Certificate Transparency and the Certificate Authority Death Penalty

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Certificate Transparency (CT) is a proposal that, when a certificate authority issues a certificate, they should log the details in a public, append-only log. This allows mis-issued certificates to be spotted by site owners - and hopefully revoked in short order. Browsers, when they know to expect a CT entry, can reject a certificate as fraudulent if the expected CT entry is missing. But CT will…

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