Check downloaded originals against their recorded content hash (closes #68)

downloadFile, shared by quak get, the content cache and backup, hashes
the decrypted bytes (unkeyed BLAKE2b-512, standard base64) and stores
nothing on a mismatch, failing with an error naming the file ID. A live
photo ZIP is unpacked as it streams with fflate's Unzip, in small
slices so memory stays bounded however far an entry expands, and its
image and video hashed separately as <imageHash>:<videoHash>.
decryptFile reads the older imageHash/videoHash fields for live
photos. A file with no recorded hash is stored unchecked.

Model: opus-5-5

README.md

@@ -687,10 +687,13 @@ originals and thumbnails are kept; they are reached only through the files the
 current account's records name.
 
 A stored file appears only via an atomic temp-then-rename, so its presence means
-it is complete. The design also calls for a content-hash comparison against
-`FileMetadata.hash` on each fetched original; that check is deferred (issue
-https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/quak/issues/68) because the exact hash construction
-cannot yet be confirmed against the repo's fixtures.
+it is complete. Every downloaded original (by `quak get`, the cache, or
+`backup`) whose metadata records a content hash (`FileMetadata.hash`) is hashed
+as it is written: unkeyed BLAKE2b with a 64-byte output, standard base64. For a
+live photo, which is stored as a ZIP, the image and the video are hashed
+separately and joined as `<imageHash>:<videoHash>`. A mismatch stores nothing
+and fails the download with an error naming the file ID. An original with no
+recorded hash, from a very old client, is stored unchecked.
 
 ### Key types by source file
 

TODO.md

@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Tag v1.0.0.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-09-23: Checked downloaded originals against their recorded content hash
+  (issue 68). `downloadFile`, which `quak get`, the content cache and backup all
+  use, hashes the decrypted bytes (unkeyed BLAKE2b-512, standard base64) and
+  stores nothing on a mismatch, failing with an error naming the file ID. A live
+  photo ZIP is unpacked as it streams with `fflate` and its image and video
+  hashed separately as `<imageHash>:<videoHash>`. `decryptFile` reads older
+  clients' `imageHash` and `videoHash` fields for live photos. A file with no
+  recorded hash is stored unchecked.
 - 2026-09-23: Kept one account's cache from mixing with another's (issue 104).
   When `metadata.json` in the cache directory was written for a different,
   non-zero user ID than the client's, `Library.open` deletes it and `mldata/`

package.json

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
         "env-paths": "4.0.0",
         "exif-reader": "2.0.3",
         "fast-srp-hap": "2.0.4",
+        "fflate": "0.8.3",
         "jpeg-js": "0.4.4",
         "libsodium-wrappers-sumo": "0.8.4"
     }

src/crypto/hash.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import sodium, { type StateAddress } from "libsodium-wrappers-sumo";
+import { toBase64 } from "./encoding.js";
+
+// The content hash an uploading client records in a file's metadata: unkeyed
+// BLAKE2b with a 64-byte output over the original's bytes, fed in chunks, as
+// standard base64 with padding. Named after the upstream client's functions.
+// The output length is read at call time for the same reason as
+// `streamTagFinal` in stream.ts: libsodium sets its constants only once ready.
+
+export const chunkHashInit = (): StateAddress =>
+    sodium.crypto_generichash_init(null, sodium.crypto_generichash_BYTES_MAX);
+
+export const chunkHashUpdate = (state: StateAddress, chunk: Uint8Array): void =>
+    sodium.crypto_generichash_update(state, chunk);
+
+export const chunkHashFinal = (state: StateAddress): string =>
+    toBase64(
+        sodium.crypto_generichash_final(
+            state,
+            sodium.crypto_generichash_BYTES_MAX,
+        ),
+    );

src/crypto/index.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export {
 } from "./encoding.js";
 export { deriveKEK, deriveLoginSubkey } from "./kdf.js";
 export { decryptBox, decryptSealed } from "./box.js";
+export { chunkHashFinal, chunkHashInit, chunkHashUpdate } from "./hash.js";
 export {
     decryptBlob,
     encryptBlob,

src/download/index.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import { open, rename, rm } from "node:fs/promises";
 import type { FileHandle } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
+import { Unzip, UnzipInflate } from "fflate";
 import {
+    chunkHashFinal,
+    chunkHashInit,
+    chunkHashUpdate,
     fromBase64,
     initStreamPull,
     pullStreamChunk,
@@ -237,19 +241,109 @@ export const writeAtomic = async (
 ): Promise<void> =>
     stageAtomic(destination, (handle) => handle.writeFile(plaintext));
 
+// Hashes an original's bytes as they are decrypted, for comparison with the
+// hash its uploader recorded.
+interface ContentHasher {
+    update: (plaintext: Uint8Array) => void;
+    digest: () => string;
+}
+
+const fileHasher = (): ContentHasher => {
+    const state = chunkHashInit();
+    return {
+        update: (plaintext) => chunkHashUpdate(state, plaintext),
+        digest: () => chunkHashFinal(state),
+    };
+};
+
+// A live photo is stored as a ZIP of its image and its video, and its recorded
+// hash is `<imageHash>:<videoHash>`, each over that part's own bytes. Like the
+// upstream client's decoder, this takes the first entries whose names start
+// with `image` and `video`.
+//
+// The ZIP is chosen by its uploader and may expand enormously, so entries are
+// hashed as they decompress and never held. fflate's `Unzip` inflates each
+// push in one piece, and deflate expands at most about 1000-fold, so the ZIP
+// is pushed in 4 KiB slices to keep each decompressed piece near 4 MiB, one
+// plaintext chunk. Every entry is started, even one that is not hashed,
+// because fflate keeps an unstarted entry's data in memory.
+const livePhotoHasher = (fileID: number): ContentHasher => {
+    const sliceSize = 4096;
+    const fail = (message: string, cause?: unknown): Error =>
+        new Error(`download: file ${fileID}: ${message}`, { cause });
+    const claimed = new Set<string>();
+    const hashes = new Map<string, string>();
+    const unzip = new Unzip((entry) => {
+        const part = ["image", "video"].find((p) => entry.name.startsWith(p));
+        const target =
+            part === undefined || claimed.has(part)
+                ? undefined
+                : { part, state: chunkHashInit() };
+        if (target !== undefined) claimed.add(target.part);
+        entry.ondata = (err, data, final) => {
+            if (err) throw err;
+            if (target === undefined) return;
+            chunkHashUpdate(target.state, data);
+            if (final) hashes.set(target.part, chunkHashFinal(target.state));
+        };
+        entry.start();
+    });
+    unzip.register(UnzipInflate);
+    // fflate reports a bad ZIP by throwing, sometimes a TypeError, which the
+    // retry would take for a network failure; a bad ZIP is never retried.
+    const push = (data: Uint8Array, final: boolean): void => {
+        try {
+            unzip.push(data, final);
+        } catch (err) {
+            throw fail("live photo is not a readable ZIP", err);
+        }
+    };
+    return {
+        update: (plaintext) => {
+            for (let i = 0; i < plaintext.length; i += sliceSize) {
+                push(plaintext.subarray(i, i + sliceSize), false);
+            }
+        },
+        digest: () => {
+            push(new Uint8Array(0), true);
+            const image = hashes.get("image");
+            const video = hashes.get("video");
+            if (image === undefined || video === undefined) {
+                throw fail(
+                    "live photo ZIP does not hold both an image and a video",
+                );
+            }
+            return `${image}:${video}`;
+        },
+    };
+};
+
 // Decrypt `stream` straight to `destination`, one plaintext chunk at a time,
 // under the atomic writer's temp-then-rename discipline. Memory stays bounded
 // by the chunk size: each decrypted chunk is written to the temp file and
 // dropped. The rename happens only after the stream authenticates as terminated
 // on TAG_FINAL; a truncated stream throws and leaves the destination untouched.
 // Returns the plaintext length written.
+//
+// `original` is the file whose original this is (none for a thumbnail, which
+// has no recorded hash). When its metadata has a hash, the decrypted bytes
+// must match it or nothing is stored. Both a plain file and a live photo's
+// parts are hashed as they stream. The mismatch error is not retried.
 const decryptToTemp = async (
     destination: string,
     stream: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>,
     header: Uint8Array,
     key: Uint8Array,
     onProgress?: ProgressCallback,
+    original?: EnteFile,
 ): Promise<number> => {
+    const expected = original?.metadata.hash;
+    const hasher =
+        original === undefined || expected === undefined
+            ? undefined
+            : original.metadata.fileType === "livePhoto"
+              ? livePhotoHasher(original.id)
+              : fileHasher();
     let bytesWritten = 0;
     try {
         await stageAtomic(destination, async (handle) => {
@@ -258,10 +352,18 @@ const decryptToTemp = async (
                 header,
                 key,
                 async (plaintext) => {
+                    hasher?.update(plaintext);
                     await handle.write(plaintext);
                 },
                 onProgress,
             );
+            if (original === undefined || hasher === undefined) return;
+            const actual = hasher.digest();
+            if (actual !== expected) {
+                throw new Error(
+                    `download: file ${original.id}: content hash ${actual} does not match the hash its uploader recorded, ${expected}`,
+                );
+            }
         });
     } catch (err) {
         // Cancel the body so its connection is closed now rather than held
@@ -302,10 +404,18 @@ const fetchAndDecrypt = async (
     key: Uint8Array,
     destination: string,
     onProgress?: ProgressCallback,
+    original?: EnteFile,
 ): Promise<number> =>
     withRetry(async () => {
         const stream = await openStream();
-        return decryptToTemp(destination, stream, header, key, onProgress);
+        return decryptToTemp(
+            destination,
+            stream,
+            header,
+            key,
+            onProgress,
+            original,
+        );
     }, api.getRetryOptions());
 
 export const downloadFile = async (
@@ -326,6 +436,7 @@ export const downloadFile = async (
         file.key,
         resolvedPath,
         onProgress,
+        file,
     );
     return { path: resolvedPath, bytesWritten };
 };

src/library/content.ts

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
 // Integrity. The reused streaming decrypt is the enforced guarantee: every
 // chunk is authenticated and the writer renames the file into place only once
 // the stream ends on TAG_FINAL, so a truncated or corrupt fetch throws and
-// nothing is stored. On top of that this module refuses to record a stored file
-// that came out empty. The design also asks for a content-hash comparison
-// against `FileMetadata.hash` (with a `fileSize` fallback); that is deferred —
-// see the PR — because the exact hash construction cannot be confirmed against
-// the repo's fixtures and `FileBlob.size` is the encrypted object size, not the
-// decrypted length this layer has.
+// nothing is stored. For an original whose metadata records a content hash
+// (`FileMetadata.hash`), the writer also hashes the decrypted bytes and stores
+// nothing if they differ, failing the fetch with an error naming the file. An
+// original with no recorded hash is stored unchecked, as the upstream client
+// does; thumbnails have none. On top of that this module refuses to record a
+// stored file that came out empty.
 
 import { existsSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
 import {

src/model/decrypt.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,28 @@ const FILE_TYPE_MAP: Record<number, FileType> = {
 
 const parseFileType = (n: number): FileType => FILE_TYPE_MAP[n] ?? "unknown";
 
+// The hash the uploading client recorded for the original's bytes, read the
+// way the upstream client's `metadataHash` reads it: `hash` if present,
+// otherwise, for a live photo from an older client that wrote the two parts
+// separately, `<imageHash>:<videoHash>`. A field that is not a non-empty
+// string counts as absent, and a file with no hash at all is normal.
+const expectedHash = (json: Record<string, unknown>): string | undefined => {
+    const text = (v: unknown): string | undefined =>
+        typeof v === "string" && v !== "" ? v : undefined;
+    const hash = text(json.hash);
+    if (hash !== undefined) return hash;
+    const imageHash = text(json.imageHash);
+    const videoHash = text(json.videoHash);
+    if (
+        json.fileType === 2 &&
+        imageHash !== undefined &&
+        videoHash !== undefined
+    ) {
+        return `${imageHash}:${videoHash}`;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+};
+
 export const decryptCollection = (
     raw: RawCollection,
     keys: KeyMaterial,
@@ -115,7 +137,7 @@ export const decryptFile = (
         modificationTime: metadataJSON.modificationTime ?? 0,
         latitude: metadataJSON.latitude,
         longitude: metadataJSON.longitude,
-        hash: metadataJSON.hash,
+        hash: expectedHash(metadataJSON),
     };
 
     const magicMetadata = decryptMagicMetadata(raw.magicMetadata, key);

src/model/types.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ export interface FileMetadata {
     modificationTime: Microseconds;
     latitude?: number;
     longitude?: number;
+    // The content hash the uploader recorded (see `expectedHash` in
+    // decrypt.ts); `downloadFile` refuses an original that does not match it.
+    // Absent for files from very old clients.
     hash?: string;
 }
 

test/crypto/hash.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+    chunkHashFinal,
+    chunkHashInit,
+    chunkHashUpdate,
+    init,
+} from "../../src/crypto/index.js";
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+    await init();
+});
+
+describe("content hash", () => {
+    // RFC 7693 Appendix A: BLAKE2b-512 of "abc".
+    const abc = Buffer.from(
+        "ba80a53f981c4d0d6a2797b69f12f6e94c212f14685ac4b74b12bb6fdbffa2d1" +
+            "7d87c5392aab792dc252d5de4533cc9518d38aa8dbf1925ab92386edd4009923",
+        "hex",
+    ).toString("base64");
+
+    it("is unkeyed BLAKE2b-512 in standard base64", () => {
+        const state = chunkHashInit();
+        chunkHashUpdate(state, new TextEncoder().encode("abc"));
+        expect(chunkHashFinal(state)).toBe(abc);
+    });
+
+    it("gives the same hash when the input arrives in chunks", () => {
+        const state = chunkHashInit();
+        chunkHashUpdate(state, new TextEncoder().encode("a"));
+        chunkHashUpdate(state, new TextEncoder().encode("bc"));
+        expect(chunkHashFinal(state)).toBe(abc);
+    });
+});

test/download/download.test.ts

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
 import sodium from "libsodium-wrappers-sumo";
+import { zipSync } from "fflate";
 import {
     beforeAll,
     beforeEach,
@@ -188,7 +189,31 @@ vi.mock("node:fs/promises", async (importOriginal) => {
     };
 });
 
+/**
+ * `chunkHashUpdate` is wrapped to record the length of every piece hashed, so
+ * a test can show that a live photo entry reaches the hash in pieces far
+ * smaller than the entry, rather than decompressed whole first.
+ */
+const hashHook = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+    lengths: [] as number[],
+}));
+
+vi.mock("../../src/crypto/index.js", async (importOriginal) => {
+    const actual =
+        await importOriginal<typeof import("../../src/crypto/index.js")>();
+    return {
+        ...actual,
+        chunkHashUpdate: (
+            ...args: Parameters<typeof actual.chunkHashUpdate>
+        ): void => {
+            hashHook.lengths.push(args[1].length);
+            actual.chunkHashUpdate(...args);
+        },
+    };
+});
+
 beforeEach(() => {
+    hashHook.lengths.length = 0;
     renameHook.calls.length = 0;
     renameHook.failWith = null;
     durabilityHook.events.length = 0;
@@ -1613,3 +1638,113 @@ describe.each(entryPoints)("$name progress", ({ name, download }) => {
         expectSameBytes(readFileSync(outPath), plaintext);
     });
 });
+
+describe("downloadFile content hash", () => {
+    // Node's own BLAKE2b-512 is the reference, so these tests do not depend
+    // on the code under test to compute what they expect.
+    const blake2b = (bytes: Uint8Array): string =>
+        createHash("blake2b512").update(bytes).digest("base64");
+
+    // Serve `plaintext` encrypted as file 999 with the given metadata. Four
+    // responses are scripted so a retried mismatch would show in `requests`.
+    const setup = (plaintext: Uint8Array, metadata: Partial<FileMetadata>) => {
+        const key = sodium.crypto_secretstream_xchacha20poly1305_keygen();
+        const { header, ciphertext } = encryptFileBody(plaintext, key);
+        const file = buildMockEnteFile(key, header, header);
+        file.metadata = { ...file.metadata, ...metadata };
+        const body = { kind: "body", bytes: ciphertext } as const;
+        const { fetch, requests } = scriptedCdnFetch(body, body, body, body);
+        const api = new ApiClient({ fetch, retry: { ...noWait, attempts: 4 } });
+        const dir = mkdtempSync(join(testDir, "hash-"));
+        const outPath = join(dir, "f.bin");
+        return {
+            run: () => downloadFile(api, file, outPath),
+            dir,
+            outPath,
+            requests,
+        };
+    };
+
+    const livePhotoZip = zipSync({
+        "image.heic": patternBytes(500, 81),
+        "video.mov": patternBytes(900, 82),
+    });
+    const livePhotoHash = `${blake2b(patternBytes(500, 81))}:${blake2b(patternBytes(900, 82))}`;
+
+    it("stores a file whose hash matches", async () => {
+        const plaintext = patternBytes(700, 80);
+        const t = setup(plaintext, { hash: blake2b(plaintext) });
+
+        await t.run();
+
+        expectSameBytes(readFileSync(t.outPath), plaintext);
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a mismatch, stores nothing, names the file and does not retry", async () => {
+        const t = setup(patternBytes(700, 80), {
+            hash: blake2b(patternBytes(700, 79)),
+        });
+
+        await expect(t.run()).rejects.toThrow(
+            /file 999: content hash .* does not match/,
+        );
+
+        expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
+        expect(t.requests()).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it("stores a file with no recorded hash unchecked", async () => {
+        const plaintext = patternBytes(700, 80);
+        const t = setup(plaintext, { hash: undefined });
+
+        await t.run();
+
+        expectSameBytes(readFileSync(t.outPath), plaintext);
+    });
+
+    it("stores a live photo whose image and video hashes match", async () => {
+        const t = setup(livePhotoZip, {
+            fileType: "livePhoto",
+            hash: livePhotoHash,
+        });
+
+        await t.run();
+
+        expectSameBytes(readFileSync(t.outPath), livePhotoZip);
+    });
+
+    it("hashes a large live photo entry as it decompresses, never whole", async () => {
+        // 64 MiB of zeros deflates to a few kilobytes, the shape of a ZIP
+        // that would exhaust memory if expanded whole.
+        const image = new Uint8Array(64 * 1024 * 1024);
+        const video = patternBytes(900, 83);
+        const zip = zipSync({ "image.heic": image, "video.mov": video });
+        const t = setup(zip, {
+            fileType: "livePhoto",
+            hash: `${blake2b(image)}:${blake2b(video)}`,
+        });
+
+        await t.run();
+
+        expectSameBytes(readFileSync(t.outPath), zip);
+        const hashed = hashHook.lengths.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+        expect(hashed).toBe(image.length + video.length);
+        expect(Math.max(...hashHook.lengths)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(
+            2 * STREAM_CHUNK_SIZE,
+        );
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a live photo whose hash does not match", async () => {
+        // The whole ZIP's hash is not the recorded one: each part is hashed.
+        const t = setup(livePhotoZip, {
+            fileType: "livePhoto",
+            hash: blake2b(livePhotoZip),
+        });
+
+        await expect(t.run()).rejects.toThrow(
+            /file 999: content hash .* does not match/,
+        );
+
+        expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
+    });
+});

test/model/decrypt.test.ts

@@ -351,6 +351,46 @@ describe("model.decryptFile", () => {
         }
     });
 
+    it("reads the recorded content hash, joining an older live photo's two parts", () => {
+        const masterKey = sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen();
+        const { collectionKey } = buildRawCollection(masterKey);
+        const hashOf = (metadata: Record<string, unknown>) =>
+            decryptFile(
+                buildRawFile(collectionKey, {
+                    metadata: { title: "x", ...metadata },
+                }),
+                collectionKey,
+            ).metadata.hash;
+
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 0, hash: "H" })).toBe("H");
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 2, hash: "H", imageHash: "I", videoHash: "V" }),
+        ).toBe("H");
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 2, imageHash: "I", videoHash: "V" })).toBe(
+            "I:V",
+        );
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 2, imageHash: "I" })).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 0, imageHash: "I", videoHash: "V" }),
+        ).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 0 })).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 0, hash: 42 })).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 2, imageHash: "I", videoHash: 7 }),
+        ).toBeUndefined();
+        // An empty string counts as absent, not as a hash to match.
+        expect(hashOf({ fileType: 0, hash: "" })).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 2, hash: "", imageHash: "I", videoHash: "V" }),
+        ).toBe("I:V");
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 2, imageHash: "", videoHash: "V" }),
+        ).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(
+            hashOf({ fileType: 2, imageHash: "I", videoHash: "" }),
+        ).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
     it("maps fileType numbers to FileType strings", () => {
         // Ente uses: 0=image, 1=video, 2=livePhoto
         const masterKey = sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen();

yarn.lock

@@ -1069,6 +1069,11 @@ fastq@^1.6.0:
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+
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