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Re: [Trans] Question regarding new gossip protocols [Was: Certificate transparency on blockchains]

Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> Sat, 28 March 2015 01:59 UTC

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From: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:58:43 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Trans] Question regarding new gossip protocols [Was: Certificate transparency on blockchains]
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On 27 March 2015 at 19:28, Tao Effect <contact@taoeffect.com> wrote:

> We've posted a followup blog post:
>
> *Certificate Transparency’s improved gossip protocols show promise*
>
>
> https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/03/certificate-transparencys-improved-gossip-protocols-show-promise/
>
> I also updated our previous blog post to make a note of this new
> information.
>
> Great work folks. [image: 👍]
>

Cool!

I'll add a note: one of the optimizations/tricks we noted while composing
was that a server may actually detect a misbehaving log that it _doesn't_
trust.  Ordinarily we'd discard any such data (because of the
aforementioned problems with DoS and such) - but by looking at the
submitted certificate, and checking if it chains to a root cert in the
store you recognize, you may decide "Actually this one is interesting
enough to keep."  (Still some DoS concerns there, but a trick servers have
the opportunity to work with nonetheless.)

-tom

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