Hi,

There has been a lot requests from people in different working groups for souce 
code to try out C509 certificates. I just released my example implementation of 
a DER X509 to CBOR C509 encoder written in Rust.

CBOR encoded X509 (RFC 5280) is one of the main future work item for the COSE 
WG. C509 is specified as a CBOR encoding of the DER TBSCertificate sequence, 
which is then combined with a signature over the DER or CBOR encoding. C509 can 
be used as a compression mechanism complementing RFC 8879, or as a "natively 
signed" CBOR certificatice encoding still following RFC 5280.

The Rust implementation supports reading a certificate from file or downloading 
a certificate chain from a HTTPS server. The certificate chain is encoded to 
COSE_X509, COSE_C509, as well as TLS Certificate and CompressedCertificate 
messages with X509 and C509. Size comparisions can be found in the draft.

The Rust implementation can be found here:
https://github.com/cose-wg/CBOR-certificates/tree/master/c509

The latest version of the draft:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert/

Please send comments and suggestions to c...@ietf.org only, which is where 
discussion should take place.

Cheers,
John
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