On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 10:05:57PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM Nico Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But also: how much does this differ from changing the Chrome Root
> > Program policy to say that intermediate CAs chaining to WebPKI roots can
> > only issue EE certs with clientAuth when they have only dNSName SANs
> > (and either empty DNs or just CN=<FQDN>)?  Because this alternative is
> > much cheaper in terms of code that needs to change.
> 
> Regarding just "just CN=<FQDN>", that's a CA/BF Baseline Requirement
> (BR) violation.  A name must always appear in the SAN.  If a name is
> present in the CN, then it must be duplicated in the SAN, too.

I meant "just" as in what's in the subject, not "no SAN".  I should have
been clearer, but I thought "just" related to what's in the subject name
given that the alternative had been "empty DN".

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