{"id":2084,"date":"2025-12-17T15:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youstable.com\/blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:36:34","slug":"what-is-certificate-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youstable.com\/blog\/what-is-certificate-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Certificate Transparency?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google Company has announced a new combination of words for an\nSSL Certificate, and it is called \u201cCertificate Transparency<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d The\nmillennial does not understand the concept of CT, and we are here to clear all doubts & confusions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Certificate Transparency?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-1990s and\nother councils have come together to form the certificate\nissuance process. The certificate implemented by Certificate Authority (CA)\nresponsible for generating certificates for domain owner and server\nadministrator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CA has the authority to release the certificate, but the certificate\u2019s issuance controlled by the independent\nrepository. In short, the independent repository companies are SSL Certificate sellers.\nThe IR has to verify the public key (an important\npart of the SSL Certificate encryption) to check the validity and create a\nsecure connection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Public Key (an essential part of the SSL Certificate\nencryption) verification occurs between independent repository (SSL Certificate\nproviders) and website servers to create a secure connection, and no one can\nmeddle in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire verification process alternatively validated and\nno one can check its authenticity. Certificate Transparency is an on-going\nproject to bring the certificate\u2019s issuance process publicly, and it is 100% transparent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qualified Certificate Transparency logs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now, everyone can view the Qualified CT logs publicly\nwithout any limitations. To what extent information is accessible to the public?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Monitors.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Auditors.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Log servers.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. CAs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Log Response (SCT) created, while the communication between the\nCertificate Authority and the Client browser is occurring. In the past, the connection and communication used to be direct and no logs were created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    The Certificate Transparency improves the trust and security of the domain owner, server administrators, and end-users (visitors\/traffic\/users\/customers.) Currently, Google has undertaken the project into their hands and working on the development of the Google Chrome version. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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