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> CT is meant to help find illegitimate server certificate issuance by participating CAs, but it cannot help the user-agent get past illegitimate server certs.
by inetknght 5y ago
> CT is meant to help find illegitimate server certificate issuance by participating CAs, but it cannot help the user-agent get past illegitimate server certs.
That's the point though. I'd rather the user-agent tell me that the certificate is invalid. That's as far as it's currently going anyway when a certificate is, for example, self-signed.
> Besides, the whole point here is to make the user-agent fail to load the page,
That's exactly the minimum that should happen, yes. User-agent sees that the certificate isn't correctly issued for the domain and refuses to send the HTTP request (though SNI is already sent...)
> the network operator does not just not mind that the illegitimate server certificate is noticed, they want it noticed.
More than just noticed: the network operator wants the user to inappropriately act on the illegitimate server certificate.