Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-08 Thread Steve Ball
Gervase Markham wrote: If the site requires users to use certificates to authenticate to the server, the standard for that is TLS/SSL. Mozilla supports the client certificate feature of the IETF standard Transport Layer Security protocol, RFC 2246 section 7.4.6. Netscape Communicator supports

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-08 Thread Ben Bucksch
Gervase Markham wrote: If the site requires users to use certificates to authenticate to the server, the standard for that is TLS/SSL. Mozilla supports the client certificate feature of the IETF standard Transport Layer Security protocol, RFC 2246 section 7.4.6. Netscape Communicator

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-08 Thread Gervase Markham
Ben Bucksch wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: If the site requires users to use certificates to authenticate to the server, the standard for that is TLS/SSL. Mozilla supports the client certificate feature of the IETF standard Transport Layer Security protocol, RFC 2246 section 7.4.6.

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Ball
Mark Sutton wrote: Absolute nonsense, the site works fine with Lynx. They implement agressive useragent string parsing. This is only the first hurdle. I can access the site using Konqueror by setting the user agent to be IE5 on Windows, but to do anything serious on the site requires the

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-07 Thread John Gardiner Myers
Steve Ball wrote: I would like to be able to suggest an alternative open PKI system that would work accross browsers and operating systems, but I do not know enough about the options to make an informed suggestion. It is hard to answer this question without knowing what the security

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-03 Thread Ben Bucksch
hm, that was a bit many typos, even for me :-(. Corrections and additions below. Ben Bucksch wrote: If you have one, you can test it at SSL test sites. http://www.mozilla.org/quality/security/smoketest.html The web site is apparently being built by Microsoft UK [...] If it really is

Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

2001-06-03 Thread Mark Sutton
Ben Bucksch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Ball wrote: The reason given for the total lack of support for Linux and Mozilla / Netscape 6 is that they require a signed PKI security system that is apparently only available for Windows. From what I understand, they present