Comment by jl2718

Web3 did not invent cryptographic login!

Client cert auth has been available for decades. There was never a need for centralized login.

It’s a one-liner in Apache with mod-ssl, and here’s a random google result showing the entire thing in a few lines of standard library python: https://gist.github.com/nebulak/6d865ddd768fb905a562d6026cdd...