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feat(cli): reverse migration (stash decrypt) for moving columns back to plaintext - #1193
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Extract the forward backfill's keyset loop into runChunkedMigration and run runBackfill on it unchanged (same SQL, same cs_migrations events and details). The same engine now drives runDecryptBackfill, the reverse direction: - one bulkDecrypt (one ZeroKMS request) per chunk, default 500 rows; - per-row decrypt failures (typically lock-context-bound values) are skipped, counted and left NULL, so countUndecrypted keeps counting them; - a first chunk that decrypts nothing throws UndecryptableBatchError before writing (credentials for the wrong keyset), unless opted out; - values are cast to the plaintext column's declared type (columnSqlType); - reverse leak guard: an EQL envelope is never written as plaintext. Reverse events/phases are recorded against the ENCRYPTED column, so the two directions never share a resume cursor. Also adds plaintextTypeForEqlDomain (the inverse type mapping), listColumnIndexes, countEqlColumnsInDatabase and removeManifestColumn, and keeps the CLI's exhaustive phase switches total. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ction Move the Drizzle-scaffold-or-timestamped-SQL migration writer and the stem sanitiser out of `encrypt drop`, the aligned-table renderer out of `encrypt status`, and `detectPkColumn` out of `encrypt backfill`, into encrypt/lib so the reverse (`stash decrypt`) commands reuse them instead of copying them. No behaviour change: the forward tests pass unmodified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gration Mirror the encrypt lifecycle back to plaintext (CIP-4165): - decrypt plan: read-only overview, or with --table the nullable plaintext twins with the type mapped back from each EQL domain (Drizzle schema lines for drizzle-kit generate; a reviewed SQL migration elsewhere). - decrypt backfill: same flags and engine as encrypt backfill; one bulkDecrypt per chunk; lock-context-bound values are skipped, counted and reported. - decrypt drop: gated on the `decrypted` phase, the RECORDED twin and live coverage; the migration re-checks coverage at apply time, drops the EQL-term indexes explicitly, drops the column, and with --uninstall-eql removes EQL v3 when it was the last encrypted column. - decrypt status: per-column reverse phase, progress and undecryptable count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nd trip README and stash-cli skill: the reverse lifecycle, type mapping, the lock-context limitation, credentials, and --uninstall-eql. The manual scripts/e2e-encrypt.sh now decrypts the encrypted column back and checks the plaintext matches the original values. Changeset for stash and @cipherstash/migrate (minor). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/status.ts:
- Around line 80-85: Update the shared twin-name helper used by
`resolveDecryptPair` and the status plaintext fallback so both commands derive
the same name, including treating a column exactly `_encrypted` as
`_encrypted_plaintext` rather than an empty name. Reuse `plan`’s
`detectColumnEqlVersion` refusal in the shared resolution path so status and
plan handle EQL-version columns consistently.
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- Around line 434-442: Wrap the UPDATE query in writeDecryptedChunk with error
sanitization, since PostgreSQL cast errors may include decrypted plaintext in
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Review of the reverse lifecycle. The shared engine refactor is faithful: I compared runBackfill before and after, and the SQL, events and details are the same. Test coverage is good. CI is green. Two data-safety defects block merge. They are both about stale plaintext. Neither one is in the earlier review comments.
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1. A twin that already holds data is trusted without a check. This can lose data.
resolveDecryptPair selects the original plaintext name from .cipherstash/migrations.json first. In a forward rollout that has not run encrypt drop yet, that column still exists and is full. Then:
decrypt planprints "already exists — nothing to add" (plan.ts:120).decrypt backfillselects only rows where the twin is NULL. Thus it writes almost nothing and recordsdecrypted.decrypt dropfinds zero uncovered rows and drops the ciphertext.
The forward guidance tells users to remove the dual-write code when reads move to the encrypted column (skills/stash-encryption/SKILL.md:966). After that, the plaintext column is stale for every row updated since the switch. The reverse flow keeps the stale values and drops the only current copy. Nothing warns the user, and --force is the only fix. The user must know to use it.
Fix: on the first reverse run, if the twin already contains non-NULL values, refuse unless the operator passes --force or an explicit acknowledgement. Alternatively, read the forward state for (table, twin), and refuse when the twin is the forward source column and that column is not dropped. Add a test for this case.
2. The cutover guidance breaks the invariants that backfill --force and drop rely on.
backfill.ts:323 tells Drizzle users to "stop writing the encrypted column once reads are switched". After that step:
- A user who clears a value writes plaintext NULL, but the old ciphertext stays.
decrypt dropthen refuses, and its message tells the user to re-run the backfill. The backfill writes the old value back into the row. Cleared data (for example, an erasure request) comes back. --forceoverwrites newer plaintext with the old decrypted value.backfill.ts:152,decrypt.ts:106-108andskills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:687all say that--forceis "not destructive". That is only true while dual-writes continue.
Fix: tell users to keep dual-writing both columns until the drop migration is applied. Change the "not destructive" text to state that condition. This change is in customer-facing skill text, so it ships in the tarball.
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These do not block.
engine.ts:142: on resume,pendingalso counts the rows that were skipped before the cursor, sorowsTotalcounts them two times. A resumed run with skips ends below 100%, and the final progress line atbackfill.ts:184does not print.decrypt.ts:59-61: the docstring says the cursor stays "untouched". ButUndecryptableBatchErrorwrites anerrorevent, which hides the last checkpoint (engine.ts:135). The next run starts again from the first primary key. Correct the text, or keep the checkpoint as the resume point.backfill.ts:265: the dual-write gate passes for any reverse state, includingencrypted-droppedfrom an earlier lifecycle. If a user encrypts the same column again and then reverses it again, the gate does not ask. Pass the gate only fordecrypt-dual-writinganddecrypting.drop.ts:175-201: the command writesencrypted_droppedand removes the manifest entry when it generates the file, not when the file is applied. If the apply-time check aborts, the manifest entry is gone.--chunk-size: decrypt validates it, which is better than the gap that #1194 fixes for encrypt. ButNumber()accepts1e3and0x10, and there is no upper limit. The write binds two parameters for each row (decrypt.ts:419-425), so a chunk size above 32767 exceeds the Postgres limit of 65535 parameters. This failure occurs after the ZeroKMS call. When #1194 merges, use itsparseChunkSizehere too, and add a maximum.decrypt.ts:257-259: aNULL_PLAINTEXTskip blocksdroppermanently. The skipped-rows text gives the lock-context remedy, which does not apply to this code.- Skills: AGENTS.md maps
@cipherstash/migratelifecycle changes toskills/stash-encryptiontoo. That skill has no reference to the reverse path. Add a short pointer tostash-cli's Decrypt section. Also add the lock-context limitation toskills/stash-auth, which is the canonical lock-context skill. registry.ts:94: the--plaintext-columnhelp text does not mention the<column>_plaintextfallback, but the skill does.
I could not run the tests locally because the @cipherstash/auth native binding was not built in my worktree. I used the CI results. The registry flags agree with skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md. I compared them in the source because stash manifest --json needs the same binding.
| const existing = pairs.filter((pair) => pair.plaintextSqlType !== null) | ||
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| `${options.table}.${pair.plaintextColumn} already exists (${pair.plaintextSqlType}) — nothing to add for ${pair.encryptedColumn}.`, |
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Blocking (1): a twin that exists and is full is reported as "nothing to add". When the twin is the forward source column and encrypt drop has not run, its values can be stale. The next steps (backfill, then drop) keep the stale values and drop the current ciphertext. Refuse or warn here when the twin has non-NULL values and there is no reverse history.
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Fixed in 7bfc234. decrypt plan now runs the same check as the backfill (assessExistingTwin in lib/resolve-pair.ts) on an existing twin when no reverse migration is in progress. If the twin holds values, or is the forward source column and that lifecycle is not dropped, plan prints the backfill's refusal text as a warning instead of "nothing to add". The Next steps show stash decrypt backfill ... <--force | --confirm-plaintext-current>, and the read-only overview marks the column with !. Plan writes nothing for such a twin, so it warns rather than exits 1. Tests: decrypt-drop-plan.test.ts (holds values, forward source, lifecycle in progress).
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| const plaintextSqlType = requirePlaintextTwin(pair) |
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Blocking (1): this checks only that the twin exists. If the twin already has values (for example, a forward rollout reversed before encrypt drop), the IS NULL guard skips those rows and the run records decrypted. Refuse on the first run unless --force or an explicit flag is given.
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Fixed in 7bfc234, with the stronger combination. On the first reverse run (no reverse lifecycle in progress), before any event is recorded, assessExistingTwin reads the forward state recorded under the twin's name and refuses when the twin is the forward source column and that lifecycle is not dropped. Separately it refuses when the twin already holds values (columnHasValues, an EXISTS probe). Both checks have two ways past them. --force overwrites every row from the ciphertext. The new --confirm-plaintext-current keeps the existing values. The choice is recorded on the decrypt_dual_writing event (existingPlaintext, acknowledgedWith).
The check now runs before the --force prompt and the dual-write gate. If the gate's event were written first, a cancelled prompt would let the next run skip the check. Tests: resolve-pair.test.ts (assessExistingTwin cases, including forward dropped with values still present) and decrypt-backfill.test.ts (refusal, both flags, ordering).
Follow-on found while testing: an interrupted --force pass resumed by a plain re-run would have skipped stale rows past the cursor. 106ea90 refuses that (ForcedPassIncompleteError), and a forced run over an unforced pass now starts from the first row.
| const drop = `stash decrypt drop --table ${table} --column ${pair.encryptedColumn}` | ||
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| `1. Point your application's reads at ${pair.plaintextColumn} and deploy:`, | ||
| ` - Drizzle: query ${pair.plaintextColumn} directly (no decryptModel), and stop writing ${pair.encryptedColumn} once reads are switched.`, |
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Blocking (2): stopping writes to the encrypted column before the drop is applied is not safe. When a user clears a value, the stale ciphertext stays. decrypt drop then refuses, and the re-run it suggests writes the old value back. --force also reverts newer plaintext. Tell users to keep dual-writing until the drop migration is applied.
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Fixed in 7bfc234. The cutover note no longer tells Drizzle users to stop writing the encrypted column. It now says to keep writing BOTH columns on every insert and update until the drop migration is applied, and explains why: a cleared value keeps its old ciphertext, decrypt drop refuses, and a re-run writes the old value back. decrypt plan's Drizzle note and Next steps, and decrypt drop's Next note, say the same. The drop's refusal now lists the cleared-value case separately and says not to re-run the backfill for it. Skill and README text follow in 23a157e.
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| `--force will re-decrypt every row of ${options.table}.${pair.encryptedColumn}, overwriting ${pair.plaintextColumn} values that already exist. This is the recovery path for drift; expensive but not destructive.`, |
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Blocking (2): "not destructive" is only true while the app still writes both columns. If the encrypted column is no longer written, --force replaces newer plaintext with the old value. State the condition here, in decrypt.ts:106-108, and in skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:687.
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Fixed in 7bfc234 and 1001ff7. The --force warning here now says it is safe only while dual-writes are live, and that a row written to the plaintext column alone (a newer value or one cleared on purpose) gets the older ciphertext's value back. The force docstrings in migrate/src/decrypt.ts and the CLI options, the registry help text, the stash-cli skill and the migrate README carry the same condition. No "not destructive" wording remains on the decrypt path.
| | `--chunk-size <n>` | Default 500 — rows per `bulkDecrypt` / ZeroKMS request | | ||
| | `--pk-column <name>` | Override primary-key detection | | ||
| | `--confirm-dual-writes-deployed` | Non-interactive equivalent of the prompt: the app writes the encrypted column **and** its plaintext twin on every insert and update | | ||
| | `--force` | Re-decrypt rows whose plaintext is already set. Recovery path for drift. Not destructive. | |
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Blocking (2): this ships to customers. --force overwrites the twin from the ciphertext. That is destructive when the app has stopped writing the encrypted column. Say "safe only while dual-writes are live".
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Fixed in 23a157e. The --force row now reads: "Safe only while dual-writes are live: any row the application wrote to the plaintext column alone (a newer value, or one cleared on purpose) gets the older ciphertext's value back." The Decrypt section also gains a "Keep dual-writing until the drop migration is applied" paragraph that contrasts it with the forward rollout, and documents the first-run refusal and --confirm-plaintext-current. The forward encrypt backfill --force row on line 634 still says "not destructive". I left it alone because it is outside this PR.
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Follow-up: on resume, pending also counts the rows that were skipped before the cursor, which priorProcessed already includes. rowsTotal is too high, and the progress output never reaches 100%.
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Fixed in 1001ff7. The engine now works out the resume point first and calls countPending(resumeCursor). The reverse backfill counts only rows past the cursor (countUndecrypted takes an optional KeysetBound), so rows skipped before it are not counted twice. The forward backfill ignores the argument and keeps its count. Integration test "a resumed run counts its total once, so progress ends at 100%" checks that the last progress event is 500/500 after a resume with skips. The CLI also prints a closing count line when the last chunk did not, since rows inserted mid-run can still move the total.
… after a failed run A failed chunk write now throws PlaintextWriteError with only the SQLSTATE, constraint, column and type names. Postgres echoes the input of a failed cast, and on the reverse path that input is decrypted plaintext; the engine stored the database's message in the cs_migrations error event. The reverse backfill also: - resumes from an error event, which records the last committed cursor, so a failed run no longer restarts from the first primary key (the engine now advances its counters only after COMMIT, so that cursor is trustworthy); - counts rowsTotal only past the resume cursor, so rows skipped before it are not counted twice and a resumed run reaches 100%; - refuses a chunk size outside 1..32767 before any request: each row binds two parameters and Postgres caps a statement at 65535; - reports the primary keys of rows whose ciphertext decrypts to null. The forward backfill keeps its resume behaviour and event details. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ntil the drop decrypt backfill only fills rows whose plaintext twin is NULL. When the twin was the source column of a forward encryption that never ran `encrypt drop`, it still holds the plaintext from before the read switch, stale for every row updated since. The reverse flow kept those values, recorded `decrypted`, and `decrypt drop` then dropped the only current copy. The first reverse run now checks the twin before recording anything. It refuses when the twin is the forward source column and that lifecycle is not `dropped`, or when the twin already holds values, unless the operator passes --force (overwrite every row from the ciphertext) or the new --confirm-plaintext-current (keep them). The choice is recorded on the decrypt_dual_writing event. `decrypt plan` warns with the same text, and its overview marks those columns. Only the reverse lifecycle in progress passes the dual-write gate and binds the recorded pairing. An `encrypted-dropped` event followed by forward events on the twin (the column was encrypted again) starts over. The cutover guidance now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied, and --force says it is safe only while dual-writes are live. Stopping writes to the encrypted column early leaves a cleared value's old ciphertext behind, which a re-run would write back; the drop refusal now names that case. Also: - `decrypt drop` no longer removes the manifest entry when it generates the migration, since the apply-time check can still abort it. `encrypt status` shows the entry as `reversed` until the user removes it after applying. - --chunk-size is parsed strictly (no 1e3, 0x10) and capped at 32767, before any database or ZeroKMS work. - PlaintextWriteError prints verbatim; NULL_PLAINTEXT rows are reported apart from lock-context failures, with their primary keys. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`decrypt status` derived the plaintext twin name itself, without the length guard `resolveDecryptPair` has, so a column named exactly `_encrypted` showed an empty twin name in status and `_encrypted_plaintext` in plan. It now uses the shared derivePlaintextName and the same lifecycle rule for the recorded pairing, and flags a twin name taken by an EQL column (which plan and backfill refuse) as `plaintext-col-is-eql`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ocument stale twins stash-cli's Decrypt section now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied, states that --force is safe only while dual-writes are live, and documents the first-run refusal of a twin that already holds values, --confirm-plaintext-current, the chunk-size ceiling, resume after a failed run, NULL_PLAINTEXT rows, and the manifest entry the user removes after applying the drop. stash-encryption gets a pointer to it from the forward cutover (which removes dual-write code, the source of the stale twin), and stash-auth documents that bulk tooling cannot decrypt lock-context values. The CLI and migrate READMEs and the changeset follow. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first-run refusal offers --force to overwrite a stale plaintext twin. If that pass was interrupted, a plain re-run (what every message says to do) resumed from the cursor without --force and kept the stale values in every row after it, then recorded `decrypted`. `force` is now recorded on every reverse event. Resuming a forced pass without it throws ForcedPassIncompleteError before anything is recorded, and a forced run over an unforced pass starts from the first row instead of the cursor. The engine gains a `canResume` hook for this; the forward backfill does not use it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review follow-up. Five commits pushed: 1001ff7, 7bfc234, c332f23, 23a157e, 106ea90. No rebase, no merge of main. Blocking1. Twin that already holds data. Fixed (7bfc234). On the first reverse run, before anything is recorded, 2. Cutover guidance and "not destructive". Fixed (7bfc234, 23a157e). Every reverse surface now says to keep writing both columns until the drop migration is applied: the backfill cutover note, plan's notes, drop's Next note, the skill, the README and the registry help. CodeRabbit
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Re-review of bca02b6a5..106ea9082 (five commits, no rebase). CI is green. The fixes are thorough. One new gap in the fix for blocker 1 can still lose data, so I request changes again.
Earlier blockers
- Twin that already holds data: partly resolved.
assessExistingTwin(lib/resolve-pair.ts:302-320) runs before anything is recorded and refuses both a forward-source twin and a twin with values.decrypt planwarns with the same text. The tests cover both cases. The gap is below. - Cutover guidance and "not destructive": resolved. The backfill cutover note, plan, drop's Next note, the registry help, the README and
skills/stash-cliall say to keep dual-writing until the drop is applied. No "not destructive" text remains on the decrypt path. The drop refusal now names the cleared-value case and says not to re-run the backfill for it. - CodeRabbit cast-error leak: resolved.
PlaintextWriteErrorkeeps only the SQLSTATE, the constraint, the column and the type, with nocause. The integration test checks the exception andcs_migrations.
The follow-ups from my last review (rowsTotal, error-event cursor, gate on old lifecycles, manifest removal, chunk-size bounds, NULL_PLAINTEXT report, skills, help text) are all done.
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The --force choice for a stale twin is lost when the forced pass fails before its first commit.
The hazard check runs only while no reverse lifecycle is active (resolve-pair.ts:306). The first --force run records decrypt_dual_writing (backfill.ts:209), so every later run skips the check. After that, only canResume (decrypt.ts:308) keeps the pass in force mode. But the engine calls canResume only for a checkpoint, or for an error event with a non-NULL cursor (engine.ts:155-161). A pass that fails in its first chunk records an error event with cursorValue NULL. A pass that is killed before its first commit leaves only decrypt_started. In both cases the next run is not a resume. It starts a fresh unforced pass, and no check stops it.
Example:
- The twin is the forward source column with stale values. The operator runs
decrypt backfill --force. - The credentials resolve to the wrong workspace. The first chunk throws
UndecryptableBatchError. Its message says "export the CS_* values ... and re-run" (decrypt.ts:66-72). It does not say "with--force". - The operator fixes the credentials and runs
decrypt backfill. The run fills only the NULL rows, keeps all the stale values, and recordsdecrypted. decrypt dropfinds full coverage and drops the only current copy.
A first-chunk PlaintextWriteError (the operator widens the column and re-runs) or a network error gives the same result. acknowledgedWith is written to the event, but nothing reads it.
skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:683 says "a plain re-run refuses". That is true only after at least one chunk has committed.
Fix: make the refusal depend on the recorded choice, not on the presence of a cursor. For example, while the lifecycle's decrypt_dual_writing event carries acknowledgedWith: 'force' and no forced pass has recorded decrypted, refuse a run without --force. Or call canResume (or a separate mode check) for every latest event in the running phase that carries force: true, including decrypt_started and an error with a NULL cursor. Add an integration test where the first forced chunk throws and a plain re-run follows.
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--confirm-plaintext-currentis documented as "First run only" (skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md, flag table), but a later run accepts it silently. Warn that it has no effect there.decrypt_dual_writing.details.acknowledgedWithis write-only. If the fix above does not read it,decrypt statuscould show it, so the operator can see which choice was made.
A forced pass that failed before its first commit left no checkpoint and no cursor. The engine only resumes from one of those, so `canResume` never ran, the next plain run started a fresh unforced pass, and the stale plaintext the forced pass was started to replace survived until the drop removed the only current copy. Mode is now decided from the history rather than from the resume point: `forceObligationOpen` reports a forced pass started and not completed, and while it is open every run is forced. That makes `ForcedPassIncompleteError` unreachable, so it is removed (it has not been released). Refs #1217
… stale twin `acknowledgedWith` was written on `decrypt_dual_writing` and read by nothing. If the run after that confirmation failed before recording `decrypt_started`, the next plain run went unforced: the CLI skips the stale-twin check once the column migration is active, and no forced pass had started to open the obligation. The acknowledgement now opens the obligation itself, so it is owed from the moment the operator chose to overwrite, and each `decrypt_dual_writing` starts the obligation afresh for a new column migration. Refs #1217
Without this, an obligation that never closed would force every later run and write older ciphertext values back over plaintext the app wrote to the plaintext column alone. Checked by inverting the closing branch, which fails this test. Refs #1217
`decrypt backfill` treated the source column of a still-open forward encryption as a twin hazard the operator could acknowledge with `--force` or `--confirm-plaintext-current`. That started a reverse migration on a pair that already had one open, which is what made "is this lifecycle the one in progress" need a join across two state keys. Only one migration may now be open on a pair of columns. The backfill refuses such a twin outright, whatever flags are passed, and `decrypt plan` warns that it will. `forward-source` is no longer a hazard kind, and `twinHazardMessage` loses the parameter it no longer branches on. Abandoning a forward encryption in progress is tracked in #1221. The skill, help text, README and changeset now describe the refusal and the forced-pass obligation from the previous commits. Refs #1217
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🟠 Major · Protect forced writes against concurrent dual-writes. · decrypt.ts:566-568
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftProtect forced writes against concurrent dual-writes.
If the application updates both columns after
fetchUndecryptedPagereads a row, a forced pass can decrypt the old ciphertext and then overwrite the application's newer plaintext. The forcedWHEREclause checks only the primary key. A later coverage check sees populated plaintext, so it cannot detect the stale value before the encrypted column is dropped. Match the ciphertext read for each row at write time, or use another concurrency control that retries changed rows. This also applies whenforceObligationOpenmakes a resumed call forced without an explicitforceoption.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Keep failed forced decryptions out of the drop-safe set. · decrypt.ts:373-375
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep failed forced decryptions out of the drop-safe set.
A forced pass selects every row with ciphertext, including rows whose plaintext twin is already populated. If decryption fails, this branch skips the write and leaves the stale plaintext unchanged. The backfill still records the skipped row and can complete.
stash decrypt dropchecks only for ciphertext rows withNULLplaintext. It does not check the recorded skipped-row count. The drop can therefore accept the stale value and remove the ciphertext.Preserve a drop-blocking record for skipped rows, or require their resolution before allowing the drop.
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I didn't re-run the live CLI suites or e2e. Everything else from #1217 (a |
A forced pass matched rows on primary key only, so plaintext decrypted from ciphertext read before the bulkDecrypt round trip could overwrite a newer value the application dual-wrote in the meantime. Every write now requires the row's ciphertext to still be the one that was decrypted. The first-chunk UndecryptableBatchError no longer fires when every row decrypted to null (NULL_PLAINTEXT), which blamed the wrong credentials. forceObligationOpen reads one row in SQL instead of replaying the column's whole cs_migrations history in JS. Refs #1217
…stash When the plaintext column was dropped by an ORM migration rather than `stash encrypt drop`, its forward lifecycle stayed open and `decrypt backfill` refused forever. `decrypt plan` is the only step that can see the column missing, so it now records that forward migration as dropped, marked as observed (`--dry-run` only reports it). Also from review of #1193: - detectPkColumn resolves the table through search_path (new `primaryKeyColumns` in @cipherstash/migrate), so same-named tables in other schemas no longer read as a composite primary key. - The skipped-rows report blames credentials only for failures this run saw; skips from an earlier run are reported neutrally. - --chunk-size is parsed once, in main.ts. - One shared `progressSafe` helper replaces three copies of the missing cs_migrations check. - stash-encryption no longer promises --force / --confirm-plaintext-current get past an open forward migration; skills and changeset describe the new plan behaviour. Refs #1217
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🟡 Minor · Do not print sampled primary-key values in this warning. · backfill.ts:435
languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/backfill.ts:435
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CWE: CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log FileDo not print sampled primary-key values in this warning. This command supports arbitrary tables, and a primary key can be a plaintext user identifier such as an email address. Keep the warning limited to the count and SQL template, or provide a query that operators can run in an authorized database session.
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- Line 43: Update the error message in parseDecryptChunkSize to omit the
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corresponding test assertions to expect the value-free message while preserving
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- Line 51: Update isMissingMigrationsTable so it identifies a missing migration
table by PostgreSQL’s missing-relation error code rather than matching the table
name in the error message. Keep progressSafe returning null only for that
missing-table error, and rethrow permission and other query errors so
forwardState and reverseState do not treat unreadable migration history as
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Path("languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/commands/decrypt/__tests__/chunk-size.test.ts"),
Path("languages/typescript/packages/cli/src/bin/main.ts"),
]
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Do not include rejected --chunk-size argv text in the error.
The parser receives raw CLI text and main.ts logs error.message. A mistakenly supplied token can therefore appear in terminal or CI logs. The repository guideline for TypeScript package source requires flagging error messages that could carry plaintext, keys, or tokens.
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- `--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to ${MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE} (got ${JSON.stringify(input)}). Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.`,
+ `--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to ${MAX_DECRYPT_CHUNK_SIZE}. Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.`,- it('quotes what was typed and says why there is a ceiling', () => {
+ it('says why there is a ceiling', () => {
expect(() => parseDecryptChunkSize('1e3')).toThrow(
- '--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to 32767 (got "1e3").',
+ '--chunk-size must be a whole number of rows from 1 to 32767.',
)
expect(() => parseDecryptChunkSize('32768')).toThrow(
- 'from 1 to 32767 (got "32768"). Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.',
+ 'from 1 to 32767. Each row binds two parameters in the write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.',
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| return await progress(client, table, column) | ||
| } catch (err) { | ||
| if (isMissingMigrationsTable(err)) return null |
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Do not treat a permission error as missing migration history.
If PostgreSQL returns permission denied for table cs_migrations, isMissingMigrationsTable matches the table name and progressSafe returns null. forwardState and reverseState then treat an unreadable migration record as absent history. Match PostgreSQL’s missing-relation error code, and rethrow permission and other query errors.
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Update isMissingMigrationsTable so it identifies a missing migration table by
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Re-review of 106ea90..3ff6002 (six commits). CI is green. I ran decrypt.integration.test.ts at 3ff6002 against Postgres 17: all 38 tests pass.
Earlier blocker
The --force choice is lost when a forced pass fails before its first commit: resolved. forceObligationOpen reads the recorded history, not the cursor, so the next plain run is forced. The test "a plain run after a forced pass failed before its first commit still overwrites every row" covers my example. The refusal of a twin with an open forward migration also removes the forward-source path. The ciphertext guard in writeDecryptedChunk closes CodeRabbit's concurrent dual-write point.
Blocking
A forced pass over a stale twin keeps the stale value in every row it skips. Then it closes the obligation, and decrypt drop accepts the result.
CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding at decrypt.ts:373-375 (22:40Z) is still open and has no reply. I confirmed it at 3ff6002, and the same defect has two more parts:
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NULL_PLAINTEXTrow has the same result. The ciphertext decrypts to an empty value, and the row is skipped, so the stale value stays in the twin. - The forced pass records
decryptedwithforce: true. This closes the obligation, so no later run is forced. An unforced run selects only NULL twins, so no later run reaches these rows.
Probe: 300 rows, the twin set to 'stale@example.com', every tenth row locked, and row 1 set to envelope(null). Then run({ force: true }):
{"completed":true,"skipped":31,"codes":{"NULL_PLAINTEXT":1,"UNKNOWN":30},
"stale":"31","uncovered":"0","obligationOpen":false}
The pass completes. 31 rows keep the stale value, and zero rows match decrypt drop's coverage query (ciphertext IS NOT NULL AND plaintext IS NULL). So drop and its apply-time check both pass, and they drop the only current copy of those 31 values.
The text that the operator reads also says the opposite:
skippedReport(backfill.ts) says the skipped rows "were left with<twin>NULL" and that "stash decrypt droprefuses while any of them remain".skills/stash-cli/SKILL.md:689says "leaves the twin NULL" and "decrypt droprefuses while any remain".:691says the same forNULL_PLAINTEXT. These lines ship to customers.
Fix: in a forced pass, set the twin to NULL for every row that is skipped (failed or NULL_PLAINTEXT). The existing coverage check then blocks drop, and the existing remedies apply. Use the same ciphertext guard as the write. Alternatively, do not record decrypted (and keep the obligation open) while a forced pass has skipped rows. Add an integration test with a stale twin, a locked row and a NULL_PLAINTEXT row.
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- CI does not run the
@cipherstash/migrateintegration suites. They skip unlessPG_TEST_URLis set, and no workflow sets it. All of the obligation tests and the concurrency test pass only on a developer machine. Add a job with a Postgres service that setsPG_TEST_URL. - The PR comment says that the tests were verified at
57b94b0.597089band3ff6002came after that. My run above covers them.
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Summary
We tell buyers that leaving CipherStash is easy: decryption is never charged, decrypt your data and go. Until now the CLI only moved data one way. This adds
stash decrypt status|plan|backfill|drop, the encrypt lifecycle run in reverse, with the same safety rails, on the same engine.Command reference
--columnalways names the column being migrated away from, which here is the encrypted one.--plaintext-columnis the twin; it defaults to the pairing a previous reverse run recorded, then the original name in.cipherstash/migrations.json, then the name without_encrypted, then<column>_plaintext. A flag that contradicts a recorded pairing is refused.encrypt backfill/encrypt drop:--confirm-dual-writes-deployed,--pk-column,--migrations-dir, generic error text for anything not author-controlled.--forceoverwrites plaintext already in the twin from the ciphertext;--confirm-plaintext-currentkeeps it. One of them is required on the first run when the twin already holds values (see "Existing plaintext" below).--chunk-sizeis a whole number from 1 to 32767: each row binds two parameters in the chunk's write, and Postgres allows 65535 per statement.Example (from the live run below):
Design decisions
Shape.
stash decrypt …rather thanencrypt backfill --reverse, as the issue preferred. There is nocutovercommand because the forward EQL v3 lifecycle has none either (it was removed with v2): the application switches reads by name, and bothdecrypt backfill's closing note anddecrypt drop's note say what to change for Drizzle, Prisma Next and plain SQL.decrypt planwrites,encrypt plandoes not. The issue asks plan to add the twins, so with--tableit generates them; with no flags it is the read-only overviewencrypt planis. For Drizzle it prints the schema lines (email: text('email'),,bigint(…, { mode: 'bigint' }),timestamp(…, { withTimezone: true })) fordrizzle-kit generateand writes no file, on purpose: a--customADD COLUMN never reaches drizzle-kit's snapshot, so the nextgeneratewould emit it again and fail with "column already exists" (the trap theeql repairdocs describe). Elsewhere it writes a reviewedADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTSmigration through the same writerencrypt dropuses; Prisma Next gets the contract change to make.Shared code, not a second implementation. The forward keyset loop is extracted into
runChunkedMigrationin@cipherstash/migrate;runBackfillnow runs on it with identical SQL, events and event details (the existing forward integration suite passes unchanged), andrunDecryptBackfillruns on it too. Batch sizing, cursoring, checkpoint-in-the-same-transaction, resume after interruption, signal handling and thetarget IS NULLidempotency guard are therefore literally the same code. The keyset page and pending-count queries are one function with source and target swapped. In the CLI, the migration-file writer, table renderer and PK detection moved toencrypt/liband are used by both families.State. Reverse events (
decrypt_dual_writing,decrypt_started,decrypt_checkpoint,decrypted,encrypted_dropped; phasesdecrypt-dual-writing → decrypting → decrypted → encrypted-dropped) are recorded incs_migrationsagainst the encrypted column, so they never share a timeline or a resume cursor with the forward history under the plaintext name. Every reverse event carriesdetails.plaintextColumn, which is howdecrypt dropknows which column the backfill actually filled.Existing plaintext and forced passes. The backfill only fills rows where the twin is NULL, so values already in the twin would survive, the column would be marked
decrypted, anddecrypt dropwould remove the only current copy. Two rules close that:dropped,decrypt backfillrefuses whatever flags are passed, anddecrypt planwarns that it will. Only one migration may be open on a pair of columns. Abandoning a forward encryption in progress is a separate operation, tracked instash encrypt: no way to abandon a column migration that is still in progress #1221.--force(overwrite) or--confirm-plaintext-current(keep). The choice is recorded ondecrypt_dual_writing.A forced pass is an obligation on the migration, not an option on one run. It opens when
--forceis chosen for a stale twin, or when any forced pass starts, and it closes only when a forced pass completes. While it is open,runDecryptBackfillforces every run, whatever the caller passes. The rule lives in@cipherstash/migrate, not the CLI, so workers that call it directly get it too, and an interrupted overwrite is always finished as one, even if it failed before its first commit.Dual-writes last until the drop is applied. Unlike the forward lifecycle, the application keeps writing both columns after reads move to the plaintext column, until the
decrypt dropmigration has run.--forceand the drop's coverage check both assume the two columns stay in step.decrypt backfill,decrypt plan,decrypt dropand the skills say so.Resume and errors. A run resumes from its last checkpoint, and also after a failed run: the
errorevent records the last committed cursor, so fixing the cause and re-running does not start from the first row. A failed chunk write throwsPlaintextWriteError, which carries the SQLSTATE, column and type but never the database's message. Postgres puts the offending input in cast errors, and here that input is decrypted plaintext, which would otherwise be stored in theerrorevent.Batches and ZeroKMS. Each chunk is one
bulkDecryptcall, so one ZeroKMS request; default 500 rows (--chunk-size).bulkDecrypt(notbulkDecryptModels) because it reports failures per row instead of failing the batch.Lock contexts: documented limitation, no bypass. A value encrypted with an end-user lock context can only be decrypted as that user. With workspace credentials it fails on its own row; the backfill skips it, counts it (per error code), leaves the twin NULL, and reports it in the backfill output, in
cs_migrationsand indecrypt status(UNDECRYPTABLEcolumn). Because those rows still have ciphertext and no plaintext,decrypt droprefuses while any remain, and says why. The remedy (decrypt those rows in the application on each user's behalf, then re-run) is in the output and docs. No admin bypass was added. If the first chunk of a run decrypts nothing, the command stops before writing anything: that is almost always credentials for the wrong workspace/keyset, and carrying on would spend a ZeroKMS request per chunk across the whole table to decrypt nothing.--continue-on-undecryptableopts out for the genuine case.Proxy-only deployments. The backfill loads the encryption client exactly as
encrypt backfilldoes (the project's client file, or the Prisma Next contract), so it decrypts with the same credentials and keyset the application resolves. A proxy-only deployment with no SDK client in the project cannot runencrypt backfilltoday, so it cannot rundecrypt backfilleither. Not addressed here.Type mapping. The inverse of the forward ladder, keyed by domain family (suffixes like
_eq/_ord/_searchonly add query terms):text*→text;integer*,smallint*,bigint*,numeric*,real*→ same;double*→double precision;boolean→boolean;date*→date;timestamp*→timestamptz(EQL's catalog says the family encrypts a UTC instant);jsonandjson_search(searchable JSON) →jsonb.json_entry(a SteVec element, never a column type) and unknown domains returnnulland are refused rather than guessed. A unit test parses the shipped@cipherstash/eqlinstall bundle and asserts everypublic.eql_v3_*column domain maps. The backfill casts each value to the twin's declared type (format_type), so a hand-chosenvarchar(255)works too. Note: the forwardencrypt plandoes not do type mapping (it only diffs the manifest), so this mapping is new rather than an inversion of existing code; it mirrorseql-domains.Indexes.
decrypt droplists every index that depends on the encrypted column viapg_depend(so EQL functional indexes likeeql_v3.eq_term(col)are found, not just plain column indexes), drops them explicitly inside the migration, and names them in the output.Drop safety. Gated on the
decryptedphase, on the RECORDED pairing (a different, fully populated column would make the coverage check pass vacuously, the #772 failure mode in reverse), and on live coverage. The generated migration re-checks coverage at apply time underACCESS EXCLUSIVE, inside oneDOblock with every DDL viaEXECUTE, so a failed check drops nothing even under plainpsql -f. Generating the drop does not edit.cipherstash/migrations.json: the file has not run yet, and its apply-time check can still abort it. Meanwhileencrypt statusshows the entry asreversedinstead of as drift, and the drop's closing note tells the user to remove the entry once the migration is applied.--uninstall-eql. Allowed only when this is the last EQL v3 column in the whole database, checked when generating and again at apply time (the uninstall cascades). It runs@cipherstash/eql's own uninstall script, then drops thepublic.eql_v3_*column domains, which that script deliberately leaves behind (they live outside the disposable schemas so upgrades never touch columns).cipherstash.cs_migrationsis kept as the audit trail.Test evidence
Re-run locally at
57b94b031, the head of this branch:@cipherstash/migratetests withPG_TEST_URL(local dockerpostgres:17)decrypt.integration.test.tsadds resume after a failed run, safe write errors, the 32767-row chunk, and the forced-pass obligation: opened by a started pass, opened by a--forceacknowledgement, closed by a completed passstashunit projectstashtsc --noEmit, decrypt filesFrom the first push (
bca02b6a5), not re-run since review:stashtests incl. live suites (STASH_TEST_DATABASE_URL, fresh DB)decrypt-sql.live.test.ts, which executes the generated plan/drop SQL with hostile identifiers and proves the apply-time aborts drop nothingstashe2e (test:e2e, built CLI in a pty)stashtsc --noEmitmain(all pre-existing; none in touched code)lint:*gates,test:scriptstsup)@cipherstash/migrateandstashbuildLive round trip with real ZeroKMS (from the first push; local docker Postgres, the dev
~/.cipherstashprofile, 30 rows, outside the repo):eql install→encrypt backfill×3 (text_search, integer_ord, json_search) →encrypt drop×3, applied →decrypt plan→decrypt backfill×3 (chunk 7) → table dumped and diffed byte-identical to the original (including a NULL row) →decrypt drop(dropped the EQLeq_termindex;--uninstall-eqlcorrectly refused while 2 columns remained) → last drop with--uninstall-eql, applied → plaintext table intact, 0 EQL types and noeql_v3*schemas left. Lock-context skipping was not exercised live (needs an end-user JWT); it is covered by the stub-client integration tests.languages/typescript/packages/cli/scripts/e2e-encrypt.sh(manual, needs credentials) now continues into the reverse leg and checks the decrypted plaintext matches the original values. I did not run that script itself (it assumes a local superuser Postgres on the default socket); the live run above follows the same steps.Known limitations
decrypt dropblocks until they are resolved in the application.encrypt backfill.--pk-columnworkaround).numericvalues come back through the SDK's JS number representation, as they went in through the forward backfill's coercion; precision beyond float64 was already gone.decrypt dropscaffolds a--custommigration exactly asencrypt dropdoes; when the user then deletes the encrypted column fromschema.ts, the nextdrizzle-kit generateemits a DROP COLUMN that must be deleted. The command says so.decrypt status/plancover the current schema only, asencrypt statusdoes.Spotted, not changed:
encrypt backfill --chunk-size abcpassesNaNthrough (no validation);decrypt backfillvalidates its own. #1194 addsparseChunkSizefor encrypt; the two should be reconciled once both land.Changes since the first review
PlaintextWriteError).--forceor--confirm-plaintext-current.decrypt statusderives the twin name with the same rules asdecrypt plan.encrypt statusshows it asreversed.@cipherstash/migrate, which fixes the case where a--forcepass failed before its first commit.ForcedPassIncompleteErroris removed; it was never released.The longer-term restructuring the review pointed to is in #1217, with the glossary and decision record in #1220, abort in #1221 and shared direction logic in #1222.
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stash decryptcommands to check migration status, plan plaintext columns, backfill data in resumable chunks, and generate migrations to remove encrypted columns.