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Is secure to offer subdomains with signed SSL
| Posted by UltraSeedbox, 08-21-2011, 09:04 AM |
| Hello,
I have wildcard certificate for my domain, Since I sell VPS with free sub-domain of choice is it secure to offer same wildcard certificate for those sub-domains.
Can customer simply use that wildcard certificate on their own and make damage with it ?
Kind Regards.
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| Posted by andretenreiro, 08-21-2011, 01:19 PM |
| It depends on how secure you want your customers to be.
Yes, in a nutshell I think it's secure, believing that your customers will not require a high reliable certificate.
The problem with wildcard certificates is that if the certificate got compromised, this will affect all sub-domains.
If they require extra security, I would recommend them to buy a single certificate with Extra Validation (EV), if require.
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| Posted by snapstart-chris, 08-21-2011, 02:03 PM |
| You really don't want to do this. All servers, or in this case VPS's, will need to have a copy of the private key. By sharing your private key with people that you don't know, you're giving out the ability to decrypt everybody's 'secure' traffic.
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| Posted by UltraSeedbox, 08-21-2011, 04:57 PM |
| Inerall-chris: thank you for this info, I will follow: better safe than sorry.
Kind Regards.
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