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Silent Mode 5465b65756 feat(sirius-press): a WordPress where the account is a key, not a mailbox 
WordPress makes two assumptions this project cannot accept: that identity
comes from an email address, and that a site lives at one server. Both are
things somebody else can take away — a mailbox is rented from a provider who
can close it or be compelled to open it, and a server is one seizure from
being gone.

Sirius Press replaces the first and hedges the second.

Signing in means signing a challenge with the key that controls a CashAddress.
The address is recovered from the signature, so nothing is typed but the
signature itself, and the result is an ordinary WordPress session cookie —
roles, capabilities, nonces and the REST API never learn the login was
different. Three ways to produce one: a wallet the browser already exposes, a
phrase used once in the page and wiped, or a signature pasted in from any
BIP-137 wallet, which needs no JavaScript and lets the key stay on a machine
that never touches the web.

There is no password reset, and the recovery page says so plainly rather than
offering a form that cannot work. A reset mechanism is by construction a way
to take an account from its owner, and it is always easier to attack than the
cryptography it bypasses.

Publishing a post also exports it as static HTML to the name's storage on Sia,
signed by the key that owns the name, so the site keeps answering when the
server does not.

Email as a feature is untouched. wp_mail() still works, SMTP still sends, and
contact forms still deliver to addresses real people typed. Only mail to the
site's own unroutable placeholder addresses is diverted to an in-app inbox.
The objection was to email as identity, not to email.

Core is pinned and patched rather than vendored. WordPress 7.1.1 is 149 MB and
5,008 files; the fork's entire core diff is 75 lines in wp-admin/install.php.
Carrying the former to express the latter would bury the patch where nobody
reviews it and make every clone of the monorepo pay for it. Upstream releases
still merge through tools/update-wordpress.sh, which reapplies the series and
says exactly which hunk needs a human.

The cryptography is implemented twice — PHP on the server, JavaScript in the
page — because the server must verify and the browser must sign. Both are
pinned against libauth, the library the Sirius portal wallet and the BNS
gateway already use, so a disagreement of one byte fails the test suite rather
than presenting as a rejected login at three in the morning.

132 checks, no framework, about a second.
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Subject: [PATCH] setup wizard: ask for a wallet, not a mailbox
The installer is the one place in WordPress where the fork cannot do its
work from a plugin. It runs before plugins load, and it refuses to finish
without an email address, so a site with no mail identity cannot be
installed at all.
The change is the smallest one that removes the requirement:
- "Your Email" becomes "Your wallet address", and it is optional. The
installer has nothing to verify a signature against yet — the site
does not exist — so an address typed here is taken on trust and can be
replaced from the profile screen afterwards, where it CAN be proved.
- The two is_email() gates become one address check.
- wp_install() still receives an email string, because its signature and
everything downstream of it expects one. It gets a permanently
unroutable .invalid placeholder.
The two helper functions are defined by the Sirius Press bootstrap
must-use plugin, which loads before this file on every request including
the installer. If that plugin is missing, they fall back to accepting
nothing and the installer behaves as it does on stock WordPress minus the
email field.
Applies to: WordPress 7.1.1
--- a/wp-admin/install.php
+++ b/wp-admin/install.php
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@
$weblog_title = isset( $_POST['weblog_title'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['weblog_title'] ) ) : '';
$user_name = isset( $_POST['user_name'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['user_name'] ) ) : '';
$admin_email = isset( $_POST['admin_email'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_email'] ) ) : '';
+ // Sirius Press: the identity field on this form is a wallet address.
+ $admin_wallet = isset( $_POST['admin_wallet'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_wallet'] ) ) : '';
if ( ! is_null( $error ) ) {
?>
@@ -175,9 +177,9 @@
</tr>
<?php endif; ?>
<tr>
- <th scope="row"><label for="admin_email"><?php _e( 'Your Email' ); ?></label></th>
- <td><input name="admin_email" type="email" id="admin_email" size="25" aria-describedby="admin-email-desc" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $admin_email ); ?>" />
- <p id="admin-email-desc"><?php _e( 'Double-check your email address before continuing.' ); ?></p></td>
+ <th scope="row"><label for="admin_wallet"><?php _e( 'Your wallet address' ); ?></label></th>
+ <td><input name="admin_wallet" type="text" id="admin_wallet" size="25" class="code" aria-describedby="admin-wallet-desc" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $admin_wallet ); ?>" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" />
+ <p id="admin-wallet-desc"><?php _e( 'Sirius Press: your Bitcoin Cash address is your account. Leave this blank to attach one later from your profile &mdash; until then the password above is the only way in.' ); ?></p></td>
</tr>
<?php $blog_privacy_selector_title = has_action( 'blog_privacy_selector' ) ? __( 'Site visibility' ) : __( 'Search engine visibility' ); ?>
<tr>
@@ -411,10 +413,20 @@
$user_name = isset( $_POST['user_name'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['user_name'] ) ) : '';
$admin_password = isset( $_POST['admin_password'] ) ? wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_password'] ) : '';
$admin_password_check = isset( $_POST['admin_password2'] ) ? wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_password2'] ) : '';
- $admin_email = isset( $_POST['admin_email'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_email'] ) ) : '';
+ $admin_wallet = isset( $_POST['admin_wallet'] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST['admin_wallet'] ) ) : '';
$public = isset( $_POST['blog_public'] ) ? (int) $_POST['blog_public'] : 1;
- // Check email address.
+ /*
+ * Sirius Press: there is no email step. The account identity is a
+ * CashAddress, and it is optional here because the installer has nothing
+ * to verify a signature against yet — the site does not exist. An address
+ * typed now is attached below; an administrator who leaves it blank
+ * attaches one from their profile afterwards, where they can prove it.
+ */
+ $admin_wallet = sirius_press_install_address( $admin_wallet );
+ $admin_email = sirius_press_install_stub_email( $admin_wallet );
+
+ // Check the username and password.
$error = false;
if ( empty( $user_name ) ) {
// TODO: Poka-yoke.
@@ -427,19 +439,20 @@
// TODO: Poka-yoke.
display_setup_form( __( 'Your passwords do not match. Please try again.' ) );
$error = true;
- } elseif ( empty( $admin_email ) ) {
- // TODO: Poka-yoke.
- display_setup_form( __( 'You must provide an email address.' ) );
- $error = true;
- } elseif ( ! is_email( $admin_email ) ) {
- // TODO: Poka-yoke.
- display_setup_form( __( 'Sorry, that is not a valid email address. Email addresses look like <code>username@example.com</code>.' ) );
+ } elseif ( false === $admin_wallet ) {
+ display_setup_form( __( 'Sorry, that is not a valid Bitcoin Cash address. Leave the field blank if you would rather attach a wallet after installing.' ) );
$error = true;
}
if ( false === $error ) {
$wpdb->show_errors();
$result = wp_install( $weblog_title, $user_name, $admin_email, $public, '', wp_slash( $admin_password ), $loaded_language );
+
+ // Sirius Press: record the administrator's wallet so they can sign in
+ // with it immediately.
+ if ( '' !== $admin_wallet && ! empty( $result['user_id'] ) ) {
+ update_user_meta( (int) $result['user_id'], 'sirius_wallet_address', $admin_wallet );
+ }
?>
<h1><?php _e( 'Success!' ); ?></h1>
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