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§ndn-security – Packet signing, verification, and trust management
Provides cryptographic primitives and trust-policy enforcement for NDN
packets. Signers produce signatures; verifiers check them; the validator
chains verification with a TrustSchema to decide whether data is
trustworthy. Only validated data is wrapped in SafeData, giving the
compiler a way to enforce that unverified packets are never forwarded.
§Key types
Signer/Verifier– signing and verification traitsEd25519Signer,Ed25519Verifier,HmacSha256Signer– concrete implsValidator– chains verification + trust schema lookupTrustSchema– name-pattern rules for trust decisionsSafeData– newtype proving a Data packet has been validatedCertCache,KeyStore– certificate and key storageSecurityManager– high-level facade combining the above
Re-exports§
pub use cert_cache::CertCache;pub use cert_cache::Certificate;pub use cert_fetcher::CertFetcher;pub use cert_fetcher::FetchFn;pub use error::TrustError;pub use key_store::KeyAlgorithm;pub use key_store::KeyStore;pub use key_store::MemKeyStore;pub use keychain::KeyChain;pub use lvs::LvsError;pub use lvs::LvsModel;pub use manager::SecurityManager;pub use pib::FilePib;pub use pib::PibError;pub use profile::SecurityProfile;pub use safe_data::SafeData;pub use sign_ext::SignWith;pub use signer::Blake3KeyedSigner;pub use signer::Blake3Signer;pub use signer::Ed25519Signer;pub use signer::HmacSha256Signer;pub use signer::SIGNATURE_TYPE_DIGEST_BLAKE3_KEYED;pub use signer::SIGNATURE_TYPE_DIGEST_BLAKE3_PLAIN;pub use signer::Signer;pub use trust_schema::NamePattern;pub use trust_schema::PatternComponent;pub use trust_schema::PatternParseError;pub use trust_schema::SchemaRule;pub use trust_schema::TrustSchema;pub use validator::ValidationResult;pub use validator::Validator;pub use verifier::Blake3DigestVerifier;pub use verifier::Blake3KeyedVerifier;pub use verifier::Ed25519Verifier;pub use verifier::Verifier;pub use verifier::VerifyOutcome;pub use verifier::ed25519_verify_batch;pub use zone::ZoneKey;pub use zone::verify_zone_root;pub use zone::zone_root_from_pubkey;pub use zone::zone_root_to_did;pub use did::DereferencedResource;pub use did::DidController;pub use did::DidDocument;pub use did::DidDocumentMetadata;pub use did::DidError;pub use did::DidResolutionResult;pub use did::DidResolver;pub use did::DidUrl;pub use did::KeyDidResolver;pub use did::NdnDidResolver;pub use did::Service;pub use did::ServiceEndpoint;pub use did::UniversalResolver;pub use did::VerificationMethod;pub use did::VerificationRef;pub use did::build_zone_did_document;pub use did::build_zone_succession_document;pub use did::cert_to_did_document;pub use did::deref_did_url;pub use did::did_to_name;pub use did::name_to_did;
Modules§
- cert_
cache - cert_
fetcher - Asynchronous certificate fetcher for NDN trust chain resolution.
- did
- NDN DID method — encode NDN names as W3C Decentralized Identifiers and resolve DID Documents over the NDN network or via bridged methods.
- error
- file_
tpm - File-backed TPM (private-key store), wire-compatible with
ndn-cxx’stpm-filebackend (path B + Ed25519 superset). - key_
store - keychain
KeyChain— the primary security API for NDN applications.- lvs
- LightVerSec (LVS) binary trust schema parser and evaluator.
- manager
- pib
- profile
- safe_
bag SafeBag— ndn-cxx interop wrapper for transferring an identity (a certificate plus its password-encrypted private key) between machines.- safe_
data - sign_
ext SignWith— extension trait for ergonomic packet signing with aSigner.- signer
- sqlite_
pib - SQLite-backed Public Info Base (PIB), wire-compatible with
ndn-cxx’spib-sqlite3backend. - trust_
schema - validator
- verifier
- zone
- Self-certifying namespace primitives for the Named Data Architecture (NDA).