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DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)

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Description

Support for RFC 6698 would be nice to have. It has some usage in email and XMPP.

This would require a way to validate certificates against some bytes retrieved securely from DNS (this retrieval would be out of scope). Usually those bytes are a hash of the certificate public key (SubjectPublicKeyInfo structure).

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Research direction

Start by reading RFC 6698 and the issue's description of validating certificates against securely retrieved DNS bytes. Identify the certificate-validation entry points and decide how the out-of-scope DNS retrieval would supply the TLSA data. Done means the API and validation behavior support the RFC, with tests covering certificate public-key hashes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cryptography, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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