biscuit-cli 0.6.0

# Eclipse Biscuit CLI

This repo is part of the [eclipse biscuit](https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit) project.

This package provides a Command Line Interface allowing to manipulate [biscuit](https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit) tokens.

## Installation

You can install [biscuit-cli](https://crates.io/crates/biscuit-cli) with Cargo:

```sh
cargo install biscuit-cli
```

### From source

```sh
git clone https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit-cli.git
cd biscuit-cli
cargo install --path .
```

## Use

The executable carries contextual help, you can run `biscuit help` to list available commands, and `biscuit help <command>` to get help about a specific command.

All the commands support reading keys, datalog and tokens from various sources, such as files, options, or stdin.

All the commands can be used in a script, and the commands where you can provide datalog (`generate`, `inspect` and `attenuate`) can also be used in an interactive way,
where a text editor (`$EDITOR`) is started to let you input a datalog program from within a comfortable environment.

By default keys and biscuits are read and written as hex-encoded and base64-encoded strings, but the CLI supports working with raw bytes directly with dedicated flags.

**Just make sure you don't leak sensitive information like private keys in your shell history**

Here are a list of common use-cases:

### Generate a key pair

```sh
$ # this will output the keypair, you can then copy/paste the components
$ biscuit keypair
> Generating a new random keypair
> Private key: ed25519-private/d1e3ebc3f522cc2f7bb40c2377830d834c41ebeb0aa54d881a75059704dfa6cb
> Public key: ed25519/80c596ea5a6ade1a2f8e7bf96359732d9274789d8e85c0a0a62adbff16f4b289

$ # this will save the private key to a file so you can use it later
$ biscuit keypair --only-private-key > private-key-file
```

### Generate a public key from a private key

```sh
$ biscuit keypair --from-file private-key-file --only-public-key
> ed25519/2341bc530d8f074100734a41cc05cc82e4e2564eff61b0408f8e37a08f384767
```

### Create a biscuit token

```sh
$ # this will open your text editor and let you type in the authority block as datalog
$ biscuit generate --private-key-file private-key-file
> En0KEwoFZmlsZTEYAiIICgYIBBICGAcSJAgAEiB-So8adTv5YLBK49I8MrK1JdrYLrFSiFqUkRkVsco9MhpAJzlkr2xHM4JSlFmph7c9UEJPqw_BCscMgkIasAjnXZT5BHpA58M1uo_4KUDbPZSJVtbF93P43X41W7aofjZXAiIiCiCScR0e_rBUa7VjxnKW4PT52ZjC3peMCrWOi1T0jgR0fw==

$ # this will generate the token directly
$ echo 'right("file1");' | biscuit generate --private-key-file private-key-file -
$ En0KEwoFZmlsZTEYAiIICgYIBBICGAcSJAgAEiDg91H1_yfDSMrLnfXLowUZsKJDfrC-1XVSPkbikXYy7BpAacFHci_m8X3PffAgeEXVgF3RvwzhE434KWLNpbDYLE1_IOIwsSjRVqFC4fy-NuY9CEqetJ8fHUfo0I7Qs05TDSIiCiDHkAX0s3RgH_wMYDKlE09S2YZM-1cLmFgl5Nh3gvU0bg==
```

### Inspect a biscuit token

By default, `biscuit` inspect only prints out the biscuit contents (datalog blocks, and revocation ids).

```sh
$ # this will inspect the token stored in the given file
$ biscuit inspect biscuit-file
> Authority block:
> == Datalog v3.0 ==
> right("file1");
> 
> == Revocation id ==
> 526c78ffa3819cb71bcade69d6d78f80ad1209f21d2c3326857c66ca8fc19c63a4283929b690ae40ca8474594631caee464b0367b781d3cc1139343c13900509
> 
> ==========
> 
> 🙈 Public key check skipped 🔑
> 🙈 Datalog check skipped 🛡️
```

A public key can be provided to verify the biscuit signatures

```sh
$ # this will make sure the biscuit has been signed with the expected key pair
$ biscuit inspect --public-key-file public-key-file biscuit-file
> Authority block:
> == Datalog v3.0 ==
> right("file1");
> 
> == Revocation id ==
> 526c78ffa3819cb71bcade69d6d78f80ad1209f21d2c3326857c66ca8fc19c63a4283929b690ae40ca8474594631caee464b0367b781d3cc1139343c13900509
> 
> ==========
> 
> ✅ Public key check succeeded 🔑
> 🙈 Datalog check skipped 🛡️
```

An authorizer can be provided to check if the biscuit would be allowed in a given context (the command exits with a success code only if the signatures are verified and if the authorization suceeded).

If you want to use your text editor to type in the authorizer, you can use `--authorize-interactive` instead.

```sh
$ biscuit inspect --public-key-file public-key-file \
                  --authorize-with 'allow if right("file1");' \
                  biscuit-file
> Authority block:
> == Datalog v3.0 ==
> right("file1");
> 
> == Revocation id ==
> 526c78ffa3819cb71bcade69d6d78f80ad1209f21d2c3326857c66ca8fc19c63a4283929b690ae40ca8474594631caee464b0367b781d3cc1139343c13900509
> 
> ==========
> 
> ✅ Public key check succeeded 🔑
> ✅ Authorizer check succeeded 🛡️
> Matched allow policy: allow if right("file1")
```

### Attenuating a biscuit token

```sh
# this will create a new biscuit token with the provided block appended
$ biscuit attenuate biscuit-file --block 'check if client_ip_address("127.0.0.1);'
> En0KEwoFZmlsZTEYAiIICgYIBBICGAcSJAgAEiBrhbrvPUXH9RPOzIwnLVyRWwcK64JQ97kBvz1hLJfjfBpAUmx4_6OBnLcbyt5p1tePgK0SCfIdLDMmhXxmyo_BnGOkKDkptpCuQMqEdFlGMcruRksDZ7eB08wROTQ8E5AFCRqhAQo3CgVxdWVyeQoRY2xpZW50X2lwX2FkZHJlc3MKCTEyNy4wLjAuMRgCMg4KDAoCCAgSBggJEgIYChIkCAASIL6EGw7TZQ-8sRa0RT1U0cW8mjN_GzoW0jwX_67I0zPCGkDL5ho8NPsZwskzJ86e31qR29grjcEQormtv7I3YoQy_I2aoZGNtlviX72FuBT85KlVxJtjOiLxCIOvJj4MVN0KIiIKIM6btYoZ-ONE2gKEJ2raR8Bck7SMBAUf2sK7Z8I7uM_D
```

## Contribute

```sh
git clone https://github.com/biscuit-auth/biscuit-cli.git
cd biscuit-cli
cargo run
cargo test
# CI ensures consistent formatting
cargo fmt --check
# CI ensures that there are no outstanding clippy hints
cargo clippy
```
## Copyright - Licensing

Copyright 2021 Clément Delafargue
Licensed under `BSD-3-Clause`