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Make secret file writes owner-only and working on Windows - #1004

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write_secret_file stores the duress recipients and freeze, the OPRF share and the LUKS key. On Windows it failed and was not owner-only:

  • It fsyncs the parent directory after the rename by opening it as a file, which Windows refuses with Access is denied, so every write returned an error after the file was already in place. The Windows build on main has failed on this since the duress recipients tests landed.
  • The owner-only 0600 mode is Unix-only, so on Windows the file took whatever access its directory passes down.

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  • On Windows the temp file is created with an owner-only DACL marked protected, so nothing is inherited from the directory, using CREATE_NEW with FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT so an existing name or link is never reused or followed. The crash-dump writer shares this code and now also gets a protected DACL.
  • On Windows the temp file replaces the target with MoveFileExW(MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING | MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH) in place of the rename and directory fsync; Unix is unchanged.
  • CI runs the Windows tests on pull requests, without the release build that took most of that job's time (the release workflow builds the Windows binaries).

Tests: a new Windows test checks that a created file has exactly one ACE, a protected DACL, and refuses an existing name; it passes on the Windows runner in this PR's CI. The secret-file round-trip, payload and stale-temp tests now run on Windows too, and the three duress recipients tests that failed on Windows pass.

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After renaming a secret file, the code syncs its containing directory only on Unix. Unix directory-open or sync failures still return a runtime error.

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Secret-file directory sync

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Unix directory sync
keep-cli/src/commands/frost_network/mod.rs
The code opens and syncs the containing directory after rename only on Unix. Failures to open or sync it still return a runtime error.

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Windows enrollment can acknowledge a stored share without assurance that it will survive power loss. Establish a durable Windows write path before merging, or explicitly accept that risk.

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- Line 1357: Update write_secret_file so Windows does not report success after a
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@kwsantiago kwsantiago changed the title Sync the parent directory of secret files only on Unix Make secret file writes work and stay durable on Windows Oct 6, 2026
@kwsantiago kwsantiago changed the title Make secret file writes work and stay durable on Windows Make secret file writes owner-only and working on Windows Oct 7, 2026
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