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Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH] wildcard matching for SSL cert CN
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Stef Caunter |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH] wildcard matching for SSL cert CN |
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Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:04:26 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> >It might be an idea to be able to toggle accepting wildcard certs or being
> >stricter on the matching of CN to hostname (if interested).
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> I don't think so; in addition to that, only very few wildcart
> certificates exist, and I've never seen one where it's not
> for service aliases (eg. the * matches www,ftp,snews).
Guess I am just nosy and would like to know who is using a wildcard cert.
> Please don't top-post and full-quote, it wastes everyone's
> traffic.
Sorry, guilty.
__Stef