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Re:Rate Limits by JoshTriplett on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:55PM (#12306701)
I'd absolutely love to have wildcard certificates as well. I think Let's Encrypt has plans to offer them, as soon as they finish producing a new version of the ACME standard that supports authorizing them.
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Re:Rate Limits by Intermernet on Thursday August 18, 2016 @05:44AM (#12311316)
It looks like that should be happening soonish if I read the Github issues correctly.

https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/124 is "Enable the server to specify requirements for issuance" which seems to include wildcard cert support, but was only merged into master about 5 weeks ago. I presume further discussion is ongoing.

Personally I'm glad that they're taking the time to get this right. They could have probably supported wildcard certs a while ago, but it would have been through some mangled and limited method. The method they're now looking at seems to be much more future proof.

Of course, I may be completely wrong about this, but the above is what I gather from following the issues.

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