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Re:No, don't enable revocation checking by lnanek2 on Sunday April 20, 2014 @02:01PM (#7617773)
For HTTPS to a web site, the common name is the site domain name. We're not talking about anything else here.
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Re:No, don't enable revocation checking by dvanduzer on Monday April 21, 2014 @11:13AM (#7621439)
Aha. That perhaps explains all the downvoting. But this was my objection:

Name != Identity

It's nearly impossible to have a meaningful English conversation about these problems without getting that straight.

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