> I, for one, would not want OpenSSL to employ such a complex and fragile 
> mechanism.

Yeah, it's kinda gross and clunky.  On the other hand, it's really all we have 
right now, and rejecting a cert with a SAN name of "*.com" is a good security 
thing to do.  Perhaps a configure option, or a callback that could implement it?

        /r$

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Akamai Technology
Cambridge, MA

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