1498351 - add new interface that will allow OS-specific user re-authentication

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Security: PSM, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler]]

In some cases, before using secrets stored by the OS (e.g. keys for encrypting passwords/credit card information/etc.), we want to have the option to re-authenticate the user to the OS to ensure they're authorized to use those secrets. Since we're not actually locking the secret storage mechanism in most case (and since we're mostly using unrelated APIs), it makes sense to separate this functionality from nsIOSKeyStore.

This bug will add the interface and stub platform-specific implementations that do nothing. Follow-up bugs will implement the platform-specific implementations.

Comment 1

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler]]

Attachment: bug 1498351 - add interface to allow OS-specific user re-authentication r?franziskus

This patch introduces the interface with a stub implementation that does
nothing. Follow-up bugs will add platform-specific implementations.

Comment 2

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler]]

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=ef843ee80ff165b75e5f170bd85bb278ccae719b

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/6fc4224069b2
add interface to allow OS-specific user re-authentication r=franziskus

Comment 4

[Stefan Hindli [:stefan_hindli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6fc4224069b2