On Seg, 2009-11-30 at 17:03 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 03:50:00PM +0000, Jose Celestino wrote: > > > The client compares the CN of the certificate with the hostname it has > > configured and warns on a mismatch. What you can do is have multiple > > subjects certificate, that is a certificate again with a single CN but > > with multiple alt subjects that should cover all the names that server > > may have. The client should support those kind of certificates, of > > course. > > Thanks. > > You're not talking about wildcard certificate, aren't you ? >
No, this are called SAN certificates. -- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
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