A tour through Merkle Town, Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency dashboard

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This post introduces Cloudflare's role as a Certificate Transparency (CT) log operator and details their publicly accessible dashboard, Merkle Town. Merkle Town provides insights into the health, performance, and statistics of CT logs, including certificate breakdown by type, root CAs, global issuance rates, and log utilization by large CAs. This contributes to the broader website security narrative by focusing on the underlying infrastructure that supports SSL certificate trust and transparency.