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Thanks for sharing, that’s an interesting approach. Does seem very hard to scale. Do they just set their key from a settings page and then off to the races? i.e. no login credentials?


Certificate file. Generated on registration and handed over as a download and shredded server-side. Not as trust-fulfilling as a user supplying one, but less of a learning curve. (Still need validation on it either way, which can be painful).

Which, of course, means "forgot my password" doesn't work.




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