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# Certificate Transparency: Go Code
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[](https://travis-ci.org/google/certificate-transparency-go)
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[](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go)
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[](https://godoc.org/github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go)
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This repository holds Go code related to
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[Certificate Transparency](https://www.certificate-transparency.org/) (CT). The
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repository requires Go version 1.9.
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- [Repository Structure](#repository-structure)
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- [Trillian CT Personality](#trillian-ct-personality)
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- [Working on the Code](#working-on-the-code)
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- [Rebuilding Generated Code](#rebuilding-generated-code)
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- [Updating Vendor Code](#updating-vendor-code)
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- [Running Codebase Checks](#running-codebase-checks)
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## Repository Structure
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The main parts of the repository are:
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- Encoding libraries:
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- `asn1/` and `x509/` are forks of the upstream Go `encoding/asn1` and
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`crypto/x509` libraries. We maintain separate forks of these packages
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because CT is intended to act as an observatory of certificates across the
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ecosystem; as such, we need to be able to process somewhat-malformed
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certificates that the stricter upstream code would (correctly) reject.
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Our `x509` fork also includes code for working with the
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[pre-certificates defined in RFC 6962](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962#section-3.1).
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- `tls` holds a library for processing TLS-encoded data as described in
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[RFC 5246](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246).
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- `x509util` provides additional utilities for dealing with
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`x509.Certificate`s.
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- CT client libraries:
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- The top-level `ct` package (in `.`) holds types and utilities for working
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with CT data structures defined in
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[RFC 6962](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962).
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- `client/` and `jsonclient/` hold libraries that allow access to CT Logs
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via entrypoints described in
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[section 4 of RFC 6962](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962#section-4).
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- `scanner/` holds a library for scanning the entire contents of an existing
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CT Log.
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- Command line tools:
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- `./client/ctclient` allows interaction with a CT Log
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- `./scanner/scanlog` allows an existing CT Log to be scanned for certificates
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of interest; please be polite when running this tool against a Log.
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- `./x509util/certcheck` allows display and verification of certificates
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- `./x509util/crlcheck` allows display and verification of certificate
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revocation lists (CRLs).
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- CT Personality for [Trillian](https://github.com/google/trillian):
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- `trillian/` holds code that allows a Certificate Transparency Log to be
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run using a Trillian Log as its back-end -- see
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[below](#trillian-ct-personality).
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## Trillian CT Personality
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The `trillian/` subdirectory holds code and scripts for running a CT Log based
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on the [Trillian](https://github.com/google/trillian) general transparency Log.
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The main code for the CT personality is held in `trillian/ctfe`; this code
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responds to HTTP requests on the
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[CT API paths](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962#section-4) and translates
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them to the equivalent gRPC API requests to the Trillian Log.
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This obviously relies on the gRPC API definitions at
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`github.com/google/trillian`; the code also uses common libraries from the
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Trillian project for:
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- exposing monitoring and statistics via an `interface` and corresponding
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Prometheus implementation (`github.com/google/trillian/monitoring/...`)
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- dealing with cryptographic keys (`github.com/google/trillian/crypto/...`).
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The `trillian/integration/` directory holds scripts and tests for running the whole
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system locally. In particular:
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- `trillian/integration/ct_integration_test.sh` brings up local processes
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running a Trillian Log server, signer and a CT personality, and exercises the
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complete set of RFC 6962 API entrypoints.
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- `trillian/integration/ct_hammer_test.sh` brings up a complete system and runs
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a continuous randomized test of the CT entrypoints.
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These scripts require a local database instance to be configured as described
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in the [Trillian instructions](https://github.com/google/trillian#mysql-setup).
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## Working on the Code
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Developers who want to make changes to the codebase need some additional
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dependencies and tools, described in the following sections. The
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[Travis configuration](.travis.yml) for the codebase is also useful reference
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for the required tools and scripts, as it may be more up-to-date than this
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document.
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### Rebuilding Generated Code
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Some of the CT Go code is autogenerated from other files:
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- [Protocol buffer](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/) message
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definitions are converted to `.pb.go` implementations.
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- A mock implementation of the Trillian gRPC API (in `trillian/mockclient`) is
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created with [GoMock](https://github.com/golang/mock).
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Re-generating mock or protobuffer files is only needed if you're changing
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the original files; if you do, you'll need to install the prerequisites:
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- `mockgen` tool from https://github.com/golang/mock
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- `protoc`, [Go support for protoc](https://github.com/golang/protobuf) (see
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documentation linked from the
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[protobuf site](https://github.com/google/protobuf))
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and run the following:
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```bash
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go generate -x ./... # hunts for //go:generate comments and runs them
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```
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### Updating Vendor Code
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The codebase includes a couple of external projects under the `vendor/`
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subdirectory, to ensure that builds use a fixed version (typically because the
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upstream repository does not guarantee back-compatibility between the tip
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`master` branch and the current stable release). See
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[instructions in the Trillian repo](https://github.com/google/trillian#updating-vendor-code)
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for how to update vendored subtrees.
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### Running Codebase Checks
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The [`scripts/presubmit.sh`](scripts/presubmit.sh) script runs various tools
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and tests over the codebase.
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```bash
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# Install gometalinter and all linters
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go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
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gometalinter --install
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# Run code generation, build, test and linters
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./scripts/presubmit.sh
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# Run build, test and linters but skip code generation
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./scripts/presubmit.sh --no-generate
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# Or just run the linters alone:
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gometalinter --config=gometalinter.json ./...
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```
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