Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

Rich Salz rsalz at datapower.com
Tue Jun 3 19:49:34 EDT 2003


> I never figured out how to use a certificate to authenticate a
> client to a web server, how to make a web form available to one
> client and not another.  Where do I start?

You must not have looked very hard. :)

I would start by taking Apache, openssl, and the mod_ssl package.
For example, at
    http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html#ToC6
we see the question "How can I authenticate clients based on
certificates when I know all my clients?" and it's answer.
Similar questions are also answered.
        /r$

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Rich Salz                     Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology          http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway     http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html


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