Add lint for checking that the 'critical' field is properly DER-encoded in extensions #839
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Added //nolint:all to comment block to avoid golangci-lint to complain about duplicate words in comment
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Fine to me. Co-authored-by: Christopher Henderson <chris@chenderson.org>
As per Chris Henderson's suggestion, to "improve readability".
As per Chris Henderson's suggestion.
Added CABFEV_Sec9_2_8_Date
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Thank you! This one was indeed tricky as I was attempted to full deserialize the type in to a Go type, which had all of the complications and gotchas written up in #639
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It is generally considered a requirement that certificates be DER encoded (meaning not BER), although RFC 5280 is not crystal clear on this. In any case, the non-properly-DER encoding of some certificate fields has historically been considered a compliance error, as it can be seen on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org, therefore it's useful to be able to detect it.
Among other things, DER stipulates that "the encoding of a set value or sequence value shall not include an encoding for any component value which is equal to its default value" (see X.690). Therefore, when a certificate extension is not critical, its 'critical' field should be omitted. This lint checks just that.