ctclient 0.4.3

Certificate Transparency Log client suitable for monitoring, quick SCT validation, gossiping, etc.
Documentation

🔒 Certificate Transparency Log client library

live stream domain video demo

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Certificate Transparency Log client suitable for monitoring, quick SCT validation, gossiping, etc.

(Not a full-fledged client with UI and everything - will work on that later. This is just a library to make your own client with.)

Build requirement

OpenSSL >= 1.1.0

Features

  • Monitor tree head update
  • Verify consistency and inclusion proof
  • Verify Signed Tree Head (STH) and Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT)
  • Construct leaf hash from SCT and check inclusion
  • Low and high level API
  • Extract SCT from certificate
  • Lots of comment in code intended as reference for other hackers!

TODOs

  • Implement gossiping protocols
  • Use async IO (currently all API requests are blocking)
  • A helper to monitor multiple logs simultaneously
  • Certificate submission
  • More test coverage

Examples & DEMOs

Note that you can run those by cargo run --example name

  • examples/parse_sct_list_from_cert.rs: Parse a certificate with a "CT Precertificate SCTs" extension and print out the SCTs. Also check that the logs can provide an inclusion proof for those leafs based on the latest tree head.

    screenshot

  • examples/live_stream_domains.rs: Read out certificates as they are published by a log and print out the CA and domain names.

    DEMO at the top of this README.

  • examples/simple_client/simple_client.rs: A simple SQLite-backed CT log client monitoring a single log.

    • Check that the tree is consistent (extend-only) each time a new tree head is received.
    • Download and inspect all certificates searching for a hard-coded domain name.
    • Store tree heads and matched certificates in SQLite database.
    • Intended to be a base on which more sophisticated clients can be built.

    screenshot