The first authenticated-user concept in Aurora Core -- everything else in
this codebase is public, read-only catalog data. Foundation for ratings
and a watchlist (not yet built): POST /auth/register, POST /auth/login,
GET /auth/me.
Security specifics worth knowing:
- Passwords hashed with argon2 (via argon2-cffi), never stored plain or
logged.
- Login returns an identical 401 for a nonexistent email and a wrong
password on a real one, including matching response timing
(burn_time_like_a_password_check) -- otherwise either the status code
or the timing alone lets a client enumerate registered emails.
- AURORA_SECRET_KEY now actually signs JWTs (previously defined but
unused anywhere) -- .env.example's existing token_urlsafe(48) guidance
already produces a long enough key, just flagged its new stakes.
- Email matched case-insensitively via explicit normalization in the
service layer, not relied on from Pydantic's EmailStr (which does not
lowercase the local part).
12 new integration tests (register/login/me over real HTTP via the
`client` fixture) plus 10 unit tests for the hashing/JWT logic itself,
following the same-day lesson that only unit tests actually execute
locally without Postgres -- the auth core is tested for real here rather
than only through integration tests that might not run before a deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
