Wildcard Certs

2003-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
I just ran across http://certs.centurywebdesign.co.uk/premiumssl-wildcard.html but there are many more sites like that: Secure multiple websites with a single PremiumSSL Certificate. For organisations hosting a single domain name but with different subdomains (e.g.

Re: Wildcard Certs

2003-06-16 Thread Stefan Kelm
Martin, Are wildcard certficates good? secure? useful? There's a problem with wildcard certs wrt how URLs are being displayed in many of the browsers, esp. the older ones. If the host name is extremely long the browser will be unable to show the complete URL to the user, with some browsers

Re: Wildcard Certs

2003-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stefan Kelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.06.16.1652 +0200]: Now, suppose I buy a certificate for *.i-am-bad.com (assuming that I'm the owner of that domain). I could then set up an SSL server with a hostname of something like