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The WinRM gem supports certificate authentication. Added some glue to take advantage of it.
My use case invokes bootstraps from Ruby by calling into the library (yeah, I know), so I'm more sure of that than of the actual command-line functionality. I've given the latter little more than a cursory smoke test. It should go something like this:
knife bootstrap windows winrm -t ssl web1.cloudapp.net --winrm-authentication-protocol cert --winrm-client-cert ~/myclient.crt --winrm-client-key ~/myclient.key -f ~/mycert.crt
If it's of use in documentation, below I've pasted an approximation of Powershell we use to get our servers to honor WinRM certificate auth. We don't actually use Administrator internally, but that's probably what most people want, so I've elided that and a few other things.
Heck, while I'm at it, here's a simplified version of Ruby+OpenSSL that generates our client certificates. The CSR bit:
And the signing by our internal CA: