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On 3 Jun 2003 at 15:04, James A. Donald wrote:
> I never figured out how to use a certificate to authenticate
> a client to a web server, how to make a web form available to
> one client and not another. Where do I start?
>
> What I and everyone else does is use a shared secret, a
> password stored on the server, whereby the otherwise
> anonymous client gets authenticated, then gets an ephemeral
> cookie identifying him.. I cannot seem to find any how-tos
> or examples for anything better, whether for IIS or apache.
>
> As a result we each have a large number of shared secret
> passwords, whereby we each log into a large number of
> webservers. Was this what the people who created this
> protocol intended?
Or to say the same thing in different words -- why can't HTTPS
be more like SSH? Why are we seeing a snow storm of scam
mails trying to get us to login to e-g0ld.com?
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