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use of server certificates which are trusted by browsers but were mistakenly
or maliciously issued. More information about Certificate Transparency is
available at <a href="http://www.certificate-transparency.org/">
http://www.certificate-transparency.org/</a>.</p>
http://www.certificate-transparency.org/</a>. Key terminology used in
this documentation:</p>

<dl>
<dt>Certificate log</dt>
<dd>A certificate log, referred to simply as <q>log</q> in this documentation,
is a network service to which server certificates have been submitted. A
user agent can confirm that the certificate of a server which it accesses
has been submitted to a log which it trusts, and that the log itself has
not been tampered with.</dd>

<dt>Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT)</dt>
<dd>This is an acknowledgement from a log that it has accepted a valid
certificate. It is signed with the log's public key. One or more SCTs
is passed to clients during the handshake, either in the ServerHello
(TLS extension), certificate extension, or in a stapled OCSP response.</dd>
</dl>

<p>This implementation for Apache httpd provides these features for TLS
servers and proxies:</p>
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<p>Generally, only a small subset of this information is configured for a
particular log. Refer to the documentation for the <directive
module="mod_ssl_ct">CTStaticLogConfig</directive> and the
module="mod_ssl_ct">CTStaticLogConfig</directive> directive and the
<program>ctlogconfig</program> command for more specific information.</p>

</section>
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