Security of Certificate Transparency

Working paper

Certificate Transparency is one of a number of recent proposals to improve the public key infrastructure of the Internet, all based on the use of public, verifiable log servers to store records of certain actions. Whilst it lacks some features of alternative systems, such as handling revocation or permitting distributed verification, Certificate Transparency has the significant advantage of support from the Chromium web browser team, and thus will be enabled for large parts of the Internet...

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Authors: Cohn-Gordon, K

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cyber Security; Computer security; Computing