Subject Alternative Name (SAN) is an
extension to
X.509 that allows various values to be associated with a security certificate using a subjectAltName
field.
[1] These values are called Subject Alternative Names (SANs). Names include:
[2]
RFC
2818 (May 2000) specifies Subject Alternative Names as the preferred method of adding DNS names to certificates, deprecating the previous method of putting DNS names in the commonName
field.
[3]
Google Chrome version 58 (March 2017) removed support for checking the commonName
field at all, instead only looking at the SANs.
[3]
Subject Alternative Name (SAN) is an
extension to
X.509 that allows various values to be associated with a security certificate using a subjectAltName
field.
[1] These values are called Subject Alternative Names (SANs). Names include:
[2]
RFC
2818 (May 2000) specifies Subject Alternative Names as the preferred method of adding DNS names to certificates, deprecating the previous method of putting DNS names in the commonName
field.
[3]
Google Chrome version 58 (March 2017) removed support for checking the commonName
field at all, instead only looking at the SANs.
[3]