Feisty Duck: The Good, Bad and the Ugly

Good: Let’s Encrypt botched issuance of 645 certificates during a configuration change. A combination of factors led to the creation of certificates that were not substantially the same as their corresponding precertificates. Read more about the problem in the incident report. There’s also a blog post from Andrew Ayer, who discovered the problem within minutes. We classify this as good based on the combination of community monitoring that led to near-immediate discovery of the problem and Let’s Encrypt’s fast reaction, transparency, and in-depth incident report.

Read the Full Article online

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I'm not familiar with Feisty Duck, but what kind of /ls/click?upn=bunch_of_stuff kind of URL is THAT? Personally that's not a link I'd click on to be honest.

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Perhaps a better link:
https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_102_four_ca_stories_the_good_times_two_the_bad_and%20the_ugly

The article is from the Bulletproof TLS Newsletter authored by Ivan Ristić of SSL Labs fame.

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That link looks a lot better indeed, thanks :slight_smile:

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https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_102_four_ca_stories_the_good_times_two_the_bad_and%20the_ugly

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@Nekit beat you to the punch!

I'd say, use:
https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/
As it is the latest entry, it will show there.
For those who may be reading this... [much] later, it's Issue #102 [click on that one]

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