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authorDanConwayDev <DanConwayDev@protonmail.com>2023-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
committerDanConwayDev <DanConwayDev@protonmail.com>2023-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
commit96660a90e4cd296a2922d7a547de4cd9d0b1928b (patch)
treee5216e22ee1a3e1653d8d1ecd856f4f03615d6a1 /src/sub_commands
parent6423baebd92e45c9be85157c443dff42e65d8d14 (diff)
feat(login) password login using encrypted nsec
Enables the user to only handle the nsec upon first use of the tool by encrypting it with a password and storing it on disk in an application cache. The approach to encryption draws heavily from that used by the gossip nostr client. - unencrypted nsec is zeroed from memory - a salt is used to defend against rainbow tables - computationally expensive key stretching defends against brute-force attacks of passwords with low entropy. There is UX trade-off between decryption speed and key-stretching computation. This UX challenge is exacerbated in a cli tool as decryption must take place more regularly. Thought was put into the selected n_log and a heavily reduced value is provided for long passwords where security benefits are smaller. A more granular reducing in computation was also considered by rejected to avoided to revealing just how weak a password is as most weak passwords are reused.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/sub_commands')
-rw-r--r--src/sub_commands/login.rs3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/sub_commands/login.rs b/src/sub_commands/login.rs
index d61f578..5391024 100644
--- a/src/sub_commands/login.rs
+++ b/src/sub_commands/login.rs
@@ -7,5 +7,6 @@ use crate::{login, Cli};
7pub struct SubCommandArgs; 7pub struct SubCommandArgs;
8 8
9pub fn launch(args: &Cli, _command_args: &SubCommandArgs) -> Result<()> { 9pub fn launch(args: &Cli, _command_args: &SubCommandArgs) -> Result<()> {
10 login::launch(&args.nsec) 10 let _ = login::launch(&args.nsec, &args.password)?;
11 Ok(())
11} 12}