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EOSIO SDK for Swift: Vault

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EOSIO SDK for Swift: Vault consists of two main components; Vault and Vault Signature Provider.

Vault is a utility library for working with public/private keys and signing with Apple’s Keychain and Secure Enclave. It exposes key generation, management and signing functions that can be called directly.

Vault Signature Provider is a pluggable signature provider for EOSIO SDK for Swift that depends on Vault. It allows for signing transactions using keys stored in Keychain or the device’s Secure Enclave.

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About Signature Providers

The Signature Provider abstraction is arguably the most useful of all of the EOSIO SDK for Swift providers. It is responsible for:

  • finding out what keys are available for signing (getAvailableKeys), and
  • requesting and obtaining transaction signatures with a subset of the available keys (signTransaction).

By simply switching out the signature provider on a transaction, signature requests can be routed any number of ways. Need a signature from keys in the platform’s Keychain or Secure Enclave? Configure the EosioTransaction with this signature provider. Need software signing? Take a look at the Softkey Signature Provider component of EOSIO SDK for Swift.

All signature providers must conform to the EosioSignatureProviderProtocol Protocol.

Prerequisites

  • Xcode 11 or higher
  • CocoaPods 1.9.3 or higher
  • Swift Package Manager 5.2 or higher
  • For iOS, iOS 12.0+

Swift Package Manager Installation

If you are using Vault as part of Vault Signature Provider, Vault will be installed automatically as a dependency.

If you wish to use Vault Signature Provider, add the EosioSwiftVaultSignatureProvider product from https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio-swift-vault to your application dependencies.

Or to include it into a library, add the following to your Package.swift definition:

// swift-tools-version:5.2
// The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package.

import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "MyName",
    platforms: [
        .iOS(.v12)
    ],
    products: [
        // Products define the executables and libraries produced by a package, and make them visible to other packages.
        .library(
            name: "MyLibrary",
            targets: ["MyLibrary"]),
    ],
    dependencies: [
        // Dependencies declare other packages that this package depends on.
        // .package(url: /* package url */, from: "1.0.0"),
        .package(name: "EosioSwiftVault", url: "https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio-swift-vault", from: "1.0.0"))
    ],
    targets: [
        // Targets are the basic building blocks of a package. A target can define a module or a test suite.
        // Targets can depend on other targets in this package, and on products in packages which this package depends on.
        .target(
            name: "MyLibrary",
            dependencies: [
                .product(name: "EosioSwiftVaultSignatureProvider", package: "EosioSwiftVault")
        ]),
        .testTarget(
            name: "MyLibraryTests",
            dependencies: ["MyLibrary"]),
    ]
)

If you only want the Vault component, you can substitute EosioSwiftVault for the EosioSwiftVaultSignatureProvider in the product name definition in your dependencies.

CocoaPods Installation

Vault and Vault Signature provider are separated as subspecs in Cocoapods. If you install the entire pod from EOSIO SDK for Swift: Vault you will get both the Vault Signature Provider and Vault. Vault will be installed automatically as a dependency. To do this, add the following to your Podfile:

use_frameworks!

target "Your Target" do
  pod "EosioSwiftVault", "~> 1.0.0"
end

Then run pod install.

If you wish to use only Vault directly, add the following pods to your Podfile:

use_frameworks!

target "Your Target" do
  pod "EosioSwiftVault/Vault", "~> 1.0.0"
end

Then run pod install.

Additional Installation Steps

If you are using the Vault Signature Provider component there are some additional steps to follow after integrating with your package manager.

You must also configure your application as a member of an App Group. See Apple’s documentation here for instructions on enabling and configuring the App Group Capability in Xcode.

Now Vault Signature Provider is ready for use within EOSIO SDK for Swift according to the EOSIO SDK for Swift Basic Usage instructions.

Vault Signature Provider Usage

Generally, signature providers are called by EosioTransaction during signing. (See an example here.) If you find, however, that you need to get available keys or request signing directly, this library can be invoked as follows:

let signProvider = try? EosioVaultSignatureProvider(accessGroup: "YOUR_ACCESS_GROUP")
let publicKeysArray = signProvider?.getAvailableKeys() // Returns the public keys.

Learn more about Access Groups here.

To sign an EosioTransaction, create an EosioTransactionSignatureRequest object and call the EosioVaultSignatureProvider.signTransaction(request:completion:) method with the request:

var signRequest = EosioTransactionSignatureRequest()
signRequest.serializedTransaction = serializedTransaction
signRequest.publicKeys = publicKeys
signRequest.chainId = chainId

signProvider.signTransaction(request: signRequest) { (response) in
    ...
}

Vault Signature Provider Library Methods

This library is an implementation of EosioSignatureProviderProtocol. It implements the following protocol methods:

To initialize the implementation:

Other Keychain and/or Secure Enclave functionality can be accessed by calling methods directly on the Vault component, which is included with Vault Signature Provider as a dependency.

Vault Usage

If you wish, Vault can be worked with directly, rather than through Vault Signature Provider. The following sections describe the main components of Vault and how to interact with them.

EosioVault

The primary class for interacting with the EOSIO SDK for Swift: Vault is EosioVault. An instance of EosioVault is instantiated with an accessGroup as follows:

import EosioSwiftVault

let vault = EosioVault(accessGroup: accessGroup)

The accessGroup is an App Group Identifier or a Keychain Access Group Identifier that allows the keys to be shared between different apps and app extensions in the same developer account.

Key Generation

The Vault library exposes functions to generate new EOSIO keys. New keys can either be generated and stored in the device’s Secure Enclave or the Keychain. Note: If the key is stored in Secure Enclave, it is not possible to directly access or export the private key.

Important: Currently key metadata must conform to the rules for conversion by JSONSerialization. Failure to do so will result in application errors.

To create a key in Secure Enclave:

let newKey = try vault.newVaultKey(secureEnclave: true, protection: .whenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly, bioFactor: .none, metadata: [String: Any])

or use the convenience function:

let newKey = try vault.newSecureEnclaveKey(bioFactor: .none, metadata: [String: Any])

To create a key in Keychain:

let newKey = try vault.newVaultKey(secureEnclave: false, protection: .whenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly, bioFactor: .none, metadata: [String: Any])

The bioFactor is the type of biometric security that will be required by the keychain to sign messages with this key. The metadata can be any data you want to associate with this key. protection is the accessibility to use for the key.

Each of the above functions will return an EosioVault.VaultKey. To access the EOSIO public and private keys:

let publicKey = newKey.eosioPublicKey
let privateKey = newKey.eosioPrivateKey

For Secure Enclave keys the eosioPrivateKey is nil as it cannot be accessed.

Signing

In most cases, signing is handled via the Vault Signature Provider component. However, a message can also be signed directly with an instance of EosioVault:

let signature = vault.sign(message: message, eosioPublicKey: publicKey, requireBio: true) { (signature, error) in
    // handle signature or error
}

Biometric requirements can be set as part of the key, itself, or enforced as a separate software check. The requireBio flag will require biometric identification to sign with this key, even if the key does not require it. However, setting the requireBio to false will not disable biometric identification if required by the key.

Key Management

The Vault library exposes functions to get existing keys, add external keys, delete keys and modify metadata for existing keys.

To get a single VaultKey for an EOSIO public key:

let key = try getVaultKey(eosioPublicKey: publicKey)

To get an array of all keys:

let keys = try getAllVaultKeys()

To add an external key to the Keychain with the private key:

try vault.addExternal(eosioPrivateKey: privateKey, metadata: [String: Any])

To delete a key:

try deleteKey(eosioPublicKey: publicKey)

To update an existing key, update the metadata property and then:

update(key: myKey)

Documentation

Please refer to the generated code documentation at https://eosio.github.io/eosio-swift-vault or by cloning this repo. Vault documentation can be referenced by opening the docs/EosioSwiftVault/index.html file in your browser. Vault Signature Provider documentation can be found at docs/EosioSwiftVaultSignatureProvider/index.html. Documentation can be regenerated or updated by running the update_documentation.sh script in the repo.

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