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Considering that many smaller companies use e.g. CloudFlare's SSL, I'm not sure that would help them, but good to know.



We ignore Cloudflare's many SSL certs. We have a short blacklist of MITM-as-a-service content delivery networks. Here's my paper on that.[1]

The list is short. Here it is:

    cloudflare.com – a front-end network for sites, controlling 36,280 domains.
    incapsula.com – a front-end network for sites
    sonymusic.com – operates sites for their range of artists. 
    Janrainengage.com – customer tracking service
    edgecastcdn.net – Verizon caching system
    fiducia.de – security service for banks
    vin65.com – wine seller with many sites for various wine brands.
    practiceweb.co.uk – a hosting service for accountants
Sites which use those services are not blacklisted by Sitetruth, but the ownership data in their SSL certs is ignored as meaningless. The CA/Browser Forum is looking into ways to express this better in SSL certs. A cert with fifty unrelated businesses is just silly, and it's a transitional thing until everybody gets TLS-capable OSs and browsers so shared IP doesn't mean shared cert. (Windows XP/IE 6 being the problem).

[1] http://john-nagle.github.io/certscan/whoamitalkingto04.pdf




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