[Patch] Non-permissive subjectAltName wildcard
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
nmav at gnutls.org
Mon May 5 07:19:06 CEST 2008
Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester wrote:
>> Probably your point is for wildcards such as test*.gnutls.org?
>
> The truth is that the real problem was the first thing above. While fixing
> this issue, I read the RFC and found the two others “problems”.
> I do not a have a “real world” example, since I don't have any use for this.
> I just thought that if the RFC allows it, then the software should.
> Maybe it could be of use for self-signed certificates used in private
> intranets.
I'm quite convinced and like this patch. I'll check the code and will
include it on the development branch I'm working on as soon.
regards,
Nikos
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