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Subject Alternative Name has explicit differentiation between IP address and DNS names [1].

And fortunately the fallback to the the common name (CN) attribute that does not have this explicit differentiation was deprecated since 2000 in RFC 2818, and more recently also by both Chrome and Firefox [2,3].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.6 [2] https://www.chromestatus.com/features/4981025180483584 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245280



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