Hallucinating Certificates: Differential Testing of TLS Certificate Validation Using Generative Language Models

Authors

Talha Paracha, Kyle Posluns, Kevin Borgolte, Martina Lindorfer, David Choffnes

Publication

Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), April 2026

To appear.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{icse2026-hallucinating-certificates,
  title     = {{Hallucinating Certificates: Differential Testing of TLS Certificate Validation Using Generative Language Models}},
  author    = {Paracha, Talha and Posluns, Kyle and Borgolte, Kevin and Lindorfer, Martina and Choffnes, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
  date      = {2026-04},
  edition   = {48},
  editor    = {Mezini, Mira and Zimmermann, Thomas},
  location  = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}
}