Re: Free SSL certs for .edu by company included in browser lists

[Steve Lovaas <steven.lovaas () COLOSTATE EDU>]

This behavior would actually limit the risk of using wildcard certs, if
(as it seems) you would need to have a single wildcard for each
department to get around this. That way the distribution is within a
department, and the expiration/revocation would affect only that department.

Steve Lovaas
Colorado State University



Dick Jacobson wrote:
> Against my wishes, we purchased a wildcard for one of our institutions
> (*.<inst>.edu) about a month ago.  I was informed two days ago that it
> does not play well with all the browsers (I think it was the recently
> upgraded Outlook).
>
> Everything at the third level of naming (www.<inst>.edu) will work but
> anything above that (www.<dept>.<inst>.edu) fails.

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