On 10/17/19 17:49, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 17:35 +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Reference [2] advises to put the IP address in both CN and
>> SAN.iPAddress
>> for best compatibility, and that would be fine, for
>> X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip(). But the word "only" in [3] is really bad
>> for X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip().
> 
> I don't believe it's true, and it conflicts with what's in [2] which
> suggests that you do it properly *and* put it in the legacy CN for the
> benefit of broken clients.
> 
> None of this convinces me that EDK2 should deliberately be one of those
> "broken clients". Just fix it. Let people worry about compatibility
> with historical buggy versions of proprietary operating systems when
> they issue their certs.
> 

Personally I'm OK with this.

Thanks
Laszlo

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