letsencrypt / letsencrypt/boulder
Create OID package
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Description
There are many OIDs spinkled throughout boulder such as the following snippet. We should build a package that defines OIDs by class similar to how pyca/cryptography handles them.
//ca/crl.go: asn1.ObjectIdentifier{2, 5, 29, 28}
//cmd/ceremony/cert.go: var oidOCSPNoCheck = asn1.ObjectIdentifier{1, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 7, 48, 1, 5}
//wfe2/wfe.go: asn1.ObjectIdentifier{2, 16, 840, 1, 101, 3, 4, 2, 1}
etc
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the OID literals in ca/crl.go, cmd/ceremony/cert.go, and wfe2/wfe.go, then review the referenced pyca/cryptography _oid.py approach. Define the package structure and identify the scattered OIDs it should cover; done means OIDs are represented centrally by class rather than repeated inline.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100