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forderud / WindowsClientAuth

Windows examples of certificates for client authentication in web and TLS socket scenarios
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Document why subjectAltName (SAN) is needed #9

Closed forderud closed 2 years ago

forderud commented 2 years ago

Fixes #7, assuming my understanding is correct. Please note that I might very well be wrong on this, since I barely know the topic.

Chrome documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-58-deprecations/#remove-support-for-commonname-matching-in-certificates

forderud commented 2 years ago

@jogerh Can you please review this doc update proposal with a critical eye?

jogerh commented 2 years ago

Thank you @forderud. This is a very useful explanation to why the alternative subject name is needed.