Understanding SSL Usage By Country

With Shodan it's easy to get an overview of the security for a country. Real-world borders don't necessarily translate to the Internet but it can still reveal useful information as shown by OECD. I will show how I use Shodan to get a big picture view of a country; in this case I'm looking at the USA.

Finally, lets look at the distribution of SSL certificates. It usually isn't a good sign if the same SSL certificate is deployed across a large number of devices. To see the usage of duplicate SSL certificates we can facet on the ssl.cert.fingerprint property:

With Shodan it's easy to get an overview of the security for a country. Real-world borders don't necessarily translate to the Internet but it can still reveal useful information as shown by OECD. In this article we will use Shodan to get a big picture view of a country; in this case we're going to be looking at the USA.

A UCC in the address bar shows a padlock to display verification. They can also be considered an EV SSL if they are configured to show that green text, padlock, and home country. The only difference is the number of domain names associated with this certificate.

SSL.com complies with U.S. law and therefore accepts the following two-letter ISO-3166 country codes. Please be sure to use any of the following international country codes in your certificate signing requests (CSR) that corresponds to the country of origin for the SSL.com certificate registrant. Click here for a list of export restricted countries or scroll to the bottom of this page.

Global. End users or clients are located beyond a small geographical area. For example, users across multiple continents, across countries/regions within a continent, or even across multiple metropolitan areas within a larger country/region.

What is a CSR A CSR or Certificate Signing request is a block of encoded text that is given to a Certificate Authority when applying for an SSL Certificate. It is usually generated on the server where the certificate will be installed and contains information that will be included in the certificate such as the organization name, common name (domain name), locality, and country. It also contains the public key that will be included in the certificate. A private key is usually created at the same time that you create the CSR, making a key pair. A CSR is generally encoded using ASN.1 according to the PKCS #10 specification.

We are renewing our SSL certificates again, we have generated the CSR and have used the country code UK. However, our CA seems to have trouble in setting the country to UK and say that GB is the only one available. Are there any implications on changing the country code to GB

Some third-party certification authorities may require additional information in the Subject parameter. Such information includes an e-mail address (E), organizational unit (OU), organization (O), locality, or city (L), state or province (S), and country or region (C). You can append this information to the Subject name (CN) in the Request.inf file. For example:

The article gives a brief explanation of how the TLS Protocol works and the analysis of the TLS handshake using a powerful tool like Wireshark. One important thing to note is applications should not rely on TLS to create the strongest secure connection between the peers as it is possible for a hacker to make the peers drop down to the least secure connection. Also, the use of TSL/SSL could impact performance (explained here). Hence, a clear understanding of the protocol will help evaluate its advantages and vulnerabilities.

8. Next, upload the signed certificate that was just received, and give it a friendly name for ISE. Then proceed to select the boxes next to usages as per need for the certificate(like Admin and EAP authentication, Portal, etc.) and click Submit, as shown in this image.

As of July 2022[update] the survey company W3Techs, which collects statistics on certificate authority usage among the Alexa top 10 million and the Tranco top 1 million websites, lists the six largest authorities by absolute usage share as below. [18]

Please remember that export/import and/or use of strongcryptography software, providing cryptography hooks, or even justcommunicating technical details about cryptography software isillegal in some parts of the world. So when you import thispackage to your country, re-distribute it from there or evenjust email technical suggestions or even source patches to theauthors or other people you are strongly advised to pay closeattention to any laws or regulations which apply toyou. The authors of OpenSSL are not liable for any violationsyou make here. So be careful, it is your responsibility.

EV certificates are preferred by most online users because they come with the most comprehensive verification checking, which includes domain verification as well as crosschecks that tie the entity to a specific physical location. This type of verification leaves a detailed paper trail providing customers with recourse should fraud take place while transacting on that website. EV certificates are distinguished with a locked padlock, organization name and sometimes the country ID in the web address bar in most major browsers.

Regulations in Kazakhstan require every internet user in the country to install a backdoor, allowing the government to conduct surveillance and to intercept communications. This allows the government to access web browsing history, usernames and passwords, and even secure and HTTPS-encrypted traffic.

In Luxembourg an investigating judge may require anyone who has knowledge of encryption mechanisms to provide access to a particular system, to data entered into or accessible from the system, and understanding of protected or encrypted data.

*.1e100.net1 accounts.google.com accounts.google.[country]2 accounts.gstatic.com accounts.youtube.com alt*.gstatic.com3 chromeos-ca.gstatic.com chromeosquirksserver-pa.googleapis.com clients1.google.com clients2.google.com clients3.google.com clients4.google.com clients2.googleusercontent.com cloudsearch.googleapis.com commondatastorage.googleapis.com cros-omahaproxy.appspot.com dl.google.com dl-ssl.google.com enterprise-safebrowsing.googleapis.com firebaseperusertopics-pa.googleapis.com *.googleusercontent.com *.gvt1.com gweb-gettingstartedguide.appspot.com m.google.com mtalk.google.com omahaproxy.appspot.com pack.google.com policies.google.com printerconfigurations.googleusercontent.com safebrowsing-cache.google.com safebrowsing.google.com safebrowsing.googleapis.com sb-ssl.google.com scone-pa.clients6.google.com ssl.gstatic.com storage.googleapis.com tools.google.com www.googleapis.com www.gstatic.com

1 For more information, see What is 1e100.net 2 For accounts.google.[country], use your local top-level domain for [country]. For example, for Australia use accounts.google.com.au, and for United Kingdom use accounts.google.co.uk. 3If you're running ChromeOS version 62 and you're seeing the error \"Network not available,\" you may need to allow the host alt*.gstatic.com through your firewall on port 80. If this doesn't resolve the issue, see this full list of hosts to allow.

Yes, the Geo Restriction feature lets you specify a list of countries in which your users can access your content. Alternatively, you can specify the countries in which your users cannot access your content. In both cases, CloudFront responds to a request from a viewer in a restricted country with an HTTP status code 403 (Forbidden).

Yes. Whether it's receiving detailed cache statistics reports, monitoring your CloudFront usage, seeing where your customers are viewing your content from, or setting near real-time alarms on operational metrics, Amazon CloudFront offers a variety of solutions for your reporting needs. You can access all our reporting options by visiting the Amazon CloudFront Reporting & Analytics dashboard in the AWS Management Console. You can also learn more about our various reporting options by viewing Amazon CloudFront's Reports & Analytics page.

Q: How can I monitor a CloudFront Function CloudFront Functions output both metrics and execution logs to monitor the usage and performance of a function. Metrics are generated for each invocation of a function and you can see metrics from each function individually on the CloudFront or CloudWatch console. Metrics include the number of invocations, compute utilization, validation errors and execution errors. If your function results in a validation error or execution error, the error message will also appear in your CloudFront access logs, giving you better visibility into how the function impacts your CloudFront traffic. In addition to metrics, you can also generate execution logs by including a console.log() statement inside your function code. Any log statement will generate a CloudWatch log entry that will be sent to CloudWatch. Logs and metrics are included as part of the CloudFront Functions price. 1e1e36bf2d