Continued use of certificates with missing values can put your clients' sensitive data at risk. Certificates without the necessary fields and values can cause browsers to display warnings. Warnings create mistrust when connecting to a site and can cause clients to avoid it. Missing fields and values in certificates can also obstruct applications programmed to look for these fields from operating properly.
Self-signed certificates and certificates which are not signed by a CA may not contain all the required information. Additionally, the cryptology may be inadequate.
Industry standards define the fields and values that Certificate Authorities (CAs) must include in publicly trusted TLS certificates for these certificates to be secure. These fields and values help CAs tackle existing and future threats to online security.
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