check_ssl_cert VS certspotter

Compare check_ssl_cert vs certspotter and see what are their differences.

check_ssl_cert

A shell script (that can be used as a Nagios/Icinga plugin) to check an SSL/TLS connection. (by matteocorti)
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check_ssl_cert certspotter
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355 918
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8.8 6.9
18 days ago about 1 month ago
Shell Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Mozilla Public License 2.0
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check_ssl_cert

Posts with mentions or reviews of check_ssl_cert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

certspotter

Posts with mentions or reviews of certspotter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-02.
  • SSLMate/Certspotter: Certificate Transparency Log Monitor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
  • Last Chance to Fix EIDAS (Mozilla)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
    > 1. Is this proactively monitored for? And how? And by whom?

    Yes, security researchers and domain owners use Certificate Transparency Monitors to search for certificates. e.g.:

    https://crt.sh/ - allows you to search for certificates for a domain

    https://github.com/SSLMate/certspotter/ - open source tool which notifies you when a certificate is issued for one of your domains

    https://sslmate.com/certspotter/ - commercial service that does the same, operated by my company

    > 2. If a major state-level CA was discovered to have issued a mitm cert, would browser vendors really take the commercial hit of removing or distrusting their root cert?

    In 2017, Chrome and Firefox distrusted Symantec, which was at the time the world's largest certificate authority: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-dist...

    Symantec hadn't even issued MitM certs - they were just grossly incompetent. Distrusting them was very painful, but necessary to upload the integrity of the CA system, and demonstrated conclusively that there is no such thing as a too-big-to-fail CA.

  • Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2023
    Indeed, a CT monitor which sends alerts about legitimate certificates is pretty much useless due to noise. My service, Cert Spotter, provides an API endpoint[1] which you can upload your CSRs to, so you don't get alerted about certificates using the same key as the CSR. The open source version of Cert Spotter can invoke a script[2] when a certificate is discovered, and the script can cross reference against a list of legitimate certs.

    [1] https://sslmate.com/help/reference/certspotter_authorization...

    [2] https://github.com/SSLMate/certspotter/blob/master/man/certs...

  • Google's Certificate Transparency Search page to be discontinued May 15th, 2022
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing check_ssl_cert and certspotter you can also consider the following projects:

Revssl - A script that automates generation of OpenSSL reverse shells

certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

dehydrated - letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script – just add water

osv.dev - Open source vulnerability DB and triage service.

nginx-proxy-automation - Automated docker nginx proxy integrated with letsencrypt.

acmetool - :lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)

docker-compose-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion - Automated docker nginx proxy integrated with letsencrypt. [Moved to: https://github.com/evertramos/nginx-proxy-automation]

rap - Raspberry Pi RIPE Atlas Probe

NPushOver - Full fledged, async, .Net Pushover client

certificate-transparency-go - Auditing for TLS certificates (Go code)

https-portal - A fully automated HTTPS server powered by Nginx, Let's Encrypt and Docker.