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Re: Interesting Egghead freebee
At 10:37 AM 3/15/96 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
>Spry Mosaic really does support SHTTP - you can use it to connect to the
>SHTTP test pages at Terisa and Commercenet without difficulty, once you've
>doped out how to generate and get signed a low-assurance RSA persona
>certificate.
After I posted about it, I did a little more digging and checked out the
S-HTTP portion of the code. Seems to work pretty well. (I was a bit
surprised to see that the Personna cert generation saved the information off
in a text file, instead of using the bundled e-mail client. The docs on
this process were pretty sketchy as well...)
>I just performed an altavista search for references to "shttp://" (the SHTTP
>prefix) and "https://" (the SSL prefix). The results were 1,000 SHTTP
>hits, and 20,000 SSL hits.
>
>SHTTP may be technicly superior to SSL level 2.0, but as a commercial
>software developer, I know on which side my bread is buttered.
My reasons for installing it had little to do with S-HTTP (but it was a nice
bonus) and more to do with the lack of table support. (I needed something
to check out how pages would look on non-table supporting browsers.)
My concerns with S-HTTP are with the lack of server (and browser) software
support for it, as well as the difficulty of maintaining a site that uses
it. (Having to change every single page on a site can become a bit of a
chore, as well as introduce unintended security holes due to in improperly
updated page.)
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