Re: [apps-discuss] [saag] [websec] [kitten] HTTP authentication: the next generation

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Sun, 19 December 2010 21:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] [saag] [websec] [kitten] HTTP authentication: the next generation
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On 19 December 2010 11:12, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
> Imagine if
> everyone needed a client certificate to send any mail.  We'd have no spam.

Nonsense. We'd just restrict spam to owned machines, of which there
are only a few tens or hundreds of milliions, if we're lucky.