mesh-catalog/modules/rofi/cmd/rofi-tools/secret.go

package main

import (
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/base64"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"regexp"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/box"
)

// node-launcher's verb `secret` (novox/hq ADR 0259 §10): a prompt that does not show what is typed, whose
// answer is sealed to the key the asker gives before it leaves this process — never in the clear on the
// bus, in the runtime's log or in any call's record. The controller asks it to take a module's own secret,
// such as a bot token, from the operator at their desk.
//
// **What it does not do**: on an X11 desk any program of the operator's account can read the keys as they
// are typed, and a program that asks this verb with a key of its own is answered with what the operator
// typed into a prompt they did not ask for. The bus lets only the controller ask this verb, and the prompt,
// written here from names, says so and for what, so the operator types only into one they started with give
// (ADR 0234's accepted residual risk is what remains: a program drawing a window of its own).

// SecretQuestion is what node-launcher.secret asks.
type SecretQuestion struct {
	Prompt  string
	Message string
	SealTo  [32]byte
	Timeout time.Duration
}

// SecretAnswer is what node-launcher.secret answers: the value sealed, or why there is none. Never the value.
type SecretAnswer struct {
	Sealed    string `json:"sealed,omitempty"`
	Cancelled bool   `json:"cancelled"`
	TimedOut  bool   `json:"timed_out,omitempty"`
}

// aName is a module's, a secret's or a machine's name as the mesh writes them: nothing else reaches the prompt.
var aName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}$`)

// secretQuestion reads the call. The prompt is this holder's words, written from the module, the secret and the
// machine (the review of 2026-10-09, M4): it says the mesh's controller asks, which the bus makes true — it
// denies these subjects to every principal but the controller — and a caller's own words are refused, so
// nobody puts a prompt of its choosing before the operator.
func secretQuestion(args map[string]any) (SecretQuestion, error) {
	var q SecretQuestion
	for _, free := range []string{"prompt", "message"} {
		if _, there := args[free]; there {
			return q, fmt.Errorf("%s is not taken: the prompt is written here from module, secret and node", free)
		}
	}
	names := map[string]string{}
	for _, key := range []string{"module", "secret", "node"} {
		v, err := text(args, key, true)
		if err != nil {
			return q, err
		}
		if !aName.MatchString(v) {
			return q, fmt.Errorf("%s %q is not a name the mesh writes", key, v)
		}
		names[key] = v
	}
	q.Prompt = names["secret"] + " for " + names["module"]
	q.Message = fmt.Sprintf("The mesh's controller asks for %s, the own secret of %s on %s. What you type is not "+
		"shown, and is sealed before it leaves this machine. Type it only if you started this with give.",
		names["secret"], names["module"], names["node"])
	key, err := text(args, "seal_to", true)
	if err != nil {
		return q, err
	}
	raw, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(strings.TrimSpace(key))
	if err != nil || len(raw) != 32 {
		return q, errors.New("seal_to is not a sealing key: 32 bytes, base64")
	}
	copy(q.SealTo[:], raw)
	q.Timeout, err = seconds(args, "timeout_seconds", menuMost, menuMost)
	return q, err
}

// Secret asks the operator in a prompt that shows nothing of what is typed, and seals the answer.
func Secret(q SecretQuestion) (SecretAnswer, error) {
	s, err := findSession()
	if err != nil {
		return SecretAnswer{}, err
	}
	args := []string{"-dmenu", "-password", "-p", q.Prompt, "-theme-str", "listview { enabled: false; }"}
	if q.Message != "" {
		args = append(args, "-mesg", q.Message)
	}
	r, err := s.run(q.Timeout, "", "rofi", args...)
	if errors.Is(err, ErrTimedOut) {
		return SecretAnswer{Cancelled: true, TimedOut: true}, nil
	}
	if err != nil {
		return SecretAnswer{}, err
	}
	switch r.Code {
	case 0:
	case 1:
		return SecretAnswer{Cancelled: true}, nil
	default:
		// rofi's own words, never what was typed: that is on standard output, which is not said.
		return SecretAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("rofi exited %d: %s", r.Code, strings.TrimSpace(r.Stderr))
	}
	value := []byte(strings.TrimRight(r.Stdout, "\r\n"))
	r.Stdout = ""
	if len(value) == 0 {
		return SecretAnswer{Cancelled: true}, nil
	}
	sealed, err := box.SealAnonymous(nil, value, &q.SealTo, rand.Reader)
	for i := range value {
		value[i] = 0
	}
	if err != nil {
		return SecretAnswer{}, errors.New("what was typed could not be sealed; nothing is answered")
	}
	return SecretAnswer{Sealed: base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(sealed)}, nil
}