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webhooker/internal/database/password_test.go
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Verify login credentials before spending rate-limit budget (closes #150)
In the shipped default, any stranger denied the operator the only
administrative path at 5 requests per minute: TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty,
the README requires a reverse proxy, so every login POST shared one
bucket keyed on the proxy.

Credentials are now verified first and only a FAILED attempt spends
budget, so a correct password is never throttled. Failures are counted
per (client bucket, submitted username), bounded. Concurrent Argon2id
verifications are capped at two, and the queue for them at 16 — because
verifying first lets an attacker force a 64 MB hash per request, and
bounding the wait alone bounds nothing.

The issue's own recommendation was insufficient and is rejected here:
keying by username stops an attacker locking out a DIFFERENT account,
but this is a single-admin product with a predictable bootstrap
username, so flooding the operator's own name still locks them out.

This is speculative — it implements a corrected recommendation ahead of
the owner's ruling so the decision can be made by merging or reverting.
Three things are disclosed rather than glossed: online guessing rises
from 5/min to roughly 27/s, because the 429 is a label on the response
and not a gate in front of the hash; the residual exposure is a loss of
login AVAILABILITY, not latency, and a determined flood still denies
login while it runs, at ~400x the cost and clearing the moment it
stops; and the endpoint should be provisioned for ~400 MB resident, not
the 203 MB of live commitment it itemises.

Independently reviewed four times. Reviewers disproved the suspected
FIFO starvation by measurement, then caught two successive memory
bounds the code did not have — the second by parking waiters and
reading the heap rather than checking the arithmetic.
2026-08-18 01:55:41 +02:00

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package database_test
import (
"strings"
"testing"
"sneak.berlin/go/webhooker/internal/database"
)
func TestGenerateRandomPassword(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
tests := []struct {
name string
length int
}{
{"Short password", 8},
{"Medium password", 16},
{"Long password", 32},
{"Very short password", 3},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
password, err := database.GenerateRandomPassword(
tt.length,
)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf(
"GenerateRandomPassword() error = %v",
err,
)
}
if len(password) != tt.length {
t.Errorf(
"Password length = %v, want %v",
len(password), tt.length,
)
}
checkPasswordComplexity(
t, password, tt.length,
)
})
}
}
func checkPasswordComplexity(
t *testing.T,
password string,
length int,
) {
t.Helper()
// For passwords >= 4 chars, check complexity
if length < 4 {
return
}
flags := classifyChars(password)
if !flags[0] || !flags[1] || !flags[2] || !flags[3] {
t.Errorf(
"Password lacks required complexity: "+
"upper=%v, lower=%v, digit=%v, special=%v",
flags[0], flags[1], flags[2], flags[3],
)
}
}
func classifyChars(s string) [4]bool {
var flags [4]bool // upper, lower, digit, special
for _, char := range s {
switch {
case char >= 'A' && char <= 'Z':
flags[0] = true
case char >= 'a' && char <= 'z':
flags[1] = true
case char >= '0' && char <= '9':
flags[2] = true
case strings.ContainsRune(
"!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;:,.<>?",
char,
):
flags[3] = true
}
}
return flags
}
func TestGenerateRandomPasswordUniqueness(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// Generate multiple passwords and ensure they're different
passwords := make(map[string]bool)
const numPasswords = 100
for range numPasswords {
password, err := database.GenerateRandomPassword(16)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf(
"GenerateRandomPassword() error = %v",
err,
)
}
if passwords[password] {
t.Errorf(
"Duplicate password generated: %s",
password,
)
}
passwords[password] = true
}
}
func TestHashPassword(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
password := "testPassword123!"
hash, err := database.HashPassword(password)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("HashPassword() error = %v", err)
}
// Check that hash has correct format
if !strings.HasPrefix(hash, "$argon2id$") {
t.Errorf(
"Hash doesn't have correct prefix: %s",
hash,
)
}
// Verify password
valid, err := database.VerifyPassword(password, hash)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("VerifyPassword() error = %v", err)
}
if !valid {
t.Error(
"VerifyPassword() returned false " +
"for correct password",
)
}
// Verify wrong password fails
valid, err = database.VerifyPassword(
"wrongPassword", hash,
)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("VerifyPassword() error = %v", err)
}
if valid {
t.Error(
"VerifyPassword() returned true " +
"for wrong password",
)
}
}
func TestHashPasswordUniqueness(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
password := "testPassword123!"
// Same password should produce different hashes
hash1, err := database.HashPassword(password)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("HashPassword() error = %v", err)
}
hash2, err := database.HashPassword(password)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("HashPassword() error = %v", err)
}
if hash1 == hash2 {
t.Error(
"Same password produced identical hashes " +
"(salt not working)",
)
}
}
// TestVerifyDummyPassword_DoesRealWork covers the anti-enumeration
// path. Login charges an unknown username a verification against a
// dummy hash so that a nonexistent account is not answered in
// microseconds where a real one takes tens of milliseconds. That only
// works if the dummy hash is a real, decodable Argon2id hash: a
// malformed one would make VerifyPassword fail on the decode and
// return before hashing anything.
func TestVerifyDummyPassword_DoesRealWork(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// Runs the OnceValue that builds the dummy hash, so a panic in
// it surfaces here rather than on a live login.
database.VerifyDummyPassword("whatever was submitted")
dummy := database.DummyPasswordHashForTest()
// A hash the verifier cannot decode would make VerifyPassword
// return on the decode error, before hashing anything — the
// timing oracle this path exists to close.
valid, err := database.VerifyPassword("whatever", dummy)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf(
"the dummy hash must decode like a real one: %v", err,
)
}
if valid {
t.Error("nothing may authenticate against the dummy hash")
}
if !strings.HasPrefix(dummy, "$argon2id$") {
t.Errorf(
"the dummy hash must use the same algorithm as real "+
"hashes, got %q", dummy,
)
}
}