Visit badssl.com for a list of test subdomains, including:
Stock Ubuntu VM, DNS A records for badssl.com. and *.badssl.com. pointing to the VM.
Your user should be part of the docker group or otherwise permitted to access Docker.
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install docker.io
git clone https://github.com/chromium/badssl.com && cd badssl.com
make list-hosts # list of domains to copy into /etc/hosts
make test
Now you can visit badssl.test in your browser.
The root CA is at certs/sets/test/gen/crt/ca-root.crt. If you'd like to preserve it even when you run make clean, run:
cd certs/sets/test
mkdir -p pregen/crt pregen/key
cp gen/crt/ca-root.crt pregen/crt/ca-root.crt
cp gen/key/ca-root.key pregen/key/ca-root.key
badssl.com is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure and co-maintained by:
- April King, Mozilla Firefox
- Lucas Garron, Google Chrome
Several public badssl.com certificates required special issuance processes. Most certificates were graciously issued for free, thanks to help from:
- Vincent Lynch, The SSL Store (
sha1-2016,sha1-2017) - Richard Barnes, Mozilla (
1000-sans,10000-sans) - Clint Wilson, DigiCert (most wildcards)
- Andrew Ayer, SSLMate (
invalid-expected-sct) - Rob Stradling, Comodo (
1000-sans,10000-sans,no-subject,no-common-name,sha1-intermediate,ѕрооғ)
Various subdomains and test pages are also implemented by external contributors.
badssl.com is meant for manual testing of security UI in web clients.
Most subdomains are likely to have stable functionality, but anything could change without notice. If you would like a documented guarantee for a particular use case, please file an issue. (Alternatively, you could make a fork and host your own copy.)
badssl.com is not an official Google product. It is offered "AS-IS" and without any warranties.