Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by noja on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:06AM
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Who is publishing this list of possibly not-published-anywhere-else SSL sites? Having them all in a big easy to download list is not what I expected from LetsEncrypt.
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Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by dan1234 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:41AM
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It’s intentional. The general idea is to make it easier to detect fraudulently issued certificates. LetsEncrypt submit all certificates[0] to Certificate Transparency[1] logs.
Chrome won’t actually show the green address bar for EV certs unless a CT proof is provided along with the certificate[2].
[0]https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/
[1]https://www.certificate-transparency.org/faq
[2]https://blog.digicert.com/certificate-transparency-required-...
Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by blfr on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:10AM
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Certificate transparency makes it much harder to surreptitiously issue a certificate and holds the offending CA responsible in case of unauthorized certificates. If your site is not public, you're better off with your own private CA anyway.
Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by xrstf on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:10AM
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It's the public certificate audit log. It's not an accidental data leak.
Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by fpoling on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @06:49AM
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For private sites just use your own CA.
Also the server for LetsEncrypt is open source [1] and comes with test scripts to run it during development and testing to avoid premature exposure to the public instance of LetsEncrypt.
Re:Watch LetsEncrypt issue its millionth certificate live
by JetSpiegel on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:20AM
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https://whois.domaintools.com/crt.sh
Thought I recognised the favicon, it's Comodo.
I don't see the problem, if you want a secret url then self sign and distribute your certificate with other methods.