Evaluate new Swift APIs

[feralbob]

Might be worth evaluating how these new libraries fit into Shield (or indeed how they don't)

https://swift.org/blog/swift-certificates-and-asn1/

[kdubb]

They're on my radar as well. The biggest reason for Shield was our projects need the ability to generate X.509 certificates and PKCS#10 certification requests. swift-certificates is well on the way to fulfilling that need for certificates and plans on supporting certification requests.

Given these goals, their prominence and backing by Apple, I would happily move Shield to incorporate swift-certificates once it fulfills our needs. Alternatively, maybe it becomes obsolete.

[kdubb]

Maybe obsolescence is a bit much because we are wrapping Security in a pretty nice way for multi-platform usage.

[GeoffreyCzajkowskiK]

Hey there feralbob,

Thanks for sharing the link to the new Swift libraries for certificates and ASN.1. It's always exciting to see new APIs being released, especially when they can potentially improve our workflow and efficiency.