certspotter

Certificate Transparency Log Monitor (by SSLMate)

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certspotter reviews and mentions

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  • 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
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SSLMate/certspotter is an open source project licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of certspotter is Go.


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