Add pinentry module

We do not want to roll our own infrastructure for entering a password
(or PIN) securely, as there are existing providers of such
functionality. gpg-agent, which uses pinentry for this very purpose, is
such a program and we can safely assume to be present because we use it
with the smartcard part of the nitrokey.
This change introduces a new module, pinentry.rs, that provides the
means to invoke gpg-agent to ask the user for a PIN and to parse the
result. Using gpg-agent like this has two advantages that other
solutions do not necessarily provide: first, because we use gpg-agent
anyway it's pinentry configuration is as the user desires it and, hence,
the integration appears seamless. And second, the agent caches
pass phrases which alleviates the need for repeated entry should the
credential be required again.

1 files changed, 116 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/nitrocli/src/pinentry.rs b/nitrocli/src/pinentry.rs
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+// pinentry.rs
+
+// *************************************************************************
+// * Copyright (C) 2017 Daniel Mueller (deso@posteo.net)                   *
+// *                                                                       *
+// * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
+// * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
+// * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or     *
+// * (at your option) any later version.                                   *
+// *                                                                       *
+// * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       *
+// * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
+// * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
+// * GNU General Public License for more details.                          *
+// *                                                                       *
+// * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License     *
+// * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. *
+// *************************************************************************
+
+use error::Error as Error;
+use std::process;
+
+
+const CACHE_ID: &'static str = "nitrokey";
+
+
+fn parse_pinentry_passphrase(response: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Error> {
+  let string = String::from_utf8(response)?;
+  let lines: Vec<&str> = string.lines().collect();
+
+  // We expect the response to be of the form:
+  // > D passphrase
+  // > OK
+  // or potentially:
+  // > ERR 83886179 Operation cancelled <Pinentry>
+  if lines.len() == 2 && lines[1] == "OK" && lines[0].starts_with("D ") {
+    // We got the only valid answer we accept.
+    let (_, pass) = lines[0].split_at(2);
+    return Ok(pass.to_string().into_bytes());
+  }
+
+  // Check if we are dealing with a special "ERR " line and report that
+  // specially.
+  if lines.len() >= 1 && lines[0].starts_with("ERR ") {
+    let (_, error) = lines[0].split_at(4);
+    return Err(Error::Error(error.to_string()));
+  }
+  return Err(Error::Error("Unexpected response: ".to_string() + &string));
+}
+
+
+pub fn inquire_passphrase() -> Result<Vec<u8>, Error> {
+  const PINENTRY_DESCR:  &'static str = "+";
+  const PINENTRY_TITLE:  &'static str = "Please+enter+user+PIN";
+  const PINENTRY_PASSWD: &'static str = "PIN";
+
+  let args = vec![CACHE_ID,
+                  PINENTRY_DESCR,
+                  PINENTRY_PASSWD,
+                  PINENTRY_TITLE].join(" ");
+  let command = "GET_PASSPHRASE --data ".to_string() + &args;
+  // We could also use the --data parameter here to have a more direct
+  // representation of the passphrase but the resulting response was
+  // considered more difficult to parse overall. It appears an error
+  // reported for the GET_PASSPHRASE command does not actually cause
+  // gpg-connect-agent to exit with a non-zero error code, we have to
+  // evaluate the output to determine success/failure.
+  let output = process::Command::new("gpg-connect-agent")
+                                .arg(command)
+                                .arg("/bye")
+                                .output()?;
+  return parse_pinentry_passphrase(output.stdout);
+}
+
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+  use super::*;
+
+  #[test]
+  fn parse_pinentry_passphrase_good() {
+    let response = "D passphrase\nOK\n".to_string().into_bytes();
+    let expected = "passphrase".to_string().into_bytes();
+
+    assert_eq!(parse_pinentry_passphrase(response).unwrap(), expected)
+  }
+
+  #[test]
+  fn parse_pinentry_passphrase_error() {
+    let error = "83886179 Operation cancelled";
+    let response = "ERR ".to_string() + error + "\n";
+    let expected = error;
+
+    let error = parse_pinentry_passphrase(response.to_string().into_bytes());
+
+    if let Error::Error(ref e) = error.err().unwrap() {
+      assert_eq!(e, &expected);
+    } else {
+      panic!("Unexpected result");
+    }
+  }
+
+  #[test]
+  fn parse_pinentry_passphrase_unexpected() {
+    let response = "foobar\n";
+    let expected = "Unexpected response: ".to_string() + response;
+
+    let error = parse_pinentry_passphrase(response.to_string().into_bytes());
+
+    if let Error::Error(ref e) = error.err().unwrap() {
+      assert_eq!(e, &expected);
+    } else {
+      panic!("Unexpected result");
+    }
+  }
+}