Re: [dane] Review of DANE SMTP draft

Viktor Dukhovni <viktor1dane@dukhovni.org> Sat, 15 March 2014 02:42 UTC

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:01:48PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:

> > The folks at Postini have a wildcard cert for "*.psmtp.com" and
> > clients publish MX records of the form:
> >
> >   verisign.com.           IN      MX      100 verisign.com.s6a1.psmtp.com.
> >   verisign.com.           IN      MX      200 verisign.com.s6a2.psmtp.com.
> >   verisign.com.           IN      MX      300 verisign.com.s6b1.psmtp.com.
> >   verisign.com.           IN      MX      400 verisign.com.s6b2.psmtp.com.
> 
> For some historical context, mozilla's original wildcarded ssl implement-
> ation also allowed an *. to match any number of labels.
> 
> Several sites were broken by the change to limit a wildcard to a single label.

I take it you're suggesting to not perpetuate Postini's abuse of
wildcard certs?  Implementations might choose to be more liberal,
but servers can't expect multi-label wildcard support.  Right?

-- 
	Viktor.