Classed TLS configuration

[wlandau]

I think crew needs an R6 class to manage TLS configuration in mirai, given how complicated it is to configure TLS and how the interface might change in the future.

[wlandau]

@shikokuchuo, I almost have this implemented, except for the issues at https://github.com/shikokuchuo/mirai/discussions/76#discussioncomment-7006291. I still seem to have trouble supplying a password for an encrypted key in a way that functions. All the relevant tests I can think of are https://github.com/wlandau/crew/blob/120/tests/tls/test-crew_tls.R, and most are failing.

crew supplies tls and pass to mirai::daemons() here:

https://github.com/wlandau/crew/blob/0bd39b14e90edf6490babf167f11bb3335c1d830/R/crew_client.R#L220-L229

and builds the tls of mirai::daemon() here:

https://github.com/wlandau/crew/blob/0bd39b14e90edf6490babf167f11bb3335c1d830/R/crew_launcher.R#L331

[shikokuchuo]

I think the solution is to expose it as an argument - for user to supply a function - with the default value of NULL.

Unless you want to customise this behaviour, in which case you need to export a function from crew i.e. crew::get_password(). This function then should always return a character string or NULL.

[wlandau]

I was trying to generate this function inside crew automatically, and it's not working. Here is a mirai-only example:

system(
  paste(
    "openssl genpkey -out fd.key -algorithm RSA -outform PEM",
    "-pkeyopt rsa_keygen_bits:2048 -des3 -pass pass:crew"
  )
)
system(
  paste(
    "openssl req -new -key fd.key -out fd.csr",
    "-subj \"/CN=127.0.0.1\" -passin pass:crew"
  )
)
system(
  paste(
    "openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in fd.csr -signkey",
    "fd.key -out fd.crt -passin pass:crew"
  )
)
get_password <- function() {
  "crew"
}
mirai::daemons(
  n = 1L,
  url = "wss://127.0.0.1:0",
  dispatcher = TRUE,
  seed = NULL,
  tls = c(
    paste(readLines("fd.crt"), collapse = "\n"),
    paste(readLines("fd.key"), collapse = "\n")
  ),
  pass = get_password(),
  token = TRUE,
  .compute = "name"
)

[shikokuchuo]

In a nutshell, the function you supply to 'pass' in your daemons() call just gets spliced into a call to dispatcher.

So the above becomes dispatcher(...,pass=get_password().

It is only evaluated on dispatcher. As this is a new process, there is no get_password() function there hence it will error.

But I think in reality all you can do is expose the argument and document that they need to use something like keyring that will persist across sessions.