Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything at all?

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    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

    • Certificate transparency effectively solves this because certain browsers (currently only Safari and Chrome) require all new certificates be submitted to multiple certificate transparency lists - if it encounters a certificate that isnt, it’ll show a warning page before establishing the TLS session. More info[0].

    Of course, if the country wants to intercept, they still can by intercepting all traffic with their own (non-existing-CA) certificate - Kazakhstan tried this and asked all their citizens to install it if they wanted internet[1], but it shows that these efforts won’t go unnoticed and browser developers might fight back against government surveillance.

    0: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

    1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25324951

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