[PATCH v4 06/17] cli/show: add information about which headers were protected

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon May 27 15:14:16 PDT 2019


The header-mask member of the per-message crypto object allows a
clever UI frontend to mark whether a header was protected (or not).
And if it was protected, it contains enough information to show useful
detail to an interested user.  For example, an MUA could offer a "show
what this message's Subject looked like on the wire" feature in expert
mode.

As before, we only handle Subject for now, but we might be able to
handle other headers in the future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
---
 devel/schemata                 |  9 +++++++++
 notmuch-show.c                 | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 test/T356-protected-headers.sh |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/devel/schemata b/devel/schemata
index 72feb7b7..c0f69e7e 100644
--- a/devel/schemata
+++ b/devel/schemata
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ threadid = string
 # Message ID, sans "id:"
 messageid = string
 
+# E-mail header name, sans trailing colon, like "Subject" or "In-Reply-To"
+header_name = string
+
 notmuch show schema
 -------------------
 
@@ -88,9 +91,15 @@ crypto = {
                   status:      sigstatus,
                   # was the set of signatures described under encrypted cover?
                   encrypted:   bool,
+                  # which of the headers is covered by sigstatus?
+                  headers:     [header_name*]
                 },
     decrypted?: {
                   status: msgdecstatus,
+                  # map encrypted headers that differed from the outside headers.
+                  # the value of each item in the map is what that field showed externally
+                  # (maybe null if it was not present in the external headers).
+                  header-mask:  { header_name: string|null,*}
                 }
 }
 
diff --git a/notmuch-show.c b/notmuch-show.c
index b1f6a4bb..4dfe9c1d 100644
--- a/notmuch-show.c
+++ b/notmuch-show.c
@@ -645,6 +645,12 @@ format_part_sprinter (const void *ctx, sprinter_t *sp, mime_node_t *node,
 			sp->map_key (sp, "encrypted");
 			sp->boolean (sp, msg_crypto->signature_encrypted);
 		    }
+		    if (msg_crypto->payload_subject) {
+			sp->map_key (sp, "headers");
+			sp->begin_list (sp);
+			sp->string (sp, "Subject");
+			sp->end (sp);
+		    }
 		    sp->end (sp);
 		}
 		if (msg_crypto->decryption_status != NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_DECRYPTED_NONE) {
@@ -652,6 +658,21 @@ format_part_sprinter (const void *ctx, sprinter_t *sp, mime_node_t *node,
 		    sp->begin_map (sp);
 		    sp->map_key (sp, "status");
 		    sp->string (sp, msg_crypto->decryption_status == NOTMUCH_MESSAGE_DECRYPTED_FULL ? "full" : "partial");
+
+		    if (msg_crypto->payload_subject) {
+			const char *subject = g_mime_message_get_subject GMIME_MESSAGE (node->part);
+			if (subject == NULL || strcmp (subject, msg_crypto->payload_subject)) {
+			    /* protected subject differs from the external header */
+			    sp->map_key (sp, "header-mask");
+			    sp->begin_map (sp);
+			    sp->map_key (sp, "Subject");
+			    if (subject == NULL)
+				sp->null (sp);
+			    else
+				sp->string (sp, subject);
+			    sp->end (sp);
+			}
+		    }
 		    sp->end (sp);
 		}
 	    }
diff --git a/test/T356-protected-headers.sh b/test/T356-protected-headers.sh
index 8a8fef6a..68d431e9 100755
--- a/test/T356-protected-headers.sh
+++ b/test/T356-protected-headers.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ test_json_nodes <<<"$output" \
 test_begin_subtest "verify protected header is visible with decryption"
 output=$(notmuch show --decrypt=true --format=json id:protected-header at crypto.notmuchmail.org)
 test_json_nodes <<<"$output" \
-                'crypto:[0][0][0]["crypto"]={"decrypted": {"status": "full"}}' \
+                'crypto:[0][0][0]["crypto"]={"decrypted": {"status": "full", "header-mask": {"Subject": "Subject Unavailable"}}}' \
                 'subject:[0][0][0]["headers"]["Subject"]="This is a protected header"'
 
 test_begin_subtest "misplaced protected headers should not be made visible during decryption"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ test_json_nodes <<<"$output" \
 test_begin_subtest "verify nested message/rfc822 protected header is visible"
 output=$(notmuch show --decrypt=true --format=json id:nested-rfc822-message at crypto.notmuchmail.org)
 test_json_nodes <<<"$output" \
-                'crypto:[0][0][0]["crypto"]={"decrypted": {"status": "full"}}' \
+                'crypto:[0][0][0]["crypto"]={"decrypted": {"status": "full", "header-mask": {"Subject": "Subject Unavailable"}}}' \
                 'subject:[0][0][0]["headers"]["Subject"]="This is a message using draft-melnikov-smime-header-signing"'
 
 test_done
-- 
2.20.1



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