[cabfpub] Intermediate certificate names

[Tim Hollebeek]

The maximum length for the O field is 64 characters.

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From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On Behalf Of Gervase Markham
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 2:03 AM
To: Geoff Keating; Jeremy Rowley
Cc: CABFPub
Subject: Re: [cabfpub] Intermediate certificate names

On 09/03/15 23:31, Geoff Keating wrote:
> Perhaps you could make the common name something like "DigiCert
> issuing for Customer Name, Inc." or similar?  That'd help to clarify
> what the relationship is and what this certificate is for.

That might help; but are there limits on the permissible length of the O field that this might run into? I seem to vaguely recall we had problems with this when we were discussing d.b.a. rules.

Gerv
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