Tag Archives: Web browsers

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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Where we went wrong, or, The one thing Philip Greenspun got right (in 1997)

Posted on 2015-03-28 by Garrett Wollman

Cast your mind back, if you will, to the heady days of the “Web 1.0” bubble. A fellow by the name of Philip Greenspun was a Ph.D. student at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. He was also a serial … Continue reading →

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