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Keep the keychain unlocker passphrase in locked memory (closes #36)
The passphrase protecting the keychain unlocker's age key was a plain
string passed through encoding/json, leaving copies in ordinary memory
when an unlocker was created and each time one was used.

It is now generated into a locked buffer, and KeychainData, moved to
keychaindata.go, which is not darwin-only so its tests run on Linux,
writes and reads the keychain JSON itself: encode copies the parts
straight into a locked buffer, and decodeKeychainData takes the
passphrase from a json.RawMessage that it wipes. The JSON field names
are unchanged. keychainunlocker.go only calls this code and stores the
item from the locked buffer without a string copy.

Model: opus-5-5
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# Workflow
* branch (from `main`)
* do the work in Next Step
* move Next Step to the top of Completed Steps
* move the top item of Future Steps into Next Step
* commit (`TODO.md` changes in the same commit as the work)
* merge to `main` if the branch is not protected, otherwise open a PR
* push
# Status
pre-1.0. No git tags. TODO.md carries open 1.0 security blockers. Work in
flight on branch secure-enclave-unlocker (clean tree as of 2026-07-06).
# Next Step
Bring the repo into policy compliance in one commit:
- Add fmt-check and hooks targets to the Makefile (test/lint/fmt/check/
docker already exist).
- Add REPO_POLICIES.md and .editorconfig.
- Add .gitea/workflows/check.yml running make check.
- Verify Dockerfile base images are pinned by sha256.
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-03: The keychain unlocker's age key passphrase stays in
locked memory: it is generated into a locked buffer, and the
keychain JSON is written and read by `KeychainData` code in
`internal/secret/keychaindata.go` (tested on Linux) without
`encoding/json` holding it; the JSON field names are unchanged.
- 2026-10-02: A plain `docker build .` builds again: the size tests
skip a case that needs more locked memory than the process can
lock, and run every case under `script/cibuild`. The image stamps the
`VERSION` build argument, else `git describe --tags --always`, into
`Version`, and fails if `.git` is present but yields no version;
`make build` stamps `git describe` too, not a fixed `0.1.0`.
`.dockerignore` keeps `.git/config` out; `script/docker` is the
canonical copy.
- 2026-08-07: Updated golangci-lint to v2.12.2 with the canonical
`.golangci.yml` (all linters enabled minus the standard disable
list, `lll` 88, tests linted); bumped the `Dockerfile` lint-stage
image to the tagged v2.12.2 Debian digest; fixed all ~1550 new
findings across `internal/` and `pkg/` (line wrapping, `wsl_v5`
blank lines, sentinel errors for `err113`, `t.Parallel()` where
safe, `_test` package conversions, complexity/`dupl` helper
extraction) on branch `golangci-v2.12.2`. Reworked after review:
the `err113` sentinels in `internal/vault`, `internal/secret`,
`internal/cli` and `pkg/bip85` were reshaped so every composed
error message is byte-identical to `main`, and
`findUnlockerIDByMetadata` now returns an error so `unlocker list`
skips an unreadable `unlockers.d` entry with a warning instead of
emitting a fabricated fallback ID.
- 2026-07-07 Adopted scripts-to-rule-them-all: `script/` entrypoints,
Makefile shims, README Entrypoints section
- 2026-03-11: Secure Enclave unlocker for hardware-backed secret
protection, plus review fixes (stub panics, derivation index, tests,
README) on branch secure-enclave-unlocker.
- 2026-02-28: Repo cleanup, removed stale .cursorrules and coverage.out.
- Audit fix wave (issues #1, #2, #3, #13, #14): skip unlockers with
missing metadata, allow uppercase secret names, fix hardcoded
derivation index, validate names in GetSecretVersion against path
traversal, return errors instead of panicking, add Warn() on silent
anomalies.
- Memory security hardening: LockedBuffer used through encrypt/decrypt
paths (Save/EncryptWithPassphrase/GetValue/gpg helpers), deprecated
bare-[]byte APIs removed.
- Per-secret keypair architecture, vault package refactor, versioning
with --version, comprehensive test suite with in-memory filesystem.
- Debug logging system (slog, GODEBUG flag, TTY-aware output).
- Renamed SEP unlocker to Keychain, reorganized import commands.
- 2025-05-28: Initial implementation (vault, age encryption, mnemonic,
CLI).
# Future Steps
- Compliance (after Next Step lands): keep main green under the new
.gitea workflow; run make check before every merge.
- Implement version-number shell completion for the second arg of
`secret version promote` and `secret version rm`
(`internal/cli/version.go`; was an in-code TODO removed for godox).
- Cover mnemonic-vs-xprv identity consistency in
`pkg/agehd/agehd_test.go` `TestMnemonicVsXPRVConsistency` (was an
in-code FIXME removed for godox).
- Darwin-gated files (`internal/secret/keychainunlocker.go`,
`seunlocker_darwin.go`, `internal/macse/macse_darwin.go`, related
tests) are not linted on the Linux CI runner and still contain lines
over the new 88-column limit; they will surface if lint ever runs on
macOS.
- Merge secure-enclave-unlocker to main once review is done.
- 1.0 critical security blockers (from repo TODO.md):
- Command injection: GPG key IDs passed unescaped to exec.Command
(pgpunlocker.go:323-327); data.String() passed unescaped to the
security command (keychainunlocker.go:472-476).
- Memory security: age identity .String() creates unprotected
copies (keychainunlocker.go:356, pgpunlocker.go:256,
version.go:155); age secret key held in a plain string in
cli/crypto.go:86,91,113; private keys exposed via buffer.Bytes()
to GPGEncryptFunc and EncryptWithPassphrase.
- Race conditions: no file locking in vault/secrets.go:142-176;
non-atomic writes can leave the vault inconsistent.
- Input validation: dots in secret names risk path traversal
(vault/secrets.go:75-99); no maximum secret size (DoS).
- Timing attacks: bytes.Equal passphrase compare (cli/init.go:
209-216); non-constant-time public key compare (vault.go:95-100).
- High priority:
- Return errors instead of panicking on corrupted metadata
(pgpunlocker.go:116, keychainunlocker.go:141).
- Secure temporary file handling and cleanup.
- Print cobra usage only for argument errors, not internal
failures.
- Initialize a default unlock key at vault creation.
- Confirmation prompts for destructive operations (keys rm, vault
deletion).
- Add secret rm and vault deletion commands.
- Medium priority:
- Standardize error messages; stop leaking internals.
- Graceful handling of corrupted or missing key files with recovery
suggestions.
- Validate GPG key existence before creating PGP unlock keys.
- Split oversized CLI functions.
- Document env var security (SB_UNLOCK_PASSPHRASE,
SB_SECRET_MNEMONIC); clear after use.
- mlock/munlock for sensitive allocations.
- Cleanups: read statedir from environment or default instead of
passing it around.
- Enhancements: help examples, shell completion, colored output,
--quiet flag, name suggestions on miss, audit logging, hardware
integration tests (Keychain, GPG), naming consistency, vault
export/import, batch operations, search, secret metadata
(descriptions, tags).