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Re: [certid] additional security consideration

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 18 March 2010 04:29 UTC

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On 3/17/10 10:07 PM, ArkanoiD wrote:
> Second level domain MUST NOT be wildcarded, thus *.com is invalid and should
> never match. (as well as "*", of course)

Good point. We seem to have assumed that one...

Peter

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