IMGIITRoorkee / IMGIITRoorkee/placement-flutter
Store JWTs in secure storage instead of a plaintext Hive box
- Dominant language
- Dart
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 10
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- 8d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
Description
**Problem**
`Hive.openBox` is called with no `encryptionCipher`, so the access and refresh tokens sit in plaintext in `placementAuthBox.hive` under the app's Documents directory, which iOS includes in iCloud and iTunes backups by default.
The naming actively misleads: the opener is `_openEncryptedBox()` and the writers are `_encrypt()` and `_encryptToken()`, none of which encrypt anything.
**Where**
- `lib/services/auth/auth_service.dart:91-97` (`_openEncryptedBox`, plain `Hive.openBox`)
- `lib/services/auth/auth_service.dart:77-80` (`_encrypt`)
- `lib/services/auth/auth_service.dart:87-89` (`_encryptToken`)
**Expected**
Tokens at rest in the Keychain on iOS and EncryptedSharedPreferences on Android.
**Fix sketch**
- Replace the Hive box with `flutter_secure_storage` for the token pair.
- Rename the three methods to describe what they actually do.
- Drop `hive` and `hive_flutter` from `pubspec.yaml` once nothing else uses them; this box is currently their only use.
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Research direction
Start with lib/services/auth/auth_service.dart, especially _openEncryptedBox(), _encrypt(), and _encryptToken(), then inspect pubspec.yaml to confirm Hive is only used here. Verify the token pair is stored using the expected iOS and Android secure-storage backends, the methods have accurate names, and unused Hive dependencies are removed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- dart, flutter
- Domain
- authentication, mobile, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100