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Glossary: Security+ Exam Prep 3: Practice Exams

wildcard certificate

Also written: *.kettleandcrane.com, wildcard

A certificate whose asterisk stands for exactly one label, so *.kettleandcrane.com covers shop.kettleandcrane.com but not the bare domain or eu.shop.kettleandcrane.com.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

SAN (subject alternative name)CA (certificate authority)