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by gruturo 1088 days ago
I'm sorry but this is simply not true. Certificate Transparency logs ARE (meta?)data which would be exposed. If the certificates were meant to be reached externally, you wouldn't indeed care at all - but if they're for internal flows (e.g. App server to DB, 2 steps behind a balancer and a set of web frontends) you are indeed publishing stuff you would have rather kept private.

Before this (d)evolves into a zero trust, security-by-obscurity discussion - some auditors won't certify you in some edge cases related to this, and you may be operating in a regulated sector where such a certification is necessary. Just because it doesn't impact your use case, doesn't mean this is the case for someone else.