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tls-observatory
An observatory for TLS configurations, X509 certificates, and more.
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An observatory for TLS configurations, X509 certificates, and more.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesExporting is one possibility, but eventually I'd like to provide a read-only sql access to the database we host. We have a few ideas on how to do this [1], but it's not implemented yet.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/tls-observatory/issues/92
In Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M Domain Names and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWSI have about the same amount of data in a Postgres database as part of the TLS Observatory project [1].
observatory=> select count(distinct(sha256_fingerprint)) from certificates;
count
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1239943
observatory=> select count(distinct(target)) from scans;
count
---------
6483386
The scanner evaluates both certificate and ciphersuites and stores the results in DB, so we can run complex analysis [2,3]. There is also have a public client [4].
I don't have a good way to provide direct access to the database yet, but if you're a researcher, ping me directly and we can figure something out.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/tls-observatory
[2] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/684127067005390848
[3] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/686938805413232640
[4] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/6874290