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backend.rs

1//! [`HardwareBoundBackend`] — a [`KeychainBackend`] decorator that binds stored
2//! blobs to the host's hardware trusted component.
3//!
4//! # A tier above, not a replacement
5//!
6//! This wraps any existing backend (file, OS credential store, memory). What it
7//! stores is the *already sealed* keystore blob inside a hardware-wrapped
8//! envelope, so the AES-256-GCM + Argon2id passphrase envelope stays the floor
9//! on every path — a degraded host writes the same bytes it always wrote, never
10//! a bare secret.
11//!
12//! # The tier is decided once, by use
13//!
14//! [`HardwareBoundBackend::new`] probes the provider **and then self-tests it**
15//! (wrap a random key, unwrap it, require the round-trip) before it will report
16//! [`ProtectionTier::Hardware`]. A probe is a claim; the self-test is what makes
17//! the claim refutable. Resolving at construction also means "is this keystore
18//! hardware-bound?" is a settled fact rather than a failure that surfaces
19//! mid-`unlock`.
20
21use std::sync::Arc;
22
23use super::envelope::{self, Envelope};
24use super::provider::{ContentKey, HardwareProvider};
25use super::tier::{DegradeReason, HardwareKind, HardwarePolicy, HardwareProbe, ProtectionTier};
26use crate::backend::{BackendKey, KeychainBackend};
27use crate::error::{KeystoreError, Result};
28
29/// A [`KeychainBackend`] that hardware-binds every blob it stores, degrading to
30/// the underlying software envelope when the host has no usable hardware.
31///
32/// # Example
33///
34/// ```no_run
35/// use std::sync::Arc;
36/// use dig_keystore::backend::{BackendKey, FileBackend, KeychainBackend};
37/// use dig_keystore::hardware::{HardwareBoundBackend, HardwarePolicy};
38///
39/// let inner = FileBackend::new("/var/lib/dig/keys");
40/// // No provider available in this build: opens, and says so honestly.
41/// let backend = HardwareBoundBackend::new(inner, None, HardwarePolicy::Optional)?;
42///
43/// // What the HOST can do — the tier a new write would get.
44/// println!("host: {}", backend.tier());
45///
46/// // What protects THIS key — the only answer fit to show a user, because a
47/// // capable host can still hold a keystore that was never wrapped.
48/// let key = BackendKey::new("identity");
49/// let tier = backend.blob_tier(&key)?;
50/// if tier.is_hardware_bound() {
51///     println!("this key is {tier}");
52/// } else {
53///     // Never claim protection this key does not have.
54///     println!("this key is {tier}");
55/// }
56/// # Ok::<(), dig_keystore::KeystoreError>(())
57/// ```
58pub struct HardwareBoundBackend {
59    /// The storage this decorates.
60    inner: Arc<dyn KeychainBackend>,
61    /// The self-tested provider — present only when [`tier`](Self::tier) is
62    /// [`ProtectionTier::Hardware`], so the two can never disagree.
63    provider: Option<Arc<dyn HardwareProvider>>,
64    /// The truthful, settled protection tier.
65    tier: ProtectionTier,
66}
67
68impl HardwareBoundBackend {
69    /// Decorate `inner`, resolving the protection tier once.
70    ///
71    /// Pass `provider = None` to store through `inner` unchanged while reporting
72    /// [`DegradeReason::NotRequested`].
73    ///
74    /// # Errors
75    ///
76    /// Fails closed rather than silently degrading, per `policy`:
77    /// - [`HardwarePolicy::Required`] — any outcome short of self-tested hardware
78    ///   is [`KeystoreError::HardwareRequired`].
79    /// - [`HardwarePolicy::Preferred`] (default) — a *confident* absence degrades,
80    ///   but an [`Indeterminate`](HardwareProbe::Indeterminate) probe is
81    ///   [`KeystoreError::HardwareProbeIndeterminate`]: "I could not determine
82    ///   whether this host has hardware" must not be downgraded into "it has
83    ///   none", which would quietly strip protection from a machine that has it.
84    /// - [`HardwarePolicy::Optional`] — always opens, always reports the reason.
85    pub fn new<B: KeychainBackend>(
86        inner: B,
87        provider: Option<Arc<dyn HardwareProvider>>,
88        policy: HardwarePolicy,
89    ) -> Result<Self> {
90        Self::with_inner(Arc::new(inner), provider, policy)
91    }
92
93    /// As [`new`](Self::new), for an already shared backend.
94    pub fn with_inner(
95        inner: Arc<dyn KeychainBackend>,
96        provider: Option<Arc<dyn HardwareProvider>>,
97        policy: HardwarePolicy,
98    ) -> Result<Self> {
99        let tier = resolve_tier(provider.as_deref(), policy)?;
100        // Hold the provider only where the tier actually claims hardware, so a
101        // degraded backend cannot accidentally reach for it later.
102        let provider = if tier.is_hardware_bound() {
103            provider
104        } else {
105            None
106        };
107        Ok(Self {
108            inner,
109            provider,
110            tier,
111        })
112    }
113
114    /// What this **host** is bound to — the tier every *newly written* blob gets.
115    ///
116    /// This is a statement about the machine, not about any particular stored
117    /// key. On a hardware-capable host it reports `Hardware` even if a given
118    /// keystore predates hardware binding and is still a bare §3 blob, because a
119    /// capable host does not retroactively protect bytes already at rest.
120    ///
121    /// **Before telling a user that a specific key is hardware-protected, ask
122    /// [`blob_tier`](Self::blob_tier) instead.** Rendering "protected by your
123    /// TPM" from this method would claim copy-resistance that an unwrapped
124    /// legacy blob does not have.
125    pub fn tier(&self) -> &ProtectionTier {
126        &self.tier
127    }
128
129    /// What protects **the key material stored at `key`**, read from the blob
130    /// itself.
131    ///
132    /// This is the question a UI actually has, and it is not the same as
133    /// [`tier`](Self::tier): a hardware-capable host can hold a keystore written
134    /// before hardware binding existed, which is protected by the passphrase
135    /// envelope alone and *does* open on another machine. Answering from the
136    /// stored bytes is what keeps that distinction honest.
137    ///
138    /// The tier reported is the blob's own, independent of this host: a blob
139    /// sealed by an Apple Secure Enclave reads as `Hardware(MacSecureEnclave)`
140    /// even on Windows. Whether *this* host can open it is a separate question,
141    /// answered by [`read`](KeychainBackend::read).
142    ///
143    /// # Errors
144    ///
145    /// - The inner backend's error if `key` cannot be read (e.g. `NotFound`).
146    /// - [`KeystoreError::MalformedEnvelope`] if the blob claims to be an
147    ///   envelope but is structurally invalid.
148    /// - [`KeystoreError::UnknownHardwareClass`] if it was sealed by hardware
149    ///   this build cannot name.
150    ///
151    /// Both error cases **fail closed**: a wrapped blob is never reported as
152    /// software-protected just because this build cannot fully classify it.
153    /// Guessing in either direction is what this method exists to avoid.
154    pub fn blob_tier(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<ProtectionTier> {
155        let bytes = self.inner.read(key)?;
156
157        // Not an envelope — the passphrase envelope is all that protects it,
158        // whatever this host is capable of.
159        if !envelope::is_envelope(&bytes) {
160            return Ok(ProtectionTier::Software(DegradeReason::BlobNotWrapped));
161        }
162
163        let env = envelope::decode(&bytes)?;
164        match env.hardware_kind() {
165            Some(kind) => Ok(ProtectionTier::Hardware(kind)),
166            None => Err(KeystoreError::UnknownHardwareClass {
167                wire_id: env.hardware_wire_id,
168            }),
169        }
170    }
171
172    /// The underlying storage, for callers that need it directly.
173    pub fn inner(&self) -> &Arc<dyn KeychainBackend> {
174        &self.inner
175    }
176
177    /// Return the key at `key` to the portable software form, so it opens on a
178    /// host that no longer has this hardware. Returns the tier the blob is in
179    /// afterwards.
180    ///
181    /// # Why this exists
182    ///
183    /// Hardware binding makes the trusted component a **second required
184    /// factor**. A TPM is cleared by a firmware update, a mainboard swap or a
185    /// BIOS reset — routine events — and after one the correct passphrase is no
186    /// longer enough: the sealed blob is unopenable, by design and permanently.
187    /// `unbind` is the way back, and it **must be taken while the hardware still
188    /// answers**. There is no recovery afterwards; that is what non-exportable
189    /// custody means.
190    ///
191    /// Unbinding does not expose a secret. What it stores is the AES-256-GCM +
192    /// Argon2id passphrase envelope that was always the floor (`SPEC.md` §3) —
193    /// the same bytes a host with no hardware writes. It gives up cross-machine
194    /// binding, nothing else.
195    ///
196    /// Nothing is written until the plaintext is in hand, and the result is
197    /// verified from storage before this reports success: telling a user their
198    /// seed is portable when it is not is the one failure here with a
199    /// catastrophic follow-on action, since they may then clear the TPM.
200    ///
201    /// # Errors
202    ///
203    /// - [`KeystoreError::NotHardwareBound`] — the blob is wrapped but this
204    ///   backend has no provider to open it (the hardware is already gone).
205    /// - [`KeystoreError::HardwareUnwrapFailed`] — the hardware would not open
206    ///   it. The stored bytes are left exactly as they were.
207    /// - [`KeystoreError::HardwareStillBound`] — the write did not take.
208    pub fn unbind(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<ProtectionTier> {
209        let bytes = self.inner.read(key)?;
210        if !envelope::is_envelope(&bytes) {
211            return Ok(ProtectionTier::Software(DegradeReason::BlobNotWrapped));
212        }
213
214        let provider = self
215            .provider
216            .as_deref()
217            .ok_or_else(|| KeystoreError::NotHardwareBound {
218                tier: self.tier.to_string(),
219            })?;
220
221        // Unwrap BEFORE writing anything: a failure here must leave the envelope
222        // untouched, so hardware that comes back (a swapped-back board, a
223        // re-enrolled key) still finds the blob it sealed.
224        let plain = self.unwrap_blob(provider, &bytes)?;
225
226        // Write through `inner`, NOT through `self.write` — which, in the
227        // hardware tier, would seal these bytes straight back into a new
228        // envelope and report a successful unbind that changed nothing.
229        self.inner.write(key, &plain)?;
230
231        // Confirm from storage. A store that accepts a write and keeps the old
232        // bytes (a full disk, a read-only mount) would otherwise leave the user
233        // believing it is safe to retire the trusted component.
234        if envelope::is_envelope(&self.inner.read(key)?) {
235            return Err(KeystoreError::HardwareStillBound { key: key.0.clone() });
236        }
237        Ok(ProtectionTier::Software(DegradeReason::BlobNotWrapped))
238    }
239
240    /// Bind the key at `key` to this host's hardware, migrating a blob written
241    /// before hardware binding existed. Returns the tier the blob is in
242    /// afterwards.
243    ///
244    /// Already-bound blobs are left alone: sealing an envelope inside a second
245    /// envelope would produce a blob whose unwrap yields another envelope, which
246    /// nothing can open.
247    ///
248    /// **This is the operation that can strand a seed**, because it overwrites
249    /// the only copy with bytes only this hardware can open. So the new blob is
250    /// read back from storage and reopened through the hardware BEFORE the call
251    /// reports success, and the previous bytes are restored if it cannot be. See
252    /// [`unbind`](Self::unbind) for the way back out.
253    ///
254    /// # Errors
255    ///
256    /// - [`KeystoreError::NotHardwareBound`] — this backend resolved a software
257    ///   tier, so there is no hardware to bind to.
258    /// - [`KeystoreError::HardwareWrapFailed`] / [`KeystoreError::HardwareUnwrapFailed`]
259    ///   — the seal could not be made, or could not be proven reopenable. The
260    ///   previous bytes are restored in both cases.
261    pub fn bind(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<ProtectionTier> {
262        let bytes = self.inner.read(key)?;
263        let provider = self
264            .provider
265            .as_deref()
266            .ok_or_else(|| KeystoreError::NotHardwareBound {
267                tier: self.tier.to_string(),
268            })?;
269
270        if envelope::is_envelope(&bytes) {
271            return Ok(ProtectionTier::Hardware(provider.kind()));
272        }
273
274        let sealed = self.wrap_blob(provider, &bytes)?;
275        self.inner.write(key, &sealed)?;
276
277        // Prove the migration from STORAGE, not from the value just computed: a
278        // seal this hardware cannot reopen has destroyed the only copy, and a
279        // success returned over that is the worst outcome this module has.
280        match self.reopens_to(provider, key, &bytes) {
281            Ok(()) => Ok(ProtectionTier::Hardware(provider.kind())),
282            Err(e) => {
283                // Put the openable bytes back. The restore is best-effort, but
284                // its failure must not mask the reason the bind was rejected.
285                let _ = self.inner.write(key, &bytes);
286                Err(e)
287            }
288        }
289    }
290
291    /// Whether the blob now stored at `key` unwraps, through the hardware, to
292    /// exactly `expected`.
293    fn reopens_to(
294        &self,
295        provider: &dyn HardwareProvider,
296        key: &BackendKey,
297        expected: &[u8],
298    ) -> Result<()> {
299        let stored = self.inner.read(key)?;
300        let reopened = self.unwrap_blob(provider, &stored)?;
301        if reopened != expected {
302            return Err(KeystoreError::HardwareUnwrapFailed {
303                detail: "the newly sealed blob did not reopen to the original bytes".to_owned(),
304            });
305        }
306        Ok(())
307    }
308
309    /// Seal `blob` into a hardware envelope. Only reachable in the hardware tier.
310    fn wrap_blob(&self, provider: &dyn HardwareProvider, blob: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
311        let mut rng = rand_core::OsRng;
312        let content_key = envelope::random_content_key(&mut rng);
313        let nonce = envelope::random_nonce(&mut rng);
314        let wrapped_key = provider.wrap_key(&content_key)?;
315        envelope::encode(provider.kind(), &content_key, &wrapped_key, &nonce, blob)
316    }
317
318    /// Open a hardware envelope, requiring the hardware that sealed it.
319    fn unwrap_blob(&self, provider: &dyn HardwareProvider, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
320        let env = envelope::decode(bytes)?;
321        require_matching_hardware(&env, provider.kind())?;
322        let content_key: ContentKey = provider.unwrap_key(&env.wrapped_key)?;
323        Ok(env.open(&content_key)?.to_vec())
324    }
325}
326
327/// Reject an envelope sealed by hardware other than ours before spending a
328/// hardware round-trip on it.
329///
330/// Covers the unrecognised-wire-id case as well as a known-but-different class:
331/// both mean "not openable by this host's component", which is a different fact
332/// from a corrupt file.
333fn require_matching_hardware(env: &Envelope, ours: HardwareKind) -> Result<()> {
334    match env.hardware_kind() {
335        Some(kind) if kind == ours => Ok(()),
336        Some(kind) => Err(KeystoreError::HardwareKindMismatch {
337            expected: ours.label(),
338            found: kind.label(),
339        }),
340        // Not a hardware refusal and not corruption — a class this build cannot
341        // name. Reported as such so `HardwareUnwrapFailed` keeps meaning exactly
342        // "the hardware refused".
343        None => Err(KeystoreError::UnknownHardwareClass {
344            wire_id: env.hardware_wire_id,
345        }),
346    }
347}
348
349/// Decide the protection tier from a provider's probe, its custody claim, and a
350/// live self-test — then apply `policy` to any negative outcome.
351fn resolve_tier(
352    provider: Option<&dyn HardwareProvider>,
353    policy: HardwarePolicy,
354) -> Result<ProtectionTier> {
355    let Some(provider) = provider else {
356        return degrade(DegradeReason::NotRequested, policy);
357    };
358
359    match provider.probe() {
360        HardwareProbe::Absent => degrade(DegradeReason::NoHardwarePresent, policy),
361
362        // "Could not determine" is its own outcome, and the only one that is an
363        // error under the default policy.
364        HardwareProbe::Indeterminate { detail } => {
365            if policy.allows_indeterminate_degrade() {
366                degrade(DegradeReason::ProbeIndeterminate { detail }, policy)
367            } else {
368                Err(KeystoreError::HardwareProbeIndeterminate { detail })
369            }
370        }
371
372        HardwareProbe::Available(kind) => match verify_hardware(provider, kind) {
373            Ok(()) => Ok(ProtectionTier::Hardware(kind)),
374            Err(detail) => degrade(DegradeReason::HardwareUnusable { detail }, policy),
375        },
376    }
377}
378
379/// Refute or confirm a provider's "hardware is available" claim.
380///
381/// Three ways the claim fails, all of which must land on
382/// [`DegradeReason::HardwareUnusable`] rather than a hardware tier:
383/// a provider that disagrees with itself about which component it binds to; a
384/// wrapping key that is not actually non-exportable (which buys none of the
385/// cross-machine binding the tier promises); and a wrap/unwrap round-trip that
386/// does not reproduce the key.
387fn verify_hardware(
388    provider: &dyn HardwareProvider,
389    probed: HardwareKind,
390) -> std::result::Result<(), String> {
391    if provider.kind() != probed {
392        return Err(format!(
393            "provider binds {} but probed {}",
394            provider.kind().label(),
395            probed.label()
396        ));
397    }
398
399    if !provider.custody().is_hardware_grade() {
400        return Err(format!(
401            "wrapping key custody is {:?}, not NonExportable",
402            provider.custody()
403        ));
404    }
405
406    let mut rng = rand_core::OsRng;
407    let probe_key = envelope::random_content_key(&mut rng);
408    let wrapped = provider
409        .wrap_key(&probe_key)
410        .map_err(|e| format!("self-test wrap failed: {e}"))?;
411    if wrapped.is_empty() {
412        return Err("self-test wrap produced no wrapped key".to_owned());
413    }
414    if wrapped.as_slice() == probe_key.as_slice() {
415        return Err("self-test wrap returned the content key verbatim".to_owned());
416    }
417    let recovered = provider
418        .unwrap_key(&wrapped)
419        .map_err(|e| format!("self-test unwrap failed: {e}"))?;
420    if recovered.as_slice() != probe_key.as_slice() {
421        return Err("self-test round-trip did not reproduce the key".to_owned());
422    }
423    Ok(())
424}
425
426/// Apply `policy` to a negative outcome: degrade with the reason, or fail closed.
427fn degrade(reason: DegradeReason, policy: HardwarePolicy) -> Result<ProtectionTier> {
428    if policy.allows_degrade() {
429        Ok(ProtectionTier::Software(reason))
430    } else {
431        Err(KeystoreError::HardwareRequired { reason })
432    }
433}
434
435impl std::fmt::Debug for HardwareBoundBackend {
436    /// Redacted: reports the tier (which is not sensitive and is the point of
437    /// the type) but never the inner store or any key material.
438    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
439        f.debug_struct("HardwareBoundBackend")
440            .field("tier", &self.tier)
441            .field("inner", &"<redacted>")
442            .finish()
443    }
444}
445
446impl KeychainBackend for HardwareBoundBackend {
447    /// Read a blob, unwrapping it when it carries a hardware envelope.
448    ///
449    /// A blob **without** the envelope prefix is returned untouched, which is
450    /// what lets every keystore written before this feature — and any future
451    /// inner format — keep opening (§5.1).
452    ///
453    /// A blob **with** an envelope that this host cannot open is an error, never
454    /// the raw envelope bytes: an envelope copied to a machine without the
455    /// sealing hardware must fail loudly rather than hand back ciphertext that a
456    /// caller would then try to parse as a keystore.
457    fn read(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
458        let bytes = self.inner.read(key)?;
459        if !envelope::is_envelope(&bytes) {
460            return Ok(bytes);
461        }
462        match self.provider.as_deref() {
463            Some(provider) => self.unwrap_blob(provider, &bytes),
464            None => Err(KeystoreError::NotHardwareBound {
465                tier: self.tier.to_string(),
466            }),
467        }
468    }
469
470    /// Write a blob, sealing it into a hardware envelope in the hardware tier
471    /// and passing the software-sealed bytes straight through otherwise.
472    fn write(&self, key: &BackendKey, data: &[u8]) -> Result<()> {
473        match self.provider.as_deref() {
474            Some(provider) => {
475                let sealed = self.wrap_blob(provider, data)?;
476                self.inner.write(key, &sealed)
477            }
478            None => self.inner.write(key, data),
479        }
480    }
481
482    fn delete(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<()> {
483        self.inner.delete(key)
484    }
485
486    fn list(&self, prefix: &str) -> Result<Vec<BackendKey>> {
487        self.inner.list(prefix)
488    }
489
490    fn exists(&self, key: &BackendKey) -> Result<bool> {
491        self.inner.exists(key)
492    }
493}