Tim Berners-Lee @timbl
I lke webid-tls because
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Public keys are sooo much better than passwords
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I want to have 1 or more public ID consistently in a bunch of stuff I do, not a different ID in each silo.
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I feel it is simpler/quicker/more secure to authenticate directly from client to server in general than get redirected to other third parties.
It is true that the browsers have not liked client side certs — partly because it breaks their “same origin policy” which insists that developers from different domains don’t get share data.