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crypto/x509: export CertPool’s certificates #19606

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@stapelberg

I’m having a similar issue to #13335 which resulted in the SystemCertPool method.

However, for my use-case (https://gokrazy.github.io/), I don’t want to verify TLS certificates right away, I want to verify them later, on a different machine. Hence, I’d like to dump the SystemCertPool to a file and load it on the target machine.

I’m aware that this will fail with Windows as host machine due to its lazy certificate loading and verification happening outside of Go. But it’ll work at least on Linux, macOS and other supported operating systems, which is more than our current kludge supports.

Adding the following function would satisfy my use-case (but perhaps we should also copy the certificates themselves to prevent accidental modification):

func (s *CertPool) Certs() []*Certificate {
	res := make([][]byte, len(s.certs))
	for i, c := range s.certs {
		res[i] = c
	}
	return res
}

What do you think? Should I send a CL to add the function?

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