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by mike-cardwell 5275 days ago
The only complication is the fact that they use client side SSL certificates for authentication. I don't know of any other site which does this. Although I like that they're dog fooding, it probably would have been better if they'd stuck with a traditional username/password/cookie scheme for logging in, from a business/usability perspective.
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DEinspanjer 5275 days ago
It confused me a lot because I used to have an old username/password account with them and when I tried to sign in and got a very generic SSL error from Firefox.

That said, once I registered with a new account, the client certificate worked great.

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lloeki 5273 days ago
> I don't know of any other site which does this.

CACert does.

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