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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
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