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Summary

Completes Issue #50 PR-7: Final hardening and cleanups with comprehensive security documentation and tests to ensure no PII leakage.

This is the final PR of the Issue #50 multi-tenant encryption epic.

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📚 Comprehensive Security Documentation

Enhanced README with production-grade security documentation:

Encryption Architecture:

  • Key hierarchy (KEK → DEK/idx_key)
  • Encrypted fields storage format (JSON with ciphertext + nonce)
  • Blind index mechanism (HMAC-SHA256)

Security Guarantees:

  • ✅ Database compromise protection
  • ✅ Cross-tenant isolation
  • ✅ Unauthorized API access prevention

Known Limitations:

  • ⚠️ FTS leakage (note_tsv contains plaintext tokens)
  • ⚠️ Blind index frequency analysis
  • ⚠️ Application-level access (by design)

Key Rotation:

  • Command documentation (keys:rotate-kek, keys:rotate-dek, idx:rebuild)
  • Best practices (annual KEK rotation, DEK rotation on offboarding)
  • Backup procedures

🔐 Security Hardening Tests

New test suite: SecurityHardeningTest.php (7 tests, 46 assertions)

No Plaintext in Database:

  • ✅ Encrypted fields contain only JSON ciphertext (no plaintext)
  • ✅ Blind indexes are HMAC hashes (no plaintext)
  • ✅ Tenant keys are properly wrapped (no plain DEK/idx_key)

No Plaintext in Logs:

  • ✅ Person creation doesn't log PII
  • ✅ Person updates don't log PII
  • ✅ Exception messages don't expose plaintext

API Response Security:

  • ✅ JSON responses hide *_enc and *_idx fields

📊 Quality Metrics

  • Tests: 114 passing (332 assertions) ✅
    • 107 existing tests (still passing)
    • 7 new security hardening tests
  • PHPStan: Level 9, 0 errors ✅
  • Pint: PSR-12 compliant (61 files) ✅
  • LOC: ~281 new lines (under 600 limit) ✅
  • Coverage: All security requirements tested

Issue #50 Completion

This PR completes the entire Issue #50 implementation:

All acceptance criteria from Issue #50 met:

  • ✅ All PRs green in CI
  • ✅ DRY principles followed
  • ✅ API-only with Sanctum + Spatie Teams
  • ✅ Multi-tenant scope enforced
  • ✅ No plaintext in DB/logs/responses (tested)
  • ✅ Rotation commands exist & tested
  • ✅ Small PRs (~400-600 LOC)
  • ✅ TDD approach throughout

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Checklist

  • TDD approach followed
  • All tests passing (114/114)
  • PHPStan Level 9 clean
  • Pint PSR-12 compliant
  • Security documentation complete
  • No plaintext leakage (tested)
  • Key rotation documented
  • FTS leakage warning documented
  • Operational security best practices documented

🎉 Issue #50 Epic Complete! The SecPal API now has production-grade multi-tenant envelope encryption with comprehensive security documentation and test coverage.

- Add comprehensive security documentation to README
  - Key hierarchy explanation (KEK, DEK, idx_key)
  - Encryption architecture details
  - Security guarantees and known limitations (FTS leakage, blind index frequency)
  - Operational security best practices
  - Key rotation documentation with command examples

- Implement security hardening tests (7 new tests, 46 assertions)
  - No plaintext in database (encrypted fields, blind indexes, wrapped keys)
  - No plaintext in logs (creation, updates, exceptions)
  - API responses do not expose sensitive fields

- All 114 tests passing (332 assertions)
- PHPStan Level 9 clean
- Pint PSR-12 compliant
- TDD approach followed

Closes #50 (PR-7)
Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings November 2, 2025 01:21
@kevalyq kevalyq merged commit a586de9 into main Nov 2, 2025
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@kevalyq kevalyq deleted the feat/pr-7-hardening-cleanups branch November 2, 2025 01:22
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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds comprehensive security hardening tests and detailed encryption architecture documentation for SecPal's multi-tenant envelope encryption system.

  • Verifies encrypted fields and blind indexes never contain plaintext in the database
  • Ensures sensitive PII is not exposed in application logs or exception messages
  • Confirms API responses properly hide encrypted fields and indexes

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File Description
tests/Feature/SecurityHardeningTest.php New test suite verifying encryption, logging, and API serialization security properties
README.md Added key rotation commands, encryption architecture details, and security considerations documentation

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