Tag Archives: SSL

Attention conservation notice: If you’re here for the food, you can skip this post — maybe another recipe post coming towards the end of the month. I wrote a while back about moves in the browser world to deprecate client … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-05-02 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on An update on the HTTPS client certificate issue

In defense of client certificates

Posted on 2015-10-05 by Garrett Wollman

There is a move afoot among Web browser developers to remove an authentication mechanism that many enterprises depend on: SSL/TLS with X.509 client certificates. Client certificate support, along with related functionality for enrollment of clients, was first implemented in Netscape … Continue reading →

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The latest way in which Firefox is broken

Posted on 2014-04-28 by Garrett Wollman

At work, Firefox is our recommended and officially-supported browser. We have historically liked it because (a) it works the same on all platforms, and (b) it implements SSL client authentication correctly. Unfortunately, it seems that very few Firefox developers actually … Continue reading →

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