Hi Martin,
 Would you like to move your questions to our gitlab.com site as an
issue to initiate the discussion? I am not sure all in the development
team follow this mailing list.

regards,
Nikos

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:48 PM Martin Ukrop <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m the lead of a university project investigating (and improving) the 
> usability of certificate validation errors. Our goal is to simplify the 
> ecosystem by consolidating the errors and their documentation in one place, 
> providing replicable example certificates for all validation errors and by 
> explaining better what the individual errors mean. The project is live at 
> https://x509errors.org/
>
> Now we are reaching out to library developers and users (you) to ask for 
> feedback.
>
> Currently, we base the system on OpenSSL errors (as it’s the most common). We 
> have example certificates for 30+ OpenSSL errors and in-progress mapping for 
> corresponding errors error for OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Botan and MbedTLS.
> In the future, we plan the possibility of web reorganization based on the 
> other libraries (currently, the web is organized by OpenSSL), adding the 
> error frequencies based on IP-wide scans and elaborating on the consequences 
> of individual errors.
> Ultimately, we want to propose better (ideally user-tested) errors and their 
> documentation. (Just recently, we made a survey among 180 developers 
> regarding their error documentation preference with good reception).
>
> As developers/users of TLS libraries, what do you think of the idea?
> * Which part(s) do you find the most/least useful?
> * Is there anything you see missing?
> * What are your thoughts on unifying the error taxonomy? (a very long-term 
> goal, if at all possible)
>
> During spring, we would like to start creating pull requests improving the 
> documentation and error messages in some of the libraries. Would you welcome 
> such contributions?
>
> For transparency: My PhD is done at Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and 
> I’m partially supported by Red Hat Czech.
>
> With regards,
> Martin.
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