----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: RE: Certs > Hello William: > > You always seem to give me interesting issues to think about. > > You are right.. Entrust does not issue a wildcard certificate. > > There is some hesitance in the industry to embrace wildcard certificates > because they encourage the practice of sharing certificates. Sharing a > certificate results in a potential breach of security and diminishes the > professionalism of a site. Actually most web hosts let their clients share certs by doing: https://host#.company.com/~username/anyfile.html Thats how we do it and it seems to be common practice. Its also well supported by Apache. Gordon Hostroute.com
