mojo/services/vanadium/security/public/interfaces/principal.mojom

// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

module vanadium;

// Represents the name of an application. |url| is the url of the
// application. |qualifier| is a string that allows to tie a specific
// instance of an application to another.
struct AppInstanceName {
  string url;
  string? qualifier;
};

// Certificate represents a human-readable name and public-key (DER encoded) pair.
// The private-key for a certificate is only available for signing operations
// within the principal service application.
struct Certificate {
   string extension;
   array<uint8>? publickey;
};

// Blessing is a credential binding a user identity to a public key. The corresponding
// private key is only available for signing within the PrincipalService application.
struct Blessing {
   array<Certificate> chain;
};

// ChainSeparator is the separator used to join name extensions in a certificate chain.
const string ChainSeparator = "/";

// A service that binds user identities to an application instance running in Mojo
interface PrincipalService {
  // Login is called by an application instance (requestor_url/qualifier) that
  // wants to get a user blessing. The service may obtain the user blessing
  // through a third-party authentication flow (eg:oauth2). The user blessing
  // is bound to a public/private key-pair that this service generates and
  // persists for this application instance. Returns null if login fails.
  Login() => (Blessing? user_blessing);

  // Removes the user blessing for the application instance that invokes the
  // Logout method.
  Logout();

  // GetUserBlessing returns the user blessing for a given application instance.
  // It returns an error if the application instance has not invoked Login().
  GetUserBlessing(AppInstanceName app) => (Blessing? user_blessing);
};