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All,

I've been playing around with client SSL certificates, not for
authentication per se, but as a gateway to a relaxed authentication
mechanism for one of our webapps.

I have a client SSL cert working (see my previous thread "mod_jk &
Client SSL Certificates") and successfully verifying the signature of
the client cert by the server.

I'd like to be able to uniquely identify the client certificate being
used to authenticate via SSL, but I'm a newbie at this sort of thing and
I'd appreciate some suggestions as to how to do that. A few ideas I've
had are:

1. Use a directory-style 'CN' attribute like "UID=myuniqueid"

2. Use the fingerprint of the client certificate

3. Use the full text of the client certificate

All 3 of the above can be used to then link to appropriate records in
the database for limited authentication.

Does anyone have any suggestions or preferred techniques?

Thanks,
- -chris
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