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Re: [certid] weird CN-IDs (subjectCommonName) in SSL Labs Survey Data

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Mon, 18 October 2010 17:43 UTC

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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 15:24 +0200, Martin Rex wrote:
> =JeffH wrote:
> > 
> >   www.cebbank.com+2.5.4.5=#130f313030303030303030303131373438
> 
> This is a correct CN-ID,
> with a RDName that contains two attribute-value pairs, CN + SerialNumber
> 
> The plus instead of the comma indicates that attributes are part
> of the same RDName.

I guess this is a bug in the parser used for the survey: it assumed that
an RDN starting with "CN=" contained only a CN and did not properly
split multiple AVAs.

-- 
Matt

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