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biot
10y ago
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It's so people can't use one wildcard cert to have facebook.com.example.com and google.com.example.com, potentially tricking users.
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icebraining
10y ago
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I don't think that's a valid reason, because you
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get a cert for * .com.example.com, hence you can have those domains.
biot
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10y ago
Very good point.
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