Re:Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?
by Sami_Lehtinen on Friday July 12, 2013 @07:50AM
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This is why: I know one company & service which did. But after a year or two they gave up. It just complicated things, overloaded helpdesk and made customers angry. They used client certificates to count 'workstation licenses' for a web app.
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Re:Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?
by m_mueller on Friday July 12, 2013 @08:39AM
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Well, using it for licensing is of course harder to argue for than increasing the user's security. May I ask what were the specific problems in your scenario? I'm guessing users with multiple browsers? That's another reason why I hate Windows not having a central MS provided keyring. If MS had pushed for it soon after the POSIX community and Apple, passwordless authentification might be already a standard nowadays.