mcias/PROGRESS.md

MCIAS Progress

Source of truth for current development state.

137 tests pass with zero race conditions. Phase 8 (operational artifacts) is complete. Phase 9 (client libraries) is designed and documented; implementation not yet started.

• Phase 0: Repository bootstrap (go.mod, .gitignore, docs)
• Phase 1: Foundational packages (model, config, crypto, db)
• Phase 2: Auth core (auth, token, middleware)
• Phase 3: HTTP server (server, mciassrv binary)
• Phase 4: Admin CLI (mciasctl binary)
• Phase 5: E2E tests, security hardening, commit
• Phase 6: mciasdb — direct SQLite maintenance tool
• Phase 7: gRPC interface (alternate transport; dual-stack with REST)
• Phase 8: Operational artifacts (Makefile, Dockerfile, systemd, man pages, install script)
• Phase 9: Client libraries (Go, Rust, Common Lisp, Python)

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Makefile

• Targets: build, test, lint, generate, man, install, clean, dist, docker
• build: compiles all four binaries to bin/ with CGO_ENABLED=1 and -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w"
• dist: cross-compiled tarballs for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64
• docker: builds image tagged mcias:$(git describe --tags --always)
• VERSION derived from git describe --tags --always Dockerfile (multi-stage)
• Build stage: golang:1.26-bookworm with CGO_ENABLED=1
• Runtime stage: debian:bookworm-slim with only ca-certificates and libc6; no Go toolchain, no source, no build cache in final image
• Non-root user mcias (uid/gid 10001)
• EXPOSE 8443 (REST/TLS) and EXPOSE 9443 (gRPC/TLS)
• VOLUME /data for the SQLite database mount point
• ENTRYPOINT ["mciassrv"] CMD ["-config", "/etc/mcias/mcias.conf"] dist/ artifacts
• dist/mcias.service: hardened systemd unit with ProtectSystem=strict, ProtectHome=true, PrivateTmp=true, NoNewPrivileges=true, CapabilityBoundingSet= (no capabilities), ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/mcias, EnvironmentFile=/etc/mcias/env, Restart=on-failure, LimitNOFILE=65536
• dist/mcias.env.example: passphrase env file template
• dist/mcias.conf.example: fully-commented production TOML config reference
• dist/mcias-dev.conf.example: local dev config (127.0.0.1, short expiry)
• dist/mcias.conf.docker.example: container config template
• dist/install.sh: idempotent POSIX sh installer; creates user/group, installs binaries, creates /etc/mcias and /var/lib/mcias, installs systemd unit and man pages; existing configs not overwritten (placed .new) man/ pages (mdoc format)
• man/man1/mciassrv.1: synopsis, options, config, REST API, signals, files
• man/man1/mciasctl.1: all subcommands, env vars, examples
• man/man1/mciasdb.1: trust model warnings, all subcommands, examples
• man/man1/mciasgrpcctl.1: gRPC subcommands, grpcurl examples Documentation
• README.md: replaced dev-workflow notes with user-facing docs; quick-start, first-run setup, build instructions, CLI references, Docker deployment, man page index, security notes
• .gitignore: added /bin/, dist/mcias_.tar.gz, man/man1/.gz

2026-03-11 — Phase 7: gRPC dual-stack

proto/mcias/v1/

• common.proto — shared types: Account, TokenInfo, PGCreds, Error
• admin.proto — AdminService: Health (public), GetPublicKey (public)
• auth.proto — AuthService: Login (public), Logout, RenewToken, EnrollTOTP, ConfirmTOTP, RemoveTOTP (admin)
• token.proto — TokenService: ValidateToken (public), IssueServiceToken (admin), RevokeToken (admin)
• account.proto — AccountService (CRUD + roles, all admin) + CredentialService (GetPGCreds, SetPGCreds, all admin)
• proto/generate.go — go:generate directive for protoc regeneration
• Generated Go stubs in gen/mcias/v1/ via protoc + protoc-gen-go-grpc

internal/grpcserver

• grpcserver.go — Server struct, interceptor chain (loggingInterceptor → authInterceptor → rateLimitInterceptor), GRPCServer() / GRPCServerWithCreds(creds) / buildServer() helpers, per-IP token-bucket rate limiter (same parameters as REST: 10 req/s, burst 10), extractBearerFromMD, requireAdmin
• admin.go — Health, GetPublicKey implementations
• auth.go — Login (with dummy-Argon2 timing guard), Logout, RenewToken, EnrollTOTP, ConfirmTOTP, RemoveTOTP
• tokenservice.go — ValidateToken (returns valid=false on error, never an RPC error), IssueServiceToken, RevokeToken
• accountservice.go — ListAccounts, CreateAccount, GetAccount, UpdateAccount, DeleteAccount, GetRoles, SetRoles
• credentialservice.go — GetPGCreds (AES-GCM decrypt), SetPGCreds (AES-GCM encrypt)

Security invariants (same as REST server):

• Authorization metadata value never logged by any interceptor
• Credential fields (PasswordHash, TOTPSecret*, PGPassword) absent from all proto response messages by proto design + grpcserver enforcement
• JWT validation: alg-first, then signature, then revocation table lookup
• Public RPCs bypass auth: Health, GetPublicKey, ValidateToken, Login
• Admin-only RPCs checked in-handler via requireAdmin(ctx)
• Dummy Argon2 in Login for unknown users prevents timing enumeration

internal/config additions

• GRPCAddr string field in ServerConfig (optional; omit to disable gRPC)

cmd/mciassrv updates

• Dual-stack: starts both HTTPS (REST) and gRPC/TLS listeners when grpc_addr is configured in [server] section
• gRPC listener uses same TLS cert/key as REST; credentials passed at server-construction time via GRPCServerWithCreds
• Graceful shutdown drains both listeners within 15s window

cmd/mciasgrpcctl

• New companion CLI for gRPC management
• Global flags: -server (host:port), -token (or MCIAS_TOKEN), -cacert
• Commands: health, pubkey, account (list/create/get/update/delete), role (list/set), token (validate/issue/revoke), pgcreds (get/set)
• Connects with TLS; custom CA cert support for self-signed certs

Tests

• internal/grpcserver/grpcserver_test.go: 20 tests using bufconn (in-process, no network sockets); covers:
  • Health and GetPublicKey (public RPCs, no auth)
  • Auth interceptor: no token, invalid token, revoked token all → 401
  • Non-admin calling admin RPC → 403
  • Login: success, wrong password, unknown user
  • Logout and RenewToken
  • ValidateToken: good token → valid=true; garbage → valid=false (no error)
  • IssueServiceToken requires admin
  • ListAccounts: non-admin → 403, admin → OK
  • CreateAccount, GetAccount, UpdateAccount, SetRoles, GetRoles lifecycle
  • SetPGCreds + GetPGCreds with AES-GCM round-trip verification
  • PGCreds requires admin
  • Credential fields absent from account responses (structural enforcement)

Dependencies added

• google.golang.org/grpc v1.68.0
• google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.0
• google.golang.org/grpc/test/bufconn (test only, included in grpc module)

Total: 137 tests, all pass, zero race conditions (go test -race ./...)

2026-03-11 — Phase 6: mciasdb

cmd/mciasdb

• Binary skeleton: config loading, master key derivation (identical to mciassrv for key compatibility), DB open + migrate on startup
• schema verify / schema migrate — reports and applies pending migrations
• account list/get/create/set-password/set-status/reset-totp — offline account management; set-password prompts interactively (no --password flag)
• role list/grant/revoke — direct role management
• token list/revoke/revoke-all + prune tokens — token maintenance
• audit tail/query — audit log inspection with --json output flag
• pgcreds get/set — decrypt/encrypt Postgres credentials with master key; set prompts interactively; get prints warning before sensitive output
• All write operations emit audit log entries tagged actor:"mciasdb"

internal/db additions

• ListTokensForAccount(accountID) — newest-first token list for an account
• ListAuditEvents(AuditQueryParams) — filtered audit query (account, type, since, limit)
• TailAuditEvents(n) — last n events, returned oldest-first
• SchemaVersion(db) / LatestSchemaVersion — exported for mciasdb verify

Dependencies

• Added golang.org/x/term v0.29.0 for interactive password prompting (no-echo terminal reads); pinned to version compatible with local module cache
• golang.org/x/crypto pinned at v0.33.0 (compatible with term@v0.29.0)

Tests

• internal/db/mciasdb_test.go: 4 tests covering ListTokensForAccount, ListAuditEvents filtering, TailAuditEvents ordering, combined filters
• cmd/mciasdb/mciasdb_test.go: 20 tests covering all subcommands via in-memory SQLite and stdout capture

Total: 117 tests, all pass, zero race conditions (go test -race ./...)

2026-03-11 — Initial Full Implementation

Phase 0: Bootstrap

• Wrote ARCHITECTURE.md (security model, crypto choices, DB schema, API design)
• Wrote PROJECT_PLAN.md (5 phases, 12 steps with acceptance criteria)
• Created go.mod with dependencies (golang-jwt/jwt/v5, uuid, go-toml/v2, golang.org/x/crypto, modernc.org/sqlite)
• Created .gitignore

Phase 1: Foundational Packages

internal/model

• Account (human/system), Role, TokenRecord, SystemToken, PGCredential, AuditEvent structs
• All credential fields tagged json:"-" — never serialised to responses
• Audit event type constants

internal/config

• TOML config parsing with validation
• Enforces OWASP 2023 Argon2id minimums (time≥2, memory≥64MiB)
• Requires exactly one of passphrase_env or keyfile for master key
• NewTestConfig() for test use

internal/crypto

• Ed25519 key generation, PEM marshal/parse
• AES-256-GCM seal/open with random nonces
• Argon2id KDF (DeriveKey) with OWASP-exceeding parameters
• NewSalt(), RandomBytes()

internal/db

• SQLite with WAL mode, FK enforcement, busy timeout
• Idempotent migrations (schema_version table)
• Migration 1: full schema (server_config, accounts, account_roles, token_revocation, system_tokens, pg_credentials, audit_log)
• Migration 2: master_key_salt column in server_config
• Full CRUD: accounts, roles, tokens, PG credentials, audit log

Phase 2: Auth Core

internal/auth

• Argon2id password hashing in PHC format
• Constant-time password verification (crypto/subtle)
• TOTP generation and validation (RFC 6238 ±1 window, constant-time)
• HOTP per RFC 4226

internal/token

• Ed25519/EdDSA JWT issuance with UUID JTI
• alg header validated BEFORE signature verification (alg confusion defence)
• alg:none explicitly rejected
• ErrWrongAlgorithm, ErrExpiredToken, ErrInvalidSignature, ErrMissingClaim

internal/middleware

• RequestLogger — never logs Authorization header
• RequireAuth — validates JWT, checks revocation table
• RequireRole — checks claims for required role
• RateLimit — per-IP token bucket

Phase 3: HTTP Server

internal/server

• Full REST API wired to middleware
• Handlers: health, public-key, login (dummy Argon2 on unknown user for timing uniformity), logout, renew, token validate/issue/revoke, account CRUD, roles, TOTP enrol/confirm/remove, PG credentials
• Strict JSON decoding (DisallowUnknownFields)
• Credential fields never appear in any response

cmd/mciassrv

• Config loading, master key derivation (passphrase via Argon2id KDF or key file), signing key load/generate (AES-256-GCM encrypted in DB), HTTPS listener with graceful shutdown
• TLS 1.2+ minimum, X25519+P256 curves
• 30s read/write timeouts, 5s header timeout

Phase 4: Admin CLI

cmd/mciasctl

• Subcommands: account (list/create/get/update/delete), role (list/set), token (issue/revoke), pgcreds (get/set)
• Auth via -token flag or MCIAS_TOKEN env var
• Custom CA cert support for self-signed TLS

Phase 5: Tests and Hardening

Test coverage:

• internal/model: 5 tests
• internal/config: 8 tests
• internal/crypto: 12 tests
• internal/db: 13 tests
• internal/auth: 13 tests
• internal/token: 9 tests (including alg confusion and alg:none attacks)
• internal/middleware: 12 tests
• internal/server: 14 tests
• test/e2e: 11 tests

Total: 97 tests — all pass, zero race conditions (go test -race ./...)

Security tests (adversarial):

• JWT alg:HS256 confusion attack → 401
• JWT alg:none attack → 401
• Revoked token reuse → 401
• Non-admin calling admin endpoint → 403
• Wrong password → 401 (same response as unknown user)
• Credential material absent from all API responses

Security hardening:

• go vet ./... — zero issues
• gofmt applied to all files
• golangci-lint v2 config updated (note: v2.6.2 built with go1.25.3 cannot analyse go1.26 source; go vet used as primary linter for now)

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Architecture Decisions

• SQLite driver: modernc.org/sqlite (pure Go, no CGo)
• JWT: github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5; alg validated manually before library dispatch to defeat algorithm confusion
• No ORM: database/sql with parameterized statements only
• Master key salt: stored in server_config table for stable KDF across restarts; generated on first run
• Signing key: stored AES-256-GCM encrypted in server_config; generated on first run, decrypted each startup using master key
• Timing uniformity: unknown user login runs dummy Argon2 to match timing of wrong-password path; all credential comparisons use crypto/subtle.ConstantTimeCompare