[cabfpub] RFC5280

[Rob Stradling]

On 24/02/16 19:59, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Long names:
>
> https://crt.sh/?cablint=230

:-)

I wonder how many of those >64-character organizationNames could easily 
be shrunk to <=64 characters?

e.g.
https://crt.sh/?id=12479081
O=ENSASE (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Saint-Étienne)

Removing "ENSASE (" and ")" would shrink that one to 58 characters.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bounces at cabforum.org [mailto:public-bounces at cabforum.org] On
> Behalf Of Rob Stradling
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:57 PM
> To: Jeremy Rowley <jeremy.rowley at digicert.com>; public at cabforum.org
> Subject: Re: [cabfpub] RFC5280
>
> On 24/02/16 18:56, Jeremy Rowley wrote:
> <snip>
>> 1)Org names, common names,  and address fields are limited to 64
>> characters. Very few international companies can comply with this
>> restriction.
>
> Hi Jeremy.  I'm puzzled as to why "international" would have anything to do
> with this.  Can you cite some examples of such international companies?
>
> You do realize that the limit is in characters, not bytes, right?
>
>> It's even worse if you are converting an IDN to a printable string.
>
> If an IDN doesn't fit in a Subject.commonName, then you can omit the
> Subject.commonName field from the cert.
>
> Use SAN.dNSName.
>
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