Re: Certificates and Pass Phrases.

1999-06-11 Thread Holger Reif
David A. Lee wrote: > > For example, IIS Server and IE and Netscape clients never ask me for > pass phrases when using certificates. Does this mean as I suspect > that those products are not really secure ? Or have they found another > method to protect certificates from copying without requirin

Re: Certificates and Pass Phrases.

1999-06-10 Thread Thomas Reinke
"David A. Lee" wrote: > > I'm adding in SSL into a closed-system/product. I'm concerned about the > protection of the client-side certificates. My (limited) understanding of > crypto > says that its critical to protect the client certificate otherwise > authentication > is compromised (anyone

Certificates and Pass Phrases.

1999-06-10 Thread David A. Lee
I'm adding in SSL into a closed-system/product. I'm concerned about the protection of the client-side certificates. My (limited) understanding of crypto says that its critical to protect the client certificate otherwise authentication is compromised (anyone who can copy the client certificate ca