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Trustless HTTPS with native DANE support and a DNSSEC chain secured by a peer-to-peer light client.\r\n\r\n\u003ckbd\u003e\r\n\u003cimg border=\"1\" width=\"400\" src=\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41967894/164748866-649c78c7-cd76-4613-9d17-82d382320b98.PNG\"\u003e\r\n\u003c/kbd\u003e\r\n\r\n## How it works\r\n\r\n- Beacon syncs block headers to retrive a verifiable merkle tree root.\r\n- Requests proofs from peers to retrive a DNSSEC signed zone.\r\n- Performs in-browser DNSSEC validation.\r\n- Verifies certificates with [DANE](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6698).\r\n\r\n### TODOs\r\n\r\nThere are still lots of things we'd like to do. Contributions are welcome!\r\n\r\n* Android \u0026 linux support\r\n* Automatic updates using [Omaha 4](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VlozzSjriRD5Yn9cLzjTrSvXPkxtq47mk2JejkczAss/edit)  \r\n* Signed binaries for windows\r\n* Widevine support\r\n* DNSSEC prefetching to reduce latency\r\n* DANE support for ICANN domains\r\n* Experiment with embedding a DNSSEC chain in x509 certificates \r\n and/or a TLS extension (RFC9102). \r\n* Experiment with embedding HNS proofs in x509 certificates. \r\n* Block internal Chrome telemetry \u0026 other privacy enhancements\r\n* More tests\r\n\r\n\r\nDevelopment\r\n-------\r\n\r\nThis repository does not contain the actual Chromium code it will be fetched using `butil`.\r\n\r\n### Get started\r\n\r\nInstall chromium build depedencies for the target platform and then install `butil`. \r\n\r\n```\r\n$ go install github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/tools/src/butil@latest\r\n```\r\n`butil` is beacon's development utility. It helps you apply patches and do various overrides to chromium. Make sure it's in your path.\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ mkdir beacon \u0026\u0026 cd beacon\r\n$ butil clone\r\n$ butil init\r\n```\r\nThis may take a while since `init` will fetch chromium. Once it's done, this repo will be at `src/beacon`\r\n\r\n\r\n#### Building\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ butil build debug\r\n```\r\n\r\n#### Updating `butil`\r\n\r\n`butil` is just a wrapper around the actual tool. You can make changes to `tools/src/realbutil`\r\nand it will get rebuilt automatically. \r\n\r\n\r\n#### Making changes to Chromium\r\n\r\nMake your modifications to chromium and when you are ready to transfer those into patches:\r\nNote: This will remove any patches that are no longer in chromium.\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ butil patches update\r\n```\r\n\r\nTo remove a patch just undo the changes in chromium repo and call patches update again.\r\n\r\n\r\n## Credits\r\n\r\nBeacon ports patches from Brave mainly for branding and shares a similar patching format/tooling with [brave-core](https://github.com/brave/brave-core.git)\r\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fimperviousinc%2Fbeacon","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fimperviousinc%2Fbeacon","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fimperviousinc%2Fbeacon/lists"}