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authormgeier63 <mgeier63@gmail.com>2015-08-27 07:04:50 +0200
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-# OpenPGP API library
+## *FIXED* OpenPGP API library
-The OpenPGP API provides methods to execute OpenPGP operations, such as sign, encrypt, decrypt, verify, and more without user interaction from background threads. This is done by connecting your client application to a remote service provided by [OpenKeychain](http://www.openkeychain.org) or other OpenPGP providers.
+This is a fork of [OpenPGP API](http://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api)
-### News
+It has been patched to address [this bug](https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/issues/1504)
-#### Version 8
- * OpenPgpSignatureResult:
- method getStatus() renamed to getResult()
- constants have been renamed for clarity
- new constants: RESULT_NO_SIGNATURE, RESULT_INVALID_INSECURE
- isSignatureOnly() has been deprecated
- * RESULT_TYPES have been removed
- * new OpenPgpDecryptionResult returned via RESULT_DECRYPTION
- * OpenPgpSignatureResult and OpenPgpDecryptionResult are never null, they are always returned.
+# Possible truncation of returned data (stream)
-[Full changelog hereā€¦](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
+##When using the OpenPGP API library, data returned from the OpenKeychain app is through the ParcelFileDescriptor stream is likely to get truncated!
-### License
-While OpenKeychain itself is GPLv3+, the API library is licensed under Apache License v2.
-Thus, you are allowed to also use it in closed source applications as long as you respect the [Apache License v2](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/LICENSE).
+This is because the TransferThread doesn't necessarily read all available data back from the OpenKeychain service, because it is stopped immediately after the "execute" call has returned (it's stopped by input.close();)
-### Add the API library to your project
+The obvious solution of simply waiting for (joining) the TransferThread unfortunately does not work, because the TransferThread can not detect remote stream close/end due to the way the pipe FileDescriptors are set up.
-Add this to your build.gradle:
-
-```gradle
-repositories {
- jcenter()
-}
-
-dependencies {
- compile 'org.sufficientlysecure:openpgp-api:8.0'
-}
-```
-
-### Full example
-A full working example is available in the [example project](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/example). The [``OpenPgpApiActivity.java``](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/example/src/main/java/org/openintents/openpgp/example/OpenPgpApiActivity.java) contains most relevant sourcecode.
-
-### API
-
-[OpenPgpApi](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/openpgp-api/src/main/java/org/openintents/openpgp/util/OpenPgpApi.java) contains all possible Intents and available extras.
-
-### Short tutorial
-
-**This tutorial only covers the basics, please consult the full example for a complete overview over all methods**
-
-The API is **not** designed around ``Intents`` which are started via ``startActivityForResult``. These Intent actions typically start an activity for user interaction, so they are not suitable for background tasks. Most API design decisions are explained at [the bottom of this wiki page](https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/wiki/OpenPGP-API#internal-design-decisions).
-
-We will go through the basic steps to understand how this API works, following this (greatly simplified) sequence diagram:
-![](https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain/raw/master/Resources/docs/openpgp_api_1.jpg)
-
-In this diagram the client app is depicted on the left side, the OpenPGP provider (in this case OpenKeychain) is depicted on the right.
-The remote service is defined via the [AIDL](http://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl.html) file [``IOpenPgpService``](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/openpgp-api/src/main/aidl/org/openintents/openpgp/IOpenPgpService.aidl).
-It contains only one exposed method which can be invoked remotely:
-```java
-interface IOpenPgpService {
- Intent execute(in Intent data, in ParcelFileDescriptor input, in ParcelFileDescriptor output);
-}
-```
-The interaction between the apps is done by binding from your client app to the remote service of OpenKeychain.
-``OpenPgpServiceConnection`` is a helper class from the library to ease this step:
-```java
-OpenPgpServiceConnection mServiceConnection;
-
-public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) {
- [...]
- mServiceConnection = new OpenPgpServiceConnection(this, "org.sufficientlysecure.keychain");
- mServiceConnection.bindToService();
-}
-
-public void onDestroy() {
- [...]
- if (mServiceConnection != null) {
- mServiceConnection.unbindFromService();
- }
-}
-```
-
-Following the sequence diagram, these steps are executed:
-
-1. Define an ``Intent`` containing the actual PGP instructions which should be done, e.g.
- ```java
-Intent data = new Intent();
-data.setAction(OpenPgpApi.ACTION_ENCRYPT);
-data.putExtra(OpenPgpApi.EXTRA_USER_IDS, new String[]{"dominik@dominikschuermann.de"});
-data.putExtra(OpenPgpApi.EXTRA_REQUEST_ASCII_ARMOR, true);
- ```
- Define an ``InputStream`` currently holding the plaintext, and an ``OutputStream`` where you want the ciphertext to be written by OpenKeychain's remote service:
- ```java
-InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream("Hello world!".getBytes("UTF-8"));
-ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
- ```
- Using a helper class from the library, ``is`` and ``os`` are passed via ``ParcelFileDescriptors`` as ``input`` and ``output`` together with ``Intent data``, as depicted in the sequence diagram, from the client to the remote service.
- Programmatically, this can be done with:
- ```java
-OpenPgpApi api = new OpenPgpApi(this, mServiceConnection.getService());
-Intent result = api.executeApi(data, is, os);
- ```
-
-2. The PGP operation is executed by OpenKeychain and the produced ciphertext is written into ``os`` which can then be accessed by the client app.
-
-3. A result Intent is returned containing one of these result codes:
- * ``OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_ERROR``
- * ``OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_SUCCESS``
- * ``OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_USER_INTERACTION_REQUIRED``
-
- If ``RESULT_CODE_USER_INTERACTION_REQUIRED`` is returned, an additional ``PendingIntent`` is returned to the client, which must be used to get user input required to process the request.
- A ``PendingIntent`` is executed with ``startIntentSenderForResult``, which starts a activity, originally belonging to OpenKeychain, on the [task stack](http://developer.android.com/guide/components/tasks-and-back-stack.html) of the client.
- Only if ``RESULT_CODE_SUCCESS`` is returned, ``os`` actually contains data.
- A nearly complete example looks like this:
- ```java
- switch (result.getIntExtra(OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE, OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_ERROR)) {
- case OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_SUCCESS: {
- try {
- Log.d(OpenPgpApi.TAG, "output: " + os.toString("UTF-8"));
- } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
- Log.e(Constants.TAG, "UnsupportedEncodingException", e);
- }
-
- if (result.hasExtra(OpenPgpApi.RESULT_SIGNATURE)) {
- OpenPgpSignatureResult sigResult
- = result.getParcelableExtra(OpenPgpApi.RESULT_SIGNATURE);
- [...]
- }
- break;
- }
- case OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_USER_INTERACTION_REQUIRED: {
- PendingIntent pi = result.getParcelableExtra(OpenPgpApi.RESULT_INTENT);
- try {
- startIntentSenderForResult(pi.getIntentSender(), 42, null, 0, 0, 0);
- } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException e) {
- Log.e(Constants.TAG, "SendIntentException", e);
- }
- break;
- }
- case OpenPgpApi.RESULT_CODE_ERROR: {
- OpenPgpError error = result.getParcelableExtra(OpenPgpApi.RESULT_ERROR);
- [...]
- break;
- }
- }
- ```
-
-4. Results from a ``PendingIntent`` are returned in ``onActivityResult`` of the activity, which executed ``startIntentSenderForResult``.
- The returned ``Intent data`` in ``onActivityResult`` contains the original PGP operation definition and new values acquired from the user interaction.
- Thus, you can now execute the ``Intent`` again, like done in step 1.
- This time it should return with ``RESULT_CODE_SUCCESS`` because all required information has been obtained by the previous user interaction stored in this ``Intent``.
- ```java
- protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
- [...]
- // try again after user interaction
- if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
- switch (requestCode) {
- case 42: {
- encrypt(data); // defined like in step 1
- break;
- }
- }
- }
- }
- ```
-
-
-### Tipps
-* ``api.executeApi(data, is, os);`` is a blocking call. If you want a convenient asynchronous call, use ``api.executeApiAsync(data, is, os, new MyCallback([... ]));``, where ``MyCallback`` is an private class implementing ``OpenPgpApi.IOpenPgpCallback``.
- See [``OpenPgpApiActivity.java``](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/blob/master/example/src/main/java/org/openintents/openpgp/example/OpenPgpApiActivity.java) for an example.
-* Using
-
- ```java
- mServiceConnection = new OpenPgpServiceConnection(this, "org.sufficientlysecure.keychain");
- ```
- connects to OpenKeychain directly.
- If you want to let the user choose between OpenPGP providers, you can implement the [``OpenPgpAppPreference.java``](https://github.com/open-keychain/openpgp-api/tree/master/openpgp-api/src/main/java/org/openintents/openpgp/util/OpenPgpAppPreference.java) like done in the example app.
+This is because the FileDescriptors are "dup"ed when going through parcels, the input ParcelFileDescriptor never realises that the FileDescriptor at the service side has been closed. It works though if the return pipe gets set up on the service side.