On Mon, Feb 13, 2006, Khai Doan wrote:

> Can I have
> 
> subjectAltName = critical,DNS:*.hostname.com
> 
> What other things are possible here (DNS, IP, email, URI, etc) ?
> 

Did you  read the manual page I referenced:

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/x509v3_config.html#Subject_Alternative_Name_

That tells you what can be used there with some examples.

> Using IP:192.168.10.16 and DNS:*.hostname.com does not seems to work 
> (Internet Explorer throw up a warning dialog: The name on the security 
> certificates is invalid or does not match the name of the site).
> 

If it is now appears in "extensions" in the certificate then that 
probably means IE doesn't support it. 

> 
> Has anyone successfully create a wild card certificate that bind to an IP 
> address ?
> 

That is illegal. You can only specify a single IP address per entry.

Why don't you explain what you are trying to do? There may be an alternative
method to achieve what you want.

Steve.
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