Private repos are implemented by extending the identity document with a
`visibility` attribute, that can either be `"public"` (default) or
`"private"`.
In case of `private` visibility, only the delegates are allowed to view
the repo, as well as any DIDs added to the allow list.
To implement repo visibility, we simply block fetches from and
announcements to peers for whom the repo should remain invisible.
Private repos are also not announced in the `inventory` message, since
the full list of peers that *may* have the repo is retrievable from the
repo identity. This could cause errors if eg. a peer who is allowed to
view the repo doesn't actually have it. However this is an ok trade-off
for now to keep the complexity low. For repos to truly be private, it's
important that the RIDs don't leak either.
Finally, we modify `radicle-httpd` for now to only list public repos.
Eventually, we would want to change this depending on whether an allowed
peer is authenticated with the service or not.
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It's also worth mentioning why this approach was taken, vs. end-to-end
encryption. The reasons are as follows:
1. Nodes that do not have access to a private repo will generally not want to
replicate encrypted data that they cannot examine or use.
2. The chosen solution is trivial, while encrypting git objects isn't.
3. Performance of the chosen solution is much better, there is no
overhead.
4. Privacy of the chosen solution is better: RIDs are never leaked, and
neither is the existence of a private repo, nor who has access to it.
There is one downside: Paying for storage of private repos is no better
in terms of privacy than what GitHub offers. Hosting providers will have
access to your private repos, if this solution is used.
A repository may fail to load when trying to run `rad ls`, but the
failure will be hidden from the output.
Add a `--verbose` flag to add warning information to stdout when a
repository fails to load.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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Fetch project information using the delegates fork of the project. This
avoids expecting a user's fork to exist locally.
Delegate project information is expected to remain in sync.
We implement a new `Element` trait which allows for more complex output
to be drawn, such as vertical and horizontal stacks.
We adapt `Table` to work within this system.
We refresh the output of `rad patch show` to use these new tools.
Improvements to the CLI output as well as converging towards
`termion` as a backend.
The crates we were using for prompting and spinners were based on
a terminal backend called `console`, which is not really used
anywhere else. There were also limitations in terms of the output
of these crates.
Therefore, we switched to the `inquire` crate for prompting, using
the `termion` backend, which is very standard.
Additionally, we simplify the terminal output to use symbols:
! for Warning
✓ for Success
✗ for Error
... Instead of a mix of words and symbols.
We also include a modified version of the `yansi` crate which plays
well with our table formatting functions by automatically truncating
and padding output in a unicode-aware way.
The `validate` method of `Project` was unused, which is problematic if
the attributes are supposed to be validated based on some
constraints. The issue is that `Project` provided public construction
of its fields with enforcing validation.
This change makes `Project`'s attributes private and introduces a
smart constructor `new` which is fallible if any of the constraints
are not met. The error type was changed to be a vector of errors since
all of these errors can be collected for better error reporting.
Deserialization also provided a way of constructing a `Project`
without ensuring any of the constraints were checked. To prevent this
a hand-rolled `Deserialize` is provided that goes through
`Project::new`.
To access the fields of `Project`, accessor functions are added and
all call sites are updated to use them.
Signed-off-by: Fintan Halpenny <fintan.halpenny@gmail.com>
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