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Re: [TLS] Eleven out of every ten SSL certs aren't valid

Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com> Tue, 29 June 2010 18:25 UTC

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The lot: the common name, wildcards, and alternative names too.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nmav@gnutls.org> wrote:
> Ivan Ristic wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Rob P Williams <rwilliams@certicom.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> What steps are being taken to verify that 'valid' ssl is even intended?
>>
>> I have collected about 720K certificates that match the domain names
>> from which they were served. I think it's fair to say those are the
>> cases where SSL was intended.
>
> Out of curiosity, how do you define matching. Do you use the CN only or
>  subject alternative names as well?

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