microtunnel-server

microtunnel-server

microtunnel-server is an express based library to enable post-quantum protected communication between apps (it must be used with microtunnel-client). You can send any JSON-serializable data. It also uses supersphincs for app authentication, kyber-crystals for asymmetric encryption and symcryptor for symmetric encryption.

Installation

npm i microtunnel-server

Usage

First, you have to create app credentials and save them in a json file. Enter in module path typing cd path-to-your-project/node-modules/microtunnel-server and then run npm run -s cred-generate > ../../appCred.json to save the credentials in your project root.

// appCred.json
{
    // Supersphincs keys base-64 encoded
    "publicKey": "X67kzs9zrKfbayvF5SIsulZzfUYHeTm6BoFTD/BWiryIcOWcaR8d6M4LpaOylCi4DqY59ABNt1nNnfFZjG4akE4hcKaMyx5ar9Uds2Op687uecLGWb0n6W+voSDKzMS8",
    "privateKey": "A7sP+3n8KCPgXw7VjziPHZHyDL3eavr6iRn1ampyONlfruTOz3Osp9trK8XlIiy6VnN9Rgd5OboGgVMP8FaKvKggCD7A59Lp4M3LaA9XQi8P+SppMxTmapwjfKVJMacSA0fQnqLZ2m/MP3/YcnyG1TH+RFyEM4O/fE7kxB1/fF+IcOWcaR8d6M4LpaOylCi4DqY59ABNt1nNnfFZjG4akE4hcKaMyx5ar9Uds2Op687uecLGWb0n6W+voSDKzMS8",

    // Random bytes base-64 encoded for ID
    "agent": "285gWsTqj3Gza+3AxJn1qrWzAvf/Lf5i"
}

Then you have to create a JSON file containing clients info. In this example we have two apps named frontEnd and sessions:

// authClients.json
{
    "frontEnd": {
        // Client IP
        "ip": "127.0.0.1",

        // The Agent ID of the App
        "agent": "TvjXC2wCNbDS/+sURWP1Oi1lsTKW3ZqT",

        // Supersphincs public key of the client base-64 encoded
        "publicKey": "VvYTfCAhiEDW3abLLhO2ane27HMivnNSLjfKxd4jnOiGCOW0UEXjjacgoZrn/BPvNv+bmerLr0HB+71X2+Eh5NXH2JO6kAoM+SCQblUk3gDyqRbVbYkg/RSCl/6oe0wY"
    },
    "sessions": {
        // Client IP
        "ip": "192.168.0.3",

        // The Agent ID of the App
        "agent": "vwoA1JzkT6d7SXjIBoZ2egYlSn6Ajzge",

        // Supersphincs public key of the client base-64 encoded
        "publicKey": "rPyoqSZrNNUVpjKdhGLDD4sjXd8lgIgnRBY2NP5n8PDDLSvoLoD5n4GjaxbAfSDjagBjN8zztUQTNG1EKO9IgpgTLkfkTkhWqdgkC/K3EQLh6AMCZ8snlnles2QrbHAy"
    }
}

Then you can require the module and load it in your express app:

const express = require( 'express' );
const app = express();
require( 'microtunnel-server' )( app,
    {
        appCredFile: 'appCred.json',
        authClientsFile: 'authClients.json'
    }
);

// This is a standard express GET route
app.get( '/page/:id', ( req, res ) => {
    const pageId = req.params.id;
    res.json( `Received pageId: ${pageId} via public route` );
} );

// This is an authenticated express GET route for every client in authClients.json
app.authGet( true, '/page/:id', ( req, res ) => {
    const pageId = req.params.id;
    res.json( `Received pageId: ${pageId} via autheticated route from ${req.tunnelClt.name}` );
} );

// This is an authenticated express POST route limited to 'frontEnd' client in authClients.json
app.authPost( 'frontEnd', '/another-route', ( req, res ) => {
    const data = req.body;
    res.json( { receivedData: data } );
} )

app.listen( 3000, '0.0.0.0' );

Configuration

require( 'microtunnel-server' )( app, options )

Paramaters

• app Required - An Express app/router instance
• options Optional - An object containing custom configuration:
  • api Optional - Root path for microtunnel (note: must be the same for clients) - Default '/microtunnel'
  • resetMinutes Optional - Max duration for any session in minutes - Default 15
  • appCredFile Optional - Relative path of the credentials file - Default: enviroment var APP_CRED
  • authClientsFile Optional - Relative path of the autherized clients file - Default: enviroment var AUTH_CLTS

Methods

app.authGet

app.authGet( clientName: String | Array | true, route: String, callback: Function [, ...callback: Function] )

Parameters

• clientName Required - To grant access to route only for authorized clients you can set it as a string containing client name or as an array of these. Otherwise you can authorize every clients setting it to true
• route Required - The path for which the middleware function is invoked in Express-style
• callback Required - Callback functions that accept req, res and next

app.authPost

app.authPost( clientName: String | Array | true, route: String, callback: Function [, ...callback: Function] )

Parameters

• clientName Required - To grant access to route only for authorized clients you can set it as a string containing client name or as an array of these. Otherwise you can authorize every clients setting it to true
• route Required - The path for which the middleware function is invoked in Express-style
• callback Required - Callback functions that accept req, res and next

Note

• Request body will always be decrypted for POST method
• You can call req.tunnelClt to show current client properties
• Both res.send and res.json will decrypt data sent to clients but microtunnel-client auto-parses from JSON so use res.json
• Since every communication is encrypted you can call res.json once for each request
• app.use will not affect microtunnel routes
• The POST routes /microtunnel/auth1 and /microtunnel/auth2 are reserved (these will change if you changed default root microtunnel path)