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That is possible. But that depends on how TLS clients approve wildcard certificates. Wildcard certificates are considered harmful. And AFAIK, browsers will not
by einrealist 12y ago
That is possible. But that depends on how TLS clients approve wildcard certificates. Wildcard certificates are considered harmful. And AFAIK, browsers will not accept 'star.star' (correct me if I'm wrong). So if I host a MITM proxy, I at least use FQDNs as subjects. It also works better with revocation lists/protocols.
An example for why wildcard certificates are bad is Microsoft. A couple of years ago, they had problems with subdomains which delivered malicious code through hijacked web pages that were hosted on those domains. Microsoft used a wildcard certificate...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#section-7.2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#section-7.2