feat: support simplified issuance for very long domain names at Let's Encrypt (#2054)

Co-authored-by: Fernandez Ludovic <ldez@users.noreply.github.com>

certcrypto/crypto.go

@@ -216,6 +216,26 @@ func ParsePEMCertificate(cert []byte) (*x509.Certificate, error) {
 	return x509.ParseCertificate(pemBlock.Bytes)
 }
 
+func GetCertificateMainDomain(cert *x509.Certificate) (string, error) {
+	return getMainDomain(cert.Subject, cert.DNSNames)
+}
+
+func GetCSRMainDomain(cert *x509.CertificateRequest) (string, error) {
+	return getMainDomain(cert.Subject, cert.DNSNames)
+}
+
+func getMainDomain(subject pkix.Name, dnsNames []string) (string, error) {
+	if subject.CommonName == "" && len(dnsNames) == 0 {
+		return "", errors.New("missing domain")
+	}
+
+	if subject.CommonName != "" {
+		return subject.CommonName, nil
+	}
+
+	return dnsNames[0], nil
+}
+
 func ExtractDomains(cert *x509.Certificate) []string {
 	var domains []string
 	if cert.Subject.CommonName != "" {

certificate/certificates.go

@@ -243,8 +243,10 @@ func (c *Certifier) getForOrder(domains []string, order acme.ExtendedOrder, bund
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Determine certificate name(s) based on the authorization resources
+	commonName := ""
-	commonName := domains[0]
+	if len(domains[0]) <= 64 {
+		commonName = domains[0]
+	}
 
 	// RFC8555 Section 7.4 "Applying for Certificate Issuance"
 	// https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8555.html#section-7.4
@@ -252,7 +254,12 @@ func (c *Certifier) getForOrder(domains []string, order acme.ExtendedOrder, bund
 	//   Clients SHOULD NOT make any assumptions about the sort order of
 	//   "identifiers" or "authorizations" elements in the returned order
 	//   object.
-	san := []string{commonName}
+
+	var san []string
+	if commonName != "" {
+		san = append(san, commonName)
+	}
+
 	for _, auth := range order.Identifiers {
 		if auth.Value != commonName {
 			san = append(san, auth.Value)
@@ -274,9 +281,8 @@ func (c *Certifier) getForCSR(domains []string, order acme.ExtendedOrder, bundle
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	commonName := domains[0]
 	certRes := &Resource{
-		Domain:     commonName,
+		Domain:     domains[0],
 		CertURL:    respOrder.Certificate,
 		PrivateKey: privateKeyPem,
 	}
@@ -598,8 +604,13 @@ func (c *Certifier) Get(url string, bundle bool) (*Resource, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	domain, err := certcrypto.GetCertificateMainDomain(x509Certs[0])
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	return &Resource{
-		Domain:            x509Certs[0].Subject.CommonName,
+		Domain:            domain,
 		Certificate:       cert,
 		IssuerCertificate: issuer,
 		CertURL:           url,

cmd/cmd_list.go

@@ -84,10 +84,15 @@ func listCertificates(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 			return err
 		}
 
+		name, err := certcrypto.GetCertificateMainDomain(pCert)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
 		if names {
-			fmt.Println(pCert.Subject.CommonName)
+			fmt.Println(name)
 		} else {
-			fmt.Println("  Certificate Name:", pCert.Subject.CommonName)
+			fmt.Println("  Certificate Name:", name)
 			fmt.Println("    Domains:", strings.Join(pCert.DNSNames, ", "))
 			fmt.Println("    Expiry Date:", pCert.NotAfter)
 			fmt.Println("    Certificate Path:", filename)

cmd/cmd_renew.go

@@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ func renewForCSR(ctx *cli.Context, client *lego.Client, certsStorage *Certificat
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	domain := csr.Subject.CommonName
+	domain, err := certcrypto.GetCSRMainDomain(csr)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Error: %v", err)
+	}
 
 	// load the cert resource from files.
 	// We store the certificate, private key and metadata in different files