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Running a Certificate Transparency log

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-06 15:36:54

Hear me out. If you are an organization with some spare storage and bandwidth, or an engineer looking to justify an overprovisioned homelab, you should consider running a Certificate Transparency log. It’s cheaper, easier, and more important than you might think. Certificate Transparency (CT) is one of the technologies that underpin the security of the whole web. It keeps Certificate Authorities honest, and allows website owners to be notified of unauthorized certificate issuance. It’s a big pa

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How Let's Encrypt made the internet safer and HTTPS standard - and free

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-10 02:16:59

KTSDESIGN/Getty Images In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. The then-new security network protocol provided an encrypted connection and a digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity. SSL was then, and is now, the minimum security a safe website should provide to its users. The protocol was also a major pain to set up

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CertMate – SSL Certificate Management System

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 01:24:53

🔐 CertMate - SSL Certificate Management System 🌟 Why CertMate? CertMate solves the complexity of SSL certificate management in modern distributed architectures. Whether you're running a single application or managing certificates across multiple datacenters, CertMate provides: 🔄 Zero-Downtime Automation - Certificates renew automatically 30 days before expiry - Certificates renew automatically 30 days before expiry 🌐 Multi-Cloud Support - Works with 19 DNS providers (Cloudflare, AWS, Azure,

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Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-20 17:09:19

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the expiration notification email service was implemented as of June 4, 2025, but Let's Encrypt has now communicated it via a blog post to raise awareness and prevent unexpected disruptions. Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority (CA) that provides free, automated, and open digital certific

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Finding Dead Websites

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 01:03:01

As some of the work planned for Marginalia Search this year has been progressing a bit faster than anticipated, there was time to implement an unplanned change. This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking. Table Of Contents Feature Rationale Availability detection is useful not just for filtering o

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ConnectWise rotating code signing certificates over security concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 00:17:53

ConnectWise is warning customers that it is rotating the digital code signing certificates used to sign ScreenConnect, ConnectWise Automate, and ConnectWise RMM executables over security concerns. Digital certificates are used to sign executables so those downloading the files know they come from a trusted source. This ensures that code has not been tampered with before it reaches the end user. According to ConnectWise, the decision was taken after a third-party security researcher raised conc

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