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Need a high level interface for creating and changing TUF metadata

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Assessment

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

Research direction

Start by comparing go-tuf's repo.go helper library with generate.go and the relevant case in repo_test.go. Identify which metadata-creation, key-rotation, and target-management operations the Rust project needs to expose. Done means a settled high-level interface supports creating metadata and generating new versions after those changes, with tests covering the intended workflows.

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Description

We need to do a lot of manual work to creating TUF metadata, and generating new versions if we rotate keys or add/remove targets. In comparison, go-tuf has a repo library that has a bunch of simple helper functions. For example, see this script and this test.

Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
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