Replacing - A really bad idea

2010-03-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Why is replacing the 15 year old Netscape hack suddenly a bad idea? Because you cannot create a secure provisioning system without having some kind of [by the issuer recognizably] predefined key in the token. With such a key, the token would be able to attest generated keys, import data using M

Re: TLS logout in Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread Anders Rundgren
Nelson B Bolyard wrote: A server that logs you out and doesn't clear your TLS session from its server session cache is a badly designed server. That's not a fundamental flaw in TLS or in browsers, and could also happen with cookies or any other scheme for caching session information. So don't

Re: TLS logout in Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
On 2010/03/11 09:37 PST, Robert Relyea wrote: > On 03/11/2010 05:59 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> Hi, >> I can't help it, but TLS client cert auth is really a very crappy system >> when used in browsers. Anders, you've expressed that opinion before in this forum many times. You're entitled to th