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Re: browsers with public key authentication?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Rosenthal)
Thu Nov 9 19:49:35 1995

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 14:56:11 -0600
From: Doug Rosenthal <rosenthl@krypton.einet.net>
To: zurko@osf.org
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199511061714.MAA00547@postman.osf.org> (message from Mary Ellen Zurko on Mon, 06 Nov 1995 12:14:53 -0500)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu


    Mary> Are there any browser currently available that do public key
    Mary> authentication of the client/browser? Thanks.  Mez

The TradeWave winWeb and MacWeb browsers perform public key
authentication of the user/client, as well as the server (i.e. mutual
authentication).  The browsers/server are based on the NorTel Entrust
product, which provides a public-key version of the GSS-API.

- Doug

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