Certificate Info: Chrome Extension for Certificate Validation
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Extension summary
Please read the description carefully before installing:
This is a simple extension that displays the validation level, expiration and more info of the SSL / TLS server certificate of the website you visit to help determine the identity of the server.
CAVEATS:
Due to the limitation of Chrome's extension API, the validation info is fetched and processed by our backend API, which only receives the hostname (not the full URL) you visit. Note that in TLS, hostnames are already sent in plaintext to the server because of SNI, regardless if you use this extension or not. For the same reason, the extension will only be able to display information of hosts available to connect from the public network.
This extension extracts certificate info and performs very basic validation, it should be used as a reference and shouldn't be relied on for certificate validation.
Certificate data is cached for 5 minutes.
This extension is open-source (GPLv3): https://github.com/blupig/certificate-info
Feel free to contribute or submit any feedback on GitHub.
User reviews
- Great functionality and works well for basic needs.
- User-friendly and convenient to use.
- Accurate in checking certificate validity.
- Lacks support for IPv6 websites.
- Limited information displayed about certificates.
- Doesn't pull the actual certificate from Chrome, only what is published on the web.
- Valid-until-date visibility is desired.
- Functionality for checking certificate expiration based on color coding is requested.
- Users expressed the need for more detailed certificate information.
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Extension safety
Risk impact
Certificate Info requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Certificate Info has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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