Newsmaker Interview: Scott Helme on Securing the Web

Scott Helme, the well-known security researcher, international speaker and the founder of the securityheaders.com and report-uri.com free tools for web security, has devoted himself to improving the security environment of the internet for the past dec… Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Scott Helme on Securing the Web

Certificate transparency: should the certificate be submitted to ct-logs if the pre-certificate is already submitted

If a pre-certificate is generated and submitted to certificate transparency logs, the final certificate can include SCT receipts.

So the final certificate doesn’t need to be submitted to ct-logs in order to be valid in brows… Continue reading Certificate transparency: should the certificate be submitted to ct-logs if the pre-certificate is already submitted

See You, See Me: Certificate Transparency

…and then there’s this: Certstream, ostensibly, a near ‘real-time’ certificate transparency log stream (in this case an update stream that security engineers can plug-into their unholy workflow).
Fundamentally, security administrators – through pr… Continue reading See You, See Me: Certificate Transparency

Why does my Amazon-issued certificate not show up in the certificate transparency logs?

I have an Amazon-issued certificate (via AWS Certificate Manager) for a number of subdomains (CN = *.aws.jamymahabier.nl). However, it is not showing up in the logs at crt.sh (only the Let’s Encrypt-issued certificate for my … Continue reading Why does my Amazon-issued certificate not show up in the certificate transparency logs?

ways to check a certificate fingerprint against known logs

Suppose I have a certificate sha-256 fingerprint, which I can obtain say visiting the relevant domain in firefox or from a shell script using openssl, and i want to verify this fingerprint. one option is to look up the domain… Continue reading ways to check a certificate fingerprint against known logs