[ntp:hackers] Using multiple SSL certs - Was: Why...

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Wed Jun 10 02:10:47 UTC 2009


Olaf Fraczyk said:

>So, if we want to have 1000 WWW sites with SSL support we need 1000 IPs.

That's not true. Subject Alternative names allow a certificate (and the
associated IP address) to be used for multiple hostnames. Please see
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4985.txt

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