> Perhaps the "hostname" field I proposed could support wildcards.  If the
> server sends the client a challenge with a wildcard in the hostname,
> the client would need to be prepared to respond to the challenge on any
> hostname matching the wildcard.  The CA can choose whether to send
> a challenge for "*.example.com" or just "example.com" when validating a
> wildcard authz for "*.example.com".

I couldn't think of a situation where someone owns and controls a domain, but
would be unable to control any of the subdomains.

So, wouldn't it be sufficient that for a wildcard domain (*.example.com), only
the domain itself (example.com) is challenged?

-- 
Richard Körber

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