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Re: Name Constraints, was Re: [caops-wg] Re: ca signing policy file
Mike
I am informed by MS that they support name constraints, but I dont know
which products, OS versions etc.
thanks
David
Mike Helm wrote:
David Chadwick writes:
Can anyone give me evidence of support or non-support of commercial CAs
for the name constraints extension?
Well, in the recent past, no commercial client software supported
name constraints, so whether commercial CAs supported them or not
was a moot point. Well worse than that, since it's a critical
extension. Your CA would be useless.
openssl doesn't support it, so that makes use of name constraints
in the web &c world pretty much impossible. I am not sure whether
recent Windows products can; it would make sense that they do,
because of cross-signing support, but I don't know.
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