On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Chan, Moses wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Could somebody tell me how to generate free wildcard certificates?
> Can I do this in OpenSSL?
One of use of wilcard certificate is "security proxy".
One should remember by doing this one effectively voids trust
in server validation provided by SSL.
It might be acceptable for personal use, when someone doing it
understand what exactly it means and willing to live without
verification.
Yes, one can issue a certificate with common name = *
using openssl
please think twice,
Vadim
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