On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:47:13PM -0500, Tom Worster wrote:

> kyle, thank you for your comments. that's very helpful.
> 
> i'm unsure now which name to use as common name and which names to put in
> subjectAlternativeName. what are the considerations?

Choose the one most likely to be expected by clients in the CN, and use
it again in the SAN list with all the rest.

        CN:     www.example.com
        SAN:    DNS:www.example.com,DNS:www.example.net,...

(SAN == subjectAltName).

-- 
        Viktor.
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