Company
Date Published
Aug. 8, 2019
Author
Ben Solomon
Word count
1341
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Cloudflare has launched a public beta of Certificate Transparency (CT) Monitoring, an initiative aimed at helping customers detect malicious certificates issued for their domains. The system crawls all public logs to find these certificates quickly and sends alerts whenever a certificate is issued for one of the user's domains. This service is currently available in the Crypto Tab of the Cloudflare dashboard. Certificate Transparency makes all certificates public and easy to audit, preventing malicious activities such as stealing login credentials or interrupting services by serving different content. The system also allows users to monitor their certificates and take necessary actions if something seems wrong.