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Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by michaelbuckbee on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:04PM (#10079931)
What aspects of a plain wildcard cert wouldn't work for that?
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Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by duskwuff on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:37PM (#10080194)
"Affordable". Most CAs charge exorbitant prices for wildcard certificates; 10x the price of a normal cert isn't unusual.
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Re:John McAfee’s BlackCert launches with unlimited use SSL c... by ddddddddq on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @11:21AM (#10086067)
By deploying the same certificate/key to every machine you really cut down on the 'private' part of the private key.
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