Obfuscate

Primary key obfuscation for CakePHP 3 using HashIds, Optimus, Tiny and/or custom obfuscation strategies.

Requirements

CakePHP 3.0+

Installation

Install the plugin using Composer:

composer require muffin/obfuscate:1.0.x-dev

You then need to load the plugin by either running this shell command:

bin/cake plugin load Muffin/Obfuscate

or by manually adding the following line to config/bootstrap.php:

Plugin::load('Muffin/Obfuscate');

Lastly, composer install (any combination of) the obfuscation libraries you want to use in your application:

composer require hashids/hashids
composer require jenssegers/optimus
composer require zackkitzmiller/tiny

Built-in obfuscation strategies

Use the HashIdStrategy if you want to:

obfuscate your primary keys with short, unique, non-sequential ids
present record ids like 347 as strings like “yr8”

Use the OptimusStrategy if you want to:

obfuscate your primary keys with integers based on Knuth's integer hash
present record ids like 347 as integers like 372555994

Use the TinyStrategy if you want to:

obfuscate your primary keys with base62 strings and integers
present record ids like 347 as strings like "vk"

You may also choose to create your own custom strategies, feel free to PR.

Usage

1. Attaching the behavior

Prepare for obfuscation by attaching the Obfuscate behavior to your table(s) and specifying which strategy you want to use as shown in the following examples.

use Muffin\Obfuscate\Model\Behavior\Strategy\HashIdStrategy;

$this->addBehavior('Muffin/Obfuscate.Obfuscate', [
    // Strategy constructor parameter:
    // $salt - Random alpha numeric string. You can also set "Obfuscate.salt"
    // $minLength (optional) - The minimum hash length. Default: 0
    // $alphabet (optional) - Custom alphabet to generate hash from. Default: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890'
    // config instead of passing salt to construction.
    // DO NOT USE same salt as set for "Security.salt" config.
    'strategy' => new HashIdStrategy('5SX0TEjkR1mLOw8Gvq2VyJxIFhgCAYidrclDWaM3so9bfzZpuUenKtP74QNH6B', 10, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')
]);

use Muffin\Obfuscate\Model\Behavior\Strategy\OptimusStrategy;

$this->addBehavior('Muffin/Obfuscate.Obfuscate', [
    // Strategy constructor parameters:
    // $prime - Large prime number lower than 2147483647
    // $inverse - The inverse prime so that (PRIME * INVERSE) & MAXID == 1
    // $random - A large random integer lower than 2147483647
    // You can use vendor/bin/optimus spark to generate these set of numbers.
    'strategy' => new OptimusStrategy(2123809381, 1885413229, 146808189)
]);

use Muffin\Obfuscate\Model\Behavior\Strategy\TinyStrategy;

$this->addBehavior('Muffin/Obfuscate.Obfuscate', [
    // Strategy constructor parameters:
    // $set - Random alpha-numeric set where each character must only be used exactly once
    'strategy' => new TinyStrategy('5SX0TEjkR1mLOw8Gvq2VyJxIFhgCAYidrclDWaM3so9bfzZpuUenKtP74QNH6B')
]);

Please note that attaching the behavior is totally unobtrusive and will do absolutely nothing until you use one of the custom finders.

2. Using the custom finders

This plugin comes with the following two custom finders that are responsible for the actual obfuscation (cloaking) and elucidation (uncloaking) process and need to be used inside your Model.afterSave or Model.beforeFind events:

findObfuscated: used to find records using an obfuscated (cloaked) primary key
findObfuscate: used to obfuscate (cloak) all primary keys in a find result set

findObfuscated

Use this finder if you want to look up a record using an obfuscated id. The plugin will elucidate (uncloak) the obfuscated id and will execute the find using the "normal" primary key as it is used inside your database.

CakePHP example:

public function beforeFind()
{
    $this->Articles->find('obfuscated')
        ->where(['id' => 'S']); // will search for id 1
}

CRUD example:

public function view()
{
    $this->Crud->on('beforeFind', function (Event $event) {
        $event->subject()->query->find('obfuscated');
}

findObfuscate

Use this finder if you want the plugin to obfuscate all "normal" primary keys found in a find result set.

CakePHP example:

public function beforeFind()
{
    $this->Articles->find('obfuscate');
}

CRUD example:

public function index()
{
    $this->Crud->on('beforePaginate', function (Event $event) {
        $event->subject()->query->find('obfuscate');
}

Methods

Attaching the behavior also makes the following two methods available on the table:

obfuscate(string $str)
elucidate(string $str)

Pro tips

Authentication

A fairly common use case is applying obfuscation to user ids. To ensure AuthComponent properly handles obfuscated ids specify the obfuscated finder in your authenticate configuration settings like shown below:

'authenticate' => [
     'ADmad/JwtAuth.Jwt' => [
        'finder' => 'obfuscated', // will use passed id `S` to search for record id 1
        'userModel' => 'Users',
        'fields' => [
            'username' => 'id'
        ],
        'parameter' => 'token'
    ]
]

Patches & Features

Fork
Mod, fix
Test - this is important, so it's not unintentionally broken
Commit - do not mess with license, todo, version, etc. (if you do change any, bump them into commits of their own that I can ignore when I pull)
Pull request - bonus point for topic branches

To ensure your PRs are considered for upstream, you MUST follow the CakePHP coding standards.

Bugs & Feedback

http://github.com/usemuffin/obfuscate/issues

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