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Re: LUGNET Memberships
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:47:08 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm[NoMoreSpam].org
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Dan Boger <dan@wwind.com> wrote:
hmmm... now there's a thought....  how would that work though?  make a
private/public key pair for each member, and store the public key in the
cookie?  but what would stop someone from sniffing and stealing the cookie?
auth over ssl?

Oh, I was thinking of something newsreader-based. It'd be more of a pain for
the web interface. Unless someone wants to hack something into Mozilla. :)

Once upon a time, Verisign was making a big deal over personal certificates.
Guess they dropped that, since I haven't heard much from them for a long
time.


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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) heh, I wouldn't know anything about the newsreader, but it shouldn't be hard to put in the mail gateway... and that would certify the sender... however, for the web interface (after thinking about it more), you want it to me a lot more (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: LUGNET Memberships
 
(...) hmmm... now there's a thought.... how would that work though? make a private/public key pair for each member, and store the public key in the cookie? but what would stop someone from sniffing and stealing the cookie? auth over ssl? hmmm.... (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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