# Browser PKCS#10 CSR generation PoC **Work that started in this repository will continue at [code.cacert.org](https://code.cacert.org/jandd/poc-browser-csr-generation).** This repository contains a small proof of concept implementation of browser based PKCS#10 certificate signing request and PKCS#12 key store generation using [node-forge](https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge). The backend is implemented in [Go](https://golang.org/) and utilizes openssl for the signing operations. The instructions below have been tested on Debian 11 (Bullseye). Debian 10 works when you use a manual installation of Go. ## Running 1. Install dependencies ``` sudo apt install git npm openssl golang-go ``` 2. Clone the repository ``` git clone https://git.dittberner.info/jan/browser_csr_generation.git ``` 3. Get dependencies and build assets ``` cd browser_csr_generation npm install --user gulp-cli npm install ./node_modules/.bin/gulp ``` 3. Setup the example CA and a server certificate and key ``` ./setup_example_ca.sh openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -subj "/CN=localhost" \ -addext subjectAltName=DNS:localhost -newkey rsa:3072 \ -nodes -out server.crt.pem -keyout server.key.pem ``` 4. Run the Go based backend ``` go run main.go ``` Open https://localhost:8000/ in your browser. 5. Run gulp watch You can run a [gulp watch](https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/watching-files/) in a second terminal window to automatically publish changes to the files in the `src` directory: ``` gulp watch ``` ## Translations This PoC uses [go-i18n](https://github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/) for internationalization (i18n) support. The translation workflow needs the `go18n` binary which can be installed via ``` go get -u github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/v2/goi18n ``` To extract new messages from the code run ``` goi18n extract ``` Then use ``` goi18n merge active.*.toml ``` to create TOML files for translation as `translate..toml`. After translating the messages run ``` goi18n merge active.*.toml translate.*.toml ``` to merge the messages back into the active translation files. To add a new language you need to add the language code to `main.go`'s i18n bundle loading code ``` for _, lang := range []string{"en-US", "de-DE"} { if _, err := bundle.LoadMessageFile(fmt.Sprintf("active.%s.toml", lang)); err != nil { log.Panic(err) } } ```