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3D PKI Trust Tree

A 3D root-of-trust tree: watch trust propagate outward from a root CA through intermediate CAs to their issued leaf certificates, and see the blast radius when revoking one intermediate CA instantly untrusts its whole branch.

Cryptography3DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
3d-pki-infrastructure ↗ Open standalone

Where a single TLS handshake walks one linear chain, a certificate authority's real trust store is a branching tree: one root anchors many intermediate CAs, and each intermediate anchors many leaf certificates. This simulator renders that tree in 3D and animates trust propagating outward from the root through every branch simultaneously. Revoke an intermediate CA to see its entire branch — every certificate it ever issued — turn untrusted at once, the defining failure mode of PKI compromise; expire a single leaf instead to see a failure that stays perfectly local. Orbit the camera to inspect how branch width changes the blast radius of a single compromised key.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch trust propagate rank-by-rank across all branches of a full trust tree simultaneously; revoked CAs cause their entire subtree to turn red instantly.

PKICertificate AuthorityTrust Verification

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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