Feature request: Parse x509 certificates to JSON
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
When parsing an X.509 certificate, it's convoluted to extract certain parts of the certificate contents.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
When parsing a certificate, I would like the output in a structured data format like JSON.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
Extracting the required information via regular expressions.
**Additional context**
After parsing into a structured format, it's more convenient to get the required data by JPath/XPath expression.
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue does not name a file, test, or existing entry point. Start by locating the current X.509 certificate parsing operation and determine how parsed fields are represented; done means the operation returns structured JSON containing the requested certificate data and has coverage for representative certificates.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- cryptography, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100