sirius-press/plugins/sirius-press-core/includes/class-sp-message.php
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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PHP

<?php
/**
* The two signing envelopes Sirius Press speaks.
*
* **BIP-137** — the "Bitcoin Signed Message:\n" scheme every BCH wallet has
* implemented for a decade. Login, registration and any other place a *human*
* proves who they are uses this, because it is the only format a user can
* produce without installing anything of ours: Electron Cash's Sign Message
* box, the Theseus wallet bridge and the in-page wallet all emit it, so a
* signature can be pasted in from whatever the person already runs.
*
* **BNS-SITE1** — the BNS gateway's own envelope for `PUT /api/site/<name>/…`.
* Single SHA-256 over a fixed line format, no magic prefix. Only the server
* ever produces these, using the stored publishing key, so no wallet has to
* understand it.
*
* Getting these two confused is the single most likely source of a
* "signature does not match" that looks like a key problem, so they live side
* by side here rather than being inlined at their call sites.
*
* @package SiriusPress
*/
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || defined( 'SP_CLI' ) || exit;
require_once __DIR__ . '/class-sp-secp256k1.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/class-sp-cashaddr.php';
final class SP_Message {
const MAGIC = "Bitcoin Signed Message:\n";
// ------------------------------------------------------------- BIP-137
/** Bitcoin-style varint length prefix. */
private static function var_int( $n ) {
if ( $n < 0xfd ) {
return chr( $n );
}
if ( $n <= 0xffff ) {
return "\xfd" . pack( 'v', $n );
}
return "\xfe" . pack( 'V', $n );
}
private static function var_str( $s ) {
return self::var_int( strlen( $s ) ) . $s;
}
/**
* The 32-byte digest a wallet actually signs for a text message.
*
* Double SHA-256 over varstr(magic) || varstr(message).
*/
public static function bip137_digest( $message ) {
$payload = self::var_str( self::MAGIC ) . self::var_str( (string) $message );
return hash( 'sha256', hash( 'sha256', $payload, true ), true );
}
/**
* Verify a wallet's message signature against a claimed address.
*
* The comparison is on the normalised address, so a user who registered
* with the plain form and signs with a token-aware wallet still matches.
* The network prefix is taken from the claimed address, which means a
* chipnet signature can never authenticate a mainnet account.
*
* @param string $message Exactly the text that was signed.
* @param string $sig_b64 Base64 of 65 bytes.
* @param string $address The CashAddress being claimed.
* @return bool
*/
public static function verify( $message, $sig_b64, $address ) {
$claimed = SP_CashAddr::normalize( $address );
if ( '' === $claimed ) {
return false;
}
$decoded = SP_CashAddr::decode( $claimed );
$sig = base64_decode( (string) $sig_b64, true );
if ( false === $sig || 65 !== strlen( $sig ) ) {
return false;
}
$pub = SP_Secp256k1::recover( $sig, self::bip137_digest( $message ) );
if ( '' === $pub ) {
return false;
}
$derived = SP_CashAddr::from_public_key( $pub, $decoded['prefix'] );
return '' !== $derived && hash_equals( $claimed, $derived );
}
/**
* Produce a BIP-137 signature. Used by tests and by WP-CLI helpers; the
* running site never signs on a user's behalf.
*
* @return string Base64 of 65 bytes.
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function sign( $message, $priv_bin ) {
return base64_encode( SP_Secp256k1::sign_recoverable( self::bip137_digest( $message ), $priv_bin ) );
}
// ----------------------------------------------------------- BNS-SITE1
/**
* Digest for a gateway site write.
*
* Mirrors public-gateway.mjs exactly:
* sha256("BNS-SITE1\n<name>\n<path>\n<sha256hex(body)>\n<ts>")
*
* @param string $name Fully-qualified BCNR name, e.g. "example.bch".
* @param string $path Path inside the name's bucket, no leading slash.
* @param string $body Raw bytes being uploaded ('' for DELETE).
* @param int $ts Unix milliseconds.
*/
public static function site_digest( $name, $path, $body, $ts ) {
$body_hex = hash( 'sha256', $body );
return hash( 'sha256', "BNS-SITE1\n{$name}\n{$path}\n{$body_hex}\n{$ts}", true );
}
/**
* The `x-bns-sig` / `x-bns-ts` pair for a site write.
*
* @return array{'x-bns-sig':string,'x-bns-ts':string}
* @throws Exception
*/
public static function site_headers( $name, $path, $body, $priv_bin, $ts = null ) {
$ts = null === $ts ? (int) round( microtime( true ) * 1000 ) : (int) $ts;
$sig = SP_Secp256k1::sign_recoverable( self::site_digest( $name, $path, $body, $ts ), $priv_bin );
return array(
'x-bns-sig' => base64_encode( $sig ),
'x-bns-ts' => (string) $ts,
);
}
// ------------------------------------------------------- canonical JSON
/**
* Canonical JSON per DESIGN-signed-records-manifest.md: keys sorted at
* every level, no insignificant whitespace, non-ASCII \u-escaped, null
* members dropped.
*
* Only needed when this plugin writes a `_records.json` manifest — the
* export path signs raw bytes, not JSON. Kept here so there is exactly one
* canonicaliser in the codebase.
*/
public static function canonical_json( $value ) {
// JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES matches JavaScript's JSON.stringify, which the
// portal signs with; PHP would otherwise emit \/ and produce different
// bytes for the same manifest. Non-ASCII stays \u-escaped, which is
// json_encode's default and is what the spec asks for.
return json_encode( self::canonicalize( $value ), JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES );
}
private static function canonicalize( $value ) {
if ( is_object( $value ) ) {
$value = (array) $value;
}
if ( is_array( $value ) ) {
$is_list = ( array() === $value ) || array_keys( $value ) === range( 0, count( $value ) - 1 );
if ( $is_list ) {
return array_map( array( __CLASS__, 'canonicalize' ), $value );
}
$out = array();
foreach ( $value as $k => $v ) {
if ( null === $v ) {
continue;
}
$out[ (string) $k ] = self::canonicalize( $v );
}
ksort( $out, SORT_STRING );
return $out;
}
return $value;
}
}