Certificate Transparency Hack Day

[Ben Laurie]

On 19 July 2013 19:25, Nicholas Bohm <nbohm at ernest.net> wrote:
> On 19/07/2013 19:08, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>> On 19/07/13 11:31, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>> The Certificate Transparency team
>>
>> What exactly is Certificate Transparency? I'm thinking it has
>> something to do with the little padlocks on browsers, but ..
>
> I didn't understand it either; but then I didn't expect to.
>
> (I think it's to do with being able to tell whether the certificate used
> by a site is the one you'd expect, so as to help detect MITM attacks.)
>
> But I think it's clear you ought to go and find out (balloons or no
> balloons), and maybe explain to us all.

By the way. we updated the website, hopefully it makes it clearer:
http://www.certificate-transparency.org/

>
> Nick
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