Altsubject name question

Eric Vyncke evyncke at CISCO.COM
Mon Sep 11 16:36:32 EDT 2000


At 13:23 07/09/2000 -0700, Butters, Kevin wrote:
>One, what purpose does the Altsubject name server on a X.509 Certificate
>server?

To put something which is not a plain distinguished name (which is
the type of SubjectName). AltSubjectName can be anything including
FQDN and IP addresses

-eric


>Two, is Altsubject name = = Common Name?
>
>Kevin Butters
>
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