Re: [certid] some info from SSL labs cert survey data

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 15 October 2010 21:15 UTC

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On 10/15/10 3:01 PM, =JeffH wrote:

> Here's some quick numbers.

Thanks, Jeff. Numbers are good.

> all 867361 have a "CN=" in the subject name (CN-ID).

I'd be curious how many have Common Names that are intended to be DNS
domain names like "www.example.com" and how many have plain old names
like "Example Systems, Inc.". But I suppose I could poke around the
dataset myself. :)

Peter

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