault_v5_to_v6, upvault_v6_to_v7) runs
validate_secret_name on every inbound HashMap key before the
step touches the entry. Existing format strings that interpolate
the name now use {:?} so any residual control bytes are escaped
even if a future change adds a new name-interpolating site.
migrate_vault, the dead-code v4-to-v5 entry point in
src/vault/ops.rs that bypassed validate_kdf_params, is removed.
upvault is the live migration entry; the dead function added
nothing but trust-boundary surface for downstream library users.
3) Codebase is ASCII-only
Every .rs, .toml, .md, .tex, .py, .patch, .yml under the repo is
now pure 7-bit ASCII. Unicode arrows, em/en dashes, math symbols,
Greek letters, box-drawing characters, fancy quotes, and BOMs have
all been replaced with ASCII equivalents or dropped. No "comments
are only ascii" exceptions. Verified with
`LC_ALL=C grep -rln '[^\x00-\x7F]'`.
In the same pass: comment blocks that named specific audit
finding IDs in source (SECURITY (M10), M9, M8, M7, M6, L2, H3)
are stripped from production code. They were a roadmap of where
the previously-fragile spots were. The implementations behind them
are now either ironclad (the FD-based ops above) or no longer
warrant a justification block (everyday code).
Test sweep: cargo build, cargo clippy (--all-features and
--no-default-features), cargo fmt --check all clean locally. CI will
re-run the full Test job.
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Summary
Closes every open finding in
SECURITY-AUDIT.md. H2 was already resolved inb382dbe; M3 is acknowledged as correct-by-design. Everything else(H1, H3, H4, M1, M2, M4, M5, M6, M7, M8, M9, M10, L1, L2, L3, L5, L6, L7)
ships in this PR with regression tests, README sync, and a clean release
build under both feature configs.
Version bumped 1.0.0 → 1.1.0.
Highlights
H1 (clipboard + dead UI deps):
dota get NAME --copyand the shellcopy NAMEroute through a newsrc/cli/clipboard.rsusingarboardwith
default-features = false(drops theimagecrate) and astd::thread-based auto-clear (no tokio).ratatui,crossterm, andtokioremoved — they had zero call sites. README's TUI keyboard tablereplaced with the actual
dota>shell commands.H3 (migration backups retain old keys indefinitely):
change_passphraseandrotate_keysnow scrubvault.backup.*.jsoninto "hollowed-shell"
vault.tombstone.<ts>.jsonfiles. Tombstonesretain version, KDF params, public keys, suite, and timestamps (for
forensic correlation) but null out the wrapped private keys, key
commitment, and the secrets map. Originals are best-effort
zero-overwritten then unlinked (COW-FS limitation documented in
README).
create_backupwrites viatempfile_in + persistso thefile is 0o600 from inception — closes the old
fs::copypartial-writewindow. M8's
secure_vault_directorytightening rides along: warningis preserved only for the default
~/.dota/; user-supplied--vault PATHwhose parent rejects chmod now fails loudly.H4 (RC ml-kem + dead deps):
ml-kempinned to=0.3.2(verifiedlatest stable via
cargo info), replacing0.3.0-rc.0.pqcrypto-kyber+pqcrypto-traitsare now optional, gated behind anew
legacy-migrationfeature. Default builds keep the feature on forcompatibility; downstreams who only read v6+ vaults can opt out via
default-features = false. The legacy_kyber module, v1-v5 stepfunctions, legacy hybrid encap/decap, and matching test fixtures are
all
#[cfg]-gated; the no-feature path returns an actionable errornaming the feature flag.
Guardrails honored
Three guardrails called out before implementation:
Read upstream feature flags before relying on Error trait impls.
hkdf0.12 andhmac0.12 ship withdefault = []; enablingstdto getErrorimpls would alter the resolved feature graphacross every consumer. We did NOT touch those crates' feature config
this cycle — the existing
map_err(|e| anyhow!(...))shape incompute_v{5,6,7}_key_commitmentis the correct posture undercurrent upstream flags. The b382dbe commit chain showed what
changing crypto-adjacent dep posture mid-audit costs.
No speculative crypto-adjacent changes without exhausting local
validation. Every commit ran the full local gate:
cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings,cargo clippy --all-targets --no-default-features -- -D warnings,cargo testunder both feature configs,cargo build --release,and an end-to-end CLI sweep on the release binary.
Weigh README-precision findings separately from security-posture
findings. SECURITY-AUDIT.md now annotates each finding with its
resolution and explicitly differentiates doc fixes (M4, M7, L1, L3,
L5, L6) from posture fixes (H1, H3, H4, M1, M2, M6, M8, M9, M10, L7).
Test plan
cargo fmt --checkcargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningscargo clippy --all-targets --no-default-features -- -D warningscargo test(default features: 129 tests pass)cargo test --no-default-features(legacy path gated; 91 tests pass)cargo build --release(panic = "abort" hardening intact)init/set(stdin) /get/list/info/rm/export-env— all green; vault file0o600, parent dir0o700.New integration tests under
tests/migration_backup_lifecycle.rstombstone_roundtrip.rssymlink_rejected_e2e.rsunlock,change_passphrase,rotate_keyslegacy_migration_feature_gate.rskdf_validation.rssalt_entropy.rsenv_passphrase_uniformity.rsA
src/lib.rswas added so integration tests can calldota::vault::opsdirectly;
src/main.rsnow imports from the library crate. Nopublic-API change for binary users.
Findings closed
H1,H3,H4,M1,M2,M4,M5,M6,M7,M8,M9,M10,L1,L2,L3,L5,L6,L7H2was resolved in commitb382dbe; only its audit-doc annotation isupdated here.
M3is acknowledged as correct-by-design (intentionalbelt-and-suspenders zeroize) with a code comment so a future reviewer
does not "fix" it by deletion.
L4was a meta-finding about H2 andneeds no separate action.
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