From 5fcd4ab7b6592d5cd14228f5838c697a74a6d0c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enginex0 <enginex0@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 15:09:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(native-certgen): implement keybox DER certificate chain
 parser

Splits concatenated DER cert chains into individual certificates,
extracts leaf issuer DN and notAfter via x509-cert crate. Handles
multi-byte DER length encoding (0x81-0x84).
---
 native-certgen/src/keybox.rs | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 native-certgen/src/lib.rs    |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 native-certgen/src/keybox.rs

diff --git a/native-certgen/src/keybox.rs b/native-certgen/src/keybox.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..befbea4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native-certgen/src/keybox.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+use crate::error::{CertGenError, Result};
+use der::{Decode, Encode};
+use x509_cert::Certificate;
+
+pub struct ParsedKeybox {
+    pub signing_key_der: Vec<u8>,
+    pub issuer_dn_der: Vec<u8>,
+    pub cert_chain_ders: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
+    pub leaf_not_after: i64,
+}
+
+pub fn parse_keybox(cert_chain_bytes: &[u8], private_key_bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<ParsedKeybox> {
+    let certs = split_der_certificates(cert_chain_bytes)?;
+    if certs.is_empty() {
+        return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed("no certificates found".into()));
+    }
+
+    let leaf = Certificate::from_der(&certs[0])
+        .map_err(|e| CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed(format!("leaf cert parse: {e}")))?;
+
+    let issuer_dn_der = leaf.tbs_certificate.issuer.to_der()
+        .map_err(|e| CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed(format!("issuer DN encode: {e}")))?;
+
+    let not_after = leaf.tbs_certificate.validity.not_after;
+    let leaf_not_after = not_after.to_unix_duration().as_secs() as i64;
+
+    Ok(ParsedKeybox {
+        signing_key_der: private_key_bytes.to_vec(),
+        issuer_dn_der,
+        cert_chain_ders: certs,
+        leaf_not_after,
+    })
+}
+
+fn split_der_certificates(data: &[u8]) -> Result<Vec<Vec<u8>>> {
+    let mut certs = Vec::new();
+    let mut offset = 0;
+
+    while offset < data.len() {
+        if data[offset] != 0x30 {
+            return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed(
+                format!("expected SEQUENCE tag 0x30 at offset {offset}, got 0x{:02x}", data[offset])
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let (content_len, header_len) = parse_der_length(&data[offset + 1..])?;
+        let total_len = 1 + header_len + content_len;
+
+        if offset + total_len > data.len() {
+            return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed(
+                format!("cert at offset {offset} extends beyond buffer: need {total_len}, have {}", data.len() - offset)
+            ));
+        }
+
+        certs.push(data[offset..offset + total_len].to_vec());
+        offset += total_len;
+    }
+
+    if certs.is_empty() {
+        return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed("no certificates in chain".into()));
+    }
+
+    Ok(certs)
+}
+
+// Returns (content_length, number_of_length_bytes_consumed)
+fn parse_der_length(data: &[u8]) -> Result<(usize, usize)> {
+    if data.is_empty() {
+        return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed("truncated DER length".into()));
+    }
+
+    let first = data[0];
+
+    if first < 0x80 {
+        // Short form: length is the byte itself
+        return Ok((first as usize, 1));
+    }
+
+    // Long form: low 7 bits = number of subsequent length bytes
+    let num_bytes = (first & 0x7f) as usize;
+    if num_bytes == 0 || num_bytes > 4 {
+        return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed(
+            format!("unsupported DER length encoding: 0x{first:02x}")
+        ));
+    }
+    if 1 + num_bytes > data.len() {
+        return Err(CertGenError::KeyboxParseFailed("truncated multi-byte DER length".into()));
+    }
+
+    let mut len: usize = 0;
+    for i in 0..num_bytes {
+        len = (len << 8) | (data[1 + i] as usize);
+    }
+
+    Ok((len, 1 + num_bytes))
+}
diff --git a/native-certgen/src/lib.rs b/native-certgen/src/lib.rs
index 305d7ac..c666214 100644
--- a/native-certgen/src/lib.rs
+++ b/native-certgen/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ mod error;
 mod types;
 mod keygen;
 // mod attestation;  // Phase 2
-// mod keybox;       // Phase 0-1 Task 2
+pub mod keybox;
 // mod certbuilder;  // Phase 3
 // mod logging;      // Phase 3