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Compressing Certificates in TLS - The Backend Engineering Show

Hussein Nasser via YouTube

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This course examines TLS certificate chains, their performance cost during handshakes, and RFC 8879 certificate compression in TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. It also considers security and denial-of-service risks associated with compressed certificates.

Syllabus

Intro
Certificate Chain
Faking the chain
Certificate Stores
Including ROOT cert in the chain
The performance penalty of large certificate chain
RFC 8879 TLS Certificate Compression
How Compression Works in TLS 1.2 vs TLS 1.3
What could go wrong?

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Hussein Nasser

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