On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Sherwin T. Ang wrote:

> When you register a cert in a CA or self-signed certs for that matter, it
> will ask for the FQDN, www1.domain.com is not equal to www2.domain.com i
> don't think there's a wildcard certificate, if the FDQN doesn't match the
> ssl cert for that site, it would prompt the browser that, "The name of the
> security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site" in
> IE.
>

There are wildcard certificates with caveats:

 - encryption level isn't as high
 - not all browsers support it



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