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WebPKI and You
There’s been a push over the last twelve years to move web traffic off unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS, to protect the general public from dragnet surveillance, gaping assholes on public wifi>airpwn, backhauls over unencrypted satellites, that kinda thing. HTTPS relies on a public key infrastructure to make sure only authorized servers have keys for specific websites. [>oid]: an OID or “Object IDentifier” is intended [brs]: https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/documents/CA-Browser-Forum-TLS-BR-2.1.8.pdf [crtsh]: https://crt.sh/?q=blog.brycekerley.net [lol-diginotar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar#Issuance_of_fraudulent_certificates [iv-ocsp]: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html [>mac-ocsp]: Jeff Johnson’s [>crlite]: these use cascading bloom filters which [>short-lived]: the CA/BF baseline requirements [trustico-chrome]: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html [trustico-gone]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/trustico-website-goes-dark-after-someone-drops-critical-flaw-on-twitter/ [trustico-compromise]: https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/wxX4Yv0E3Mk/m/o1cdfx2nAQAJ [>enclaves]: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and [>history]: i mean, i remember from when it happened [>parasite]: You may have realized that I don’t think [van-halen]: https://snackstack.net/2023/07/03/in-search-of-van-halens-brown-mms/ [>osi]: I’m not going to hit you with a [>responsibility]: in every part of your life! [>bloom]: [>later]: At time of publishing, it’s March 8, 2026 [hsts]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Strict-Transport-Security [>hsts]: This is generally a hardcoded value, [>cattle]: “cattle” is when there’s [ari]: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/09/16/ari-rfc [>caddy-ari]: I checked Caddy, the front-end server [>left]: there may be value in trying to renew [audits]: https://cabforum.org/about/information/auditors-and-assessors/audit-criteria/
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