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Two-way secure communication using two pairs of public/private keys?

Let's say I want to create a protocol to securely communicate between two endpoints - each of the two endpoints know the other's public key and all data exchanged is encryted using one's public key ...
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In practice, does crypto software accept a *.com or or even a *. certificate?

Assuming this will be done with your own PKI, and not a public trusted CA. Considering that *.sub.domain.com is valid, and so is *.domain.com is valid, is it technically possible to issue *.com and ...
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Mitigations for Windows clients that don't support OCSP Nonces

Windows 7 clients (and older) don't support NONCES, a key feature used in securing the revocation check. Without a NONCE a MITM could replay a previously signed response and alter the validation of ...
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Firefox detected an invalid SSL certificate

February 14, 2012 UTC: Yesterday, I connected to a website of a VPN provider for which Firefox 8.0.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 stated that its' SSL certificate is invalid. I saved the received ...