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gromandClaude Opus 5 e716709bca app+ui: the nine file and credential verbs, fenced and keyed
Built on grom's explicit say-so, after a round where they were withheld
and the reason recorded. Both halves of that decision stay in the doc,
because the reasoning is what makes the second half a decision rather
than a drift.

ReadCustomFile/ImportFile (one operation, two upstream names),
WriteCustomFile/ExportFile, CustomFileExists, ExecuteCustomLuaFile,
StartItemExport, EncryptPassword, EncryptedServerLogin.

**The fence is app-side and it is not a `..` scan.**
`local_state::custom_file_path` admits one relative name whose every
component is an ordinary name, inside `benilla-config/CustomFiles/`, and
refuses a leaf that is already a symlink. Each escape a string check
misses has its own rule and its own test row: an absolute path (`join`
*replaces* the base rather than appending), a Windows prefix, a `..`
nested inside a longer path, and a planted symlink — the one no amount
of sanitising the string will catch. A subdirectory rather than the
config root, because a verb that could create `config.toml` or
`autologin.toml` by name would let an addon rewrite the client's own
settings; that is a different power from "keep a file of your own".

The VM side holds three closures and no paths, so no spelling of a
`filename` reaches outside that directory.

**The credential pair's deviation is forced, not chosen.** Both are
registered by nampower under "Registering *Glue* Lua functions" and this
client has no glue Lua VM at all — login, character-select and
character-create are Rust. `EncryptPassword` is pure and works the same
anywhere. `EncryptedServerLogin` cannot mean "submit the login form" in
the only VM there is, so it stores the credential for the next login:
`enabled` on, the plaintext field cleared, the blob kept, and
`AutoLogin::effective_password` reads it back at the refill.

What that protects is an `autologin.toml` or a SavedVariables file read
by someone else or pasted into a forum: the blob is authenticated and
keyed on 32 random bytes in a different file, mode 0600. What it does
not protect is anything running as this user, which can read the key as
easily as the blob — there is no user secret in the chain and there
cannot be, because the point is logging in without typing one. Both
halves are at the module.

Encrypt-then-MAC with HMAC-SHA1 as the PRF for both halves, from the two
primitives the tree already had (sha1 moves from a dev-dependency to a
real one). The HMAC is tested against RFC 2202's own vectors, because a
hand-written one still round-trips with itself when it is wrong — and a
first draft of the key reader did exactly that kind of silent wrong: it
returned raw bytes on creation and hex text on read, and the caller
guessed between them with "32 bytes and not all hex digits". It guessed
wrong the moment a random key came out all-hex. Returning one thing is
the fix, and the note is at the function.

**The existing plaintext path is untouched.** Storing the password in
plaintext was grom's own explicit choice when the alternatives were a
keyring or nothing, so this is additive and nothing migrates by itself.
The machinery to make the Remember Password tick-box write a blob
instead is now all here — one line — and that is his call.

Base64 was missing from the whole tree; it is in `benilla-ui`'s
`script/encoding.rs` with RFC 4648's own vectors, and
`C_EncodingUtil.EncodeBase64` will want the same one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
2026-10-24 11:30:49 -06:00
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