@blamejs/pki 0.8.31 → 0.8.48

package/README.md

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 | Namespace | What it does |
 |---|---|
 | `pki.asn1` | Strict, bounded DER codec. `decode` returns a zero-copy node tree, `build.*` emits canonical DER values, `read.*` are typed leaf readers. Plus `encode`, `TAGS`, OID content encode/decode, and the `isPrintableString` string predicate |
-| `pki.cbor` | Strict, bounded deterministic CBOR codec (RFC 8949). `decode` returns a zero-copy node tree, plus `read.*` typed leaf readers including the keyed lookup `read.mapGet` (text or COSE-label integer key, with the map's major type asserted in the accessor). Fail-closed on every non-canonical shape: indefinite length, non-minimal argument, unsorted or duplicate map keys, non-shortest float, trailing bytes |
+| `pki.cbor` | Strict, bounded deterministic CBOR codec (RFC 8949). `decode` returns a zero-copy node tree, plus `read.*` typed leaf readers including the keyed lookup `read.mapGet` (text or COSE-label integer key, with the map's major type asserted in the accessor). Fail-closed on every non-canonical shape: indefinite length, non-minimal argument, unsorted or duplicate map keys, non-shortest float, trailing bytes. The `build.*` encoders hold an integer argument to being an integer rather than converting one: a string in any radix, a padded or empty string, and a boolean are each refused, so an unsupplied value cannot encode as zero |
 | `pki.oid` | Two-way OID ↔ name registry, seeded with RFC 5280 and the NIST PQC arcs — `name`, `byName`, `register`, `toArcs`/`fromArcs`, `toDER`/`fromDER`, and the `isDottedDecimal` string predicate |
 | `pki.webcrypto` | A W3C `SubtleCrypto` engine over `node:crypto` — `sign`/`verify`/`encrypt`/`decrypt`/`deriveBits`/`digest`/`generateKey`/`importKey`/`exportKey` across RSA, ECDSA, ECDH, Ed25519/Ed448, AES, HMAC, HKDF, PBKDF2 and SHA, plus post-quantum ML-DSA-44/65/87, SLH-DSA, and ML-KEM-512/768/1024 key generation with certificate and PKCS#8 import. The RFC 9935 seed / expandedKey / both private-key CHOICE is validated fail-closed, so an OpenSSL-legacy bare seed or an internally inconsistent key is rejected with a typed error. `encapsulateBits` and `decapsulateBits` are the ML-KEM key-establishment pair the CMS `KEMRecipientInfo` arm rides on, with the FIPS 203 §7.3 ciphertext-length check enforced here so a direct caller inherits it. Cross-implementation use is undefined in the specification, so a `CryptoKey` from a different WebCrypto implementation is refused here with a typed fault naming its origin; the `pki.*` verbs adopt such a key instead, whether it came from the platform or from a separately installed copy of this toolkit |
 | `pki.tls` | RFC 8879 certificate compression and the RFC 8446 §4.4.2 Certificate message it carries (RFC 8446 is obsoleted by RFC 9846), which is the handshake's largest payload. `decompressCertificate` decodes a `CompressedCertificate` and returns the algorithm, the declared uncompressed length, the recovered message raw, and its per-entry certificate DER. Decompression carries the two-sided bound §5 requires: capped at the message's own declared length so a bomb is refused mid-stream, then compared to that declaration exactly, which catches the under-length direction a cap alone cannot see. An algorithm outside the RFC 8879 registry, one the runtime cannot decompress, or one the receiver never advertised is refused before any decompressor is handed the bytes; an empty compressed body is a framing violation (`tls/bad-framing`); and trailing bytes, after the message or after the compressed frame, are refused (`tls/trailing-data`), so one chain has exactly one encoding. `compressCertificate` is the inverse and round-trips its own output before returning. `parseCertificateMessage` decodes the RFC 8446 §4.4.2 message on its own, surfacing each entry's certificate DER ready for `pki.schema.x509.parse` alongside its raw extensions; a separate extension negotiates `certificate_type`, so it is declared, never guessed. All three registered algorithms (zlib, brotli, zstd) are implemented, each offered only where the running Node decompresses it safely — one whose decompressor answers a truncated frame with a short result instead of a fault is dropped at startup rather than advertised with a truncation it cannot detect. Structure only: no handshake is spoken and no certificate verified — `decompressCertificate`, `compressCertificate`, `parseCertificateMessage` |
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 | `pki.schema.csrattrs` | EST CSR Attributes (`CsrAttrs`, RFC 8951 §3.5 / RFC 9908) — the `AttrOrOID` items a server sends to shape an enrollment: bare OIDs, attributes with raw values, and decoded views of the RFC 9908 meaningful types (extension requests, EC and RSA key-type conventions, the certification-request-info template). Unknown types are surfaced raw; structure and the RFC 9908 semantic MUSTs are fail-closed — `parse` |
 | `pki.est` | Enrollment over Secure Transport (RFC 7030 / 8951 / 9908 / 7616). The client verbs `cacerts`, `simpleenroll`, `simplereenroll`, `serverkeygen`, `csrattrs`, and `fullcmc` drive the RFC 7030 flow over `pki.transport` (inject your own via `opts.transport`, or take the fail-closed default): HTTPS only, an explicit trust anchor required, same-origin redirects followed while a downgrade or loop is refused, a 202 Retry-After surfaced but never slept, HTTP Basic or Digest (RFC 7616, SHA-256 / SHA-512-256; MD5 and no-qop refused by default) answered only after the server is authenticated, and the issued certificate chosen by public-key match. `serverkeygen` requests a server-generated key, cleartext or an opaque CMS EnvelopedData, with encryption bound to the CSR's key-identifier attribute over a confidentiality-bearing cipher. `csrattrs` fetches the CA's RFC 9908 attributes policy. For §3.5 channel binding, `simpleenroll` and `simplereenroll` accept a CSR builder `(tls) -> csr` instead of a CSR: it runs after the handshake with that connection's `tlsUnique`, so the request is signed over the session it is sent on, and it re-runs on any new connection a redirect or auth retry opens, recreating the CSR for that session (§3.2.1). A builder alongside Digest authentication is refused, since that header is computed over the body before the handshake. `fullcmc` (§4.3) carries a CMC Full PKI Request and reduces the CA's answer through `pki.cmc.verify` to one terminal outcome, refusing a response that fails to echo the transaction and nonce the request carried, or that covers a key the request never asked for; a certs-only reply to a bound request is refused rather than read as an issuance. Under the verbs sit the transport-agnostic codecs they compose: the RFC 8951 base64 transfer codec (which ignores Content-Transfer-Encoding), the `multipart/mixed` splitter, the certs-only and serverkeygen response validators over CMS, the enroll-attribute builders, and the HTTP response classifier — `transferDecode`/`transferEncode`, `parseCertsOnly`, `splitMultipartMixed`, `parseServerKeygenResponse`, `findIssuedCert`, `classifyResponse`, `paths`, and the builders |
 | `pki.scep` | SCEP pkiMessage codec (RFC 8894), the client side of Simple Certificate Enrollment. `build(spec)` assembles a request: a `PKCSReq` or `RenewalReq` wraps a PKCS#10 certification request, whose own proof-of-possession it verifies first; a `CertPoll` wraps an IssuerAndSubject naming the issuing CA and the request subject; and a `GetCert` or `GetCRL` wraps an IssuerAndSerialNumber naming a certificate by its issuer and a positive serial of at most 20 octets. It encrypts the messageData to the CA as the inner EnvelopedData (`pkcsPKIEnvelope`, AES-128-CBC), and signs that under the transaction attributes RFC 8894 §3.2 defines, a messageType, a caller-unique transactionId, and a 16-byte senderNonce. The recipient CA certificate must assert `keyEncipherment`. `build` also issues the CA-side `CertRep` response (§3.3.2): a SUCCESS envelopes a certs-only SignedData of the issued certificate (or the CRL for a GetCRL) to the requester and signs it under the CA key, while a FAILURE (carrying a `failInfo`) or a PENDING omits the pkcsPKIEnvelope and is signed detached, each echoing the request's senderNonce as `recipientNonce`. `parse(bytes, opts?)` reads a `PKCSReq`, `RenewalReq`, `CertPoll`, `GetCert`, `GetCRL`, or `CertRep` back (a messageType outside the RFC 8894 registry is refused): it verifies the outer signature first and refuses a message whose signature does not check, so the transaction attributes it returns come only from a verified signer, never alongside a false verdict. Because a valid signature only proves self-consistency with the embedded certificate, pass `opts.signerCert` to authenticate a CA response against the CA certificate you hold (a public-key mismatch is refused, `signerAuthenticated` reports the result); a caller that omits it gets a crypto-only verdict and must authenticate the surfaced `signerCert` itself. It maps the messageType, pkiStatus, failInfo, and the nonces from their RFC 8894 enumerants and refuses an unknown one; given `recipientKey` it decrypts the `pkcsPKIEnvelope` to the messageData, and given `expectedSenderNonce` it refuses a response whose recipientNonce does not echo it. It reads a CA's CertRep in full. `getCACaps(baseUrl, opts?)`, `getCACert(baseUrl, opts?)`, `getNextCACert(baseUrl, opts)`, `enroll(baseUrl, opts)`, `renew(baseUrl, opts)`, `getCert(baseUrl, opts)`, and `getCrl(baseUrl, opts)` carry that codec to a live CA over HTTP (RFC 8894 §4) through an injectable transport (`pki.transport.https` by default): `getCACaps` reports the CA's advertised capabilities and never lowers the client's algorithm choice on the unauthenticated response, `getCACert` pins the CA certificate to an out-of-band `expectedFingerprint` a returned certificate must match, `getNextCACert` fetches the CA's next (rollover) certificate and verifies the SignedData response against the current CA certificate (`caCertificate`) before returning it, refusing a response signed by any other key, and `enroll` and `renew` POST a PKCSReq or RenewalReq, authenticate the CertRep against the CA certificate and its nonce echo, select the issued certificate by public-key match, throw on a FAILURE with the CA's failInfo, and poll a PENDING response with CertPoll requests until the CA answers or a bounded poll-count and total-wait budget is spent. `getCert` and `getCrl` retrieve an already-issued certificate or a CA CRL by issuer and serial number, authenticated the same way; RFC 8894 §2.6, §2.7, and §3.3.4 recommend these queries only where HTTP certificate-store access (RFC 4387), LDAP, or a CRL distribution point is unavailable, so prefer those where a CA offers them. A PKIOperation goes over HTTP POST by default; `httpMethod: "GET"` carries it base64-encoded in the URL query for a legacy CA that accepts only GET (RFC 8894 §4.1). Every verb reaches an https CA through a forward proxy with `opts.proxy = { url, auth?, tls? }`: a `CONNECT` tunnel is opened to the proxy and the origin TLS is negotiated inside it, so the proxy carries the enrollment without being able to read it or substitute the origin certificate. Basic proxy authentication (RFC 7617) is sent only over an `https://` proxy, where it rides the authenticated TLS-to-proxy channel; an `http://` proxy is tunnel-only, and credentials over a plaintext proxy are refused rather than exposed (see `pki.transport`) — `build`, `parse`, `parseCapabilities`, `getCACaps`, `getCACert`, `getNextCACert`, `enroll`, `renew`, `getCert`, `getCrl` |
-| `pki.transport` | The shared, fail-closed `node:https` transport the enrollment clients drive. `pki.transport.https(defaults)` returns a `transport(request) → { status, headers, body, tls }`, where `tls` carries the negotiated `protocol`, `cipher`, raw `peerCertificate`, and one channel binding per TLS version: on TLS 1.2 the RFC 5929 `tlsUnique` that `pki.est.challengePasswordFromTlsUnique` links to an EST enrollment (RFC 7030 §3.5), and on TLS 1.3 the RFC 9266 `tlsExporter` (32 bytes under the label `EXPORTER-Channel-Binding`, zero-length context). Each is `null` on the version that does not define it, and `tlsExporter` is withheld below TLS 1.3 because RFC 9266 §2 also requires the extended master secret of RFC 7627 (obsoleted by RFC 9846), which Node gives no way to confirm. Since `tlsUnique` on the response arrives after the body was sent, a request `body` may instead be a function `(tls) -> bytes` the transport invokes after the handshake and before it writes the body, so the caller builds a channel-bound CSR from `tlsUnique` on the same connection it posts over. It may return a promise, so the CSR can be signed with `pki.csr.sign` while the connection is held open; a callback that throws, rejects, or returns anything other than bytes or a string fails the request closed rather than posting an empty enrollment. This is the toolkit's only socket choke point: an explicit trust anchor (or an opt-in to the system store) is required, `rejectUnauthorized` is always on, TLS is floored at 1.2, the response body is capped while it streams, and a stalled socket times out. The EST, ACME, and CMP clients reuse it verbatim. A `request.proxy = { url, auth?, tls? }` reaches the origin through a forward proxy: a `CONNECT` tunnel is opened to the proxy and the origin TLS is negotiated inside it under the identical origin trust policy, so the proxy cannot read the origin's encrypted session or substitute an authenticated origin certificate. Proxy credentials are sent only over an `https://` proxy, whose own certificate is verified against `proxy.tls`, so they ride an authenticated channel; a plaintext `http://` proxy is tunnel-only and carrying `auth` on one is refused (`proxy-auth-requires-tls`) rather than exposing the credentials to the proxy hop. `auth.scheme` is `"basic"` (RFC 7617), which sends its credential on the first CONNECT, or `"digest"` (RFC 7616), which answers the proxy's `Proxy-Authenticate` challenge on a `407` by hashing the method `CONNECT` over the authority-form target, and answers exactly once, so a proxy repeating its challenge has rejected the credential rather than obtained another attempt. Digest runs the policy the origin verbs apply, refusing MD5 and a challenge carrying no `qop` unless `auth.allowMD5` / `auth.allowLegacyQop` says otherwise. A malformed option, a failed CONNECT, an unverified proxy certificate, or an unaccepted credential fails closed. The SCEP, EST, ACME, and CMP clients each thread it through as `opts.proxy`. If you inject your own transport, return `tls` too: `pki.est.serverkeygen` asserts the negotiated cipher can protect the delivered private key, and a transport that reports no cipher is trusted rather than refused, so omitting the field silently skips that check — `https` |
+| `pki.transport` | The shared, fail-closed `node:https` transport the enrollment clients drive. `pki.transport.https(defaults)` returns a `transport(request) → { status, headers, body, tls }`, where `tls` carries the negotiated `protocol`, `cipher`, raw `peerCertificate`, and one channel binding per TLS version: on TLS 1.2 the RFC 5929 `tlsUnique` that `pki.est.challengePasswordFromTlsUnique` links to an EST enrollment (RFC 7030 §3.5), and on TLS 1.3 the RFC 9266 `tlsExporter` (32 bytes under the label `EXPORTER-Channel-Binding`, zero-length context). Each is `null` on the version that does not define it, and `tlsExporter` is withheld below TLS 1.3 because RFC 9266 §2 also requires the extended master secret of RFC 7627 (obsoleted by RFC 9846), which Node gives no way to confirm. Since `tlsUnique` on the response arrives after the body was sent, a request `body` may instead be a function `(tls) -> bytes` the transport invokes after the handshake and before it writes the body, so the caller builds a channel-bound CSR from `tlsUnique` on the same connection it posts over. It may return a promise, so the CSR can be signed with `pki.csr.sign` while the connection is held open; a callback that throws, rejects, or returns anything other than bytes or a string fails the request closed rather than posting an empty enrollment. This is the toolkit's only socket choke point: an explicit trust anchor (or an opt-in to the system store) is required, `rejectUnauthorized` is always on, TLS is floored at 1.2, the response body is capped while it streams, and a stalled socket times out. The EST, ACME, and CMP clients reuse it verbatim. A `request.proxy = { url, auth?, tls? }` reaches the origin through a forward proxy: a `CONNECT` tunnel is opened to the proxy and the origin TLS is negotiated inside it under the identical origin trust policy, so the proxy cannot read the origin's encrypted session or substitute an authenticated origin certificate. Proxy credentials are sent only over an `https://` proxy, whose own certificate is verified against `proxy.tls`, so they ride an authenticated channel; a plaintext `http://` proxy is tunnel-only and carrying `auth` on one is refused (`proxy-auth-requires-tls`) rather than exposing the credentials to the proxy hop. `auth.scheme` is `"basic"` (RFC 7617), which sends its credential on the first CONNECT, or `"digest"` (RFC 7616), which answers the proxy's `Proxy-Authenticate` challenge on a `407` by hashing the method `CONNECT` over the authority-form target, and answers exactly once, so a proxy repeating its challenge has rejected the credential rather than obtained another attempt. Digest runs the policy the origin verbs apply, refusing MD5 and a challenge carrying no `qop` unless `auth.allowMD5` / `auth.allowLegacyQop` says otherwise. A malformed option, a failed CONNECT, an unverified proxy certificate, or an unaccepted credential fails closed. The SCEP, EST, ACME, and CMP clients each thread it through as `opts.proxy`. If you inject your own transport, return `tls` too: `pki.est.serverkeygen` asserts the negotiated cipher can protect the delivered private key, and a transport that reports no cipher is trusted rather than refused, so omitting the field silently skips that check. `pki.transport.peerChain(request, defaults?)` negotiates TLS and returns that same channel without sending a request, plus `peerChain`: the certificates the endpoint presented as DER, leaf first, walked up from the peer certificate to the one that issues itself. Reading a certificate off an endpoint through the request path would reach the application behind it; this does not. It prepares the connection through the same code the request path uses, so the anchors, the SNI, the version floor, the identity hook, the private-address block and the https-only rule are one policy rather than a second copy of one, and a configured proxy is refused rather than bypassed. A chain it returns is not a validated one: the handshake checked that it builds to a configured anchor and matches the name in the URL, and checked no revocation status and no policy — `https`, `peerChain` |
 | `pki.jose` | Flattened JWS (RFC 7515) and JWK thumbprints (RFC 7638). `sign` and `verify` run a Flattened JWS against declarative profiles (ACME outer, EAB inner, keyChange inner) that carry the required and forbidden header rules as data. `base64url` is the strict RFC 4648 §5 codec, rejecting padding, non-alphabet characters, and non-canonical trailing bits. `parseJson` is a bounded reader that refuses duplicate members at any depth. `thumbprint` is the RFC 7638 / 8037 / 9964 canonical digest. The algorithm registry binds each `alg` to its key type (ES/RS/PS/EdDSA/ML-DSA), leaving no code path for `alg:none`, an RS256→HS256 key confusion, or an all-zero ECDSA signature; `assertPublicJwk` refuses a JWK carrying private material, so an exported private key is never published; `verify` holds a JWS's own embedded `jwk` to the same rule (RFC 7515 §4.1.3), so a message carrying a private key in its header is refused rather than returned in the verdict. `opts.key` names the key a message must be signed under and governs: where the profile also permits an embedded header `jwk`, the two must be the same key — compared as RFC 7638 thumbprints, so member order cannot make equal keys differ — and a disagreement is refused rather than resolved in the message's favor. `keySource` reports which key answered, since a signature checked against a key you named is a different claim from one checked against the key the message carried — `sign`, `verify`, `base64url`, `parseJson`, `thumbprint`, `assertPublicJwk` |
 | `pki.acme` | ACME (RFC 8555 / 8737 / 8738 / 9773). `client(directoryUrl, opts)` is a stateful client driving a live CA directory over `pki.transport`: `newAccount`, `newOrder`, `newAuthz`, `getOrder`, `getAuthorization`, `getChallenge`, `respondToChallenge`, `finalize`, `pollOrder`, `pollAuthorization`, and `downloadCertificate` walk the issuance flow, with `newAuthz` pre-authorizing a single identifier (§7.4.1) and `downloadCertificate` binding the issued certificate to the order — its key, its identifiers, or both; at least one is required by default and the result reports `boundToKey` / `boundToIdentifiers` — before choosing among alternate chains (`Link rel="alternate"`, §7.4.2, via a `selectChain` predicate bounded by `maxAlternates`). `revokeCert` (account-key or certificate-key signed), `keyChange`, `updateAccount` (change the account contacts, §7.3.2), `listOrders` (the account's orders list, following the §7.1.2.1 `Link rel="next"` pagination bounded by a page cap and confined to the orders origin), `deactivateAccount`, `deactivateAuthorization`, `renewalInfo` (ARI), `renewalWindow` (the RFC 9773 §4.2/4.3 renewal decision), and `scheduleRenewal` (the §4.1 auto-sleeping renewal loop that sleeps until the selected instant and refetches until it is time to renew, stopping at the certificate's notAfter) complete the lifecycle. Every URL is HTTPS only, an explicit trust anchor is required, each request carries a fresh single-use nonce with a bounded badNonce retry (and, when `opts.resignKeys` supplies caller-approved alternative account-key algorithms, a bounded RFC 8555 §6.2 badSignatureAlgorithm re-sign that the CA's advertised list can only filter, never widen, so it cannot force a weaker algorithm), reads are POST-as-GET, polling is bounded and sleeps on a Retry-After via an injectable sleeper capped by a poll count and a total-wait budget, and every response body is size-capped. The transport is injectable via `opts.transport`. Over the message layer it composes resource-object validators (closed status enums, conditional-required fields, unknown fields ignored), the three §7.1.6 state machines, the request builders (newAccount with External Account Binding, newOrder with `replaces`, finalize with a CSR identifier-set match and account-key-reuse rejection, challenge responses, deactivation, revokeCert in both key modes, the keyChange nested JWS, POST-as-GET), the http-01 / dns-01 / tls-alpn-01 challenge computations, the dns and ip identifier validators, and the ARI certID with serial sign-padding preserved — `client`, `validate`, `identify`, `assertTransition`, the builders, `keyAuthorization`, `http01`, `dns01`, `tlsAlpn01Extension`, `verifyTlsAlpn01`, `ariCertId` |
 | `pki.schema.smime` | S/MIME ESS signed-attribute values (RFC 5035 / RFC 8551). `parseSigningCertificate` and `parseSigningCertificateV2` bind a signature to its signing certificate (cert hash, hash algorithm, issuer `GeneralNames` and serial); `parseSmimeCapabilities` decodes the ordered capability list; `decodeAttribute` dispatches a CMS attribute by OID, enforcing the single-value rule and deferring on unknown types. A companion decoder for CMS signed attributes rather than an auto-routed format — `parseSigningCertificate`, `parseSigningCertificateV2`, `parseSmimeCapabilities`, `decodeAttribute` |
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 | `pki.smime` | S/MIME message assembly, verification, encryption, and compression over the CMS layer (RFC 8551). `sign(content, signers, opts)` wraps a MIME entity in either form: `multipart/signed`, where the content stays readable in any MUA and a detached CMS SignedData rides alongside as `application/pkcs7-signature` with a matching `micalg`, or `application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=signed-data`, where the whole entity is a base64 CMS SignedData. The signed bytes are the entity's §3.1.1 canonical form with CRLF line endings, and `verify(message, opts)` unwraps both forms and recomputes over the same canonicalizer, so a transport that re-wraps line endings still verifies while a tampered part fails. `encrypt(content, recipients, opts)` envelopes a MIME entity as an opaque `application/pkcs7-mime` message and `decrypt(message, keyMaterial, opts)` opens one, as `smime-type=authEnveloped-data` (AES-GCM, confidentiality and integrity, the default) or `smime-type=enveloped-data` (AES-CBC, confidentiality only, so `decrypt` reports `authenticated: false`, the §3.3 no-integrity caveat). The `smime-type` is derived from the CMS body rather than the header, and decryption is fail-closed and oracle-free. The crypto is entirely `pki.cms.sign` / `verify` / `encrypt` / `decrypt`, so it is algorithm-agnostic: any RSA / RSASSA-PSS / ECDSA / EdDSA / ML-DSA / SLH-DSA signer and any RSA-OAEP / ECDH / X25519 / X448 / AES-KW / PBKDF2 / ML-KEM recipient carries through. As with `cms.verify`, `verify` returns the per-signer verdict plus the recovered content, and `valid` and `trusted` are separate claims: `valid` says the signature is sound under a certificate the message carried, `trusted` says every signer chained to a root named in `opts.trustAnchors`. Anchoring here is validated for email at both ends of the chain — the signer certificate must carry `emailProtection` (RFC 8550 §4.4.4) and the anchor's own trust metadata must permit that purpose, since a root can be distrusted for email while remaining a good TLS root. `sign` refuses a signer certificate a conforming reader would reject: a `keyUsage` extension without `digitalSignature` or `nonRepudiation` (RFC 8550 §4.4.2), or an `extendedKeyUsage` extension without `emailProtection` or `anyExtendedKeyUsage` (§4.4.4); a certificate carrying neither extension signs. Override either with `requiredEku` / `checkPurpose`. `compress(content, opts)` and `decompress(message, opts)` add the opaque `application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=compressed-data; name=smime.p7z` frame (§3.6, RFC 3274), a size transform with no integrity or confidentiality (§2.4.5), bounded against a bomb; the recovered content, which may itself be signed or enveloped, is returned for the caller to re-verify. Header protection (RFC 9788): `sign` and `encrypt` take `opts.protectHeaders`, which inlines the caller's `opts.headers` on the Cryptographic Payload root (its Content-Type gaining `hp="clear"` when signed or `hp="cipher"` when encrypted) so the CMS signature or encryption covers them, defeating a transport that rewrites or reads Subject, From, and the rest. `verify` and `decrypt` surface the authenticated inner set as `protectedHeaders` plus `headerProtection { present, mode, fromMismatch, confidential, legacy }`, so a tampered outer header cannot alter it and `fromMismatch` flags an outer From that disagrees. Encryption applies a Header Confidentiality Policy: the default `hcp_baseline` obscures the outer Subject to `[...]` and removes Comments and Keywords, so the real values live only in the ciphertext, and `decrypt` recovers them. Every emitted header routes through a fail-closed injection guard that rejects a CR, LF, or NUL value and a non-ftext name, and a malformed or contradictory `hp` wrap fails closed as `smime/bad-header-protection` rather than silently downgrading. The CMS crypto is unchanged. Inbound legacy RFC 8551 header protection is recognized opt-in: `verify` and `decrypt` with `opts.legacyHeaderProtection` detect a legacy `message/rfc822`-wrapped payload by the RFC 9788 §4.10.1 four-condition identification and surface the inner headers under `headerProtection.legacy = { headers, mode, fromMismatch, confidential }`, where `headers` is an ordered `[{ name, value }]` array retaining legally repeated fields such as `Received`. Those never appear in `protectedHeaders` and never set `present: true`. Because a legacy message is structurally indistinguishable from an ordinary forwarded `message/rfc822`, this is an explicit heuristic (§4.10.2, "no strong end-to-end guarantees"): a caller keying trust off `present` or `protectedHeaders` is never misled, and only one that explicitly reads `headerProtection.legacy.headers` and cross-checks `legacy.fromMismatch` consumes it. It is off by default, and a nested crypto layer, an inner `hp=`, a non-`message/rfc822` payload, or a duplicate Content-Type reports `legacy: null`. Bidirectionally interoperable with `openssl smime` and `openssl cms`. `buildCertsOnly(certs, opts?)` wraps a `pki.cms.certsOnly` certificate-management message in one `application/pkcs7-mime; smime-type=certs-only; name=smime.p7c` entity, read back by OpenSSL's `pkcs7 -print_certs`. Fail-closed with typed `smime/*` errors — `sign`, `verify`, `encrypt`, `decrypt`, `compress`, `decompress`, `buildCertsOnly` |
 | `pki.tsp` | Time-Stamp Protocol (RFC 3161). `sign(messageImprint, tsa, opts)` produces a TimeStampToken: a CMS SignedData over `pki.cms.sign` whose content is a `TSTInfo` carrying the timestamped message imprint, the TSA policy, a serial number, and `genTime` with optional accuracy, nonce, and ordering, plus the §2.4.2 signing-certificate attribute binding the token to the TSA certificate (SHA-2 imprints, any `pki.cms.sign` TSA key). The TSA certificate is held to §2.3 before signing (one critical extendedKeyUsage naming timeStamping alone) with the codes `verify` answers, `genTime` keeps its milliseconds as the §2.4.2 fraction of a second, and an accuracy naming no field is refused. `request` and `parseRequest` build and parse the TimeStampReq a client sends (imprint, requested policy, nonce, certReq); `response` and `parseResponse` handle the TimeStampResp a TSA returns, either a granted status wrapping a token or a rejection with PKIStatus and failure info, with the §2.4.2 status-to-token coupling enforced in both directions. `verify(token, data, opts)` verifies a token fail-closed: the CMS signature over the exact signed bytes, the message imprint recomputed from the data, the TSTInfo content type, the ESSCertID(V2) binding to the TSA certificate, the §2.3 critical timeStamping-only extendedKeyUsage, the request nonce when used, and, with a trust anchor supplied, full certification-path validation of the TSA certificate at the token's `genTime` — judged under the `timeStamping` purpose, so an anchor's own per-purpose trust metadata reaches the decision rather than sitting inert. It returns `{ valid, trusted, genTime, serialNumber, tstInfo, ... }`, where `trusted` is the separate claim that the authority chained to an anchor you named: without one there is nothing to chain to and it is `false`, which is the distinction a timestamp re-read years later turns on — `sign`, `request`, `parseRequest`, `response`, `parseResponse`, `verify` |
 | `pki.ocsp` | Online Certificate Status Protocol (RFC 6960), both the responder and relying-party surface. `buildRequest(query, opts)` builds an OCSPRequest for one or more `{ cert, issuer }` pairs, with the CertID hashed under SHA-1 by default per the RFC 5019 lightweight profile (obsoleted by RFC 9919) or under SHA-2, plus an optional RFC 9654 nonce (32 to 128 octets, the requester floor that section sets) and an optional requestor signature, under which the signer certificate's subject is the requestorName unless one is stated (RFC 6960 §4.1.2). `sign(responseData, responder, opts)` produces a signed BasicOCSPResponse over the exact `ResponseData` DER, from the issuing CA directly or a delegated responder, under any `pki.cms.sign` key including the post-quantum ML-DSA and SLH-DSA sets, with `good`, `revoked` (reason and time), or `unknown` per-certificate status, and per-response `singleExtensions` naming the §4.4.4 archive cutoff and the §4.4.2 CRL reference as fields, each read back by name by the parser. The signer refuses what its own lint would grade an error: a pre-encoded singleExtension that RFC 6960 places in requests or in responseExtensions, a CRL entry extension carried at the wrong criticality, and CRL references or entry extensions on a non-issued response, which itself places the §4.4.8 extended revoked definition in responseExtensions without being asked. `buildErrorResponse(status)` produces the unsigned §2.3 error (`tryLater`, `unauthorized`, and the rest). `verify(response, opts)` verifies a response fail-closed against the same hardened gates `pki.path.ocspChecker` runs: the CertID binding, responder authorization (the issuing CA, or a CA-issued delegate bearing id-kp-OCSPSigning and id-pkix-ocsp-nocheck and passing the full out-of-path certificate gates), the signature over `tbsResponseDataBytes`, currency against `thisUpdate` and `nextUpdate`, and the request-nonce echo. It returns `{ status: "good" / "revoked" / "unknown", ... }` and never silently accepts. `verifyRequest(request, opts)` is the responder-side inverse of `buildRequest`: it verifies a client's signed request (RFC 6960 §4.1.1) under the requestor certificate the request carries, trying each embedded certificate since the field is unordered, and reports `signed`, `signatureValid`, every certificate whose key verified the signature and whose subject is the `requestorName` the request states (`signerCerts`, so a key carried under an expired certificate beside its renewal is not hidden behind ordering, while a same-key certificate under another name is not the requestor) with the first one's decoded subject, the full embedded certificate bag (`certs`, including intermediates for path building), and the request's CertIDs; the name check is reported as `requestorNamed` (RFC 6960 §4.1.2) and `valid` requires it, a request no verifying certificate names falls back to listing the verifying ones with `valid: false`, and an unsigned request is reported with `signed: false` rather than refused. Transport-free — `buildRequest`, `sign`, `buildErrorResponse`, `verify`, `verifyRequest` |
-| `pki.ct` | Certificate Transparency (RFC 6962). `parseSctList` decodes the `SignedCertificateTimestampList` a certificate or OCSP response carries, a TLS-presentation-language payload inside the §3.3 double DER wrap, into per-SCT log id, exact `timestamp` (BigInt), named signature algorithm, and raw signature. `reconstructSignedData` rebuilds the exact `digitally-signed` preimage, and `verifySct` verifies an SCT signature against a log's public key, routing an ECDSA signature through the strict DER-conformance gate and verifying through the crypto engine, resolving true or false and throwing a typed error on a structural fault. On the producing side, `encodeSctList` builds the extension value byte for byte as the exact inverse of `parseSctList`, and `signSct` performs a log's signing step. For trust, `parseLogList` ingests the CT log-list JSON into constraint-carrying trusted logs, recomputing each log's id as SHA-256 of its key and refusing a disagreeing id (a swapped key, §3.2) and decoding the state and temporal-interval constraints; `verifySctWithLogList` resolves the log key from an SCT's log id, enforces the state (usable, qualified, and readonly trusted; retired only before retirement; pending and rejected refused) and the temporal-interval window, then delegates the signature check to `verifySct`. `verifyLogListSignature(json, signature, publicKey)` verifies the detached `log_list.sig` over the raw log-list bytes against a caller-pinned signer key (RSASSA-PKCS1-v1.5/SHA-256 and an EC P-256 arm, with forgeable-key defenses failing closed), cross-checked against `openssl dgst`. `fetchLogList(opts)` turns that chain into a live client: it GETs the `log_list.json` and its detached `log_list.sig` over `pki.transport`, verifies the detached signature over the raw fetched bytes against a caller-pinned distributor key before parsing, so an unverified document is never parsed, read, cached, or surfaced, then ingests the same bytes through `parseLogList` and returns the trusted-log set plus the surfaced `version` and `timestamp`. Above the per-SCT layer, `verifySctList` renders a certificate-level verdict over every SCT a certificate carries (§3.3), reporting how many distinct trusted logs verified an SCT (so a duplicated SCT cannot inflate the count) and from how many distinct trusted operators against a caller's CT policy (`minScts` and `minOperators`, both defaulting to the RFC floor of one), where a policy shortfall is a verdict and a per-SCT failure is a recorded row rather than a thrown call; `x509CertEntry` reconstructs the precertificate log entry from a final certificate by removing the SCT-list extension from its TBSCertificate as byte surgery, so its embedded SCTs verify end to end (§3.2). The toolkit bakes in no vendor URL or key, TLS trust is explicit with `rejectUnauthorized` always on, each response is size-capped before the trust chain, and the transport is injectable so the whole path is testable offline — `parseSctList`, `reconstructSignedData`, `verifySct`, `encodeSctList`, `signSct`, `parseLogList`, `verifySctWithLogList`, `verifySctList`, `x509CertEntry`, `verifyLogListSignature`, `fetchLogList` |
-| `pki.merkle` | Merkle-tree proof verification (RFC 6962 / RFC 9162). `leafHash`, `nodeHash`, and `emptyRootHash` build the domain-separated (0x00 leaf, 0x01 node) SHA-256 tree hashes. `verifyInclusion` folds an audit proof back to a root, and `verifyConsistency` reconstructs both the old and new root, which is the append-only guarantee; each is constant-time-compared to a trusted checkpoint root. Fail-closed on bad geometry, sync hashing, transport-free — `leafHash`, `nodeHash`, `emptyRootHash`, `verifyInclusion`, `verifyConsistency` |
+| `pki.ct` | Certificate Transparency (RFC 6962). `parseSctList` decodes the `SignedCertificateTimestampList` a certificate or OCSP response carries, a TLS-presentation-language payload inside the §3.3 double DER wrap, into per-SCT log id, exact `timestamp` (BigInt), named signature algorithm, and raw signature. `reconstructSignedData` rebuilds the exact `digitally-signed` preimage, and `verifySct` verifies an SCT signature against a log's public key, routing an ECDSA signature through the strict DER-conformance gate and verifying through the crypto engine, resolving true or false and throwing a typed error on a structural fault. On the producing side, `encodeSctList` builds the extension value byte for byte as the exact inverse of `parseSctList`, and `signSct` performs a log's signing step. For trust, `parseLogList` ingests the CT log-list JSON into constraint-carrying trusted logs, recomputing each log's id as SHA-256 of its key and refusing a disagreeing id (a swapped key, §3.2) and decoding the state and temporal-interval constraints; `verifySctWithLogList` resolves the log key from an SCT's log id, enforces the state (usable, qualified, and readonly trusted; retired only before retirement; pending and rejected refused) and the temporal-interval window, then delegates the signature check to `verifySct`. `verifyLogListSignature(json, signature, publicKey)` verifies the detached `log_list.sig` over the raw log-list bytes against a caller-pinned signer key (RSASSA-PKCS1-v1.5/SHA-256 and an EC P-256 arm, with forgeable-key defenses failing closed), cross-checked against `openssl dgst`. `fetchLogList(opts)` turns that chain into a live client: it GETs the `log_list.json` and its detached `log_list.sig` over `pki.transport`, verifies the detached signature over the raw fetched bytes against a caller-pinned distributor key before parsing, so an unverified document is never parsed, read, cached, or surfaced, then ingests the same bytes through `parseLogList` and returns the trusted-log set plus the surfaced `version` and `timestamp`. Above the per-SCT layer, The RFC 6962 sec. 4 log client is shipped: `getSth` fetches a signed tree head and verifies it under the caller-pinned log key, returning nothing when it does not verify, since every later check is measured against that root; `sthSignedData` builds the 50-byte sec. 3.5 preimage and `verifySth` checks a head held offline. `getProofByHash` and `getSthConsistency` fetch the audit and consistency proofs and fold them against tree heads a log signed, taking the query sizes from those heads so a size and a head cannot disagree. `getEntries` and `getRoots` fetch what the specification leaves unsigned and say so, with a short entry answer reported as truncation rather than a fault. `addChain` and `addPreChain` submit a chain and verify the SCT the log returns against the chain it was issued for. `verifySctList` renders a certificate-level verdict over every SCT a certificate carries (§3.3), reporting how many distinct trusted logs verified an SCT (so a duplicated SCT cannot inflate the count) and from how many distinct trusted operators against a caller's CT policy (`minScts` and `minOperators`, both defaulting to the RFC floor of one), where a policy shortfall is a verdict and a per-SCT failure is a recorded row rather than a thrown call; `x509CertEntry` reconstructs the precertificate log entry from a final certificate by removing the SCT-list extension from its TBSCertificate as byte surgery, so its embedded SCTs verify end to end (§3.2). The toolkit bakes in no vendor URL or key, TLS trust is explicit with `rejectUnauthorized` always on, each response is size-capped before the trust chain, and the transport is injectable so the whole path is testable offline — `parseSctList`, `reconstructSignedData`, `verifySct`, `encodeSctList`, `signSct`, `parseLogList`, `verifySctWithLogList`, `verifySctList`, `x509CertEntry`, `verifyLogListSignature`, `fetchLogList` |
+| `pki.merkle` | Merkle trees and their proofs, in both directions (RFC 6962 / RFC 9162). `leafHash`, `nodeHash`, and `emptyRootHash` build the domain-separated (0x00 leaf, 0x01 node) SHA-256 tree hashes. `verifyInclusion` folds an audit proof back to a root, and `verifyConsistency` reconstructs both the old and new root, which is the append-only guarantee; each is constant-time-compared to a trusted checkpoint root. `root` computes the tree head over a set of leaves, `inclusionProof` produces the audit path for one of them, and `consistencyProof` produces the append-only proof between two sizes, each returning what the matching verifier takes. The producing verbs take leaf hashes in the same form the verifiers take them, and the tree size is the leaf array's length rather than a second option that could disagree with it. Fail-closed on bad geometry, sync hashing, transport-free — `leafHash`, `nodeHash`, `emptyRootHash`, `root`, `verifyInclusion`, `verifyConsistency`, `inclusionProof`, `consistencyProof` |
+| `pki.tlog` | The C2SP envelope a tiled transparency log speaks, over the hashes `pki.merkle` verifies: a signed note (`c2sp.org/signed-note`), the checkpoint body a log signs into one (`c2sp.org/tlog-checkpoint`), and the tile addressing a static log serves them beside (`c2sp.org/tlog-tiles`). Static-CT, Merkle Tree Certificates and Rekor v2 differ in what they put in the origin line and what they do with the root, not in this layer. A note is text, a blank line, then one signature line per signer, and the signature covers the text including its trailing newline: `parseNote` surfaces `signedBytes` as a view of the input, so a verifier never hashes a re-serialization of what it parsed. A key ID is four bytes and the specification says it identifies without proving, so `verifyNote` tries every supplied key whose ID matches and reports only after all of them; a signature from a key not supplied is ignored, and a note carrying none from a supplied key resolves `verified: false`. A line naming a supplied key by both name and ID that no such key verifies rejects the whole note, so a forged line from a known signer is not masked by a valid one. The derivation is fixed per algorithm and read off the key material rather than declared: Ed25519 hashes the name, a newline, a type byte and the raw 32 bytes, ECDSA over P-256, P-384 or P-521 hashes the SubjectPublicKeyInfo alone, and RSA carries a format tag; an ECDSA signature is checked with the hash its curve calls for. `parseVkey` reads the `name+id+key` text a log publishes, checking the stated ID and type against what the material derives and is. `verifyCheckpoint` takes an expected `origin` and refuses a checkpoint naming another one even where the signature verifies, since a valid signature from one log says nothing about another log's tree. Every Ed25519 key passes the shared Edwards-point gate before it reaches a verify, since Node imports a low-order key without complaint and such a key verifies a forged signature. `parseCheckpoint` reads the origin, the tree size as a `BigInt` and the 32-byte root ready for `pki.merkle.verifyInclusion`, refusing a leading zero in the size, an empty origin or a root that is not 32 bytes; the origin is not validated as a URL, because the specification says a client must not assume it is one. `tilePath` / `entryBundlePath` / `parseTilePath` build and read the paths a log serves, with the index in zero-padded three-digit segments, and `parseTile` / `parseEntryBundle` split what it serves; each of those takes bytes and refuses a string, since decoding a tile as text rewrites every byte above 0x7f. A tiled log serves no proof endpoint, so `inclusionProof` assembles the RFC 6962 audit path from tiles over a `read` the caller supplies, caching tiles for the call, and `tileWidth` says which tile to ask for: a full and a partial tile sit at different paths, so the width has to follow from the verified tree size rather than from the response. Verifying only: nothing signs and nothing fetches — `keyId`, `parseNote`, `verifyNote`, `parseCheckpoint`, `verifyCheckpoint`, `tilePath`, `entryBundlePath`, `checkpointPath`, `parseTilePath`, `parseTile`, `parseEntryBundle`, `tileWidth`, `inclusionProof` |
+| `pki.tuf` | The Update Framework metadata layer: the signed documents a repository publishes to say which keys may sign what, and the rules a client applies before believing any of it. This is the trust root a sigstore verifier would otherwise pin by hand. TUF signs the canonical JSON form of a document, so `canonicalJson` is the wire format rather than a convenience: keys sort by code point, no whitespace is emitted, and only backslash and quote are escaped, so a literal newline stays a newline where `JSON.stringify` would write an escape and sign different bytes. A float is refused rather than rounded, because the reference encoder cannot write one. `keyId` derives a key's identifier as the hex SHA-256 of its own canonical form, and `verifySignatures` recomputes it for every key a role names, so a document cannot file one key under another's identifier; a threshold counts one verified signature per distinct identifier, so repetition cannot meet it. `updateRoot` walks the root chain, requiring each new root to be signed by a threshold of the previous root's keys AND a threshold of its own and to carry exactly the next version, which is what makes a key rotation safe and a skipped intermediate impossible. `checkExpiry` is the freeze-attack check, judged at a caller instant rather than the system clock. Verifying only: nothing here fetches — `canonicalJson`, `keyId`, `parseMetadata`, `checkExpiry`, `verifySignatures`, `updateRoot` |
+| `pki.possession` | Statement of possession (RFC 9883): how a key that cannot sign gets certified. PKCS#10 proves possession of the key being certified by signing the request with it, so an ML-KEM, X25519 or X448 key could not be certified through a certification request at all. RFC 9883 signs the request with a different key the requester already holds a certificate for, and names that certificate in an attribute. `pki.csr.sign` takes `spec.privateKeyPossessionStatement` and signs with the key given, which is the one case where it accepts a signing key that is not the subject's and a subject key that cannot sign; both stay refused for a request that declares no statement. `includeCertificate: false` emits the compact form the RFC allows, where the CA looks the certificate up. `pki.crmf.build` takes the same structure as `controls.statementOfPossession`, which the RFC gives the attribute's own OID. `pki.possession.verifyRequest` is the CA's side and enforces the two MUSTs: the request's signature is validated with the public key from the signature certificate, and that certificate's certification path is validated, so `opts.trustAnchors` is required and the verb throws without it rather than returning a verdict that skipped a MUST. The two name comparisons the RFC states as SHOULDs are reported and not enforced, because each ends in a question about certificate policy that no library can answer: `subjectMatches` and `subjectAltNamesMatch` carry the comparison and `valid` is `false` with a reason naming the decision. `requestsSignatureCertificate` reports the prohibition on using the attribute to obtain a signature certificate, which `pki.lint.csr` with `profile: "rfc9883"` grades as an error. A statement carrying a certificate its `signer` does not name is refused in both directions — `parse`, `verifyRequest` |
+| `pki.altSig` | Alternative signatures (ITU-T X.509 (2019) clause 9.8), the shape widely called Catalyst: one certificate carrying two signatures, so a PKI migrating between algorithm sets does not have to reissue to every relying party at once. A relying party that has not migrated reads the native signature and ignores the extensions; one that has reads the alternative signature instead. `pki.x509.sign` takes `issuer.altKey` beside the issuing key and `extensions.subjectAltPublicKeyInfo` for the subject's alternative key, and emits all three extensions: clause 7.2.2 requires the alternative signature to be generated first, over the structure without it, and the native signature then to cover it, so the ordering is not the caller's to get right. `pki.crl.sign` takes `issuer.altKey` for the same mechanism on a CRL, which clause 7.10.3 gives the same procedure; `subjectAltPublicKeyInfo` is certificate-only. `signedData` builds the bytes that signature covers: the `PreTBSCertificate` of `draft-truskovsky-lamps-pq-hybrid-x509` section 4, which is the `tbsCertificate` without its `signature` field and without the `altSignatureValue` extension, and the `PreTBSCertList` of section 5 for a CRL. Those are the bytes Bouncy Castle emits and checks, so an alternative signature made here verifies there and one made there verifies here. Clause 7.2.2 requires a verifier to rebuild that encoding, and this is the one place the toolkit re-encodes what it parsed: every retained component keeps the bytes it had and only the two SEQUENCE headers whose lengths change are recomputed, so nothing is re-serialized from a decoded model. `verify` checks the signature under the issuer's alternative public key, which `subjectAltPublicKey` reads out of the issuer's own certificate; `SubjectAltPublicKeyInfo` has the same encoding as `SubjectPublicKeyInfo`, so that value is an SPKI and needs no conversion. The algorithm is not derived: the structure states it in `altSignatureAlgorithm`, and that stated algorithm is bound to the key through the engine path validation uses, so a key that does not match it resolves `false` rather than being read under some other algorithm; a structure stating no alternative signature throws instead, there being nothing to check. `pki.lint.certificate` with `profile: "x509-altsig"` grades the clause 9.8.3 pairing and the clause 7.2.2 full set as errors and a critical extension as a warning, criticality being stated only in a NOTE — `signedData`, `verify`, `subjectAltPublicKey` |
+| `pki.relatedCert` | Related certificates (RFC 9763): the two structures that let one subject hold a classical certificate and a post-quantum one and have each say the other exists. `requestSignedData` builds the bytes a requester signs to prove it holds the certificate it names, which §3.1 fixes as the DER `IssuerAndSerialNumber` followed by the DER `BinaryTime` and nothing else; `locationInfo` travels in the attribute outside those bytes, so a verified proof says nothing about where the certificate can be fetched. `pki.csr.sign` takes the whole attribute as `relatedCertRequest` and encodes those two fields from that same function, so the bytes signed and the bytes emitted cannot drift apart; its `locationInfo` is a `SEQUENCE OF` IA5String URIs rather than one URI, and it keeps the order the requester wrote. `verifyRequest` checks the proof through the engine the certificate path uses, so the algorithm it derives is bound to the key. The key decides the algorithm, resolved through the same resolver `pki.x509.sign` and `pki.csr.sign` use, so every algorithm those verbs sign with is reached, including an RSASSA-PSS key whose parameters belong to its identifier; the digest comes from the hash the certificate's signature OID indicates, with `digestAlgorithm` or a DER `signatureAlgorithm` naming either outright. A key whose algorithm fixes its own digest refuses `digestAlgorithm` rather than ignoring it, and a key that cannot sign is refused. A certificate other than the one `certID` names throws rather than returning `false`. `certificateHash` and `matchesCertificate` are the extension side, over the whole related certificate: the algorithm defaults as §4.1 directs, to the hash the related certificate's own signature OID indicates, and a certificate that indicates none throws rather than falling back to one the document does not name. `sha1` is refused. `pki.x509.sign` takes `extensions.relatedCertificate`, and the form handed the certificate itself computes the digest rather than trusting a caller to name the algorithm it used; supplying both a `hashValue` and a certificate is refused, the two being able to disagree. The extension is emitted non-critical, which §4.1 asks at SHOULD NOT, and a critical one still parses: `pki.lint.certificate` with the `rfc9763` profile grades it, beside the MUST that it appear only in a chain's end-entity certificate — `requestSignedData`, `verifyRequest`, `certificateHash`, `matchesCertificate` |
 | `pki.trust` | Mozilla and CCADB trust-store ingestion. `parseCertdata` reads the NSS `certdata.txt` object stream and `parseCcadbCsv` the CCADB CSV export, both into one constraint-carrying anchor shape: the per-purpose trust bits, where only `CKT_NSS_TRUSTED_DELEGATOR` grants, and the per-purpose distrust-after dates the bare root list omits. Certificate and trust objects pair by byte-exact issuer and serial rather than adjacency and are cross-checked against the parsed DER, so metadata cannot attach to the wrong root. `anchor()` hands an entry to `pki.path.validate({ trustAnchors, checkPurpose })`, and `anchor(entry, { nameConstraints })` attaches the namespace a root program trusts a root for when that is narrower than the root certificate states, a `{ permitted, excluded }` pair of `{ tag, base }` subtrees that `validate` seeds as the RFC 5280 §6.1.1(h)(i) initial value, intersecting with each certificate's own constraints. `parseTrustAnchorList` reads the IETF's own interchange format for the same thing, an RFC 5914 `TrustAnchorList`, into the same entries, so a list a root program publishes drives `validate` without being mapped by hand. An RFC 5914 anchor's constraints are applied as RFC 5937 §3.2 states, which is that the stricter of the anchor's value and the caller's always wins: its name constraints intersect the caller's permitted subtrees and union its excluded ones, its policy set intersects `userInitialPolicySet`, each of its policy flags may turn the matching `initial*` option on and never off, and its path length bounds the path. `pki.trustanchor.build` writes the list. `systemAnchors` reads the host's own CA bundle into the same entries and names which set it read, `"ca-bundle"` with the path or `"node-bundled"` for the Mozilla set compiled into Node, since the two are not the same trust. A host whose roots are not in a readable PEM file is refused with the command that exports them, and a block that is not a certificate or a certificate the strict reader refuses is listed in `skipped` with its reason. Offline, fail-closed, bounded — `parseCertdata`, `parseCcadbCsv`, `parseTrustAnchorList`, `systemAnchors`, `anchor` |
 | `pki.shbs` | Stateful hash-based signature verification: HSS/LMS (RFC 8554), carried in X.509 by RFC 9802 and in CMS by RFC 9708, profiled by NIST SP 800-208 for CNSA 2.0 firmware signing. `verify` checks an HSS signature, where every level must pass, and `verifyLms` a single-tree LMS, over the raw public-key and signature blobs the parsers already surface. Pure public-input SHA-256 and SHAKE256 hashing, a data-driven typecode registry, and bounds-before-slice reads; a malformed blob throws a typed `ShbsError` while a well-formed but wrong signature returns `false`. Verification only by design, since stateful signing needs atomic one-time-key state that belongs in an HSM. `pki.path.validate` verifies an HSS-signed certificate on its own, so a chain reaching one needs no separate call: the signature covers the whole tbsCertificate rather than a digest of it (RFC 9802 §7.1), and a CertificateList naming the algorithm takes the same route. It is proven against the self-signed certificate RFC 9802 Appendix A publishes — `verify`, `verifyLms` |
-| `pki.hpke` | Hybrid Public Key Encryption (RFC 9180), the encrypt-to-a-public-key primitive behind TLS ECH, MLS, and OHTTP. `setupS` and `setupR` establish a sender or recipient context (KEM encapsulation plus the HKDF key schedule); the context's `seal` and `open` AEAD-encrypt with a sequence-counter nonce, and `export` derives further secrets; the module-level `seal` and `open` are single-shot wrappers. DHKEM (P-256, P-521, X25519, X448) in all four modes, proven against the RFC 9180 Appendix A vectors, and the post-quantum ML-KEM-512/768/1024 KEMs (IANA 0x0040 to 0x0042) in the base and psk modes, proven against the draft-ietf-hpke-pq Appendix A vectors; HKDF-SHA256/SHA384/SHA512 by AES-GCM / ChaCha20Poly1305 / export-only. DHKEM(P-384) has no vector under an HKDF key schedule and fails closed. Pure composition over `node:crypto`; the PQ/T hybrid KEMs are a registry data-row extension once the CFRG combiner draft stabilizes — `suites`, `setupS`, `setupR`, `seal`, `open` |
+| `pki.hpke` | Hybrid Public Key Encryption (RFC 9180), the encrypt-to-a-public-key primitive behind TLS ECH, MLS, and OHTTP. `setupS` and `setupR` establish a sender or recipient context (KEM encapsulation plus the key schedule); the context's `seal` and `open` AEAD-encrypt with a sequence-counter nonce, and `export` derives further secrets; the module-level `seal` and `open` are single-shot wrappers. DHKEM (P-256, P-384, P-521, X25519, X448) in all four modes, proven against the RFC 9180 Appendix A vectors, the post-quantum ML-KEM-512/768/1024 KEMs (IANA 0x0040 to 0x0042) in the base and psk modes, proven against the draft-ietf-hpke-pq Appendix A vectors, and the PQ/T hybrid KEMs MLKEM768-P256 (0x0050), MLKEM1024-P384 (0x0051) and MLKEM768-X25519 (0x647a, X-Wing), each pairing an ML-KEM with a nominal group under the CFRG C2PRI combiner and proven against the draft-irtf-cfrg-concrete-hybrid-kems Appendix B vectors; the two-stage HKDF-SHA256/SHA384/SHA512 and the single-stage SHAKE128/SHAKE256 key schedules, proven against the draft-ietf-hpke-pq Appendix A.7/A.8/A.11/A.12 vectors, by AES-GCM / ChaCha20Poly1305 / export-only. On a single-stage KDF `info`, `psk`, `psk_id` and an export are each capped at 65535 bytes; TurboSHAKE128/256 are not offered while no released OpenSSL carries the XOF. `deriveKeyPair`, `generateKeyPair`, `encap` and `decap` reach a KEM on its own. Pure composition over `node:crypto` — `suites`, `setupS`, `setupR`, `seal`, `open`, `encap`, `decap` |
 | `pki.kem` | Composite ML-KEM key establishment (draft-ietf-lamps-pq-composite-kem), a post-quantum ML-KEM hybridized with a traditional RSA-OAEP, ECDH, X25519, or X448 so the established secret holds if either component is later broken. `encapsulate` turns a recipient's composite `SubjectPublicKeyInfo` into a 256-bit shared secret and a ciphertext; `decapsulate` recovers the same secret from the ciphertext and the composite PKCS#8 private key. Each component KEM runs independently and the two secrets are mixed through a SHA3-256 combiner that binds the traditional ciphertext, the traditional public key, and a per-algorithm label. The twelve algorithms pair ML-KEM-768 and ML-KEM-1024 with RSA-OAEP 2048/3072/4096, ECDH over P-256/P-384/P-521 and brainpoolP256r1/P384r1, X25519, and X448, each verified against the draft Appendix G known-answer vectors; a malformed key or ciphertext, an unsupported algorithm, or a component decapsulation failure throws a typed `KemError` — `encapsulate`, `decapsulate` |
-| `pki.sigstore` | Offline verifier for a Sigstore bundle, the artifact `npm publish --provenance` produces and the registry serves. `verifyBundle` composes five fail-closed legs against caller-pinned trust (Fulcio CA roots and Rekor log keys, never trusted from the bundle): the DSSE signature over its PAE preimage under the Fulcio leaf key, the ephemeral Fulcio certificate chain validated as of the Rekor log time, the RFC 9162 inclusion proof folded to a Rekor-signed tree root, the log entry bound to this exact signature, and the in-toto SLSA subject digest the caller confirms against the published artifact. It reuses the X.509 parser, the RFC 5280 path validator, and the Merkle verifier; the net-new codecs are the DSSE PAE byte-builder and a fail-closed JSON reader. `verified: true` says the artifact was signed and logged, not that a party you trust signed it — Fulcio issues to anyone who completes an OIDC flow, so who signed is decided only by `opts.identity`, and `identityChecked` reports which of its fields were compared. An identity policy naming no field, or a field name that is not one of the three, is refused rather than satisfied — either would accept every signer while reading as a policy in force. A sixth leg is opt-in: pinning the certificate-transparency logs in `opts.ctLogs` checks the receipt Fulcio embeds in the certificate it issues (RFC 6962 §3.2), verified over the certificate as it stood before the receipt was added and under the key of the log that issued it, so the verdict says the signing certificate was public when it was issued rather than handed out quietly. At least one receipt must verify against a pinned log, the verdict reports `sctChecked` and `validScts`, and an empty log set is refused rather than read as a policy that checks nothing. Both content arms are read: a DSSE-wrapped in-toto attestation, and a message signature over an artifact's own bytes, which `cosign sign-blob` produces. For that arm `opts.artifact` supplies the bytes, and they are held to the hash the Rekor `hashedrekord` entry records before the signature is checked over them; the `messageDigest` the bundle carries is covered by no signature, so it is compared against the computed digest and never used in its place. `contentType` names the arm and the verdict has one shape for both — `pae`, `parseBundle`, `verifyBundle` |
+| `pki.sigstore` | Offline verifier for a Sigstore bundle, the artifact `npm publish --provenance` produces and the registry serves. `verifyBundle` composes five fail-closed legs against caller-pinned trust (Fulcio CA roots and Rekor log keys, never trusted from the bundle): the DSSE signature over its PAE preimage under the Fulcio leaf key, the ephemeral Fulcio certificate chain validated as of the Rekor log time, the RFC 9162 inclusion proof folded to a Rekor-signed tree root, the log entry bound to this exact signature,
+the checkpoint read through `pki.tlog` and verified under the key the entry names in `logId.keyId`, so a signed tree root from one pinned log cannot satisfy an entry claiming another; the size and root the proof folds against come from that verified checkpoint rather than from the `inclusionProof` fields no signature covers, and the in-toto SLSA subject digest the caller confirms against the published artifact. It reuses the X.509 parser, the RFC 5280 path validator, and the Merkle verifier; the net-new codecs are the DSSE PAE byte-builder and a fail-closed JSON reader. `verified: true` says the artifact was signed and logged, not that a party you trust signed it — Fulcio issues to anyone who completes an OIDC flow, so who signed is decided only by `opts.identity`, and `identityChecked` reports which of its fields were compared. An identity policy naming no field, or a field name that is not one of the three, is refused rather than satisfied — either would accept every signer while reading as a policy in force. A sixth leg is opt-in: pinning the certificate-transparency logs in `opts.ctLogs` checks the receipt Fulcio embeds in the certificate it issues (RFC 6962 §3.2), verified over the certificate as it stood before the receipt was added and under the key of the log that issued it, so the verdict says the signing certificate was public when it was issued rather than handed out quietly. At least one receipt must verify against a pinned log, the verdict reports `sctChecked` and `validScts`, and an empty log set is refused rather than read as a policy that checks nothing. Both content arms are read: a DSSE-wrapped in-toto attestation, and a message signature over an artifact's own bytes, which `cosign sign-blob` produces. For that arm `opts.artifact` supplies the bytes, and they are held to the hash the Rekor `hashedrekord` entry records before the signature is checked over them; the `messageDigest` the bundle carries is covered by no signature, so it is compared against the computed digest and never used in its place. A Rekor v2 `hashedrekord` v0.0.2 entry is read on either arm: Rekor v2 supports no DSSE entry type, so a DSSE signature is logged as a `hashedrekord` over the hash of its signing preimage, and the entry is bound by the signature it records, the certificate that made it, and that digest. Where the entry states `keyDetails`, that statement is held to the leaf key rather than read in its place. Rekor v2 issues no signed entry timestamp and writes `integratedTime` as zero, so it is ignored and `opts.tsaRoots` pins the timestamp-authority anchors for an RFC 3161 token over the signature bytes; with neither that nor `opts.time` the verdict is `sigstore/no-attested-time`, because a certificate that lives about ten minutes cannot be validated against an unattested instant. `timestampSource` names which of the three dated it, beside `logOrigin`, `treeSize` and `checkpointKeyId` from the verified checkpoint. `contentType` names the arm and the verdict has one shape for both — `pae`, `parseBundle`, `verifyBundle` |
 | `pki.inspect` | Human-readable inspection, the pure-JS equivalent of `openssl x509/crl/req/cms -text`. `certificate(pem \| der \| parsed)` renders an OpenSSL-style report: version, serial, signature algorithm, issuer and subject distinguished names, validity, public-key details (curve or modulus size plus the raw point or modulus), every decoded extension with its critical flag, and the signature. `crl`, `csr`, and `cms` render the other formats the same way — a CRL like `openssl crl -text`, a CSR like `openssl req -text`, and a CMS message like `openssl cms -cmsout -print`, with a stable summary for a non-SignedData ContentInfo — and `any(input)` detects the format and routes to the right report. Built over the strict parsers and the two-way OID registry with one set of field renderers, it names extension and algorithm OIDs an OpenSSL build shows only as raw bytes. No OpenSSL dependency, and the format is stable and OpenSSL-familiar rather than pinned to one OpenSSL version. A certificate policy's user notice renders as text, both its explicit text and a notice reference with the notice numbers that identify it, rather than hex, and a malformed part falls back to a hex dump rather than throwing. Every format `pki.schema.all()` detects has a report and its own named verb, so a PKCS#8 key, a PKCS#12 store, a CRMF request, a CMP message, an EST CSR-attributes response, an RFC 5914 trust anchor list, an OCSP request or response, an RFC 3161 timestamp response and an RFC 5755 attribute certificate each read the same way a certificate does. No report prints private key material: a PKCS#8 and a PKCS#12 name the algorithm and say a private key is present, never its bytes, and a PKCS#12's encrypted safes are named rather than decrypted since these verbs take no password. `asn1(input)` is the structural dump below the reports, shaped after `openssl asn1parse`: one line per value carrying the byte offset, the nesting depth, the header and content lengths, the form, the tag name, and a primitive's rendered content, with an OBJECT IDENTIFIER named from the registry and a time rendered as the bytes on the wire. A conforming input is read by the same strict decoder the parsers use; when that decode refuses the bytes, the report names the refusal and a header walk renders the prefix it can read and the offset where it stopped, so a truncated, trailing-byte, indefinite-length or non-minimal-length file still reads. It withholds no value: where the other verbs here name a key and print none of it, this one prints bytes, private key material included, so a report that must not print a key is `any` or `pkcs8` — `certificate`, `crl`, `csr`, `cms`, `pkcs8`, `pkcs12`, `crmf`, `cmp`, `csrattrs`, `trustanchor`, `ocspRequest`, `ocspResponse`, `tsp`, `attrcert`, `asn1`, `any` |
 | `pki.webauthn` | WebAuthn and passkey verification, both halves: offline trust evaluation of a W3C WebAuthn (Level 3) registration, and signature verification of the assertion every login returns. `parseAttestationObject(bytes)` decodes the CBOR attestation object, authenticatorData, and COSE credential key over the strict `pki.cbor` codec; `parseAuthenticatorData(bytes)` reads the bare form an assertion carries through the same parser; `parseClientData(bytes, opts)` decodes the `clientDataJSON` no signature check looks inside, through the shared JSON guard since these are attacker-chosen bytes, returning the challenge decoded so a caller compares bytes rather than spellings, and checking the ceremony type, challenge, and origin when the relying party supplies what it issued. `verifyAssertion(input)` verifies an assertion signature over `authenticatorData \|\| SHA-256(clientDataJSON)` — raw bytes, no COSE_Sign1, an ES256 signature in ASN.1 DER — and applies the §7.2 step 21 counter rule when a stored `previousSignCount` is given, so a counter that fails to advance is refused as a cloned authenticator. `verify(attestationObject, clientDataHash, opts)` checks the attestation-statement signature and each format's structural bindings for packed, tpm, android-key, apple, fido-u2f, and none: the x5c leaf key, the apple nonce, the tpm `certInfo` Name and `extraData` over the `pubArea`, the android `KeyDescription`, and the fido-u2f `verificationData`. It binds the credential public key to each attestation, through the signed authenticatorData for packed and fido-u2f or a cert or `pubArea`-key equality check for android-key, apple, and tpm, and enforces each leaf's certificate requirements. The credential-key check covers the full WebAuthn COSE algorithm set — ES256/384/512, RS256/384/512, PS256/384/512, EdDSA (Ed25519), and the RFC 9864 fully-specified identifiers ESP256/384/512, Ed25519, and Ed448 — validating the public-key point on its curve, rejecting the compressed EC point form, and enforcing a minimally encoded DER ECDSA signature. The verdict field is `attestationVerified`, and `signatureVerified` for an assertion, rather than a bare `verified`, because a sound statement is a different claim from an acceptable ceremony: an attestation naming another origin's RP ID with user presence clear is perfectly sound and must not be registered. Pass `expectedRpId`, `requireUserPresence`, `requireUserVerification`, or `allowedAlgorithms` and those are checked, with `bindingChecked` reporting which ran, so a check that passed can be told from one that never happened. Pass `opts.clientDataJSON` instead of the digest and the client data is read here too: the ceremony type is checked unconditionally, since a login response replayed into a registration is what that rule stops, and the challenge, origin, and top-level origin are checked against what the relying party issued, with `clientData.checked` reporting which comparisons ran. A registration verdict also carries the `credentialId`, `credentialPublicKey`, and initial `signCount` a later login needs. A credential key declaring COSE algorithm `-65535` (RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 with SHA-1) is refused unless `allowedAlgorithms` names it, since every signature that credential ever makes would use SHA-1. Anchoring the trust path has two routes: `opts.metadata` resolves the roots the authenticator's own model registered, and `opts.rootCertificates` pins roots directly, which is what anchors the formats FIDO MDS does not cover, Apple's authenticators and the Google hardware-attestation roots among them. `metadata` governs when both are given, and `anchoredTo` names every route that anchored the path, joined with `+` when more than one did: `"metadata"`, `"rootCertificates"`, and `"safetyNetRoots"` for the android-safetynet chain, which anchors through the roots that format requires whether or not either other route was asked for. It is `null` only when nothing anchored the path. `verifyMetadataBlob(blob, opts)` reads a FIDO Metadata Service (MDS v3) BLOB, the signed catalogue of registered authenticator models, verifying its JWS and chaining its signer to an operator-supplied FIDO root before the payload is parsed, with sequence-number rollback and `nextUpdate` freshness checks. Passing the result as `opts.metadata` to `verify` resolves the authenticator's registered attestation roots from its identifier and requires the trust path to fully validate to one of them, refusing an unlisted or revoked model. `metadataAnchors(entry, opts)` applies the same status gate for a caller anchoring the path themselves: a model the catalogue has disqualified registers no anchors. Both of the catalogue's key spaces are covered: an aaguid, and the attestation-certificate key identifiers a U2F authenticator is listed under instead. No FIDO root is bundled, there is no trust-on-first-use, and retrieving the BLOB is out of scope. Fail-closed with typed `webauthn/*` errors — `parseAttestationObject`, `verify`, `verifyMetadataBlob`, `metadataFor`, `metadataAnchors` |
 | `pki.lint` | Certificate linting, the zlint or pkilint of JavaScript. `certificate(pem \| der \| parsed, opts)` walks a parsed certificate and emits graded advisory findings, each with a stable id, a severity (`fatal`, `error`, `warn`, `notice`), a source, a spec-clause citation, and a message, against the RFC 5280 profile, the post-quantum certificate profiles, and a representative CA/Browser Forum TLS BR subset: serial sign and size, validity ordering and the SC081v3 reducing validity schedule, keyCertSign coherence, extension criticality (basicConstraints, nameConstraints, policyConstraints and inhibitAnyPolicy must be critical, and keyUsage should be), nameConstraints CA-scope, unknown critical extensions, empty-subject SAN, SKI and AKI presence including the end-entity subjectKeyIdentifier, the six extensions a conforming CA must mark non-critical (reported by clause rather than as unrecognized) and the two it should (issuerAltName, cRLDistributionPoints), a policy mapping to or from anyPolicy, a unique identifier a conforming CA must not generate, a critical subjectAltName beside a non-empty subject, a critical extKeyUsage naming anyExtendedKeyUsage, a userNotice noticeRef, SAN required and CN-in-SAN, dNSName syntax, serverAuth EKU, weak keys, the CA/Browser Forum subscriber certificate profile of §7.1.2.7 (the extension presence and criticality table, the authorityInformationAccess accessMethod and accessLocation tables, basicConstraints cA and pathLenConstraint, certificatePolicies against anyPolicy and the exactly-one reserved identifier rule and the permitted-qualifier table, the forbidden extended key purposes, the two Key Usage tables that differ by key type, and the subjectAltName GeneralName table with its criticality rule in both directions), the CA/Browser Forum S/MIME BR subscriber profile of §7.1.2.3 (a) through (n) as `cabf-smime`, whose requirements follow the generation a certificate declares through its reserved policy identifier (the distribution-point and accessMethod URI scheme rules, the policy qualifier rules for an id-qt-cps URL and an id-qt-unotice explicitText and noticeRef, the key-usage table for the certificate's own key algorithm including a bit set past the nine named positions, the extended key purposes forbidden at every generation and the ones Strict alone forbids, the authorityKeyIdentifier field rules, a required mailbox in the subjectAltName as an rfc822Name or an id-on-SmtpUTF8Mailbox otherName, the criticality each extension must carry, the subjectDirectoryAttributes and Adobe extensions the Strict generation prohibits, the Legal Entity Identifier extensions keyed on the certificate type rather than the generation, and the Legacy generation retired on 15 July 2025), the CA/Browser Forum Code Signing BR subscriber profile of §7.1.2.3 as `cabf-cs`, whose rows follow the kind a certificate declares through one of the three reserved identifiers of §7.1.6.1 (the extension presence and criticality rules at the strengths this document states them, a HTTP URL required in the distribution points and in each accessMethod location, a critical keyUsage asserting digitalSignature with `keyCertSign` and `cRLSign` forbidden and every other bit discouraged, the extended key purpose each kind must carry with the critical extKeyUsage a timestamp certificate needs, the §7.1.6.4 exactly-one-identifier rule gated to 15 September 2026, the §6.3.2 ceilings of 39 months, 460 days and 135 months, and the §6.1.5.2 floors of a 3072-bit RSA modulus, NIST P-256, P-384 or P-521, or DSA parameters of 2048 bits with a 224- or 256-bit modulus length, and the §7.1.4.2 subject distinguished name rows: a required commonName, a prohibited domainComponent, a subject attribute made only of the metadata characters the clause names, a required organizationName and two-letter countryName, one of localityName and stateOrProvinceName, and on an EV certificate a businessCategory from the four strings the clause names, a jurisdictionCountryName and a serialNumber), the ETSI qualified-certificate profile of EN 319 412-5 as `etsi-qc` (a non-critical qcStatements extension, a QcType naming one and only one of the three purposes the clause defines, a QcPDS providing an https URL and, on an EU qualified certificate, a document in English and no more than one per language, plus the EN 319 412-1 semantics identifiers holding a subject serialNumber or organizationIdentifier to a three-character identity type reference, a two-character country code, a hyphen-minus and an identifier, with XG required of an LEI value and a name registration authority URI required of a locally defined reference), the Mozilla Root Store Policy as `mozilla-root`, which is named rather than detected because a root program's requirements apply by virtue of the store a certificate chains to (the §5.1 AlgorithmIdentifier encodings compared as DER, an RSA modulus of at least 2048 bits and a whole number of octets, a public exponent above 1, an EdDSA key only beside id-kp-emailProtection, the §5.1.3 SHA-1 prohibitions on their own dates, a serial greater than zero with a short magnitude reported as a warning, an extKeyUsage on every end entity without anyExtendedKeyUsage, and the §5.3 intermediate rules from 2019, which pass over a certificate issued in its own name), the Chrome Root Program Policy v1.8 as `chrome-root`, named on the same grounds (the §1.3.2 dedicated-hierarchy rules holding a subordinate CA certificate's extKeyUsage to id-kp-serverAuth with id-kp-clientAuth reported as a warning, scoped to the unexpired certificates the clause names by passing over a notAfter before 15 June 2026, the same rules over a subscriber certificate issued on or after 15 March 2027 where id-kp-serverAuth stands alone and an extKeyUsage naming id-kp-OCSPSigning and nothing else is a delegated OCSP responder rather than a subscriber, the §1.3.1.3 three-year subordinate CA validity ceiling, and the §1.3.1.2 root term limit, which reports a self-signed CA certificate whose validity runs past the removal date its own notBefore fixes and passes over a CA reissued in its own name whose authorityKeyIdentifier names a key other than its own subjectKeyIdentifier), the Microsoft Trusted Root Program requirements as `microsoft-root`, named on the same grounds (the §3.A.1 root commonName and the keyUsage that must be present, critical and set keyCertSign and cRLSign, the §3.A.3 term of eight to 25 years, the §3.A.5 revocation pointer and §3.A.8 separation of uses on an issuing CA, the §3.A.10 seventeen reserved policy identifiers on an end entity, the §3.A.14 exclusivity of id-kp-OCSPSigning, the §3.B signature and key table including its code signing column, and the §3.E.2 extended key usages the program enables on a root), the Apple Root Program Policy as `apple-root`, named on the same grounds (its Appendix A trust purposes read as extended key usage sets, the §1.5 root key floor of RSA 4096 or NIST P-384, the §1.7 subordinate CA rules gated to 1 August 2026 and 1 July 2027, the §2.3 rfc822Name an S/MIME subscriber needs from 1 February 2027, and the subscriber purpose scoping that binds when its permission expires on 1 July 2027), the two algorithm-policy profiles, named for the same reason a root program's are (which policy a certificate is held to is the caller's assertion): `nist-pqc-transition` carries NIST IR 8547's two transitions, an error for a classical subject key or signature algorithm in a certificate issued from 2036 and a warning for a subject key at or below the 112-bit security strength issued from 2031, with the strength read off SP 800-57 Part 1 Rev 5 Table 2 and a composite signature passed over as the dual-algorithm operation the guidance endorses; and `cnsa-2.0` carries the suite profile of `draft-jenkins-cnsa2-pkix-profile-05` (ML-DSA-87 or ML-KEM-1024 as the subject public key, ML-DSA-87 as the signature, and the extension, criticality and key-usage rules each of the three certificate kinds carries, where the key-usage set follows the kind the subject key declares), the same signature rule reaching `crl` and `ocsp` under that name because the document states it once for all three, the post-quantum key-usage rules binding a certificate's keyUsage bits to its subject key type (ML-KEM under RFC 9935 §5, ML-DSA under RFC 9881 §5, and SLH-DSA under RFC 9909 §6 across both its pure and prehash identifiers) together with the ML-KEM encapsulation-key encoding and size, and the §4.2.1.4 certificate-policy user-notice rules (a VisibleString or BMPString explicitText, a notice past 200 characters, an empty notice, control characters, and a non-NFC UTF8String notice, each at the strength the clause states). Alone among these entries the data path never throws: hostile bytes return a `fatal` `lint/unparseable` finding carrying the strict parser's code, so a whole directory lints without a try/catch, and only config-time misuse throws a typed `LintError` — `certificate`, `crl` (the RFC 5280 §5 revocation-list profile: nextUpdate presence, update ordering, cRLNumber presence and its 20-octet ceiling, authorityKeyIdentifier presence, the criticality each profiled CRL and entry extension must carry, freshestCRL in a delta CRL, and unrecognized critical extensions), `ocsp` (the RFC 6960 response profile: an empty signature, each SingleResponse's update ordering and its relation to producedAt, an empty `certs` field, the extended revoked definition and the fixed shape of a revoked answer for a non-issued certificate, the list each extension belongs in, the criticality and value syntax of the CRL entry extensions a SingleResponse may carry, unrecognized critical extensions, the reasons unspecified and removeFromCRL, and two answers for one CertID; the RFC 5019 lightweight rows run on request), `csr` (the artifact a CA reads before it issues: an empty subject naming no identity, an empty subject whose subjectAltName is not critical, a request for an extension the issuer determines, a request asking for a CA certificate, a broken signing digest, and a challengePassword traveling with the request; `opts.profile: "cabf-tls"` adds the certificate profile's own commonName-in-SAN, dNSName syntax, SAN-required and key-strength rows, applied to what the request asks for, and they run only when named because a request carries no extKeyUsage. It does not check the request's signature, which is a cryptographic operation `pki.csr.verify` owns), `cms` (the RFC 5652 profile: a signing-time naming a year from 1950 to 2049 encoded as GeneralizedTime where §11.3 requires UTCTime, a signer digest the digestAlgorithms set does not list, a version 1 attribute certificate, and notices for a SignedData with no signers and for a detached signature), `tsp` (the RFC 3161 profile: a tsa hint naming a subject the token's own certificate does not carry, a serial wider than 160 bits, and a token stating no accuracy), `attrcert` (the RFC 5755 profile: the §4.3 criticality table, a critical extension the profile does not define, a Holder naming more than one option, and an issuerUniqueID), each short because the strict parser behind it already refuses most of what its document requires and those clauses arrive as `lint/unparseable` carrying the parser's own code, `rules`, `profiles` |
 | `pki.C` / `pki.constants` | Version-stable constants: the functional scale helpers `C.TIME.*` and `C.BYTES.*`, the codec `LIMITS`, and `version` |
 | `pki.errors` | The `PkiError` taxonomy — `defineClass` plus `ConstantsError`, `Asn1Error`, `OidError`, `PemError`, `CertificateError`, `CrlError`, `CsrError`, `Pkcs8Error`, `CmsError`, `OcspError`, `TspError`, `AttrCertError`, `CrmfError`, `Pkcs12Error`, `CmpError`, `PathError`, `CtError`, `JoseError`, `AcmeError`, `WebauthnError`, and `LintError`, each carrying a stable `code` in `domain/reason` form |
-| `pki` CLI | `pki version`, `pki oid <dotted\|name>`, `pki parse <cert>`, `pki inspect <cert>`, `pki lint <cert\|crl\|ocsp-response>`, `pki convert <file> --to der\|pem`, `pki verify <cert>... --anchor <cert>`, `pki sign <file> --cert <c> --key <k>` |
+| `pki` CLI | `pki version`, `pki oid <dotted\|name>`, `pki parse <cert>`, `pki inspect <file> [--asn1]`, `pki keygen --out <key>`, `pki csr --key <k> --subject <dn>`, `pki issue (--key <k> --subject <dn> \| --csr <req>)`, `pki fetch <https-url>`, `pki lint <file>`, `pki convert <file> --to der\|pem`, `pki verify <cert>... --anchor <cert>`, `pki sign <file> --cert <c> --key <k>`. `pki <verb> --help` prints that verb's usage on stdout and exits 0. Issuing from a request answers what the request asks for: `--copy-requested-san` writes the requested subjectAltName into the certificate, `--ignore-requested-extensions` issues without it, and a request asking for anything neither accounts for is refused rather than certified short |
+
+### Runnable examples
+
+The tarball carries five programs. After `npm i @blamejs/pki`, run any of them
+from the installed package:
+
+```sh
+node node_modules/@blamejs/pki/examples/issue-a-certificate.js   # a CA, a leaf, and path validation
+node node_modules/@blamejs/pki/examples/read-a-certificate.js    # parse, render, lint, dump one certificate
+node node_modules/@blamejs/pki/examples/sign-and-verify-cms.js   # CMS SignedData, attached and detached
+node node_modules/@blamejs/pki/examples/post-quantum.js          # ML-DSA, SLH-DSA and ML-KEM through the same verbs
+node node_modules/@blamejs/pki/examples/revoke-and-check.js      # a CRL, and the path that stops validating
+```
+
+Each is self-contained: it generates what it needs, uses no network, writes
+nothing to disk, and opens with the `require("@blamejs/pki")` line a reader
+copies. Every line they print is asserted by the test suite, so an example that
+stopped demonstrating what it claims fails the build rather than going stale.
 
 ### CLI
 
@@ -302,7 +326,15 @@ pki version                              # the installed @blamejs/pki version
 pki oid 1.2.840.113549.1.1.11           # sha256WithRSAEncryption
 pki oid sha256                           # 2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1
 pki parse cert.pem                       # structured JSON summary of a certificate
-pki inspect cert.pem                     # openssl x509 -text style report (pki.inspect)
+pki inspect anything.der                 # detects the format and renders it (pki.inspect.any)
+pki inspect anything.der --asn1          # the TLV tree, in the shape openssl asn1parse prints
+pki keygen --out k.key --pub k.pub       # an ML-DSA-65 key pair; the private key never to stdout
+pki keygen --alg Ed25519 --out ed.key --pem
+pki csr --key k.key --subject "CN=host.example" --san host.example --out req.der
+pki issue --key k.key --subject "CN=ca.example" --ca --days 3650 --out ca.der
+pki issue --csr req.der --issuer-cert ca.der --issuer-key k.key --copy-requested-san --out leaf.der
+pki issue --csr req.der --issuer-cert ca.der --issuer-key k.key --ignore-requested-extensions --out bare.der
+pki fetch https://example.com/ --system  # the chain the endpoint presents; NOT a verification
 pki lint cert.pem                        # graded conformance findings; exit 1 on an error
 pki lint cert.pem --json --profile cabf-tls
 pki lint list.crl                        # detects a CRL or an OCSP response and runs its profile
@@ -313,13 +345,32 @@ pki sign msg.txt --cert signer.pem --key signer-key.pem --out msg.p7s   # CMS Si
 pki sign msg.txt --cert signer.pem --key signer-key.pem --detached --pem # detached, PEM to stdout
 ```
 
-`inspect`, `lint`, `convert`, `verify`, and `sign` are thin front-ends over
-`pki.inspect`, `pki.lint`, the per-format PEM codecs, `pki.path.validate`, and
-`pki.cms.sign`. The CLI does nothing the library API cannot. `lint` exits
-non-zero when any `error` or `fatal` finding is present, `verify` exits non-zero
-when the path does not validate, and `sign` reads a PKCS#8 DER or PEM private
-key and its certificate and writes a DER (or `--pem`) SignedData to `--out` or
-stdout.
+Every verb is a thin front-end over the library: `inspect` over `pki.inspect.any`
+and `pki.inspect.asn1`, `lint` over `pki.lint`, `keygen` over `pki.key.generate`,
+`csr` over `pki.csr.sign`, `issue` over `pki.x509.sign`, `fetch` over
+`pki.transport.peerChain`, `convert` over the per-format PEM codecs, `verify`
+over `pki.path.validate`, and `sign` over `pki.cms.sign`. The CLI does nothing
+the library API cannot. `lint` exits non-zero when any `error` or `fatal` finding
+is present, `verify` exits non-zero when the path does not validate, and `sign`
+reads a PKCS#8 DER or PEM private key and its certificate and writes a DER (or
+`--pem`) SignedData to `--out` or stdout.
+
+`keygen` is the one verb that puts a private key on disk. It writes to the file
+`--out` names and never to stdout, refuses to write over a file that exists, and
+creates the file with owner-only permissions where the platform enforces a file
+mode; on Windows Node does not apply the mode, so the file inherits the
+directory's permissions there. `--pub` writes the public half separately, so
+sending a public key does not mean handing over the file that holds the private
+one. A key path on a command line is visible in the process table to every user
+on the machine while the process runs.
+
+`issue` needs both halves of an issuer: `--issuer-cert` without `--issuer-key`,
+or the reverse, is refused rather than quietly self-signed. `--csr` verifies the
+request's signature before certifying anything from it. `fetch` opens a TLS
+handshake and sends no request, so nothing reaches the application behind the
+endpoint; it prints what the handshake checked and what it did not, because a
+fetched chain is not a validated one and `pki verify` is the verb that validates
+a path.
 
 ### What's coming