- From: Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen <yngve@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:49:39 +0100
- To: "public-wsc-wg@w3.org" <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
Hello all, What Opera uses when presenting the short form of a name, in the certificate preferences and certificate warning dialogs are (after fixing what looks like an old mistake at the 3rd level, so this is what will be in 9.5), in order of priority. 1. Common Name (CN) 2. Organizational Unit (OU), Location (L) 3. Organizational Name (O) AFAIK, Most/all CAs use the Common Name, so what will be presented in most cases is the first alternative. Additionally, in the rootstore manager view it is possible to hardcode (by Opera) a "friendly" name for the CA that will be displayed instead of the above. We do not use the hardcoded name for presentation in certificate warning dialogs (certainly it is possible). In the details view all items in the name are listed as Common Name, O, OU, L, State/province, Country, and then anything else in the order they appear in the DN. It is certainly possible to use a different order of preference for the above list. It is possible that other other clients are doing that. OpenSSL can also present the name in a "oneline" format which will present each field of the name in the sequence they are listed in the Distinguished Name structure. -- Sincerely, Yngve N. Pettersen ******************************************************************** Senior Developer Email: yngve@opera.com Opera Software ASA http://www.opera.com/ Phone: +47 24 16 42 60 Fax: +47 24 16 40 01 ********************************************************************
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