Two SSL certificates for Bitcointalk, why?

[lenny_]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qw138eh8rskqml/Zrzut%20ekranu%202014-04-12%2018.42.24.png

ip.bitcointalk.org certificate from RapidSSL CA and another one for *.bitcointalk.org from PositiveSSL CA 2

Why 2 different certs and 2 different certificates?

[escrow.ms]

RapidSSL one is old and used to work on just ip.bitcointalk.org

Positive SSL is a wildcard SSL which will work on all subdomains.

The * (wildcard) allows the certificate to be used on any subdomain belonging to the yourdomain.com domain name."
For example, a Certificate application for:

*.yourdomain.com  can be used to secure:

www.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com
secure.yourdomain.com
webmail.yourdomain.com
owa.yourdomain.com
anything.yourdomain.com

[Chrithu]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qw138eh8rskqml/Zrzut%20ekranu%202014-04-12%2018.42.24.png

ip.bitcointalk.org certificate from RapidSSL CA and another one for *.bitcointalk.org from PositiveSSL CA 2

Why 2 different certs and 2 different certificates?

Probably has something to do with the OpenSSl vulnerability discovered a few days ago.

The service I have webspace on for instance sent me a mail today that they replaced all their certificates and asked me to change all passwords because they don't know how much they were affected and wanted to be sure nothing happens.

I guess we will se changing certificates for a number of websites in the coming days and weeks.