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Bugzilla #1921573 Certificate Problem Report

Let's Encrypt: No Meaningful Subject Distinguished Name

RESOLVED FIXED Internet Security Research Group
AI Summary

Let's Encrypt identified a conflict in their Certificate Policy/Certificate Practice Statement (CP/CPS) regarding the Subject Distinguished Name in their certificates. This conflict arose from a policy change allowing certificates without a Common Name, which contradicted existing statements requiring a meaningful Subject field. Following the discovery, issuance was halted, and an updated CP/CPS was published. A total of 133,613 unexpired certificates were revoked due to this issue, and a full incident report was provided detailing the timeline and impact of the incident.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 21:18 UTC Confidence: 1.00
Chronology
  1. Conflict discovered in CP/CPS
  2. Revocation of affected certificates completed
  3. Full incident report published
  4. New CP/CPS version published
Participants
Preston Locke Lena C. Clements B. Wilson
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