secret/TODO.md

# 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

- 2026-10-04: Lint runs only in docker: `script/lint` builds
  `Dockerfile.lint`, where golangci-lint is a build step rebuilt on
  every run (`--no-cache-filter`), so an unchanged tree is linted too;
  the module download stays cached. `script/bootstrap` no longer
  installs golangci-lint, and the `Dockerfile` lint stage calls it
  directly instead of `make lint`. `golangci-lint config verify` is not
  run: it fetches its schema live over unpinned HTTPS.
- 2026-10-03: `secret mv` rejects a move whose destination is the
  source (`mv --force x x`, `mv --force work:x work:`, or an empty
  destination, which defaults to the source name) before changing
  anything; before, `--force` removed the destination first and so
  deleted the secret. Every vault name given with `vault:` must be one
  of the existing vaults by exact name, so `work:x work/:x` is rejected
  instead of being taken for a move between two vaults. A move within a
  named vault no longer makes that vault the current one, whether it
  succeeds or fails.
- 2026-10-03: Commands that change the state directory hold one lock
  (`flock` on `lock` in the state directory; a mutex on the in-memory
  test filesystem), so concurrent commands no longer lose versions or
  race on the current pointers. Every file is written through
  `secret.WriteFileAtomic` (temporary file, sync, rename), so no file
  is ever half-written and `current`, `currentvault` and
  `current-unlocker` never go missing. New versions, new secrets and
  cross-vault copies are built in a temporary directory and renamed
  into place, and removals rename out of the way first, so a version
  or secret is never half-added and never half-removed. An
  interrupted command can still leave:
    - a broken unlocker, when it was replacing one: an unlocker added
      under the directory name of an existing one is rewritten file by
      file. That happens to a passphrase unlocker added to a vault that
      has one, and to a PGP, keychain or Secure Enclave unlocker added
      on the same host and day as another of its type
      (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/71);
    - from `vault create` stopped at the passphrase prompt, a new vault
      with no unlocker that is already the current vault; from `init`
      stopped there, the default vault with no unlocker;
    - from an unlocker add stopped before its metadata is written, a
      directory that `unlocker list` warns about and `unlocker rm`
      cannot remove;
    - data under a `.tmp-` name in the state directory: a secret or
      version being added, or the secret, version, unlocker or vault
      being removed, encrypted keys included. Nothing deletes it; it
      must be deleted by hand
      (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/75).
- 2026-10-03: `version rm`, `version promote` and `get --version`
  accept a version only if it is one of the versions `version list`
  lists for that secret, compared as typed before any path is built
  (`secret.VersionExists`), and touch nothing otherwise. An empty
  `--version` is rejected instead of meaning the current version.
  Before, `secret version rm x ../../..` deleted the whole vault,
  `secret version rm x ..` the secret, and `.` or `""` every version.
- 2026-10-03: Key material is wiped on every exit: `Entry()` returns
  the exit code after its deferred `memguard.Purge()` has run, and only
  `main` calls `os.Exit`. SIGINT and SIGTERM go through memguard's
  handler, which wipes every buffer before exiting; when the process is
  in the terminal's foreground process group it first restores the
  terminal settings from startup, so an interrupted passphrase prompt no
  longer leaves echo off.
- 2026-10-03: Every command that builds a path from a secret name
  checks the name first with `vault.ValidateSecretName` and touches
  nothing when it is invalid: `rm`, `mv` (both names, within a vault
  and between vaults, before switching the current vault), `import`,
  `version list`/`promote`/`rm`, `encrypt` and `decrypt`. The error
  and `README.md` state the naming rule. Before, `secret rm ..`
  deleted the whole vault and `secret rm .` every secret in it.
- 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.
    - Input validation: 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).