[nycbug-talk] Top Level Domain SSL Certificates

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Matt Juszczak wrote:

> Hopefully this isn't going too off topic:
>
> One of my customers is interested in getting an SSL cert for his entire
> domain name (IE: *.bar.com instead of foo.bar.com).
>
> Other than being more expensive, and in my opinion not the best idea
> security wise, what are other pros/cons?  Does anyone have any experience?
> Do these work well?

If you have a limited budget and need to cover a dozen or so hostnames, 
they are great.  After we got our hands on one, not only did we use it for 
the customer-facing stuff, but for a ton of internal sites that were 
previously using self-signed certs.  I have had no problems with any 
browsers or email clients that I regularly use.

Charles

> Thanks!
>
> -Matt
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