Re: [pkix] How do or don't multi-name wildcard certs work?

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 05 April 2018 15:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] How do or don't multi-name wildcard certs work?
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> The CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements requires that a wildcard
> certificate is one in which the literal '*.' is prepended to a
> fully-qualified domain (that is, that the wildcard character is the
> left-most label).

So I see now.  I wonder what problem that incompatibility with the DNS was 
supposed to solve.

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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