Re: FN-FORUM Wildcard SSL certificates

date posted 9th January 2002 23:30

Quoting Vendetta Sales and Admin [EMAIL REMOVED]

> Don't know what you mean by wildcard but..

Wildcard means that I can have a single certificate like

*.dom.ain

and it can be used for all the servers I put in that domain. So, if I
have lots of hits and need to spread the load over several servers, I
can have

www1.dom.ain
www2.dom.ain

use exactly the same certificate, no need to pay Thawte/Verisign/whoever
for two separate certs for each server.

> You can issue your own certificate from Cert Server in any name you want but
> why should anyone trust it (and IE's default settings are NOT to)? Three
> hackers in a garage could issue their own certificate.

This is quite true -- it's how I test SSL stuff before I actually get
the certificate from Thawte -- I self-sign the certificate and tell
the browser that it can trust me.

James