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Parsing PEM Certificates & ASN.1 in Javascript

I recently had a conversation about parsing HTTPS/TLS/etc certificates client side (so that various values could be compared). There are, of course, libraries for that, but where’s the fun in that? Let’s dig in ourselves!

I thought of course it would be a well specified format and it wouldn’t take more than a few minutes to parse… right?

Right?

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