How to handle SSL/TLS?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
networking, security

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the multiaddr encoding rules and the unresolved SSL/TLS and X509 questions; done means the representation and certificate-handling approach are agreed and documented.

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Description

If an address is listening for TLS connections, how should that be encoded? Encoding X509 certificates seems particularly tricky. You could base64 encode the certificates, but that is variable length, which the format doesn't seem to handle right now.

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