12 Feb
2011
12 Feb
'11
1:23 p.m.
On Fri, 2011-02-11 17:00:58 -0600, Dave wrote:
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Out of curiosity, how do large corporations handle the installation of one of their certs on all of the client machines? Because it seems like that would be a pain! Like, for example, if one were to set up their mail client to handle their gmail account, how does Google make the connection to your mail client safe from a MITM attack if you've not pre-installed one of their certs? I guess perhaps because they'd have a cert built into the mail client by default?
I think those sites use SSL for encryption only. Client authentication is done by the good old user name/password pair. At least this is the case for my mail account at GMX.
Ludolf
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