[SSL Observatory] The Trust Tree: An interactive graph of the CA ecosystem

Ryan Hurst ryan.hurst at globalsign.com
Tue Dec 18 10:09:48 PST 2012


>> Yes would be great if it was possible to click on the CA name that shows
in the layer that adds the CA names to get more information.

>Could you explain that in more detail? I am not entirely sure if I
understand it correctly? You want to be able to just click on the name
instead of the node?

Sorry for not being clearer, right now the graph shows RDN elements, given
it shows the relationship one of certificate to another this makes sense.
The problem is that this information isn't sufficient to explain what you
are looking at unless you have explicit knowledge of the PKI in the first
place. One example is ownership, another brand, ... I was thinking one way
to address this would be to expose a layer in the UI that showed when
clicked or on hover that showed this additional metadata for a given node.

Is that clearer?

Ryan





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