Now upload or encode methods take a required argument named "convergence" which can be either None, indicating no convergent encryption at all, or a string, which is the "added secret" to be mixed in to the content hash key. If you want traditional convergent encryption behavior, set the added secret to be the empty string.
This patch also renames "content hash key" to "convergent encryption" in a argument names and variable names. (A different and larger renaming is needed in order to clarify that Tahoe supports immutable files which are not encrypted content-hash-key a.k.a. convergent encryption.)
This patch also changes a few unit tests to use non-convergent encryption, because it doesn't matter for what they are testing and non-convergent encryption is slightly faster.
This removes the guess-partial-information attack vector, and reduces
the amount of overhead that we consume with each file. It also introduces
a forwards-compability break: older versions of the code (before the
previous download-time "make hashes optional" patch) will be unable
to read files uploaded by this version, as they will complain about the
missing hashes. This patch is experimental, and is being pushed into
trunk to obtain test coverage. We may undo it before releasing 1.0.
Removing the plaintext hashes can help with the guess-partial-information
attack. This does not affect compatibility, but if and when we actually
remove any hashes from the share, that will introduce a
forwards-compatibility break: tahoe-0.9 will not be able to read such files.
this changes the confwiz to have a look and feel much more consistent
with that of the innosetup installer it is launched within the context
of. this applies, naturally, primarily to windows.
added a test for the simple mkdir-p hack I added yesterday
checks that mkdir-p can create a directory hierarchy, and that resubmitting
a request for the same path yields the existing dir's uri
this adds a t=mkdir-p call to directories (accessed by their uri as
/uri/<URI>?t=mkdir=p&path=/some/path) which returns the uri for a
directory at a specified path before the given uri, regardless of
whether the directory exists or whether intermediate directories
need to be created to satisfy the request.
this is used by the migration code in MV to optimise the work of
path traversal which was other wise done on every file PUT
This is because there exist in the wild computers that are misconfigured so that 'localhost' doesn't resolve to 127.0.0.1. On those computers, using 'localhost' for the nodeurl is a security problem, because the user commonly sends valuable caps to the nodeurl.
motivated simply by a desire to be able to identify 'noderoot' directories for
debugging and testing, the confwiz now writes an 'accountname' files based on
what account was used when the node was configured. this is not currently read
by or used by any code in the system, but helps identify directories from testing.
1. changed the node's exit-on-error behaviour. rather than logging debug and
then delegating to self for _abort_process() instead simply delegate to self
_service_startup_failed(failure) to report failures in the startup deferred
chain. subclasses then have complete control of handling and reporting any
failures in node startup.
2. replace the convoluted wx.PostEvent() glue for posting an event into the
gui thread with the simpler expedient of wx.CallAfter() which is much like
foolscap's eventually() but also thread safe for inducing a call back on the
gui thread.
in certain cases (e.g. the node.pem changed but old .furls are in private/)
the node will abort upon startup. previously it used os.abort() which in these
cases caused the mac gui app to crash on startup with no explanation.
this changes that behaviour from calling os.abort() to calling
node._abort_process(failure) which by default calls os.abort(). this allows
that method to be overridden in subclasses.
the mac app now provides and uses such a subclass of Client, so that failures
are reported to the user in a message dialog before the process exits.
this uses wx.PostEvent() with a custom event type to signal from the reactor
thread into the gui thread.
the confwiz now uses socket.gethostname() if a 'nickname' file doesn't already
exist, and passes that nickname into the 'record_install' method on the backend,
so that the moniker can be recorded in the system table.
