From 2321b80127582de1c24155a621e26371560b49a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marwin <marwin@creamfresh.xyz>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:14:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Auto-generate encryption key if none exists instead of
 throwing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 static/js/app.js | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/static/js/app.js b/static/js/app.js
index dbbd627..b2c7855 100644
--- a/static/js/app.js
+++ b/static/js/app.js
@@ -1820,9 +1820,12 @@ async function getOrCreateEncKey() {
       const raw = base64ToBytes(stored);
       _encKey = await crypto.subtle.importKey('raw', raw, {name: 'AES-GCM'}, false, ['encrypt', 'decrypt']);
       return _encKey;
-    } catch (e) { /* fall through */ }
+    } catch (e) { /* fall through, generate new */ }
   }
-  throw new Error('No encryption key found. Please log out and log in again to unlock encrypted content.');
+  _encKey = await crypto.subtle.generateKey({name: 'AES-GCM', length: 256}, true, ['encrypt', 'decrypt']);
+  const raw = await crypto.subtle.exportKey('raw', _encKey);
+  localStorage.setItem(storageKey, bytesToBase64(new Uint8Array(raw)));
+  return _encKey;
 }
 
 async function encryptBytes(key, plainBytes) {