[18852] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: HTTPS mutual authentication alpha release - please test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Mon Nov 7 09:47:46 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cyphrpunk <cyphrpunk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:00:01 -0800
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It seems to me that mutual authentication is pretty much
irrelevant to HTTPS and certificates. You mutually
authenticate by both knowing the password, as in SPEKE.
Of course, SPEKE is patented, so is this scheme a way of
getting around the patents?
--digsig
James A. Donald
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