The domain name of this URL is (almost) guaranteed to be less than 63 chars in length, so it can be used as a CN in certificate requests.
The use of base32 is an attempt to increase the entropy of the 8 character string over simple hex encoding, in order to reduce the likelihood of collisions. Not sure how necessary it is, really.
shreddedbacon
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3 years ago
The domain name of this URL is (almost) guaranteed to be less than 63 chars in length, so it can be used as a CN in certificate requests.
The use of base32 is an attempt to increase the entropy of the 8 character string over simple hex encoding, in order to reduce the likelihood of collisions. Not sure how necessary it is, really.
This is part of a fix for https://github.com/amazeeio/lagoon/issues/2310