[Cryptography] SRP for mutual authentication - as an alternative / addition to certificates?

[Carlo Contavalli]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 at 03:24 Carlo Contavalli <ccontavalli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The cost on the user is in making sure he is entering the username and
>> password only in "secure boxes", rather than random ones on the web
>> site.
>
>
> This is the core problem - if we could get users to only type their
> passwords into the one true password box, then there are many viable
> solutions to "the password problem". But all attempts to do this so far have
> been dismal failures.

Out of curiosity, do you have more details about previous attempts?

Thank you,
Carlo