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"CAs explicitly deny issuance to domains that have popular brand names in them" That requirement only is so incredibly stupid and gives no more safety than not
by chinathrow 12y ago
"CAs explicitly deny issuance to domains that have popular brand names in them"
That requirement only is so incredibly stupid and gives no more safety than not being there. Who draftet this crap, seriously?
What popular is changes rapidly, sometimes overnight.
- nailer 12y ago> What popular is changes rapidly, sometimes overnight. That's correct. CAs also check for TLDs in unusual places (and unicode hacks, etc) in the requested SANs (Subject Alt Names, practically server names) during verification.