Spectre on Android: status?

ilpianista

Hi there, I use MasterPassword since its first release and I even wrote the client for SailfishOS.
Today I took an Android 10 aarch64 phone and now I'm unable to use MasterPassword as the application immediately crashes with:

09-06 12:56:13.295  1565  1565 D AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.lyndir.masterpassword, PID: 1565
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.lyndir.masterpassword.MPAlgorithm$Version.<clinit>(MPAlgorithm.java:195)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.lyndir.masterpassword.MPAlgorithm$Version.values(MPAlgorithm.java:187)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.lyndir.masterpassword.EmergencyActivity.<init>(EmergencyActivity.java:60)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.AppComponentFactory.instantiateActivity(AppComponentFactory.java:95)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1250)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3182)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3409)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:83)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2016)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:491)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:940)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Library: mpw (/lib/linux/aarch64/libmpw.so), not found in class loader for: class com.lyndir.masterpassword.impl.MPAlgorithmV0
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.lyndir.masterpassword.impl.Native.load(Native.java:60)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.lyndir.masterpassword.impl.MPAlgorithmV0.<clinit>(MPAlgorithmV0.java:45)
09-06 12:56:13.300  1565  1565 E AndroidRuntime: 	... 18 more

I understand that you don't want to maintain MasterPassword anymore and then I'm asking you: what are my options? Is the Spectre app for Android in alpha state? If not, could you please consider to add aarch64 support to MasterPassword?

Thank you!

lhunath

The Android build for Master Password currently supports the following CPU architectures:

arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
x86
x86_64

You appear to be running this on a aarch64 device, regrettably I haven't built for such a device.

Your options are:

Use the web app, either https://js.masterpassword.app or https://spectre.app
Build the app from source and try to add support for aarch64 yourself.

Unfortunately I don't have time to assist with [2], but since Master Password is fully open source, you should theoretically have everything you need at https://gitlab.com/MasterPassword/MasterPassword.

There is no exact roadmap for when Spectre will be released on Android. Once iOS rolls out, the next focus is likely on the Spectre web app, to ensure there is a wide base platform support that way.

xeruf

Just to be sure: Spectre is a branding-overhaul of the original MasterPassword algorithm, so they can be used interchangeably? It would be nice if you could explicitly mention that somewhere (on the MasterPassword site or so).
Anyways, I appreciate your efforts and the paradigm shift you have brought me and all the friends I have raved to about this, even if I have yet to fully embrace it 🙂

lhunath

That is entirely correct, @xeruf.

Check out our post https://spectre.app/blog/2021-10-31-spectre-ios-launch/ for more info and let me know if you have any other questions.

xeruf

Thank you!

When building autofill, consider building on top of one of the existing open-source extensions:
https://github.com/ttyridal/masterpassword-firefox
https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/tree/main/packages/lesspass-web-extension
https://github.com/passff/passff
https://github.com/bitwarden/browser
https://github.com/passbolt/passbolt_browser_extension

It is about time for a generic login auto-fill extension that can be adapted to any backend, rather than it being constantly rebuilt.
I personally would like integration with passff, as that is currently my go-to stateful but cloudless store for sensitive data. One could conceive a two-way integration that stores Algorithm cues back into pass (or whatever backend) as well.

lhunath

Thank you for the pointers, @xeruf.

Spectre for iOS' auto-fill is an operating-system level auto-fill which means it will work on any browser and any non-browser application.

I will keep your thoughts and tips in mind when I begin exploring the other platforms.