<h3>Entries from October 2018.</h3>
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+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fetching_trusted_timestamps_using_the_rfc3161ng_python_module.html">Fetching trusted timestamps using the rfc3161ng python module</a>
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+ <div class="date">
+ 8th October 2018
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>I have earlier covered the basics of trusted timestamping using the
+'openssl ts' client. See blog post for
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html">2014</a>,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html">2016</a>
+and
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_storing_trusted_timestamps_in_a_Noark_5_archive.html">2017</a>
+for those stories. But some times I want to integrate the timestamping
+in other code, and recently I needed to integrate it into Python.
+After searching a bit, I found
+<a href="https://dev.entrouvert.org/projects/python-rfc3161">the
+rfc3161 library</a> which seemed like a good fit, but I soon
+discovered it only worked for python version 2, and I needed something
+that work with python version 3. Luckily I next came across
+<a href="https://github.com/trbs/rfc3161ng/">the rfc3161ng library</a>,
+a fork of the original rfc3161 library. Not only is it working with
+python 3, it have fixed a few of the bugs in the original library, and
+it has an active maintainer. I decided to wrap it up and make it
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-rfc3161ng">available in
+Debian</a>, and a few days ago it entered Debian unstable and testing.</p>
+
+<p>Using the library is fairly straight forward. The only slightly
+problematic step is to fetch the required certificates to verify the
+timestamp. For some services it is straight forward, while for others
+I have not yet figured out how to do it. Here is a small standalone
+code example based on of the integration tests in the library code:</p>
+
+<pre>
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+"""
+
+Python 3 script demonstrating how to use the rfc3161ng module to
+get trusted timestamps.
+
+The license of this code is the same as the license of the rfc3161ng
+library, ie MIT/BSD.
+
+"""
+
+import os
+import pyasn1.codec.der
+import rfc3161ng
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import urllib.request
+
+def store(f, data):
+ f.write(data)
+ f.flush()
+ f.seek(0)
+
+def fetch(url, f=None):
+ response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
+ data = response.read()
+ if f:
+ store(f, data)
+ return data
+
+def main():
+ with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as cert_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as ca_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as msg_f,\
+ tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tsr_f:
+
+ # First fetch certificates used by service
+ certificate_data = fetch('https://freetsa.org/files/tsa.crt', cert_f)
+ ca_data_data = fetch('https://freetsa.org/files/cacert.pem', ca_f)
+
+ # Then timestamp the message
+ timestamper = \
+ rfc3161ng.RemoteTimestamper('http://freetsa.org/tsr',
+ certificate=certificate_data)
+ data = b"Python forever!\n"
+ tsr = timestamper(data=data, return_tsr=True)
+
+ # Finally, convert message and response to something 'openssl ts' can verify
+ store(msg_f, data)
+ store(tsr_f, pyasn1.codec.der.encoder.encode(tsr))
+ args = ["openssl", "ts", "-verify",
+ "-data", msg_f.name,
+ "-in", tsr_f.name,
+ "-CAfile", ca_f.name,
+ "-untrusted", cert_f.name]
+ subprocess.check_call(args)
+
+if '__main__' == __name__:
+ main()
+</pre>
+
+<p>The code fetches the required certificates, store them as temporary
+files, timestamp a simple message, store the message and timestamp to
+disk and ask 'openssl ts' to verify the timestamp. A timestamp is
+around 1.5 kiB in size, and should be fairly easy to store for future
+use.</p>
+
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