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		rdl on April 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation ts... I wish Cloudflare or Google would get into the CA game; they'd be more than capable of doing OCSP checks on every use, and could issue very short lived certificates otherwise (weekly?)

Nimi on April 19, 2014 [–]

Google appears to have gotten into the CA game with their Certificate Transparency initiative:

http://www.certificate-transparency.org/

As most of these Google initiatives go, this is open source, and they're encouraging other entities to adopt the technology.

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