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> (Of course, with DV certs being treated the same as OV certs, someone with a DV cert could just forge all of the metadata, as long as they control the domain; DV CA's don't verify the metadata, by definition.)

I don't know if every DV CA does this, but I got a couple of StartSSL's free certs a while back (before LE was around, and before the WoSign acquisition and subsequent debacle), and I recall the documentation saying "because this is a DV cert, we're just going to ignore all the metadata in your CSR and generate a certificate with those fields blank", or something along those lines.



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