On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, David Hajek wrote:
> Hm. Seems strange to me. Can't believe that anyone from opensource world
> don't use certificate authentication.
I developed the simple client certificate authentication you can find in
Squid-3.0 as a prototype for a customer investigating the use of client
certificates, they however concluded that password authentication was
sufficient for now and CRL never got implemented.
As in all other Open Source projects the bulk of the Squid development is
driven by people having needs and making sure their needs is fulfilled.
This is how the Open Source world works.
The main difference from proprietary software is that you have the choice
to see things implemented and are not locked down by the product plan of
the provider.
In Free Software (which Squid classifies as, together with any other GPL
software) there is also some restrictions in how modifications may be done
if not done direcly by the end-user to guarantee that a Open Source
provider does not lock down his customers.
You can find more information about the history and status of the SSL
support in Squid at http://devel.squid-cache.org/ssl/
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Apr 29 2004 - 08:48:46 MDT
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