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

[Gervase Markham]

Ben Bucksch wrote:
> 
>   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.

Oops, sorry. I read that as "authenticate the server" rather than
"authenticate to the server."

Gerv