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feat(stack-encrypt): add owned scalar ciphertext API - #1404
The direct Rust API previously required an AAD argument and returned a structural node even for one integer. This implements the first owned scalar slice of the staged API redesign in #1365:
let encrypted = keyset.encrypt(42i32).await?;let value:i32 = keyset.decrypt(encrypted).await?;let encrypted:Ciphertext = 42i32.encrypt_into_with_context(&keyset,("users","age")).await?;let value = i32::decrypt_from_with_context(
encrypted,&cipher,("users","age"),).await?;
EncryptTarget and DecryptSource declare operations; owned EncryptInto and destination-directed DecryptFrom execute them through the existing batched engine. Explicit context capabilities control method availability. Encryption holds the owned source in Vitamin C's Protected, plans synchronously through a borrow, and wipes that owner before returning the pending request, including errors and context-conversion unwinding. Direct borrowed KeysetCipher::run calls leave source cleanup to the caller. Returned plaintext also belongs to the caller; this does not promise compiler-copy erasure.
Ciphertext uses the unchanged SealedValue v1 envelope, with canonical byte and Serde encodings, provider key_tag access, and derived OpaqueDebug. Both writing directions cross-open with the structural API. The scalar bridge forwards Vitamin C's DEPTH and FIXED metadata; regression tests hold fixed-width nullable padding.
Migration and scope
Structural keyset methods are encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree. Client StackCipher::decrypt remains structural; use destination-directed T::decrypt_from(ciphertext, &cipher) for an owned scalar. The original breaking-change footer uses the final tree names.
Existing derives retain the borrowed target::legacy::{EncryptInto, DecryptFrom} helpers. Their documentation now names those imports explicitly.
Scalars cover bool, fixed-width signed integers, u16–u128, f32/f64 and owned String. Collections, borrowed plaintext and Option<T> remain outside this slice. Nullable values use the tree API; u8 remains deferred because Vitamin C's byte-buffer and element specializations overlap.
Context policy belongs to the operation. Mapping an opaque scalar into a wrapper preserves its optional-context policy and authenticated bytes. EQL ciphertext and term constructors still require nonempty context. ADR-0003 documents this boundary, with regression coverage for mapped context authentication.
The scalar example initializes a production ZeroKMS client. Rustdoc includes a compiling owned ScalarContext example.
1,069 tests passed across stack-encrypt and stack-encrypt-derive, including the compile-fail suite rechecked without snapshot overwrite. One existing ignored test remains.
59 doctests passed.
All-target/all-feature Clippy and rustdoc passed with warnings denied; formatting and the no-default-features build passed.
The ZeroKMS scalar example compiles. No live ZeroKMS or PostgreSQL tests were run in this review pass.
Added scalar encryption and decryption for supported owned values, with optional context and opaque ciphertext that can be serialized to bytes or common formats.
Added owned conversion APIs with explicit context requirements; encryption consumes plaintext and wipes it.
Changes
Renamed structural encryption and decryption methods to encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree, distinguishing them from scalar APIs. Nullable values remain supported through the tree APIs.
Updated Rust examples and migration notes to reflect the API changes.
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The Rust crate adds owned scalar encryption and decryption APIs that use opaque Ciphertext, while structural encryption and decryption use encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree. The change adds context-input capabilities, updates public exports, and revises callers, tests, examples, and release notes.
New types distinguish omitted, required, and optional caller context. The ADR describes the scalar empty-context path. The mutation configuration excludes a mutant for the default declared-context conversion.
Opaque scalar ciphertext and core integration packages/stack-encrypt/src/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/core.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs
Adds supported scalar encode/decode traits, the single-leaf Ciphertext wrapper, byte and Serde representations, and scalar encryption/decryption methods. The core adds opaque-context entry points while native entry points retain nonempty-context requirements.
Owned target conversions and exports packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/conversion.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/mod.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/lib.rs
Adds owned EncryptTarget and DecryptSource declarations and blanket EncryptInto and DecryptFrom conversions. The previous borrowed conversion traits move under target::legacy; exports and crate documentation describe the APIs.
Structural API rename and caller updates packages/stack-encrypt/src/cipher.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/src/dynamic/*, packages/stack-encrypt/src/plan/*, packages/stack-encrypt/examples/*, packages/eql/tests/encryption/tests/*, packages/stack-encrypt/tests/*
Renames structural methods to encrypt_tree and decrypt_tree. Existing examples and tests use those names, and legacy conversion imports use target::legacy.
Scalar API validation and release support packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/tests/ui/scalar_*, packages/stack-encrypt/examples/scalar.rs, packages/stack-encrypt/Cargo.toml, packages/stack-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md, .changeset/*
Adds scalar API tests and compile-fail cases for unsupported inputs, context requirements, and consumed values. Adds an example, test dependency, changelog entry, and release note.
The scalar API has no established merge-blocking defect. A small test improvement would strengthen coverage of supplied context values.
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The title "feat(stack-encrypt): add owned scalar ciphertext API" matches the main change. The PR adds an owned scalar encryption and decryption API that returns an opaque Ciphertext, with context-aware variants, and the scalar scope is the core of the changeset. The title is concise and uses the conventional commit scope and type. It does not mention the renames to encrypt_tree/decrypt_tree or the legacy trait move, but these are secondary to the primary change.
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Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 28 functions across 40 files. (5 skipped: 5 unsupported.)
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This reviews commit 9a44074b6 against origin/next. The spec is the plan doc docs/plans/2026-10-24-stack-encrypt-api-plan.md on docs/stack-encrypt-api-review, since #1365 only links to it.
Standards
Hard violations
No CHANGELOG entry for a breaking change. The commit is feat(encrypt)!, but packages/stack-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md has no Unreleased → Breaking bullet. Three things break:
KeysetCipher::encrypt / decrypt now take a value and return Ciphertext. The old forms were renamed.
The root EncryptInto / DecryptFrom are now different traits. The old ones are only in target::legacy.
encrypt_native / open_native no longer require NonEmpty.
Wrong error for a shape mismatch.Ciphertext::from_node maps any node that isn't a single leaf to Error::Aead (src/scalar.rs:78). ADR-0010 and AGENTS.md "Known non-findings" say a shape refusal is Error::OpenedType, never Aead. No current caller can reach it.
Documented-standard concerns (judgement calls)
ADR-0001/0003 say the target-directed path enforces a non-empty context by type. OptionalContext<ScalarContext>, plus dropping NonEmpty from encrypt_native / open_native, moves that guarantee to each call site. No ADR records the change.
CONTEXT.md vocabulary: "node" (encrypt_node, from_node) isn't a glossary term.
Roadmap prose in published rustdoc (lib.rs: "will be added in subsequent API slices") will go stale.
Smells (judgement calls)
Speculative Generality: library code never uses RequiredContext or NoCallerContext, only tests do. This is mild, since the plan asks for both.
Mysterious Name: two traits each called EncryptInto and DecryptFrom, kept apart only by a doc comment.
Middle Man: the four KeysetCipher scalar methods are one-line forwards to encrypt_into / decrypt_from.
Duplicated Code: each method and its _with_context twin repeat the same body in target/conversion.rs.
Spec
Matches: the keyset method names and shapes, EncryptTarget / DecryptSource, the three context types (with compile-fail tests), Default never granting omission, wiping the source with Zeroizing and no Clone bound, a safe Debug, and unchanged frozen vectors.
Missing or partial
No Serde on Ciphertext. The plan says "human-readable Serde as Base64 of those bytes, binary Serde as bytes". The PR's deferred list doesn't cover it.
The cross-opening tests open bytes written by encrypt_node in the same build. No frozen bytes go through Ciphertext::from_bytes, so "opens old-writer bytes" is untested.
The plan says to remove the competing ciphertext method and the redundant public encrypt_as. Both are still there, which may be fine if the deferred derive migration covers them.
Implemented, but looks wrong
The accessor is tag() (src/scalar.rs:72). The plan asks for "an accessor explicitly named key_tag", so it can't be confused with the AEAD tag. The crate is published, so the name gets locked in.
Scalar is sealed (src/scalar.rs:24). The accepted decision names this capability OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, and says "A custom type can explicitly implement the single-value encoding capability". Sealing rules that out.
The same Error::Aead mapping as Standards finding 2.
Beyond the spec
Removing NonEmpty. The plan says search targets "require a nonempty effective context". That now rests on the callers' validated() alone, and no test shows a searchable target still rejects an empty context.
CI
The mutants gate missed three mutants:
Debug for Ciphertext → Ok(())
OptionalContext::into_inner → None
From<NoCallerContext> for DeclaredContext → Default::default()
Pushed 5b9f4bd, rebased onto the latest next. It addresses the review above:
encrypt_node / decrypt_node are now encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree.
The sealed Scalar trait is now OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, the names the plan accepted. Both stay sealed; letting outside types implement them can be added later without breaking anything.
tag() is now key_tag().
Ciphertext has Serde: Base64 text in formats like JSON, raw bytes in binary formats.
A tree that isn't a single value now fails with Error::OpenedType instead of Aead.
NonEmpty is back on the shared encrypt/open core. The scalar path uses its own entry that allows empty context, and ADR-0003 records that exception.
A new test pins bytes written by the build from before this PR and opens them through Ciphertext::from_bytes.
New tests kill the Debug and OptionalContext::into_inner mutants. The NoCallerContext mutant can't be told apart from the real code, so it is excluded in .cargo/mutants.toml.
The CHANGELOG has Breaking entries now, and the roadmap prose is gone from the rustdoc.
Not changed: encrypt_as and the target::legacy traits are still public, waiting on the derive migration.
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Source: Claude Code /code-review medium with cross-check of findings against existing PR feedback, run on head 302aaf9.
Critical or blocking issues: none.
Findings: 1 minor (inline on scalar.rs:126: uncapped Vec::with_capacity from the deserializer's size_hint in Ciphertext's visit_seq; the crate's existing reserved() cap shows the convention). It was verified at head and is not raised in the existing feedback.
Existing feedback: the earlier two-axis review's findings were addressed in 5b9f4bdf6. I found nothing further on those points.
Not covered: I did not run the test suite or CI. Codex review was still running when this review was posted.
Add a mismatched-context check to the required-context test.
required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine encrypts and decrypts with the same 0u64. A conversion that ignores the required value passes this test. Decrypt the ciphertext with a different u64 and assert that decryption fails.
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Review comment at @packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs around lines 145 -
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Update required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine to assert that decrypting
ciphertext with a different u64 context fails. Preserve the existing
same-context round-trip assertion, re-encrypting if needed to avoid consuming
the ciphertext.
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Review comments at @packages/stack-encrypt/src/target/operations.rs:
- Around line 467-468: Restrict the optional-context path exposed by
scalar_ciphertext() so it can only produce the scalar Ciphertext output;
Encryption::map must not let custom targets retain omitted-context encryption
after mapping to another type. Keep the existing optional-context behavior for
Ciphertext and require nonempty context for mapped outputs.
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Review comments at @packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs:
- Around line 145-161: Update required_context_target_uses_the_same_engine to
assert that decrypting ciphertext with a different u64 context fails. Preserve
the existing same-context round-trip assertion, re-encrypting if needed to avoid
consuming the ciphertext.
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Use a nonzero required context in the round-trip test.
The test encrypts and opens BoundInteger with 0u64, the default value of u64. A regression that replaces the supplied context with zero would still pass this test. Use a nonzero value so the test confirms that the supplied context reaches the scalar operation.
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Review comment at @packages/stack-encrypt/tests/scalar.rs at line 148:
Update the BoundInteger round-trip test to use the same nonzero context value
for encryption and decryption, so it verifies the supplied context reaches both
scalar operations.
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BREAKING CHANGE: keyset encrypt/decrypt use opaque Ciphertext and separate
context methods. Structural calls move to encrypt_tree/decrypt_tree;
borrowed conversion helpers move to target::legacy.
Declare owned conversions with EncryptTarget/DecryptSource and explicit
context capabilities. Guard plaintext during planning and preserve the
existing sealed-leaf bytes and Go/dynamic execution paths.
- Rename the structural entry points encrypt_node / decrypt_node to
encrypt_tree / decrypt_tree.
- Rename the sealed Scalar trait to OpaqueEncode / OpaqueDecode, the
names the API plan accepted. Both stay sealed.
- Rename Ciphertext::tag to key_tag, so it cannot be read as the AEAD tag.
- Give Ciphertext Serde: padded Base64 in human-readable formats, raw
bytes in binary ones.
- Report a non-single tree as Error::OpenedType, not Error::Aead
(ADR-0010).
- Restore NonEmpty on the shared encrypt/open core. The scalar path
reaches the core through its own entry that allows empty context, and
ADR-0003 records the exception.
- Open bytes written by the pre-scalar build through Ciphertext.
- Kill the three mutants CI missed. The NoCallerContext conversion is
equivalent and is excluded.
- Add the CHANGELOG Breaking entries and drop roadmap prose from rustdoc.
Use Vitamin C protection and encoding metadata, clarify the staged API and context guarantees, and exercise nullable padding and mapped scalar authentication.
Refs #1404, #1468
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Closes #1470.
The direct Rust API previously required an AAD argument and returned a structural node even for one integer. This implements the first owned scalar slice of the staged API redesign in #1365:
EncryptTargetandDecryptSourcedeclare operations; ownedEncryptIntoand destination-directedDecryptFromexecute them through the existing batched engine. Explicit context capabilities control method availability. Encryption holds the owned source in Vitamin C'sProtected, plans synchronously through a borrow, and wipes that owner before returning the pending request, including errors and context-conversion unwinding. Direct borrowedKeysetCipher::runcalls leave source cleanup to the caller. Returned plaintext also belongs to the caller; this does not promise compiler-copy erasure.Ciphertextuses the unchanged SealedValue v1 envelope, with canonical byte and Serde encodings, providerkey_tagaccess, and derivedOpaqueDebug. Both writing directions cross-open with the structural API. The scalar bridge forwards Vitamin C'sDEPTHandFIXEDmetadata; regression tests hold fixed-width nullable padding.Migration and scope
encrypt_tree/decrypt_tree. ClientStackCipher::decryptremains structural; use destination-directedT::decrypt_from(ciphertext, &cipher)for an owned scalar. The original breaking-change footer uses the final tree names.target::legacy::{EncryptInto, DecryptFrom}helpers. Their documentation now names those imports explicitly.Option<T>remain outside this slice. Nullable values use the tree API; u8 remains deferred because Vitamin C's byte-buffer and element specializations overlap.ScalarContextexample.Validation
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encrypt_treeanddecrypt_tree, distinguishing them from scalar APIs. Nullable values remain supported through the tree APIs.