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I think the most obscure thing I used was <keygen>, which would generate a client key/cert pair, store the key locally in your browser certificate store and sen

I think the most obscure thing I used was <keygen>, which would generate a client key/cert pair, store the key locally in your browser certificate store and send the cert to the server with the form submission I saw exactly one website use it and remember being very confused as to how it achieved that https://web.archive.org/web/20160409081411/https://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080714/07ea5534/attachment.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20160409081411/https://lists.wha...

napolux 3y ago
Tried to make it work, guess support is gone for good in latest firefox/chrome
EvanAnderson 3y ago
I sure wish <keygen> had had a good UI. We could be living in a world where two factor authentication based on PKI and personal HSMs would have been a thing. (I'm sure I'm thinking of it thru nostalgia-colored glasses...)
- WorldMaker 3y ago
  Passkeys are getting close. Might be any day now.