[Nfd-dev] Try NDNCERT (based on Interest-Data exchange) and get an NDN certificate today

Davide Pesavento davidepesa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 21:50:14 PST 2019


Using ParametersSha256DigestComponent (and, by extension,
ApplicationParameters) with ndn-cxx-0.6.6 or any earlier versions is a
bad idea. You'd have to take care of the parameters digest manually,
which I doubt ndncert is doing.

Davide

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:32 AM Junxiao Shi
<shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Zhiyi
>
> It seems that the current deployment is not handling ParametersSha256DigestComponent correctly.
>
> In the attached packet sample, frame 1 is a PROBE Interest generated by ndncert-client from https://github.com/Zhiyi-Zhang/ndncert/tree/3b9a2501d60e90ec33845e021a500a9820bf9050 .
> The Interest is invalid under Packet Format 0.3, as it contains ApplicationParameters element but lacks ParametersSha256DigestComponent in the name.
> Nevertheless, the CA responded to this Interest in frame 2.
>
> Frame 6 was generated by a different program. It carries the same JSON object, and have a ParametersSha256DigestComponent appended to the name. However, the CA is not responding to it.
> Did I generate the packet wrong, or is it a problem with the deployment?
>
> Yours, Junxiao
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