jetty / jetty/jetty.project

Support RFC 8737

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Description

**Jetty version(s)**
10+

**Enhancement Description**
[RFC 8737](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8737) describes a method to validate domain names via the `tls-alpn-01` challenge.

Upon the request for a new certificate, or renew of expired ones, for an origin server, an ACME client performs a challenge, by connecting to the origin server with `alpn=acme-tls/1`.
The server should reply with a specific certificate as defined in the RFC (this requires wrapping the `KeyManager` to identify the right alias for the specific ALPN protocol).
Once the client has the right certificate, it can contact the CA and download the CA-signed new, or renewed, certificate.
The downloaded certificate can be stored in a KeyStore, and the existing `KeyStoreScanner` functionality can reload the KeyStore on-the-fly without having to restart the origin server.

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Start by reading RFC 8737 and Jetty's KeyManager and KeyStoreScanner functionality. Trace how the tls-alpn-01 ALPN challenge selects a certificate and how KeyStoreScanner reloads certificates; done means supporting certificate selection for the challenge and renewal without restarting the origin server.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
networking, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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