Security
CA
certificate authority
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- Certificate Transparency (CT)public log of issued certs
- CRL/OCSPrevocation checks
- dynamic/short-lived secretgenerated on demand, auto-expiring
- envelope encryptiona key encrypts data keys
- handshakeauthenticate + agree a key
- HSTSforce-HTTPS header
- HTTPSHTTP over TLS
- K8s Secretbase64 (not encryption!)
- Let's Encrypt / ACMEfree automated certs
- MITMman-in-the-middle
- mTLSboth sides present certs
- PKIpublic-key infrastructure
- root / intermediate / leafthe trust chain
- secrets managerVault / KMS (encrypted, access-controlled, rotated)
- TLStransport-layer security (confidentiality + integrity + authenticity on the wire)
- TLS 1.31-RTT, forward secrecy always
- trust storethe roots your device trusts