Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast


Root Causes 176: Introducing State-Locality Exclusivity

August 04, 2021

Sectigo is implementing an important change to its public-facing SSL certificate business, which we call State-Locality Exclusivity. This change removes a the localityName field, a very common field in SSL certificates. In this episode our hosts explain what the localityName field is, why we are removing it, and how this change is to the benefit of SSL Subscribers and Relying Parties.