In a message written on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:11:18AM -0800, Ryan Malayter wrote:
Windows has had its own centralized certificate store and APIs since NT 4.0's release in 1996.
You are correct that I maligned Windows in a way I shouldn't have done. Indeed, I've been very impressed with the software they make to manage certificates in the enterprise before, making it quite easy to roll out per user certificates for VPN's or E-Mail and dump it in the certificate store. I think my view was incorrectly colored by the fact that the API is not used by many programs (open source in particular) where as OSX has had some traction with the Keychain. It would be nice to get something approximating a cross platform API, even if all that means is the ability to do the same operations on all major platforms. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/