Certificate Transparency Info Leaks

This is part two of the Certificate Transparency series. I show here how certificate transparency is leaking valuable information about companies due to either unfamiliarity or obliviousness from companies’ IT or DevOps teams. ...

January 19, 2026

Certificate Transparency 101

This is part one of the Certificate Transparency series. Certificate Transparency (CT) is a public, append-only logging system for TLS certificates. It was created to make certificate issuance observable so that mis-issuance can be detected quickly and independently. Instead of relying only on trust, CT lets anyone audit which certificates were issued for a domain and when they appeared in a public log. ...

January 19, 2026