[certid] It is not always a good idea to enforce CN check as leaf RDN only

ArkanoiD <ark@eltex.net> Wed, 17 March 2010 13:43 UTC

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ArkanoiD wrote:
> And according to the draft we MUST ignore non-leaf value even if
> it is the only one CN, just incorrectly placed.

Many self-signed certificates seem to have an email address as leaf
RDN. I guess that's because openssl's CA.sh asks for the mail
address. So with that additional constraint the scary warning
dialogs for self-signed certs are going to be even more confusing in
the future.

cu
Ludwig

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