Certificate (password-less) based authentication in WinRM

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This week the WinRM ruby gem version 1.8.0 released adding support for certificate authentication. Many thanks to the contributions of @jfhutchi and @elpetak that make this possible. As I set out to test this feature, I explored how certificate authentication works in winrm using native windows tools like powershell remoting. My primary takeaway was that it was not at all straightforward…