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Certificate Transparency

Certificate Transparency (CT) is an Internet security standard for monitoring and auditing the issuance of digital certificates. When an internet user interacts with a website, a trusted third party is needed for assurance that the website is legitimate and that the website's encryption key is valid. This third party, called a certificate authority (CA)…

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History

ComodoCompromisedGoogleBen LaurieOpen source
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Technical overview

Append-onlyBrowserMerkle treeX.509Transport Layer Security
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Background

RevokedSectigo
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Tools for inspecting CT logs

CensysMeta
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Certificate Transparency

Nodes43
Edges42
Triples70
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.046512
Components1

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Certificate Transparency

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related to history · 10
Certificate Transparency → Adam Langley, Ben Laurie, Comodo, DigiNotar, Emilia Kasper, Google, IETF, In, In March, Sunlight
related to Static CT API · 10
Certificate Transparency → Chrome, CT, CT-API, CT-API CT, Maximum Merge Delay, Merkle Tree, RFC, SCT, SCTs, This
related to Mandatory certificate transparency · 9
Certificate Transparency → Apple, CT, NOTE, OCSP, Safari, SCTs, Some, TLS, Transport Layer Security
related to overview · 9
Certificate Transparency → At, Certificates, Each, Logs, Merkle, MMD, SCTs, STH, The
related to External links · 7
Certificate Transparency → Certificate Transparency Log, Certificate Transparency ReportCertificate Transparency, Certificate Transparency Version, MetaCT, Monitoring, Official, RFC
related to Certificate Transparency logs · 6
Certificate Transparency → Merkle, Present, Refuse, Store, To, Verify
related to Tools for inspecting CT logs · 6
Certificate Transparency → CensysCert Spotter, CloudflareMeta Certificate Transparency Monitoring, KeytosCertObserver Certificate Transparency, Merkle Town, MetaMerklemapCertificate Transparency Root ExplorerEZMonitor, SectigoCensys Search
related to Log sharding · 5
Certificate Transparency → Cloudflare's Nimbus, Due, Temporal, This, Web PKI
related to Advantages · 3
Certificate Transparency → An, One, The
related to Signature algorithms · 3
Certificate Transparency → IANA, In Certificate Transparency Version, Signature Algorithms

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certificate certificates transparency logs log issued authority ct google ca security root trusted internet rfc monitoring website 6962 scts domains

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Certificate Transparencyis aability for cyber security teams to defend companies and organisations by monitoring for suspicious domains registering certificates0.90text
phishing attacksinstance ofThe new certificates for these suspicious domains may have similar names to other legitimate domains and are designed to be used to support malicious activities0.80text
Certificate Transparencyrelated to AdvantagesOne0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to AdvantagesAn0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to AdvantagesThe0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsMerkle0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsTo0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsVerify0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsRefuse0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsStore0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to Certificate Transparency logsPresent0.60section
Certificate Transparencyrelated to External linksOfficial0.60section

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