I firmly believe in free software.
The application I'm making here have capabilities that I've not seen in
any system. It presents itself as an opportunity to collaborate on a
tool that serves the people rather than corporations. Whose incentives
are to help people rather, not make the most money. And whose terms
ensure that these freedoms and incentives cannot be taken back or
subverted.
I license this software under the AGPL.
Putting secrets into environment variables is problematic due to them
being inherited by sub-processes, the ease as which these can be
leaked in logs, and the lack of support for loading secrets into
environment variables by systems such as systemd and docker.
Change the loading of secrets to be done by loading the content of a
file specified by an environment variable.
If a cookie is signed for one purpose, but the server also uses a
differently named signed cookie name for another purpose, then it's
possible for a malicious client to substitute the value of one signed
cookie with the value of another and have it pass the signature check.
Include the name of the cookie when computing the signature so that no
cookies signed for example for "user_session" can be used as a value for
a hypothetical "admin_session" cookie.
Set a max age for the session cookie to prevent it from expiring when
the browser is closed. To prevent the age limit from being being
reached the session cookie is refreshed every time the session is
loaded. This should fix login being lost when the browser is stopped.
Provide a convenient wrapper for setting SHA-256 HMAC signed cookies and
retreiving them with the signature validated. The secret key is
configured in the NUXT_COOKIE_SECRET_KEY environment variable.
