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Public key pinning support
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Description
I see that cert pinning is supported, but how much extra work would it be to add a method for pinning just a public key?
This would be much more convenient in most cases I think, given that key pairs are generally long-lived while certificates change on a regular basis — more so now with the rising popularity of Let's Encrypt which issues 90-day certs. With public key pining, I can just commit the public key (or hash) as a static file once and forget about it, whereas it seems like cert pinning would require me to implement additional logic to ensure that the latest version of the cert is always stored locally.
(Note: I've looked at the readme, but haven't yet used this library or done much digging into how Android, iOS, or the linked libraries handle TLS pinning; so my assumptions about what is and/or can be supported may be completely off.)
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 with the README's existing certificate-pinning description, then inspect the Android and iOS TLS-pinning integrations mentioned in the issue. Determine whether public-key or hash pinning is supported by those linked libraries and define the API and verification behavior needed; done means a decided, implementable scope.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, ios
- Domain
- mobile-dev, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100