Can you impersonate a client side cert??

[Darren Craig <darren.craig () celare co uk>]

Hi All,


I have been reading a paper which was published back in Feb 2001 by a
company call Sensepost which says that there is a way to impersonate a users
client side cert by using the same common name. Does anybody have any
experience of doing this or is it even possible considering that the users
public part of the cert would be installed on the web server?

Darren


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