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Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem by true_religion on Saturday July 16, 2016 @06:08PM (#12108067)
I'd expect they'd use something like star-certs, and give you a heyuser.storagegcd.com
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Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem by jlgaddis on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:21PM (#12111120)
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a "star-cert"?
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Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem by true_religion on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:15PM (#12112559)
Oh I think I just used a bit of jargon there. It's canonically called a Wildcard Certificate [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate

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