Re:Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
by judge2020 on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:15AM
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The protection for this is in certificate transparency, as Chrome will throw up a warning if a certificate is valid other than it never showing up in the CT logs. See: https://no-sct.badssl.com/
CAA combined with this CT requirement means that businesses serious about issuance can set up a service to watch CT logs and get notified every time a certificate is issued, so any would-be CA attacker would have to be pretty quick with their attack if they wanted to impersonate fb.com, and that CA would be questioned by the CA/B community pretty quickly for breaking CAA policies.
CAA combined with this CT requirement means that businesses serious about issuance can set up a service to watch CT logs and get notified every time a certificate is issued, so any would-be CA attacker would have to be pretty quick with their attack if they wanted to impersonate fb.com, and that CA would be questioned by the CA/B community pretty quickly for breaking CAA policies.