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> You really shouldn't need CN (but it's convenient for humans)

Is this finally the case now? About 5 years back IIS would fail to load a certificate without a CN, despite the field being deprecated since 2000.

And who would run IIS? A bunch of janky/dodgy/shady marketing affiliates, at least. Quite common in the gambling industry.




I am definitely not telling you that it will work in all software, yeah. Only that it should work and well, that's not useful engineering advice.




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