The launch-time auto-open received boUnavailable and wiped the cache, seconds after the write path had proved the device could authenticate. The diagnosis was wrong and the reaction irreversible. An automatic action now never clears the vault: it logs the cause and leaves the user on the unlock screen. Only an explicit tap on Open, followed by a clean refusal from the system, may clear it. PMA.Biometric keeps the reason in LastBiometricError, and a Java-layer exception now maps to boFailed rather than boUnavailable - an exception says nothing about the device. The log memo also wraps: it was cutting off exactly the end of the message, which is where the cause is named.
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A pattern lock reported "no authentication here", so the cache was written
under the plain key.
FMX builds its authenticator mask from FBiometricStrengths, and that field
starts as the EMPTY SET - the constructor never initialises it. On API 30+
CanAuthenticate therefore calls canAuthenticate(0), which never answers
"available", whatever the device can actually do. Asking before setting the
strengths cannot succeed.
Both entry points now go through AcquireService, which sets Strong +
DeviceCredential and only then hands back the service. DeviceCredential is
the point: a phone with a pattern or a PIN and no enrolled fingerprint is
the common case, not an edge one.
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Opening the vault threw java.lang.SecurityException: USE_BIOMETRIC is not in
Delphi default permission list, and CanAuthenticate raises instead of
answering false. So the fault showed up neither at compile time nor at
startup, but on the first unlock - after the cache had already been written
under an auth-protected key.
The permission is the shallow half. The deep half is that SaveVault was
called with a hard-coded True: we asked for a key guarded by a prompt that
could not be shown, producing a file that was unreadable forever. It now
receives BiometricAvailable, evaluated on the main thread before the worker
starts.
BiometricAvailable and AuthenticateThen also swallow what comes up from the
Java layer and map it to boUnavailable. The caller has a path for every
TBioOutcome and none for an exception.
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Works through the plan's §2 and §3 items that need no hardware and no
platform decision.
- allowBackup="false". The private directory holds vault.bin; a cloud
backup has no business in a password manager's path, even though what
would leave is encrypted by a key that stays in the chip.
- FLAG_SECURE, Release builds only - in debug it also blocks development
screenshots. Complementary to hiding on WillBecomeInactive rather than
redundant: that one covers the recents preview, the flag also covers
manual captures, screen recording and casting to an external display.
- List sorted by name (snapshot order is DB order, arbitrary to the eye),
entry icons decoded once per vault rather than on every keystroke, and a
folder dropdown whose selection survives a background refresh. No tag
filter: text search already matches tags.
- template and updated_at read and shown in the detail. updated_at is also
step 1 of the write path - nothing is arbitrable without it.
Android code is now type-checked without deploying: dccaarm64 reaches the
link step and fails only on the NDK's ldandroid.exe. A JNI declaration that
does not compile no longer waits for an APK to say so.
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The local vault now opens by itself at launch and the GET runs behind it,
silently. A 304 shows nothing; a network failure shows nothing either -
offline is a normal state, and an alert on every launch only teaches people
to dismiss alerts. Only a new snapshot manifests, by refreshing the list.
That silence is what puts the sync password inside the Keystore-encrypted
file next to the vault: without it a new snapshot cannot be opened, so every
edit made on the desktop would raise a password prompt at launch. The file
already holds every password in plaintext; this one adds almost nothing to
its exposure. A typed password still wins over the stored one, which is how
you fix one that no longer works.
Adopting a snapshot while the app is already open rebuilds the list in place
instead of navigating - mandatory even from the detail screen, since list
rows carry indices into the old vault and a tap would open the wrong entry.
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The detail screen showed site, username and password and silently dropped
everything else - custom fields, notes, 2FA. It is now built per entry
rather than from a fixed template: every row is a caption, a value, and
whether it is secret, so reveal and copy exist once instead of once per
kind of field.
Two rows stay special on purpose. A note's body is stored in the password
column, so it gets its own caption and no mask. The 2FA code is the only
live row - refreshed every second, placed first, since it is what you pull
a phone out for.
PMA.Totp takes bare base32 or an otpauth:// URI; both travel in snapshots
depending on how the entry was created. Checked against all six RFC 6238
vectors, including T=20000000000, which overflows 32 bits.
The rows hold plaintext, so clearing them is part of locking, not of
navigating away.
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The viewer compiled for Win64 but died on first use: AesGcmDecrypt existed
only as JNI, so the desktop build downloaded 27 KB and then refused it.
Windows has the same primitive in bcrypt.dll - no DLL to ship, no OpenSSL,
and BCryptDeriveKeyPBKDF2 takes bytes, so none of the char[] encoding doubt
that keeps the Pascal loop around on Android.
This exists so the client can be exercised on the desktop; deploying an APK
to watch a list redraw is a slow way to build a UI.
selftest.dpr replaces the crypto-vector button the viewer dropped: same
known-answer vector, console, exit code = failures. Measured here - Pascal
1670 ms, CNG 528 ms, identical keys on the non-ASCII password.
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Replaces the crypto test bench with the three screens the client actually
needs. PMA.Vault holds the decrypted snapshot and answers the search;
mainApk builds unlock/list/detail in code rather than three .fmx files.
Two safety rules live in the UI because nowhere else can hold them: the
plaintext is dropped when the app backgrounds (screen hidden on
WillBecomeInactive, which precedes the recents-preview capture), and the
clipboard is cleared after 45 s only if it still holds what we put there.
The search deliberately ignores the password field.
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Asked for, but it opens the whole vault once the container is downloaded, so it does not belong in a versioned file - even in a repo with no remote. It lives in PMA.LocalConfig.inc, gitignored, with a template checked in so a fresh clone knows what to create.
The one-argument overload is load(LoadStoreParameter). Declaring JObject made the bridge look for a method that does not exist - reported at runtime as 'method not found', with nothing at compile time. Same class of mistake as generateSecret earlier: the JNI signature is built from the declared types, so an approximate type is a silent break.
Delphi refuses a second declaration when the first is not marked overload, so the three-argument init was reported as too many parameters. Also adds Androidapi.Jni to silence the non-inlined TJavaArray.Length hints.
My ASCII normalisation had rewritten the sources in LF, which RAD Studio flags on every unit; a .gitattributes rule now pins CRLF for Pascal sources so git does not undo it.
The Keystore key now requires authentication, valid for 30 s afterwards - short enough that an unattended phone is not exploitable, long enough to decrypt and display. Time-bound rather than a per-use CryptoObject: BiometricPrompt's callback would need a Java class compiled into a jar, while FMX already bridges it.
Two aliases, because the auth constraint is fixed when the key is created and cannot be added later. The file header records which key wrote it, so a read knows whether to authenticate first.
A device with neither fingerprint nor lock screen cannot hold such a key, so SaveVault falls back to the plain key rather than giving up the cache. And a failed authentication no longer wipes the cache: the vault is intact, it is the user who cancelled - erasing it would cost a download and 4 s of derivation for a dismissed prompt.
Opening a container costs ~4 s and the iteration count belongs to the desktop format, so the fix is to stop repeating it: derive once per snapshot, then read a local AES file which the hardware accelerates. The key is generated inside the Keystore and never leaves it - the file alone is useless, even rooted.
ETag and vault are encrypted together on purpose: an ETag outliving an unreadable vault would make the server answer 304 with nothing to show. A failed read wipes the cache rather than guessing.
Also normalises every Delphi source to pure ASCII: Delphi reads a BOM-less file as ANSI, so accented comments came back as mojibake, and each PowerShell rewrite added another layer.
GET in 80 ms, decryption in 3893 ms, entries and trash counted, second call answers 304. try-open.js opens a container with Node so a failure can be attributed: a GCM tag that does not verify means wrong password OR altered file, and the app cannot tell which.
The harness stored the ETag on download, so a first attempt with no password left a valid tag behind: the next call answered 304 and there was nothing to decrypt, precisely when the right password had just been typed. Sending If-None-Match without holding the matching plaintext trades a download for having no data - the real client needs the same rule, the tag belonging to the cached vault.
Also drops an em dash from an exception message: Delphi reads a BOM-less source as ANSI and it reached the device as mojibake.
Fetches the opaque container and the ETag; a 304 skips both the download and the 4-second derivation, which is the whole point of keeping the tag between calls. Redirects are not followed - one to another host would send the bearer token there.
Local testing goes through adb reverse tcp:8080 tcp:80, which makes the phone reach the PC as 127.0.0.1 and satisfies the endpoint's loopback exemption. That needs usesCleartextTraffic in the manifest, marked for removal before shipping.
Measured on device: Android derives the same key as WebCrypto on a non-ASCII password, so PBEKeySpec does encode as UTF-8 - the doubt that justified the Pascal implementation was unfounded. It is barely faster though, 3869 ms against 4139 ms: PBKDF2 gets no hardware acceleration.
So 4 seconds per container is incompressible, and the iteration count belongs to the desktop format. The answer is not to speed up the derivation but to stop repeating it: derive once per snapshot, then keep the vault locally under an Android Keystore key. Written up in android-client/README.md.
generateSecret takes a KeySpec; passing a JObject made the bridge emit a signature no method matches, and the call failed at runtime. Swallowed as 'unavailable', which hid my own mistake for a full test round - the failure now carries its exception message.
Measured on device: the Pascal PBKDF2 takes 6651 ms, unusable per unlock. AES-GCM through JNI works, plaintext and hash match the vector, so the container format is validated end to end.
The Pascal loop takes 1736 ms on a desktop CPU, so several seconds on a phone - too slow for every unlock. SecretKeyFactory is native and roughly an order of magnitude faster, but PBEKeySpec takes a char[] and the provider picks the encoding, which was the reason for avoiding it.
The non-ASCII vector settles it on a real device: same key means the provider uses UTF-8 and we adopt it; a different key means the Pascal implementation stays. DecryptContainer keeps using the Pascal one until that measurement says otherwise.
Two stages tested separately, because a global failure says nothing about where: PBKDF2 against the known derived key - which also runs on Win64, so that stage validates in seconds without deploying to a phone - then AES-GCM against the plaintext hash, Android only.
The vector is embedded as a unit rather than read from a file: no network, no deployment, so a first-run failure can only come from the decryption itself. Work runs on a thread; 600k HMAC rounds on the UI thread would have Android kill the app for not responding.
PBKDF2 is implemented in Pascal rather than through javax.crypto SecretKeyFactory: PBEKeySpec takes a char[] and the provider decides how those chars become bytes, so a non-ASCII sync password would derive a different key than the browser and fail as 'wrong password'. AES-GCM does go through JNI - one call, hardware-backed, and WebCrypto's tag-appended layout is exactly what Cipher expects.
The vector is generated with WebCrypto itself and uses a non-ASCII password on purpose; an ASCII-only vector would have hidden that bug. It records the derived key separately from the plaintext so a failure points at one stage instead of the whole chain.
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