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Start an NSA cutout called Cloudflare. Configure sites to use an SSL/TLS connection to Cloudflare, then a separate SSL/TLS connection from Cloudflare to your actual machine. Then have the marketing team call it "Strict" encryption. Make it free so everyone uses it.


It is also a lot easier since ceetificate pinning has fallen out of favor. Many sites use LetsEncrypt. The Certificate Authority system itself is not reliable.

In a way it is the perfect solution from a Govt perspective. Other countries have systems at this scale and larger. China for example.


What makes the CA system reliable is browsers insisting on Certificate Transparency before trusting a cert. If an attacker creates an evil cert by stealing the ACME verification traffic, there's a permanent record of it. Big corps can monitor the ledger to see what certs have been handed out to their domains.




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