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What risk does a wildcard certificate concentrate?

  1. Its single private key, if stolen, impersonates every host it covers
  2. It cannot be used with TLS 1.3
  3. It expires sooner than a single-name certificate
  4. It cannot be revoked
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Answer: A. Its single private key, if stolen, impersonates every host it covers

Convenience across many subdomains comes with one key whose compromise reaches all of them.

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