Re:Adding Easy SSL Client Authentication To Any Webapp
by dmix on Saturday November 30, 2013 @11:07PM
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I've used PGP keys cross-device (using both android and osx clients), why can't SSL?
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Re:Adding Easy SSL Client Authentication To Any Webapp
by geofft on Sunday December 01, 2013 @12:18AM
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You can export and import certs between devices, the UI is just awful. Possibly more awful than all the PGP UIs, if such a thing is possible.
Certainly you can't drive this flow from the website alone. The best you can do is point your users at various browser-specific instructions.
Re:Adding Easy SSL Client Authentication To Any Webapp
by zaraflan on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:13AM
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At which point you're back to the same basic problem with passwords: the weakest link and root-problem is the average user's lack of knowledge. There wouldn't be such a mad scramble to find a decent alternative to passwords if everyone was using KeePass or the like, and no alternative is going to be near-future viable if it relies on something too complicated for the nearly-everyone who isn't using strong generated passwords.
2FA is working because all the user has to do is get a text. Anything beyond that level of difficulty is simply a non-starter at this point.