[ANN] Gemini browser for iOS

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Tue Jun 2 13:16:09 BST 2020


Peter Vernigorov <pitr.vern at gmail.com> writes:

> Question about client certificates: not sure how other clients
> implement this, but I was thinking of generating and using the same
> client cert for all sites, and giving an option to create a cert for
> specific domain. Does that make sense? Potential problem I see is that
> main certificate is something user could be identified by across
> websites.

Yeah, we've discussed previously the idea of a client having a default
client cert it uses for every site, and decided that it's a bad idea,
because it enables cross-site tracking. In general, you shouldn't send a
client cert unless the page you're asking for needs one.

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