Certificates and the public key infrastructure are complex topics, even without having to understand impending change. Changes in the request criteria and format of certificates—subject name, common name, subject alternative name—are coming in November 2015. Although this may sound like the distant future, a certificate is typically valid for 2 years. This means you need to know what the changes are and how they will impact you by November 2013.
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