alt Hacker NewsThe reason nobody bothers with NCs is because they don't work very well in practice. They also have their own baroque matching rules that are not intuitive if you're from the land of UNIX globs.
(In fairness this is a self-fulfilling prophecy: a lot of validators handle NCs poorly or not at all, so there's no impetus to rely on them. But that's not something we can really save in the Web PKI's current state.)
> But that's not something we can really save in the Web PKI's current state.
I agree with your assessment but it's not an excuse to give up without trying. I hope this is just because I'm not looking in the right places, but I don't see people trying.
What really makes me salty is that there was enough energy to mess with the rules around EKU, the primary effect of which is that non-browser software is now starting to just ignore the EKU bits. Even if it would've amounted to nothing, I'd really rather that effort had gone into NCs.