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X.509 certificates
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with X.509 certificates, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Error codes are opaque, like "Wrong Tag" or a bare "Error", so the cause is unclear2024-07-30
- Certificates are hard to generate, distribute and renew, needing glue code per app2022-01-01
- Inclusive start and exclusive end bounds are inconsistent and confusing to interpret2021-06-09
- Must guess the magic combination of certificate extensions that works across different OS versions2020-04-04
- Setting up browser to use hardware tokens is too hard for nontechnical users2018-09-14
- X509 structure is user-hostile and obscure to work with2015-06-25
- Certificate management UI is buried 4-6 clicks deep and barely changed since the 90s2014-11-12