[thorstenhirsch]

What this changes

A signer can be trusted through a list of CA certificates the user loads from a file: sign_trust {"eu_trusted_list": "<path>"} (DER one after the other, or PEM), for example the EU Trusted Lists' qualified CA services. Refs #775, #87, #824: the PDF attached to #775 (a CAdES signature under Intesa SpA's qualified service, valid in Acrobat) is Unknown without the list and Valid with it.

• Off until loaded; nothing is embedded; kept apart from the user's own trusted certificates (TrustStore::lists). The signature details name the list that vouched.
• A list is only another set of anchors: chains through it still need CA certificates all the way (M9: chain building checks CA constraints, key usage, path length and validity #620), and the signer is held to M9: the signer's certificate must allow document signing (key usage, EKU, critical extensions) #749's purpose rules.
• A list vouches for signers, never for a time-stamp authority: trusted time still comes from the user's own certificates.
• A cut-short list is refused instead of loading as a smaller one, DER or PEM: the loader refuses a PEM block that never ends (upstream, with the .p7b bundles) and, added here, one that begins before the last one ended, so a bundle spliced from two cut files is not read as the second only. PEM that starts with text beginning with a 0 is read as PEM (x509::load_certificates too).
• A list is known by its own name (TrustStore::add_list / remove_list), so removing it takes back exactly what was loaded.
• sign_trust checks every argument before changing anything and revalidates the open documents once (Session::update_trust).

This is the EU-lists half of gap 10 (sign.eutl). It replaces an earlier, larger version of this PR; what was taken out is listed below.

How you verified it

• cargo fmt --check
• cargo clippy -p pdfcraft-sign -p pdfcraft-engine -p pdfcraft-automation --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test -p pdfcraft-sign (all), -p pdfcraft-engine --lib (trust and signing tests), -p pdfcraft-automation --test automation (trust), -p pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib i18n
• cargo xtask layers, cargo xtask assets, cargo xtask parity; cargo check of sign and engine for wasm32

By hand: the PDF from #775 through pdfcraft-cli run (doc_open, sign_list, sign_trust) with an EU list of 875 certificates: unknown, then valid and "Its certificate chains to Intesa SpA - eIDAS Qualified Trust Services in the trust list “EU Trusted List”.", then unknown again once the list is removed. The timestamp stays "unverified", as on main.

Tests that fail without the change (checked by reverting it): the damaged-list, PEM and cut-or-spliced-PEM cases (trust.rs), and a list that holds a time-stamp authority's own certificate not making its time trusted (chain.rs, built with the shape of #775: the list holds only the issuing CA, the file carries only the leaf). The all-or-nothing sign_trust argument handling was proved the same way earlier.

Never-crash

• No new unwrap/expect/panic! outside tests; no indexing with input-derived positions; no unsafe
• A list file is capped at 32 MiB and read bounded (take), a damaged file is an error, duplicates are dropped

Provenance

• No asset, font or dependency added; no data embedded; no Adobe material (the AATL is not used). ATTRIBUTION.toml is not touched.
• Behaviour from RFC 5280 chain building and the ETSI TS 119 612 idea of a trusted list; no other implementation's source read.

Security

• --root confinement: the list path goes through resolve (tested with ../outside.der)
• No new network access. The tool that builds the EU file from the Trusted Lists is not in this PR.
• MCP and the control channel are unchanged

Parity and reach

• sign.eutl planned → partial, with what is missing in notes; reachable headlessly through sign_trust
• crates/sign/README.md and the ROADMAP log updated. I left docs/gaps.md, target-app-parity.md and pdf-spec-parity.md alone: the EU file can't be built from this PR yet, so those stay true until the follow-up lands.

Anything a reviewer should look at first

• TrustStore gains a field (lists), so struct literals need ..TrustStore::default(); that is most of the tests/it/pdf.rs diff.
• Left out on purpose (the first version of this PR had them): 22 embedded roots of commercial CAs (an owner decision, next to the planned OS trust store), the cargo xtask trust-lists generator (follow-up PR, tooling), a fix for an unreadable extendedKeyUsage (merged as fix(sign): an unreadable extendedKeyUsage allows no purpose (#1807) #1866) and a time-stamp purpose rule (M1-M9: audit run-4 medium fixes: signature verdicts, fail-closed redaction and sanitizing, bounded work #1949 has it; here a list simply never vouches for time-stamp authorities).
• No UI switch yet, and the choice isn't kept between sessions: the list is reachable only through sign_trust.
• Non-CA entries stay in a list. 4 of the 875 certificates in the real EU file (three OCSP responder certificates, one time-stamp signer) are not CAs; they sit under CA services in the national lists. They issue nothing in chain building and vouch only for themselves, which M9: the signer's certificate must allow document signing (key usage, EKU, critical extensions) #749's purpose rules still judge, so refusing them would only make the real lists unloadable.
• One new wording ("Its certificate chains to … in the trust list …"), listed in WORDINGS. It has no catalog line: translations no longer gate tests (Translations: a missing string never fails; xtask ci prints the gaps #4302), so it shows in English until translators add it.
• Size: +550/−76 in 17 files, most of it tests (the new trust.rs, chain.rs, pdf.rs and the automation test). Three more files than before only because upstream split sign/src/pdf.rs and the engine's Session into modules, so the same small changes now sit in pdf/types.rs, pdf/validate.rs, session.rs and session/save.rs. If that is too much for one round, tell me which part to cut and I will split it.
• build_chain now takes its pool as an iterator, so a list's certificates aren't copied for every signature.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Load and remove EU Trusted Lists in DER or PEM format to validate document signers. Lists remain separate from your trusted certificates, and signatures are revalidated when trust settings change.
  • Signature details identify the trust list and certificate supporting a valid signer chain.
• Bug Fixes
  • Damaged, empty, or oversized trust lists are rejected, and invalid trust updates are not partially applied.
  • Trust-list certificates do not establish trust in timestamp authorities.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that lists are not loaded by default and that signer validation still requires a complete, valid certificate chain.

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It is a large, security-sensitive change to signature trust anchoring (new embedded CA roots, purpose rules, and network-fetching tooling) that warrants final human review despite no correctness bugs being found.

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• Avoid repeated full signature revalidation on trust updates · New

What changed in this PR

This PR adds opt-in trust sets to PDF signature validation, kept separate from the user's own trusted-certificate list and off by default. It introduces two new trust sources — 22 embedded commercial CA roots (builtin_roots) and run-time-loadable trust lists (e.g. the EU Trusted Lists' qualified CAs) — plus a "purpose" rule so a set only vouches for certificates actually meant for document signing or time-stamping. It also adds two cargo xtask tools to rebuild/verify the root bundle and generate the EU list file.

Changes:

• New TrustStore::builtin_roots / TrustStore::lists, a TrustSource/anchor mechanism that reports which set vouched, and Certificate::may_sign_documents/may_timestamp purpose checks (with unreadable EKU failing closed).
• New engine/automation surface (set_builtin_roots, set_trust_list, sign_trust tool args) and xtask tooling (trust-roots, trust-lists) that fetch/pin certificates over HTTPS.
• Supporting metadata: pinned builtin-roots.toml, ATTRIBUTION, ROADMAP, parity entries, and extensive tests.

File	Description
crates/​sign/​src/​x509.rs	EKU purpose helpers, fail-closed EKU parsing, build_chain generalized to IntoIterator
crates/​sign/​src/​trust.rs	New TrustList/builtin_roots, concatenated-DER parsing, size/dedup guards
crates/​sign/​src/​pdf.rs	TrustStore set fields, TrustSource/anchor/source_of, purpose-aware details
crates/​sign/​src/​lib.rs	Export TrustSource, new trust module
crates/​engine/​src/​lib.rs	Session trust setters preserving other fields; extracted revalidate_signatures
crates/​automation/​src/​signing.rs, tools.rs	sign_trust handles builtin_roots/eu_trusted_list with size-capped, root-scoped reads
xtask/​src/​trust_roots.rs, trust_lists.rs, main.rs, Cargo.toml	Dev tools to rebuild/verify roots and build the EU list; HTTPS-only fetch
crates/​sign/​tests/​*, crates/​automation/​tests/​automation.rs	New coverage for off-by-default, purpose rules, list loading
ROADMAP.md, parity/​acrobat-features.toml, crates/​sign/​README.md, ATTRIBUTION.*, Cargo.lock	Docs/metadata updates

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[debasisnishank]

Thanks for this, @thorstenhirsch. It's a carefully scoped change. Keeping everything opt-in, separating the sets from the user's own list, naming the anchor in the details, and failing closed on an unreadable EKU all look right to me. I'm testing it as a base for an India (CCA) trust set (see #718 and #760), so I rebased it, ran it and tried it on #775. Notes follow. None of them blocks the PR; most are suggestions or follow-ups.

Rebase onto current main (8309c84)

• The rebase applies cleanly except for one conflict in ROADMAP.md (Log section). Main added two entries dated 2026-10-10 (M12 XFA rows/areas; M9 #179 follow-up) at the same spot as this PR's entry. I resolved it by keeping all three, with this PR's entry first. No code conflicts.
• After the rebase, every TrustStore { … } literal in the tree still uses ..TrustStore::default(). Main's newer #761 (Windows store certificates) adds no new literals.

Build and tests (macOS, rebased tree)

Command	Result
cargo build --release -p pdfcraft -p pdfcraft-cli	OK, no warnings
cargo test -p pdfcraft-sign	OK: 104 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored (lib 24, algorithms 6, ber 3, chain 13, crypto 17, pdf 38, store_keys 3)
cargo test -p pdfcraft-engine --lib	OK: 132 passed, 1 ignored (includes several_trust_changes_revalidate_the_open_documents_once)
cargo test -p pdfcraft-automation --test automation -- sign trust	OK: 9 passed (includes trust_sets_are_off_until_switched_on_through_sign_trust)
cargo test -p xtask -- https	OK: 2 passed
cargo clippy -p pdfcraft-sign --all-targets -- -D warnings	clean
cargo xtask trust-lists	30 lists, 992 certificates, 1,556,401 bytes, the same counts as in the description

I didn't run the full cargo xtask ci or the Windows-only test.

#775 check

I used the PDF attached to #775 with pdfcraft-cli run --script (doc_open, sign_trust, sign_list):

	main	this PR
default	unknown	unknown (identical details)
builtin_roots: true	(argument unknown)	unknown, as expected: Intesa isn't under any of the 22 roots
eu_trusted_list	(argument unknown)	valid: "Its certificate chains to Intesa SpA - eIDAS Qualified Trust Services in the trust list "EU Trusted List"."
both on, then builtin_roots: false, eu_trusted_list: false	n/a	valid, then back to unknown

This confirms the description. The timestamp stays "unverified", as you note under Open. I checked why: the Italian list publishes IN.TE.S.A. QUALIFIED TSA and its TSU 14 as a granted Svctype/TSA/QTST service. When I trust that TSA root by hand, the timestamp becomes trusted time. The TSU carries a critical id-kp-timeStamping EKU, so your purpose rule would accept it from a list as well.

Suggestions

Trust list collection (xtask/src/trust_lists.rs)

1. Also collect TSA/QTST (granted) in qualified_cas (xtask/src/trust_lists.rs:90). With the third commit's purpose rule (crates/sign/src/pdf.rs:259, x509.rs:384), this is safe: a set only vouches for an authority whose certificate says it time-stamps. Then #775 matches Acrobat including the timestamp. Should it be a separate file, or the same bundle? Same bundle seems simpler, since the rule already separates the purposes.
2. Only the current status is used (trust_lists.rs:86-89). ServiceHistory is ignored, so a service that was granted when a document was signed and has since been withdrawn drops out. ETSI TS 119 615 and Acrobat judge the status at signing time. A comment in the module docs would help, or a TODO if you'd rather not take it on now.
3. The service qualifiers aren't looked at. A CA/QC service can be limited by AdditionalServiceInformation to ForWebSiteAuthentication (QWAC CAs), or to ForeSeals / ForeSignatures. Today a QWAC-only CA in the bundle anchors document signers too. #749's signer check (x509.rs:372, DOCUMENT_SIGNING_EKUS) catches the common case, a serverAuth-only leaf, but it's a backstop rather than the intent. Could the xtask drop services whose only AdditionalServiceInformation is ForWebSiteAuthentication?
4. national_lists skips the UK list with !u.contains("UKsigned") (trust_lists.rs:77). That's fine as a stopgap, but filtering on the pointer's SchemeTerritory (UK) would survive a URL change.

Built-in roots

5. Three manifest URLs use http:// (Sectigo/Comodo: crates/sign/data/builtin-roots.toml:79, :85, :91), and trust_roots.rs:54 doesn't pass --proto =https the way trust_lists.rs does. The SHA-256 pin makes this harmless for integrity. I tried https://crt.sectigo.com/… and https://crt.comodoca.com/…, and the TLS handshake fails: they're HTTP-only AIA hosts. So HTTPS can't be enforced for these three. A one-line comment in the manifest would save the next reviewer from asking: "HTTP only; integrity comes from the pin".
6. On the owner's open question (ship builtin_roots at all): if the set stays, it could be worth recording in builtin-roots.toml which roots are document-signing anchors and which are TLS roots that ended up here, given that Entrust's public TLS roots were distrusted by Chrome and Mozilla in 2024. That's not a correctness issue, because the signer and TSA purpose checks apply anyway, but reviewers will ask.

Library

7. parse_concatenated stops silently at the first TLV that doesn't parse (crates/sign/src/trust.rs:42). A truncated or corrupted list file therefore loads partially, and sign_trust reports a smaller count without an error. For the embedded roots, the manifest test catches it. For user-loaded lists, it might be friendlier to fail when trailing bytes are left over, or at least to return the number skipped so sign_trust can say so.

8. TrustList::from_bytes picks DER or PEM by bytes.first() == Some(&0x30) (trust.rs:69). ASCII '0' is also 0x30, so a PEM-ish text file that happens to start with a 0 takes the DER path and fails with "no certificates". It's very much an edge case; checking for -----BEGIN first would remove it.

9. The messages still talk only about "your list of trusted certificates" when the sets are on:

   • pdf.rs:753-755: "The signer's identity is unknown because it has not been included in your list of trusted certificates…"
   • pdf.rs:783: "…the timestamp authority is not in your list of trusted certificates…"

   With a list loaded, the #775 output shows the signer as trusted through the "EU Trusted List" and, in the same breath, the TSA as "not in your list of trusted certificates". Something like "…not in your trusted certificates or the trust sets you switched on…" would be clearer when a set is on.

Tests

10. The list test (crates/sign/tests/chain.rs:340) has a root in the list and the intermediate embedded. #775 has a different shape: the list holds the issuing CA itself and the CMS embeds only the leaf, so the chain is completed from the list. It also has an untrusted timestamp and a signer that's expired today but was valid at signing time. A synthetic case with that shape would pin #775 without committing the third-party PDF:

    • a list with only the issuing CA
    • only the leaf embedded
    • an untrusted TSA
    • assert Valid plus the trust-list and unverified-timestamp details, and Unknown with the default store

    I'm happy to send it as a follow-up if you'd rather keep this PR as it is.

Scope notes (not for this PR)

11. The sets are reachable only through sign_trust. There's no toggle in the Signatures panel, and persist() saves only the user's certificates (crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:1330), so a GUI user can't switch them on and an automation session loses them on restart. That seems fine for a first step given the open owner question. It's worth a line under Open in the description, so the GUI follow-up is tracked (it would also need the AGENTS.md §3 tool parity, which already exists).
12. For #718 and #760 (e-Aadhaar): the CCA India roots would fit this framework well as their own named, embedded, opt-in set rather than as more builtin_roots: national PKI, small (a handful of roots), and jurisdiction-specific. If you're open to it, generalising builtin_roots: bool into named embedded sets (or shipping small embedded TrustLists) would let that land without a parallel cca.rs.

Thanks again. The EKU fail-closed fix in the second commit is a good catch on its own.

[thorstenhirsch]

Thank you @debasisnishank, this is a careful review, and #3 was a real gap. I checked it against the lists: 113 of the 977 granted CA/QC services name only ForWebSiteAuthentication. They anchored document signers too, with #749's EKU check as the only backstop. They are left out now (875 certificates remain; #775's PDF is still Valid). Pushed as a fourth commit, so you can see what changed.

Done: #3, #4 (the UK list is left out by SchemeTerritory), #5 (comment in the manifest; curl is limited to http/https), #7 (a cut-short list is refused), #8 (PEM is detected first, in x509::load_certificates too), #9 (the details name the sets once one is on), #10 (a test with #775's shape), #11 (under Open).

Not in this PR:

• Redaction: drop /PCAdded from rewritten content streams so redacted added text does not stay in the file #1 (TSA/QTST): I counted 1,081 certificates, nine in ten of them time-stamp units, not CAs. Putting them in the same file would let a time-stamp service anchor signers, with only the leaf EKU check between. I'd rather give them a list of their own that vouches only for time stamps, as a follow-up.
• Organize: deleted pages leave the file even when something still points at them #2 (ServiceHistory): documented in the tool as not done; time-aware status needs dates in the bundle.
• Edit text: a paragraph's new colour no longer spills into the text after it #6, Never crash: forms scripts can't overflow the stack or the date arithmetic #12: for the owner (whether builtin_roots ships at all, and whether sets become named and embedded). Named sets would suit the CCA roots; I'd settle that before Add e-Aadhaar PDF signature verification #760 lands.

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Walkthrough

The change adds named CA trust lists that can be loaded from DER or PEM files and used as signer-chain anchors, separately from user-trusted certificates. It adds session and automation support for updating lists, expands validation tests and documentation, and updates translation catalog hashes.

Changes: CA Trust Lists

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Trust-list parsing and certificate input crates/sign/src/trust.rs, crates/sign/src/x509.rs	Adds named trust lists with size checks, DER and PEM parsing, and duplicate removal. Certificate loading detects PEM markers and rejects overlapping PEM blocks.
Trust sources and signature validation crates/sign/src/lib.rs, crates/sign/src/pdf.rs, crates/sign/src/x509.rs, crates/sign/README.md, crates/sign/tests/it/*	Adds named trust-list anchors for signer-chain validation and identifies the source when a list supplies the anchor. Tests cover source precedence and keep timestamp trust separate.
Session trust updates crates/engine/src/lib.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs	Adds a shared trust-update path that revalidates open document signatures. Tests cover revalidation counts and named-list replacement and removal.
Automation list loading and reporting crates/automation/src/signing.rs, crates/automation/src/tools.rs, crates/automation/tests/it/automation.rs, ROADMAP.md, parity/acrobat-features.toml	Extends sign_trust to load or remove the EU trust list, apply valid changes together, and report loaded lists. Tests cover rejected inputs and atomic updates. The roadmap and feature checklist record implementation details and limits.

Translation Catalog Hashes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Catalog hash records ATTRIBUTION.toml	Updates the recorded SHA-256 values for nine translation catalogs.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant sign_trust
  participant TrustList
  participant Session
  participant TrustStore
  Client->>sign_trust: Request trust-list update
  sign_trust->>TrustList: Parse bytes from list path
  sign_trust->>Session: Apply certificate and list changes
  Session->>TrustStore: Update trust entries
  Session->>Session: Revalidate open document signatures
  sign_trust-->>Client: Return loaded trust lists and certificate counts

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Possibly related issues

• Unable to Give Verified Mark on Digitally signed Documents #3979: The change reports whether a signer’s chain is anchored by a named list or user trust, which may relate to the issue about the verified status shown after trusting a certificate.

Suggested reviewers: fredapps, debasisnishank

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review dc132

The trust-list implementation still has correctness and trust-revalidation risks that should be resolved before merging.

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The title "M9: opt-in trust lists (a file of CA certificates, such as the EU Trusted Lists)" names the main change: an opt-in trust-list feature that loads CA certificates from a file. The raw summary confirms this is the core of the changeset: TrustList, TrustStore::lists, the sign_trust eu_trusted_list argument, and the Session trust-list APIs. The title is specific and single-sentence. It is slightly long at 80 characters, and the parenthetical adds detail, but it is accurate and not misleading.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has a clear "What this changes" section that explains the trust-list feature, the EU Trusted List use case, and the separation from user-trusted certificates. It also covers the verification commands, the tests that fail without the change, the never-crash checklist, provenance, security, and parity items. The author ticked the boxes with evidence, including a manual run on the #775 PDF. Two template items are not addressed: the description does not say whether a fix has a regression test that fails first, since the failing-test paragraph covers this only partly, and the "Fixes #" line is absent, which is acceptable because this is a feature. Both gaps are minor. The description is mostly complete.

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🟠 Major · Revalidate a prepared document against current trust before committing it. · lib.rs:3364

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Revalidate a prepared document against current trust before committing it.

If an OpenContext prepares a signed PDF while a trust list is loaded, and Session::remove_trust_list runs before commit_open, the removal revalidates only documents already in Session::docs. commit_open then inserts the prepared document with its old trust snapshot and potentially Valid signature verdict. A document supplied by an attacker can therefore display a signer as trusted after the user removed the list that provided its only anchor. Before insertion, adopt the current trust store and revalidate when the prepared snapshot differs.

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[thorstenhirsch]

On CodeRabbit's last finding (outside the diff, commit_open): the race is real, but it is not new and does not come from this PR. OpenContext takes a snapshot of the trust when open_context() is called, the UI prepares the document on a worker thread, and commit_open registers it later without comparing the snapshot with the session's current trust. On main the same happens with set_trusted_certificates: trust a certificate, or clear the list, while a document is being prepared, and that document keeps its verdict under the older trust until the next trust change. Trust lists add one more way to change the trust, not the window.

I left it out to keep this PR to trust lists. The fix is small (in commit_open, adopt the session's trust and refresh that one document's signatures when its snapshot is not the current one, with a test that opens across a trust change), and I'm glad to send it as its own PR, or to add it here if the maintainers prefer.

[thorstenhirsch]

@aiongg @echelon a status note, so this doesn't sit unseen.

#622 started as a larger PR (embedded roots plus the EU list), which echelon held in #144 pending an owner decision on built-in trust. Since Oct 14 it is only the mechanism: a trust list is a file the user loads with sign_trust (eu_trusted_list), off by default, nothing embedded, and it never vouches for a time-stamp authority. So there is no owner decision left in it, and the question I asked on Oct 17 no longer needs an answer.

It is rebased on 0.12.0 (65545b69), every check is green (Ubuntu, Windows, wasm, advisories, SonarCloud), and CodeRabbit's findings are answered. It is +561/−78 in 24 files, nine of them one-line catalog entries; if that is too much for a round, tell me which part to cut and I will split it.

#2230 (a developer tool that builds the EU file) can wait until this lands. Thank you for the integration rounds.

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[thorstenhirsch]

@FredApps thank you for the review and the validation run on 2f22433f. The refresh you asked for is done: #622 is rebased on main (a7801dc8), head 1f134a8e, and the sign tests pass there (25 lib + 119 integration), as do pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib (508), cargo xtask layers and parity. Engine (361), automation (41 + 270), clippy -D warnings, assets, deny and the wasm check passed one commit earlier, on the same code; the commit in between is an unrelated UI fix.

On your caveat about red checks: each of these reverts, applied to this head, makes exactly one test fail, and restoring the file makes it pass again.

• Let TrustStore::trusts consult the lists (self.anchors().any(…)): chain::a_list_vouches_for_a_signer_whose_file_carries_only_its_leaf_and_never_for_a_time_stamp_authority fails, because a list would then vouch for a time-stamp authority.
• Accept a -----BEGIN line inside an open PEM block again in x509::load_certificates: trust::tests::a_list_reads_concatenated_der_and_rejects_garbage fails at the spliced-bundle case.
• Drop the is_pem guard in TrustList::from_bytes: the same test fails at the PEM file that starts with a note beginning with 0.
• Make TrustStore::add_list stop replacing a list of the same name: the engine test several_trust_changes_revalidate_the_open_documents_once fails.

Where CodeRabbit's findings stand on this head (my earlier replies named commits that the rebases have since replaced):

• list names: fixed in 1f134a8e (add_list / remove_list, so a list is known by its own name);
• unfinished PEM block: upstream's .p7b change refuses a block that never ends, and 1f134a8e adds the spliced-block case;
• non-CA entries: kept on purpose. 871 of the 875 certificates in the real EU file are CAs; the other four are OCSP and time-stamp certificates that the national lists file under their CA services, so refusing them would refuse the real lists. They issue nothing in chain building;
• the commit_open trust race: exists on main today, explained in the comment above;
• the two ROADMAP wording notes: fixed in 2a1b9814.

The PR is also smaller now, +548/−74 in 14 files instead of 24: upstream stopped requiring translations in tests (#4302), so the catalog lines and their attribution hashes are gone.

[FredApps]

Re-review at 1f134a8. I looked at the range-diff from my approval at 2f22433 and the follow-up commit.

The follow-ups look right:

• TrustStore::add_list / remove_list (crates/sign/src/pdf.rs:213-223) now key a list by its own name, so whatever was loaded can be removed by that name.
• x509::load_certificates refuses a PEM block that opens while another is still open (x509.rs:595-598). There are tests for a cut inside a block, a cut after a block, and a splice (trust.rs:126-136).
• The module docs explain why non-CA entries stay in the list.

The red-check caveat from my approval is answered. CodeRabbit's commit_open trust race (lib.rs) is already on main and is tracked as a follow-up, so it doesn't block this PR.

Blocking: the branch no longer builds once merged with current main (418ac6a). The hosted gate tested a merge with an older main. Since the base a7801dc, main has gained ba33257 ("fix(sign,cos): signing leaves out what was added and removed again", via #4566). It adds a test that builds a TrustStore with the old struct literal:

• crates/sign/tests/it/pdf.rs:828 (merged tree), in what_was_removed_before_signing_is_not_signed: TrustStore { certs: vec![anchor, tsa.id.certificate.clone()] } → error[E0063]: missing field 'lists' in initializer of 'pdfcraft_sign::TrustStore', so cargo clippy/test -p pdfcraft-sign --all-targets fails.

Please rebase onto current main and add ..TrustStore::default() there, as you did for the other eleven. I checked locally with just that one-line change on the merge with 418ac6a: fmt is clean, clippy -p pdfcraft-sign -p pdfcraft-automation --all-targets -D warnings is clean, test -p pdfcraft-sign passes (25 + 120), and the engine and automation trust tests pass. Once that's pushed and green, I expect to approve.

[thorstenhirsch]

@FredApps thank you for the re-review, and for catching that the hosted gate had tested an older main. Done: #622 is rebased on main (418ac6a2), head 15eeb7ef, and what_was_removed_before_signing_is_not_signed now builds its TrustStore with ..TrustStore::default() (crates/sign/tests/it/pdf.rs:828). The compiler found no other new bare literal.

On this head, locally: fmt clean; clippy -p pdfcraft-sign -p pdfcraft-engine -p pdfcraft-automation --all-targets -D warnings clean; test -p pdfcraft-sign 25 + 120 pass; engine lib 367; automation 41 + 272; pdfcraft-ui-egui --lib 519; cargo xtask layers, assets, parity and deny ok; the wasm check of sign and engine ok. Hosted CI is running on the new head. Please look again when you can.

[FredApps]

Re-review at 15eeb7e, after my request for changes at 1f134a8. Approving.

• The blocker is fixed. The branch is now based on current main: upstream/main is an ancestor of 15eeb7e, and git merge-tree is clean. git range-diff from 1f134a8 shows the first commit unchanged (=). In the second, the only code change is the one I asked for: crates/sign/tests/it/pdf.rs in what_was_removed_before_signing_is_not_signed now builds TrustStore { certs: vec![anchor, tsa.id.certificate.clone()], ..TrustStore::default() }. The commit message now says "twelve" instead of "eleven". No struct literal is left without either lists or ..TrustStore::default(). The only full literals are the two in tests/it/chain.rs:397,467, which set lists explicitly.
• Checked locally in a fresh worktree at 15eeb7e: cargo fmt --all --check passes, cargo clippy -p pdfcraft-sign -p pdfcraft-automation --all-targets -- -D warnings is clean, and cargo test -p pdfcraft-sign passes (25 passed with 1 ignored, plus 120 passed).
• Hosted checks at this head: gate (ubuntu-24.04), SonarCloud, the git-deps check and CodeRabbit all succeed.
• No unresolved, non-outdated review threads remain. My notes on the follow-ups at 1f134a8 still stand.

[thorstenhirsch]

@FredApps thank you for the approval at 15eeb7ef. The head had to change again: upstream split crates/sign/src/pdf.rs into pdf/ ("refactor(sign): split pdf.rs into pdf/") and the engine's Session into session/ ("refactor(engine): split session.rs into session/"), and #622 conflicted with both.

Nothing in the logic changed. I took upstream's files and moved the same edits into the new modules: TrustStore, TrustSource, add_list / remove_list and the new wording are in pdf/types.rs; the anchor and "which list vouched" lines are in finish_validation in pdf/validate.rs; update_trust, add_trust_list / remove_trust_list and the revalidation counter are in session.rs and session/save.rs. trust.rs is byte-identical to the approved head, and my edits in x509.rs, the automation tool, the ROADMAP entry and all the tests are the same as before.

Rebased on main (1dd2737b), head d6fb54b7. Locally on it: fmt clean; clippy -p pdfcraft-sign -p pdfcraft-engine -p pdfcraft-automation --all-targets -D warnings clean; test -p pdfcraft-sign 25 + 120; engine lib 371; automation 41 + 274; layers, assets, parity, deny and the wasm check ok. Hosted CI is running. (16 of the 17 open_worker tests in pdfcraft-ui-egui fail on my machine, on pristine main too, with "No glyph for U+22EF" from egui's fonts; they have nothing to do with signing and I left them alone.)

Sorry to ask for another look at a new head.

[FredApps]

Re-review at SHA d6fb54b (my last APPROVE was at 2558d29).

What it does: unchanged from my last review. Since then the PR was rebased onto upstream module splits (engine/src/session/save.rs, sign/src/pdf/types.rs, sign/src/pdf/validate.rs), so its code now lives in different files.

Checked: compared the PR-only added/removed lines at the old and new heads with the file name ignored; the sorted line sets are identical, so the delta is a pure relocation with no logic change.

Not verified: I did not run the tests locally.

[FredApps]

Correction to my re-approval at SHA d6fb54b (this is a comment, not a change of verdict).

My approval text said the PR-only line sets at the old and new heads were identical. That check was wrong (a faulty file-name filter). Re-checked properly: 6 lines differ, all module-split plumbing: anchors() moved with pub(super), revalidations made pub(crate), and TrustSource added to the pub use types::{...} re-export. No logic change.

Not verified: I did not run the tests locally.