Re: UK Government IE only website-Could Mozilla help? Security

[Ben Bucksch]

  Gervase Markham wrote:

>>If the site requires users to use certificates to authenticate to the
>>server, the standard for that is TLS/SSL.  Mozilla supports the client
>>certificate feature of the IETF standard Transport Layer Security
>>protocol, RFC 2246 section 7.4.6.  Netscape Communicator supports the
>>same feature of SSL 3.0, an earlier version of the same protocol.
>>
>
>I believe certificates are being used here to authenticate the user to the
>site, rather than the other way around.
>
Yes, that's exactly what "client certificates" are about, the feature 
John described.