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<title>xavi/slcl/configure, branch v0.4.2</title>
<subtitle>Small and lightweight cloud storage written in C99 and POSIX.1-2008.
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<updated>2026-02-03T15:26:19+00:00</updated>
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<title>configure: Add libsodium flags to USERGEN_LDFLAGS</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T15:26:19+00:00</updated>
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<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-03T15:25:10+00:00</published>
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Otherwise, usergen(1) would be built without linking against libsodium,
and thus would fail to build.
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<title>Allow building thumbnail from the top-level build</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T20:57:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-08T20:54:47+00:00</published>
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<title>Replace OpenSSL with libsodium and argon2id</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T20:55:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-08T11:50:52+00:00</published>
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The SHA256-based password hashing algorithm used by slcl(1) and
usergen(1) is considered insecure against several kinds of attacks,
including brute force attacks. [1]

Therefore, a stronger password hashing algorithm based on the Argon2id
key derivation function is now used by default. While OpenSSL does
support Argon2id, it is only supported by very recent versions [2],
which are still not packaged by most distributions as of the time of
this writing. [3]

As an alternative to OpenSSL, libsodium [4] had several benefits:

- It provides easy-to-use functions for password hashing, base64
encoding/decoding and other cryptographic primitives used by slcl(1)
and usergen(1).

- It is packaged by most distributions [5], and most often only the patch
version differs, which ensures good compatibility across distributions.

Unfortunately, and as opposed to OpenSSL, libsodium does not come with
command-line tools. Therefore, usergen(1) had to be rewritten in C.

In order to maintain backwards compatiblity with existing databases,
slcl(1) and usergen(1) shall support the insecure, SHA256-based password
hashing algorithm. However, Argon2id shall now be the default choice for
usergen(1).

[1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/195563/why-is-sha-256-not-good-for-passwords
[2]: https://docs.openssl.org/3.3/man7/EVP_KDF-ARGON2/
[3]: https://repology.org/project/openssl/versions
[4]: https://www.libsodium.org/
[5]: https://repology.org/project/libsodium/versions
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<title>configure: Call distclean for submodules</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T00:03:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-07T21:48:44+00:00</published>
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<title>Implement directory download as ZIP</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T00:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-06T21:02:51+00:00</published>
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Thanks to the fdzipstream library [1] and zlib [2], it is possible to
generate ZIP files on-the-fly, therefore requiring no extra disk space
usage and only a small amount of memory.

Unfortunately, as of the time of this writing fdzipstream is not
packaged by any distributions yet [3], so it had to be imported as a git
submodule as a workaround.

While libarchive [4] could be an interesting alternative, writing ZIP
files is only supported by very recent versions (&gt;= 3.8.0), which are
still not packaged by many distributions [5], either.

Moreover, libarchive is a package with several dependencies other than
zlib and is significantly larger compared to fdzipstreams, so
fdzipstreams was ultimately considered a better fit for this purpose.

[1]: https://github.com/CTrabant/fdzipstream.git
[2]: http://zlib.net/
[3]: https://repology.org/projects/?search=fdzipstream
[4]: https://www.libarchive.org/
[5]: https://repology.org/project/libarchive/versions
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<title>configure: Remove slcl executable on distclean</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T09:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi92@disroot.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-02T09:38:57+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Introduce crealpath</title>
<updated>2025-09-24T09:03:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi.dcr@tutanota.com</email>
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<published>2023-07-24T21:17:48+00:00</published>
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crealpath (for "custom realpath") is a custom implementation of
realpath(3) that aims to work similarly to GNU's realpath(1). This
implementation is provided due to the following reasons:

- Future commits will require extracting an absolute path from a
  relative path, and/or process relative components from a path, such as
".." or ".".
- realpath(3) is defined by POSIX.1-2008 as a XSI extension, and
  extensions are generally avoided in this repository whenever possible.
- Additionally, realpath(3) requires the file or directory pointed to by
the path to exist, which might not always be the case for slcl.
- auth.c uses its own implementation to extract a dynamically allocated
string by repeatedly calling getcwd(3). Future commits will also
require this future, so it makes sense to keep it on a separate
component.
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<title>configure: Avoid file extension conversion</title>
<updated>2024-01-26T19:31:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi.dcr@tutanota.com</email>
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<published>2024-01-26T19:30:52+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>configure: Fix typo</title>
<updated>2023-11-24T00:52:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi.dcr@tutanota.com</email>
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<published>2023-11-24T00:52:52+00:00</published>
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slweb was renamed to libweb some time ago:

commit 28ae865e5ecad9b398ac21fa148fc4b93c987226
Author: Xavier Del Campo Romero &lt;xavi.dcr@tutanota.com&gt;
Date:   Tue Oct 10 23:43:47 2023 +0200

    Apply slweb renaming to libweb
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<title>Replace handwritten Makefile with configure script</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T20:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xavier Del Campo Romero</name>
<email>xavi.dcr@tutanota.com</email>
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<published>2023-10-15T23:20:49+00:00</published>
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