Notes on Ixonae on Security

TIL: SSL Certificates are Published Through Certificate Transparency Logs

contact@ixonae.com (Ixonae) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learned that every time you issue an SSL certificate for a domain, it gets publicly logged in what is called Certificate Transparency (CT) logs.

It was created by Google in 2013, following the DigiNotar incident (and others), where that Certificate Authority (CA) was hacked, and ended up issuing a number of fraudulent certificates with the aim of enabling man-in-the-middle attacks.

Hosting Hugo with Cloudflare Pages rather than AWS Cloudfront

contact@ixonae.com (Ixonae) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the article I wrote about switching to Hugo for blogging a while ago (Goodbye Ghost, Hello Hugo), I mentioned how I used AWS CloudFront on the hosting side.

Using Apache mod Include for a Simple "What is My IP" Script

contact@ixonae.com (Ixonae) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the Network Watcher, I wanted to have something like https://ifconfig.me/ip but that I can self host without having to install or configure anything new.

Since I have an Apache server running as a proxy server somewhere, I decided to look into my options.