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It had it! HTML 5 keygen tag https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keygen https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ke... B

It had it! HTML 5 keygen tag https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keygen https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ke... But Mozilla, and Google double teamed to sink it in W3C to push their own bicycle reinvention attempts, which after 10+ years, multiple incompatible versions, and errata ridden revisions are still not there. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2015Sep/0001.html https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2015Sep/0001.ht... Google needs to be kicked out of W3C

jjav 5y ago
Yes! This was a very good solution. Built right into the browser, very convenient. We built a related CA product back in the 90s and were issuing client certs on smarts cards via the browser. Plug in smartcard and browser could automatically authenticate to all services. Take it out and go home.
maxwelljoslyn 5y ago
I didn't know that. Oh, come on. That's so unfortunate.
lmz 5y ago
I used an SSL CA (Startcom / StartSSL) that used Client certs as its (only?) method of authentication. It was a terrible experience if you ever had to log in from another browser.