[Bug 131083] Add client certificate authentication to KMail

[Bernd Paysan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131083





--- Comment #8 from Bernd Paysan <bernd paysan gmx de>  2011-11-23 14:35:48 ---
Doesn't work at all. Dawit Alemayehu <adawit kde org> wrote:

"The reason why this does not work is because the code that sets the personal
certificates is disabled in the lower levels of KIO. See
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167668."

This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here: Nobody uses client
authentication, because no server provides it, you need a certificate, nobody
knows how to do that securely (including the CAs ;-), *and* the client software
doesn't support it either.

Dan Bernstein is right: Security should not be a choice for the user.  It
should be always on, no opt-out possible.  But this here is SSL, not CurveCP
;-).

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