[zackelan]

Correct. I believe Certificate Transparency existed prior to any of the issues with Symantec, but CT was indeed involved in exposing some of the Symantec shenanigans.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/already-on-probatio...

> Ayer discovered the unauthorized certificates by analyzing the publicly available certificate transparency log

That article also links to the primary source, https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]... which in turn links to a public viewer for Certificate Transparency logs.