Wild Card Certificates

Wild Card Certificates

Wild Card Certificates allows servers with different URLs, but the same origin to use the same security certificates.

Context

Web servers use digital certificates to establish a

Problems

• Mixed security sites allows both HTTP (unsecured) and HTTPS (secured) connections for a variety of good reasons including redirection of all traffic to a secured connection.

References

• Avoid Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates and the ALPACA Technique