Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Should DANE or draft-ietf-dane-{srv,smtp} say anything about the
> semantics of the "*" in "*.example.com" CNs or DNS subjectAltNames?

No. That is RFC 6125's job. But I see that dependent specs have to
explicitly say it is OK. Sigh.

> I am concerned that receiving sites like Postini may be tempted to
> publish TLSA RRs for their current wildcard certificate, causing a major
> outage for senders, since Postini handles the MX hosts for many client
> domains with MX hostnames of the form "example.com.<id>.psmtp.com" which
> does not match "*.psmtp.com" in the current Postfix implementation.

Postfix is right: a wildcard in a certificate only matches within a
label. (One of the "fun" differences between X.509 and DNS wildcards.)
Postini will have to fix that. Most of the SMTP certificates out there
will have to be replaced before they can be validated, so Postini are in
good company.

Tony.
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