In hrbrmstr/sslsaran: Tools to Work with Certificate Transparency ('CT') Logs and Various 'CT' 'APIs'

sslsaran

Tools to Work with Certificate Transparency ('CT') Logs and Various 'CT' 'APIs'

Description

The 'IETF' 'RFC' 6962 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962) describes an experimental protocol for publicly logging the existence of 'Transport Layer Security' ('TLS') certificates as they are issued or observed, in a manner that allows anyone to audit certificate authority ('CA') activity and notice the issuance of suspect certificates as well as to audit the certificate logs themselves. Functions are provided as a wrapper around the log server 'API'. Tools are also provided to interface with other 'Certificate Transparency' 'APIs' including 'sslmate' https://sslmate.com/certspotter/api, 'Symantec' https://cryptoreport.websecurity.symantec.com/checker/views/ctsearch.jsp, Google, and others.

What's Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• cs_get_cert: Get Certificate Object
• cs_list_certs: List Certificates
• get_entries: Retrieve Entries from Log
• get_sth: Retrieve Latest Signed Tree Head
• parse_x509_attributes: Parse X.509/X.500 Attribute Strings into a Named List
• read_log_list: Retrieve Certificate Transparency Log List
• sym_ct_search: Search Certificate Transparency Logs via Symatec CryptoReport
• tr_log_summary: Retrieve Certificate Transparency Log Server Summaries from the Google Transparency Report Project
• tr_report: Query Google's Transparency Repoirt for Certificate Information

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/sslsaran")

options(width=120)

Usage

library(sslsaran)
library(tidyverse)

# current verison
packageVersion("sslsaran")

# Get available log servers
ll <- read_log_list()

glimpse(ll$logs)

glimpse(ll$operators)

# How many certs? (we'll use a different list for this since Chrome is picky)
# NOTE: This usually takes a bit of time to run as some CT servers are slow 
moar_logs <- read_log_list("https://www.gstatic.com/ct/log_list/all_logs_list.json")

pull(moar_logs$logs, url) %>% 
  map(get_sth) %>% 
  map_dbl("tree_size") %>% 
  sum(na.rm=TRUE) %>% 
  scales::comma()

# Pick one from the google list
ctl <- ll$logs$url[2]

# Get picked latest signed tree head
sth <- get_sth(ctl)

# Get the last 30 entries
x <- get_entries(ctl, sth$tree_size-30, sth$tree_size-1)

# Take a look
glimpse(x)

map_chr(x$certificate, ~.x$issuer %||% NA) %>% 
  discard(is.na)

map_chr(x$certificate, ~.x$subject %||% NA) %>% 
  discard(is.na)

map(x$certificate, ~.x$alt_names %||% NA) %>% 
  discard(~is.na(.x[1]))

hrbrmstr/sslsaran documentation built on May 28, 2019, 12:59 p.m.