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Bugzilla #1430909 Certificate Misissuance

QuoVadis: Non-BR-Compliant issuance --improper characters in DNSName (BIT sub-CA)

RESOLVED FIXED DarkMatter LLC
AI Summary

The case involved a misissuance of a TLS/SSL certificate by QuoVadis, where a dNSName included invalid newline characters. The issue was reported by Alex Gaynor on December 21, 2017, leading to the certificate's revocation the following day. The misissuance was attributed to administrator error during manual input. QuoVadis and BIT have since implemented measures to prevent similar occurrences, including post-issuance scanning and plans to transition to a managed PKI service.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 17:42 UTC Confidence: 0.90
Chronology
  1. Problem report received from Alex Gaynor regarding invalid dNSName.
  2. Certificate revoked by BIT.
  3. BIT began using a managed PKI service from QuoVadis.
Participants
Wayne Thayer Stephen Davidson
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