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Jan 17, 2008

Wildcard Certificates utilization?

We have dual LTM 8400's 9.4.1 and were looking into using wildcard certificates for our entire enterprise environment. We were wondering first does our current platform support this feature? And what ...
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Mar 22, 2010

Posted By hoolio on 01/21/2008 8:17 AM

 

 

SOL6823 details how to genarate a CSR for a wildcard cert (Click here).

 

 

As for resources, are you asking if it's more resource intensive to decrypt SSL using a wildcard cert, or are you asking more generally about how much more CPU/memory it will take decrypting SSL versus passing it through encrypted?

 

 

Aaron

 

 

 

HI Aaron,

 

 

I looked at the above solution and wanted to make sure.. that if I generate a CSR using

 

 

*.apple.mysite.com this would cover everything under apple.mysite.com for ex:

 

one.apple.mysite.com,

 

two.apple.mysite.com, and

 

apple.mysite.com;

 

 

however it would not cover orange.mysite.com or noneapple.mysite.com

 

 

Thanks,

 

Jay