S-HTTP was pitched as an alternative to SSL but died very quickly as neither MSIE nor Netscape Navigator supported it. My memory is fuzzy about it now but I rec

S-HTTP was pitched as an alternative to SSL but died very quickly as neither MSIE nor Netscape Navigator supported it. My memory is fuzzy about it now but I recall one of the "advantages" being that you could selectively encrypt portions of a page. I also recall it being very convoluted to set up and maintain vs. encrypt everything over port 443.