Certificate Transparency
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
Certificate Transparency provides a transparent and verifiable ecosystem for TLS certificates, helping detect maliciously or mistakenly issued certificates.
Target Customer
{"Domain owners","Browsers","Security researchers / academics","Organizations running or monitoring CT logs","General internet security community"}
Key Differentiator
Independent, reliable logs built using Merkle trees; publicly verifiable, append-only, and tamper-proof; distributed ecosystem run by multiple organizations; started by engineers at Google.
Implementation Timeline
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Pain Points
- 1A CA that cannot be trusted can issue certificates for any website, enabling potential data interception even if encrypted.
- 2Significant time lag between a misissued certificate and corrective action by a CA.
- 3Audits historically focused on operational practices and historical performance rather than technical correctness and may not catch every issue.
Key Features
- 1Merkle-tree based logs that are publicly verifiable
- 2Append-only, tamper-proof logs
- 3Publicly available and monitored logs
- 4Distributed ecosystem with logs and monitors operated by independent organizations
- 5Educational and informational resources (How CT works, Our story, Logs, Monitors, User agents, GitHub, Google Group pages)
Target Customer Industries
Client Results
- 1Publicly verifiable logs of certificate issuance enabling analysis of which CAs issued which certificates, when, and for which domains
- 2Scale and visibility: since 2013, 2,563,437,540 certificates have been logged
- 3Enhanced ability for domain owners, browsers, academics, and others to monitor certificate issuance and detect issues
Competitive Advantages
- 1Independent, reliable, and publicly auditable logs
- 2Tamper-proof, append-only architecture
- 3Distributed, multi-organizational operation reduces single points of failure
- 4Improved detection and monitoring of certificate issuance to keep the web secure
Key Benefits
Additional Product Information
Product Description
An ecosystem that makes the issuance of website certificates transparent and verifiable through independent, reliable logs and monitoring.
Target Market
Domain owners, browser vendors, researchers, and anyone interested in monitoring certificate issuance and security on the web
Unique Value Proposition
A distributed, verifiable logging system (Merkle-tree based) with independent operators that enables real-time visibility into certificate issuance, helping to detect misissued or malicious certificates.
Technical Requirements
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Pricing Model
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