Re: Need server certificates that include multiple commonName/subjectAltName fields for testing

Heikki Toivonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cryptography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Ströder wrote:
> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> Need server certificates that include multiple commonName/subjectAltName
>> fields for testing.
> 
> Do you really need multiple CN attrs in the subject DN of a server cert?
> Never saw this out in the wild. Which does not mean that it's
> impossible... ;-)

Exactly. If someone knows of such real world usage I want to see it and
test against it.

> Why don't you create some yourself with OpenSSL?

I could, but there are no guarantees they would be exactly like real
certs in the wild. I'd rather confirm with real certs that are in use,
or part of known-to-be-good test certificates.

> I vaguely remember that someone (Peter Gutmann?) provided a collection
> of really weird certs which I used when implementing mspki (certificate
> parsing in web2ldap).

Thanks for the tip, I'll try searching for those.

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  Heikki Toivonen
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