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Issue

Having a separate password for each website is annoying, and is much weaker than using a computed crypto key, like when using GPG and SSH. The same idea seems to be possible with HTTP too, by using a client certificate. I’m not sure web browsers have convenient UI for supporting it, but even if not, it may be very useful for API clients.

Either way I’d like to explore it and allow human users to log in with a cert, without a need to type in a password unique to the website. Can a single client cert with a single password be used like an SSH or GPG key?

Plan

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Result