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Episode: A decade of certificate transparency and what may come next (eh23)
Description: Certificate Transparency (RFC 6962) is a protocol that aims to provide additional security to the WebPKI ecosystem, which is used as the root of trust in TLS connections of the browsers. The idea is that issued certificates must be logged in auditable certificate transparency logs, in order to be considered valid by the browser. This gives transparency into the operation of Certificate Authorities (CAs).
This talk revisits the evolution of the Certificate Transparency (CT) protocol, beginning with a brief recap of the problem that motivated its design and the rollout of the protocol over the last decade.
Then, I will examine...