Hash and verify passwords off the event loop (B-55)

Argon2 is deliberately expensive — tens of milliseconds of CPU per call. Called
inline from the async handlers for register, login, change-password and the
admin reset, that cost froze the entire process for its duration: every other
request, plus all six background tasks (scheduler, confirmation poller, RBF
bumper, listener, both reconcilers). A burst of unauthenticated login attempts
was therefore not just slow logins, it delayed draws and confirmations.

hash_password_async/verify_password_async wrap the existing pair in
run_in_threadpool, and every async caller now uses them. The synchronous
functions stay: they're what the wrappers call, and what tests and scripts (no
running loop) use directly.

The regression test runs a heartbeat task alongside the hashing and counts how
often the loop got to run it — 1 tick with the old inline call, many with the
threadpooled one.

Also drops the running "already fixed and removed" list from BUGS.md: the file
tracks open findings, and `git log --all --grep 'B-nn'` is the record of how a
closed one was closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-03 22:18:33 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 421fe72a8b
commit 9c7befe595
7 changed files with 106 additions and 33 deletions
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@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from app.api.client_ip import client_ip as _client_ip
from app.api.errors import http_error
from app.auth.rate_limit import AuthRateLimiters
from app.auth.security import MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH, create_access_token, hash_password, verify_password
from app.auth.security import (
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH,
create_access_token,
hash_password_async,
verify_password_async,
)
from app.db.models import User
from app.db.session import get_session
from app.wallet.hd import derive_user_address
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ async def register(
if existing is not None:
raise http_error(status.HTTP_409_CONFLICT, "username_taken", "username already taken")
password_hash = hash_password(body.password)
password_hash = await hash_password_async(body.password)
for _ in range(_MAX_REGISTER_RETRIES):
max_index = await session.scalar(select(func.max(User.derivation_index)))
@@ -130,7 +135,7 @@ async def login(
raise _rate_limited_error(retry_after)
user = await session.scalar(select(User).where(User.username == body.username))
if user is None or not verify_password(body.password, user.password_hash):
if user is None or not await verify_password_async(body.password, user.password_hash):
# Same code path (and therefore the same response) whether the username
# doesn't exist or the password is wrong — no enumeration oracle here.
limiters.login.record_failure(username_key)