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Conflict with CA/B TLS requirements #52

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@BrianSipos

The CA/Browser baseline requirements for TLS certs in Section 7.1.2.7.12 "Subscriber Certificate Subject Alternative Name" requires that if a certificate contains an empty Subject then the Subject Alternative Name extension must be marked as critical.

When such a certificate is constructed, it fails to validate because the SAN extension is not present in this list:

supported_extensions = set([
'authority_information_access',
'authority_key_identifier',
'basic_constraints',
'crl_distribution_points',
'extended_key_usage',
'freshest_crl',
'key_identifier',
'key_usage',
'ocsp_no_check',
'certificate_policies',
'policy_mappings',
'policy_constraints',
'inhibit_any_policy',
])

What is the reason for having this restricted list in the first place? It seems to conflict with the API docs for validate_path() here:

Critical extensions on the end-entity certificate are not validated
and are left up to the consuming application to process and/or fail on.

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