[Bug][Web] Decode dense Google Authenticator multi-account migration QR images

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Problem

Production GitHub Pages can decode a Google Authenticator migration QR containing a small/single-account export, but a real Google Authenticator multi-account migration QR screenshot fails before migration parsing with:

No supported QR code could be decoded from the selected image.

No real QR image, migration URI, protobuf payload, Base64, secret, account name, issuer, or other authentication material is attached to this Issue or should be added later.

Current state

• [Bug] Fix compatibility with current Google Authenticator migration exports #128 / PR fix(web): support current Google Authenticator migration exports #129 fixed current Google Authenticator migration metadata compatibility (version 1/2, batch semantics, unknown additive fields).
• Multi-part Google Authenticator migration batches are already supported at the parser/session layer.
• The observed failure occurs earlier, in web/src/import/qr.ts, while decoding image pixels with @zxing/library.
• Current image decode attempts are single-image/single-code ZXing paths using Hybrid/GlobalHistogram and detector/PURE_BARCODE variants.
• A normal/smaller Google Authenticator QR screenshot succeeds, while the denser multi-account export screenshot fails.

Required behavior

A local screenshot/image containing one Google Authenticator migration QR that encodes multiple accounts must decode reliably enough for the existing migration parser/session to process it.

This Issue concerns one QR symbol carrying a denser multi-account migration payload. It does not require decoding multiple independent QR symbols from one collage/image.

Existing multi-part export behavior (1/N, 2/N, etc.) must continue to work by importing each QR image separately into the same import session.

Investigation direction

Determine why the current ZXing image path fails on dense migration QR screenshots and implement the smallest robust local-only fallback/preprocessing strategy. Candidate approaches may include, based on evidence:

• bounded image-scale pyramid / nearest-neighbor upscaling before decode;
• bounded crop/quiet-zone handling where safe;
• additional luminance/binarization variants;
• inversion/contrast-safe fallback where justified;
• Chrome-native/local decoder fallback only if it preserves deterministic local-only/privacy behavior and has explicit regression coverage.

Do not blindly add unbounded retries or expensive image transforms. Keep memory/runtime bounded.

Regression coverage

Use synthetic-only test data. Do not use or commit a real Google Authenticator export.

Add coverage for at least:

• a synthetic migration payload containing multiple accounts and enough payload density to produce a materially denser QR than the current small fixture;
• browser/image-level decode of that generated/rasterized dense QR;
• legacy/small QR continues to decode;
• unsupported/non-QR image remains fail-closed;
• temporary pixel buffers are cleared as today;
• decoded migration payload still flows through existing version/profile/account-limit validation;
• multi-part batch import remains unchanged.

Prefer generating fixtures deterministically from synthetic secrets/account labels at test time or from clearly synthetic checked-in fixtures that contain no real credentials.

Security/privacy constraints

• All QR decoding stays local in the browser.
• No runtime network/API/service for QR decoding.
• No persistent plaintext QR image/payload/account/secret storage.
• No logging/telemetry of decoded URI, Base64, protobuf bytes, secrets, account names, issuers, or recovery material.
• Error diagnostics must remain secret-free.
• Preserve cleanup/zeroization of temporary image/payload/account secret buffers.
• Do not relax migration metadata/profile validation added by [Bug] Fix compatibility with current Google Authenticator migration exports #128/fix(web): support current Google Authenticator migration exports #129.
• No firmware, Protocol, Vault format, Recovery, eFuse, or Device behavior change.
• Avoid dependency/lockfile changes unless the implementation cannot be made robust with the existing decoder; if a dependency change is proposed, justify it explicitly in the PR.

Acceptance criteria

• Synthetic dense multi-account Google Authenticator migration QR image decodes in Web tests/Chrome smoke.
• Existing small/single-account QR decode remains green.
• Existing multi-part migration batch behavior remains green.
• No real authentication material is added to repository/Issue/PR/CI logs.
• Failure remains fail-closed when no valid QR can be decoded.
• No runtime network or plaintext persistence is introduced.
• No firmware/Protocol/Vault/eFuse changes.
• Foundation, Web tests/build, Linux Chrome QR smoke, Windows Chrome QR smoke, and Security checks pass on exact head.

Related

• [Bug] Fix compatibility with current Google Authenticator migration exports #128
• fix(web): support current Google Authenticator migration exports #129

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Claimed by Web implementation agent.

Preflight:

• base main: 957091eb0de1166daedd1edaf9b26c0177c1925e (PR fix(web): support current Google Authenticator migration exports #129 already merged)
• open PRs targeting main: none
• no active branch/PR claiming Issue [Bug][Web] Decode dense Google Authenticator multi-account migration QR images #130 or web/src/import/qr.ts
• planned surface: Web QR decode/tests only; no firmware/Protocol/Vault/Recovery/eFuse changes

Implementation branch: task/130

TDD plan: first add a synthetic current-compatible version 2 multi-account migration QR browser fixture that fails the current original-resolution ZXing path, then add only a bounded local fallback sufficient to make it pass.

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TDD red baseline established on PR #131 head 145e5c72d24edcd7eb13cf0256ee8690c196cba3.

• Web unit tests: PASS
• production QR smoke bundle build: PASS
• Linux Chrome QR smoke: FAIL after adding the synthetic dense migration fixture
• production decoder code was unchanged at this head

The fixture is synthetic-only: Google migration metadata v2, one QR symbol, 10 disposable TOTP accounts, QR version 34 / EC=M / 2 px per module. No real export or credential material was used.

This confirms the failure is reproducible in the current browser/image decode path before migration parsing. Next change will be a bounded nearest-neighbor luminance scale fallback with no dependency/network/persistence change.

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Integration completion

PR #131 was reviewed at exact head 7f7c88e76b5846ab5eb149f28d50bc2b3d8de10a and squash-merged with expected-head protection.

• merge commit / current main: 82082db36b8fa101fca5f89124b038f4ddf227c0
• exact-head Foundation #634: SUCCESS
• exact-head Security #637: SUCCESS
• exact-head Windows Chrome QR smoke: SUCCESS
• exact-head Linux Chrome baseline QR smoke: SUCCESS (dense native-only fixture intentionally skipped where native BarcodeDetector backend is unavailable)
• no unresolved review threads
• no dependency/lockfile/firmware/Protocol/Vault/Recovery/eFuse change

Post-merge Security #638 is already SUCCESS. Foundation #635 and Pages #39 are running from the exact merge commit; their publication result is a deployment follow-up rather than an implementation acceptance blocker.

Closing #130 as completed. No real authentication material was used in review evidence.

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Integration post-merge acceptance result: FAIL on the original real-world condition.

Deployment under test:

• merged PR fix(web): decode dense Google Authenticator migration QR images #131
• main: 82082db36b8fa101fca5f89124b038f4ddf227c0
• Pages run [Superseded] feat: add production HMAC eFuse-backed storage security #39 (35054758323): SUCCESS
• Foundation run #635 (35054758355): SUCCESS
• Security run #638: SUCCESS

Human production acceptance after deployment:

• Google Authenticator QR exported one account at a time: decodes successfully
• dense QR containing multiple accounts: still fails with exactly:
  No supported QR code could be decoded from the selected image.

Therefore the synthetic regression does not yet cover the real failure condition and Issue #130 acceptance is not satisfied. No real QR image, migration URI, account identity, issuer, secret, or payload is attached or requested.

Review note for next implementation iteration: current decodeQrImageData() applies 2x/3x nearest-neighbor scaling only to the ZXing luminance path, while the final BarcodeDetector fallback receives only the original ImageBitmap. Treat this as an investigation lead, not a confirmed root cause. Preserve all existing local-only/privacy/bounded-resource constraints.

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Additional Human acceptance detail for the reopened #130 investigation:

• The real Google Authenticator dense migration QR that still fails contains exactly 2 accounts in a single QR symbol.
• Exporting/reading accounts one-by-one succeeds.
• The 2-account combined export still fails with No supported QR code could be decoded from the selected image. on production Pages after PR fix(web): decode dense Google Authenticator migration QR images #131 deployment.

This is important because the final synthetic fixture in PR #131 also used 2 accounts, so account count alone does not explain the gap. The retry investigation should focus on raster/QR-version/payload-layout/screenshot rendering differences and the decode path (including native fallback receiving only the original bitmap), not merely increasing synthetic account count.

No real QR, migration URI, secret, account name, issuer, or other authentication material is included here.

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R2 retry claimed by Web implementation agent.

Preflight:

• base main: 82082db36b8fa101fca5f89124b038f4ddf227c0
• open PRs targeting main: none
• no active branch/PR claims Issue [Bug][Web] Decode dense Google Authenticator multi-account migration QR images #130 or the Web QR decode surface
• previous merged task/130 line is not being reused
• planned surface: web/src/import/qr.ts and Web QR decode/browser regression tests only
• no firmware / Protocol / Vault / Recovery / eFuse changes

Implementation branch: task/130-r2

R2 TDD rule: establish a new synthetic high-payload-density screenshot-like red regression against unchanged production decoder first; only then change decoder behavior. No real Google Authenticator export or authentication material will be requested or stored.

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R2 TDD red baseline established before any production decoder change.

Exact test-only head: eff6675cc8e04ca840c2305132ec8f2eac610ad2

Evidence:

• production web/src/import/qr.ts: unchanged from main at this head
• Web unit tests: PASS
• Linux Chrome baseline QR smoke: PASS
• Windows Chrome dense screenshot-like smoke: FAIL
• secret-free failure stage: qr-dense-two-account-v22-dense-decode

The failing synthetic case deliberately matches the Human acceptance account count while varying the dimensions that PR #131 did not cover:

• 2 synthetic accounts in one migration-v2 QR symbol
• QR version 22 / EC=M / four-module quiet zone
• matrix rendered cleanly first, then embedded into a 720x1280 screenshot canvas
• fractional placement and browser interpolation enabled
• dense raster width: 198.5 px

A less-dense 226.5 px rendering of the same QR passed before the failing case, so this regression isolates raster density/interpolation rather than parser/session semantics or account count alone.

A separate 10-account / QR version 27 stress fixture is also retained for broader post-fix coverage.

No real QR, migration URI, raw protobuf/Base64 payload, real secret, account name, or issuer is stored or logged. Next production change will expose the existing bounded 2x/3x scale pyramid to the Chrome-native QR detector as well as ZXing.

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Web R2 handoff — PR #132 ready for Integration review

PR #132 is now Ready for review and intentionally not merged.

Exact final head: 92ac113fd42326eb667a0e94dc4793a7bc696759
Base/main: 82082db36b8fa101fca5f89124b038f4ddf227c0

Red -> green evidence

• Human-condition-matching red commit: eff6675cc8e04ca840c2305132ec8f2eac610ad2
• synthetic Google Authenticator migration v2 fixture
• exactly 2 disposable synthetic accounts in one QR
• QR version 22
• 720x1280 screenshot-like raster with fractional resize/interpolation
• 226.5px moderate case decoded; 198.5px dense case failed before parsing at the red baseline
• final 198.5px dense 2-account browser regression now passes through the production File/rasterization/decode/ImportSession path

Implementation summary

• finite/local-only pure-JS fallback path with bounded crop windows and crop-local Otsu preprocessing
• optional bounded BarcodeDetector fallback remains when the browser exposes it
• Windows hosted Chrome reports BarcodeDetector unavailable, so the CI regression passes without relying on native decoding
• scaled work remains bounded (4096px dimension / 8,388,608 pixels)
• native attempts remain time-bounded
• temporary pixels/canvases/ImageBitmaps are zeroized/cleared/closed
• diagnostics are fixed event names only; no decoded value or authentication material is logged
• Windows browser-smoke virtual-time budget changed 20s -> 40s because, once dense QR passed, the existing Argon2 smoke became the remaining aggregate-time blocker; no smoke stage was disabled

Exact-head CI

• Foundation #661: SUCCESS
  • Web tests: SUCCESS
  • Linux Chrome production QR smoke: SUCCESS
  • Web build / lockfile: SUCCESS
  • Windows Chrome QR smoke: SUCCESS
  • firmware build/package/dependency-lock validation: SUCCESS
• Security #664: SUCCESS
• unresolved PR review threads: none
• final diff: 5 files; no dependency/lockfile/firmware/Protocol/Vault/Recovery/eFuse change

Remaining acceptance

Do not close #130 from CI alone. After Integration review + merge/deployment, rerun Human production acceptance using the original real Google Authenticator condition: one QR containing exactly 2 accounts. Do not attach or log the real QR, URI, account identity, issuer, secret, or payload.

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Integration post-merge status — PR #132

PR #132 was squash-merged with expected-head protection.

• PR head reviewed: 92ac113fd42326eb667a0e94dc4793a7bc696759
• merged main: f600708319fcc303b1109b61bbd7a3c9d3fad55f
• head and merge commit tree: 482e1d120f31e17c3f6b273d6571dd65922eba0d (identical)
• exact-head Foundation #661: SUCCESS
• exact-head Security #664: SUCCESS
• post-merge Security #665: SUCCESS
• post-merge Pages [Decision] Adopt RAM-only vault key with Trusted Browser quick unlock #40: SUCCESS; production Pages is deployed from the merge commit

Post-merge Foundation #662

Overall status is FAILURE due to the Windows aggregate QR/Argon2 headless-Chrome smoke harness.

Attempt 1 returned an intermediate DOM while still at the dense two-account decode stage.

A failed-job rerun then produced stronger evidence:

• data-dense-qr-status="pass"
• data-qr-status="pass"
• data-qr-native-api="no"
• data-qr-diagnostics="full-zxing-scaled-skipped"
• execution had advanced to data-stage="argon2-kdf"

but Chrome returned before the aggregate page reached terminal data-status="pass", so the Windows job remained red. Web/Linux and firmware jobs are green. This is tracked separately as #133 because it is a CI terminal-state waiting/harness issue rather than evidence that the R2 dense QR decode failed on the rerun.

Human acceptance gate

#130 remains OPEN. Production Human acceptance may now proceed against Pages #40 because the production Pages deployment succeeded and the post-merge retry demonstrated dense QR decode PASS without native BarcodeDetector. Do not close #130 until the original real Google Authenticator condition passes:

• exactly 2 accounts exported into one dense QR
• local image import through production Pages
• record only PASS/FAIL and non-secret error text
• do not attach/upload the QR, migration URI, raw payload, account identity, issuer, or secret

If Human acceptance passes, #130 can be closed independently; #133 remains open until the Windows CI harness is made deterministic.

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Integration Human acceptance completion

ACTIVE_ROLE: integration
ISSUE: #130
STATE: HUMAN_ACCEPTANCE_PASS

The user confirmed that the real Google Authenticator Human acceptance had already passed after the PR #132 production fix was deployed.

Accepted real-world condition:

• Google Authenticator export containing exactly 2 accounts in one QR symbol
• screenshot/image imported through production M5Authenticator Web UI
• import preview successfully displayed both accounts

No secret-bearing evidence is recorded. No QR image, migration URI, raw payload, account identity, issuer, OTP, or TOTP secret is attached or logged.

A repeat Human test is not required because web/src/import/qr.ts has not changed since PR #132 merge commit f600708319fcc303b1109b61bbd7a3c9d3fad55f; later main changes do not alter the QR decoder implementation.

Disposition: #130 acceptance is satisfied. Closing as completed.