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SSL Certificates and ... Providers
- Subject: SSL Certificates and ... Providers
- From: jna at retina.net (John Adams)
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:53:58 -0800
- In-reply-to: <CC75EEBF17C7374EA8309102B7B10C840109D3E657@SHSBS.shenrons-house.local>
- References: <CC75EEBF17C7374EA8309102B7B10C840109D3E657@SHSBS.shenrons-house.local>
Many vendors do this and I highly recommend someone like Digicert that won't play the per-machine licensing game with you.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Blake Pfankuch <blake at pfankuch.me> wrote:
> Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this area...
>
> I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4 domains. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per physical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 servers.
>
> This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before?
>
> Thanks
> Blake