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

Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> Sun, 19 December 2010 22:04 UTC

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On 20/12/2010 10:49 a.m., Ben Laurie wrote:
> 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.

only if no-one revoked their certificate.



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