Re: [Acme] IP addresses

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> Wed, 25 March 2015 17:48 UTC

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On 03/25/2015 06:51 AM, James Cloos wrote:
> Will acme support CSRs with not just dns names in subjectAltNames, but
> also ip addresses?  Verifying that the dns name(s) resolve to the ip
> address(es) is reasonable in such cases.
This is more a question of policy for the implementing CA than a
protocol question, though validating IP addresses might require a new
type of challenge response.