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Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use
From: Mike Wiseman <mike.wiseman () UTORONTO CA>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:36:50 -0500
Has anyone used wildcard certs for their university domain? What are the pros and cons? We are in the process of moving our public pages to a hosting site and I've been asked if wildcard certs can be used. I assessed using wild card certs in the past (based on the way they wanted to use them) and deemed the risk was to great. The environment they want to do this in now is with multiple domains on one IP address. Any input would be appreciated. Wildcard certs are issued to a number of department administrators here. Our practice around using them is that they must be administered by one IT group only to maintain the security of the private key. This is usually useful since many departments make use of a single domain level and, with a wildcard cert, they have only one cert/key to worry about renewing and replacing. Mike Mike Wiseman Manager, Information Security Information + Technology Services University of Toronto
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- Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Mike Fox (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Brian Helman (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Jacobson, Dick (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Kevin Halgren (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Jacobson, Dick (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Dennis Bolton (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Jacobson, Dick (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Brian Helman (Dec 04)
- Re: Wildcard certs; to use or not to use Sherry Callahan (Dec 05)