rustls / rustls/webpki

Support verifying/accessing SCTs inside certificates

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Description

If we supported SCTs here we could enable people wanting to do CT verification of the certificates they see.

We could either do this directly by taking a dependency on sct.rs and requiring certificate validation to take a set of sct::Logs. It's more integrated but less flexible.

Alternatively we could let callers access the SCTs given a EndEntityCert and do the verification themselves outside this crate, after they've done other checks.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing EndEntityCert and the certificate-validation flow, then compare the two options described: adding an sct.rs dependency and accepting sct::Log values, or exposing SCTs for callers to verify externally. Done requires a decided API that supports accessing or verifying SCTs inside certificates; the issue does not name files or tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
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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