suminuri_wire/verified.rs
1//! `Unverified<T>` — the type that makes "I forgot to check the MAC" impossible
2//! to write by accident.
3//!
4//! Upstream's shape is a boolean and an early return:
5//!
6//! ```go
7//! if !opts.IgnoreMac {
8//! if fileMac != computedMac { return … MacMismatch }
9//! }
10//! return dataKey, nil // the tree is already decrypted either way
11//! ```
12//!
13//! The tree exists, decrypted, before the check — so every later line is one
14//! `if` away from operating on unauthenticated data, and nothing in the type of
15//! the value records whether the check happened. That is fine in a codebase where
16//! one function owns the whole path, and it is exactly the shape that rots once a
17//! second caller appears.
18//!
19//! Here the decrypted value comes back wrapped. The only way to get at it is
20//! [`Unverified::verify`], which needs the MAC to match, or
21//! [`Unverified::into_inner_ignoring_mac`] — the `--ignore-mac` escape, named so
22//! a reviewer greps for one token rather than noticing a missing branch.
23//!
24//! The ceiling, stated: this is **truly-unrep for the accidental case** — there
25//! is no code path that reaches the value without one of those two calls. It is
26//! not unrepresentable in the absolute sense, because Rust cannot forbid a caller
27//! from *choosing* the named escape (C1: no dependent types to encode "and the
28//! operator authorised it"). What it buys is that the unsafe path can never be
29//! the *default* or the *silent* one.
30
31use crate::WireError;
32use crate::cipher::{DataKey, IvStash};
33use crate::mac::{Mac, verify_mac_field_recording};
34
35/// A decrypted value whose file MAC has not been checked yet.
36///
37/// Carries everything the check needs so a caller cannot be asked for the MAC
38/// inputs at some later point where they are no longer in scope.
39#[must_use = "an Unverified value is unauthenticated until you call verify()"]
40pub struct Unverified<T> {
41 inner: T,
42 computed: Mac,
43 mac_field: String,
44 lastmodified: String,
45 leaves_fed: usize,
46}
47
48impl<T> Unverified<T> {
49 /// Wrap a freshly-decrypted value together with its MAC inputs.
50 pub fn new(
51 inner: T,
52 computed: Mac,
53 mac_field: impl Into<String>,
54 lastmodified: impl Into<String>,
55 leaves_fed: usize,
56 ) -> Self {
57 Self {
58 inner,
59 computed,
60 mac_field: mac_field.into(),
61 lastmodified: lastmodified.into(),
62 leaves_fed,
63 }
64 }
65
66 /// The MAC recomputed from the decrypted contents.
67 pub fn computed_mac(&self) -> &Mac {
68 &self.computed
69 }
70
71 /// How many leaves went into the recomputed MAC. **The denominator.**
72 ///
73 /// A MAC over zero leaves matches another MAC over zero leaves, so a walker
74 /// that silently stopped finding leaves would verify green while checking
75 /// nothing. [`Unverified::verify`] refuses that case outright; this getter
76 /// lets a caller assert a specific expected count on top.
77 pub fn leaves_fed(&self) -> usize {
78 self.leaves_fed
79 }
80
81 /// Check the MAC and release the value.
82 ///
83 /// Refuses a zero-leaf verification as vacuous. That is a deliberate
84 /// divergence from upstream, which would happily verify an empty walk: the
85 /// only file that legitimately has no leaves is an empty document, and
86 /// treating one as authenticated is how a broken walker reads as a green
87 /// gate. A caller that genuinely wants to accept an empty document can say so
88 /// with [`Unverified::verify_allowing_empty`].
89 pub fn verify(self, key: &DataKey) -> Result<T, WireError> {
90 self.verify_recording(key, None)
91 }
92
93 /// [`Unverified::verify`], recording the MAC field's own IV into `stash`.
94 ///
95 /// Pass the same stash the decrypt walk filled. Upstream gets this for free
96 /// because the `mac` field shares one `Cipher` with every leaf; without it a
97 /// no-op re-encrypt leaves every data line untouched and moves the `mac:`
98 /// line alone.
99 pub fn verify_recording(
100 self,
101 key: &DataKey,
102 stash: Option<&mut IvStash>,
103 ) -> Result<T, WireError> {
104 if self.leaves_fed == 0 {
105 return Err(WireError::MacMismatch);
106 }
107 verify_mac_field_recording(
108 key,
109 &self.mac_field,
110 &self.lastmodified,
111 &self.computed,
112 stash,
113 )?;
114 Ok(self.inner)
115 }
116
117 /// [`Unverified::verify`] without the anti-vacuity refusal, for the genuinely
118 /// empty document.
119 pub fn verify_allowing_empty(self, key: &DataKey) -> Result<T, WireError> {
120 verify_mac_field_recording(
121 key,
122 &self.mac_field,
123 &self.lastmodified,
124 &self.computed,
125 None,
126 )?;
127 Ok(self.inner)
128 }
129
130 /// The `--ignore-mac` escape.
131 ///
132 /// Deliberately verbose. sops offers `--ignore-mac` and real operators need
133 /// it — a file whose MAC broke because someone hand-edited `lastmodified` is
134 /// still recoverable, and refusing outright would make us *less* useful than
135 /// what we replace. So the escape exists; it is just impossible to take
136 /// without typing its name.
137 pub fn into_inner_ignoring_mac(self) -> T {
138 self.inner
139 }
140
141 /// Map the wrapped value without unwrapping it, so a caller can keep
142 /// transforming a still-unauthenticated tree without losing the marker.
143 pub fn map<U>(self, f: impl FnOnce(T) -> U) -> Unverified<U> {
144 Unverified {
145 inner: f(self.inner),
146 computed: self.computed,
147 mac_field: self.mac_field,
148 lastmodified: self.lastmodified,
149 leaves_fed: self.leaves_fed,
150 }
151 }
152}
153
154impl<T> std::fmt::Debug for Unverified<T> {
155 /// Never prints the wrapped value — it is decrypted plaintext, and this type
156 /// is most likely to be `Debug`-printed exactly when someone is debugging a
157 /// MAC failure over a real file.
158 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
159 f.debug_struct("Unverified")
160 .field("computed", &self.computed)
161 .field("leaves_fed", &self.leaves_fed)
162 .field("value", &"***")
163 .finish()
164 }
165}
166
167#[cfg(test)]
168mod tests {
169 use super::*;
170 use crate::leaf::Plaintext;
171 use crate::mac::{MacAccumulator, seal_mac_field};
172
173 fn key() -> DataKey {
174 DataKey::from_bytes(&[5u8; 32]).expect("32")
175 }
176
177 fn wrapped(contents: &[&str], ts: &str) -> (Unverified<Vec<String>>, DataKey) {
178 let k = key();
179 let mut acc = MacAccumulator::new(false);
180 for c in contents {
181 acc.feed(&Plaintext::string(*c));
182 }
183 let fed = acc.leaves_fed();
184 let mac = acc.finish();
185 let field = seal_mac_field(&k, &mac, ts, None).expect("seal");
186 let tree: Vec<String> = contents.iter().map(|s| (*s).to_string()).collect();
187 (Unverified::new(tree, mac, field, ts, fed), k)
188 }
189
190 #[test]
191 fn a_matching_mac_releases_the_value() {
192 let (u, k) = wrapped(&["a", "b"], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
193 assert_eq!(u.verify(&k).expect("verify"), vec!["a", "b"]);
194 }
195
196 #[test]
197 fn a_wrong_key_does_not_release_the_value() {
198 let (u, _) = wrapped(&["a"], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
199 let other = DataKey::from_bytes(&[6u8; 32]).expect("32");
200 assert_eq!(u.verify(&other), Err(WireError::MacUndecryptable));
201 }
202
203 /// The anti-vacuity refusal. Without it, a walker that found no leaves would
204 /// compute the empty digest, match another empty digest, and report success.
205 #[test]
206 fn a_zero_leaf_verification_is_refused_as_vacuous() {
207 let (u, k) = wrapped(&[], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
208 assert_eq!(u.leaves_fed(), 0);
209 assert_eq!(u.verify(&k), Err(WireError::MacMismatch));
210 }
211
212 #[test]
213 fn an_explicitly_empty_document_can_still_be_accepted() {
214 let (u, k) = wrapped(&[], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
215 assert!(u.verify_allowing_empty(&k).is_ok());
216 }
217
218 #[test]
219 fn the_ignore_mac_escape_works_and_is_named() {
220 let (u, _) = wrapped(&["a"], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
221 assert_eq!(u.into_inner_ignoring_mac(), vec!["a"]);
222 }
223
224 #[test]
225 fn map_preserves_the_marker_and_the_denominator() {
226 let (u, k) = wrapped(&["a", "b"], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
227 let mapped = u.map(|v| v.len());
228 assert_eq!(mapped.leaves_fed(), 2);
229 assert_eq!(mapped.verify(&k).expect("verify"), 2);
230 }
231
232 #[test]
233 fn debug_never_prints_the_wrapped_value() {
234 let (u, _) = wrapped(&["hunter2"], "2026-08-18T00:00:00Z");
235 let shown = format!("{u:?}");
236 assert!(
237 !shown.contains("hunter2"),
238 "Unverified Debug leaked plaintext: {shown}"
239 );
240 assert!(shown.contains("leaves_fed: 1"));
241 }
242}