Let’s Encrypt has a number of downsides when used on a large scale. It uses modern key management protocols, but the high-level of automation requires management. This is what KeyChest provides.
Continue reading Let’s Encrypt for Companies with KeyChestKeyChest started as a simple HTTPS monitoring service. It has had its own database of all web certificates for about a year. And it helped issue first real certificates this week.
Continue reading KEYCHEST and HTTPS automationMandating use of HTTPS / SSL certainly seems to have something in common with security certifications like FIPS140-2 or Common Criteria. Very few understand how it really helps, how complex it is but many already know how costly it can be.
Continue reading Web Encryption – Punishment of SMBs by Tech Giants?KeyChest has started as an easy to use HTTPS monitoring service. What we are aiming for is a general purpose key management service, which can look after your public as well as internal web encryption keys.
Continue reading KeyChest – Unifying Public and Private KeysThis is my second post on the topic of reliable MySQL8 cluster. Hopefully the last one as things look much brighter now.
Continue reading MySQL8 Cluster and Networking ProblemsA new version of KeyChest for 2019 with Free personal end-to-end monitoring of up to 500 servers. Most preparations went up in smoke but we made it.
Continue reading KeyChest supports free web encryptionKeyChest is being integrated with Let’s Encrypt more tightly, it now has its first integration hook for Certbot. It registers domains using self-registered API keys and creates dormant accounts for you simply to confirm.
Continue reading Certbot and KeyChest APII met Chris Wallis last week for a cuppa and to talk shop as we both have been doing start-ups for a while. He’s ahead of me and it’s incredible he pulled it off.
Continue reading Intruder – Automated Pen Testing for SMEsWe all have seen it – I go to visit an interesting blog, DEFCON website, or pay for your parking on the go. But I can’t – the website or web service has an expired certificate and the “damn security wouldn’t let me do it”.
As we have a database of all the issued public certificates, we started looking at some of the data. This is a quick note about the frequency of updates of certificate transparency (CT) logs.