Lynx-cert: User Certificate support for Lynx

Bruce Lewis
Emil Sit

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Abstract:

Secure authentication via the WWW is becoming increasingly important to MIT. Applications are being developed that rely on support in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer for SSL and X.509 user certificates, but these WWW browsers do not provide a text-only interface for speech synthesis or use over dialup. Lynx is the most popular text-only browser. Patches are available for Lynx to support SSL but not user certificates. This project, lynx-cert, will add user certificate support to Lynx with functionality comparable to that of Netscape Navigator.

 
• Contents
• Requirements
  • Requirements of the MIT CWIS development group
  • Requirements of the Lynx development group
  • Requirements of MIT Lynx users
• Visible Changes
  • New Certificate Authority process
  • Certificates Signed by Untrusted Authorities
  • New Personal Certificate generation process
  • New Personal Certificate receiving process
  • Certificate Management Interface
  • The Information Page
• Architecture
  • Modifications/Extensions of Existing Code
  • Added Configuration Options
  • Organization of LOCAL_CERT_PATH and SHARED_CERT_PATH
  • Certificate Management Interface details
• About this document ...