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woodruffw • today at 5:09 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I think a lot of people have tried! The reason EKUs stuck where NCs haven’t is because EKU rules are simple (in relative terms) and OpenSSL didn’t make as much of a mess out of them.


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eqvinox • today at 5:42 PM

I can't help but read your post as "OpenSSL didn't make a mess of EKUs so the CA/B had to fill that role instead" :/

(I really am salty about the EKUs. In a few years the EKU field will just be useless, due to operational annoyance driving devs to ignore it. Except in browsers of course.)