[SSL Observatory] offtopic: sites with client certificate authentication

[Von Welch]

You'll find a small amount of client cert web authentication in the Computational Grid world (along with client certs used with other applications). The public web sites I know of off hand that do client side authentication are https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/ and the DOE Grids PKI issues EECs in browser and then uses those certs to authenticate renewal I believe.

Von

On Aug 15, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Crypto Stick wrote:

> Hi!
> When it comes to secure logins, client certificate authentication is a
> nice feature of SSL/TLS to get rid of usernames and passwords. For
> instance certifi.ca is an useful OpenID provider allowing such login. It
> can be used in conjunction with the USB Crypto Stick [1] (or other smart
> cards) allowing secure login from any computer.
> 
> I'm looking for other public websites which offer client certificate
> authentication but couldn't find many. Do you know any such websites,
> lists of such websites, or does even the data gathered by SSL
> Observatory contain these information? In the later case, is the data
> available and how to use it?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Jan
> 
> [1] http://crypto-stick.com/