Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Web3 Startups?
by mdaniel on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:19PM
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Thank you for posting the actual technical pdf, that was interesting reading
> Certificate-Based Authentication
Heh, so I can look forward to the biennial banking outage as they forget to renew their certs :-D
But in seriousness, I have some experience with x509 auth from the early days of kubernetes using it and unless the system has some robust CRL mechanisms I look forward to knowing how such a scheme will deauthorize users
Interestingly, they also seem to be doing belt-and-suspenders since the messages themselves are signed with the private key of the institution, which appears to be registered out of band from the system itself
> Certificate-Based Authentication
Heh, so I can look forward to the biennial banking outage as they forget to renew their certs :-D
But in seriousness, I have some experience with x509 auth from the early days of kubernetes using it and unless the system has some robust CRL mechanisms I look forward to knowing how such a scheme will deauthorize users
Interestingly, they also seem to be doing belt-and-suspenders since the messages themselves are signed with the private key of the institution, which appears to be registered out of band from the system itself