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hacker_homietoday at 1:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

I thought a solution to this would be to use a physical smartcard to store the certificate(perhaps on your government ID). if the protocol is a challenge/response and the private key never leaves the card it would make proxying without the physical card more difficult.


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wolvoleotoday at 2:27 AM

Yeah great idea, having to get out your government ID every time you want to use a website.

pastel8739today at 2:12 AM

If the smart cards required some human input to perform a signature maybe this could work. Otherwise there is nothing stopping someone from selling use of their card via some proxy software

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